Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-06

Men.
No Trains Permitted 10 Leave Nash
willie.
An Incoming Train Switched into a
sEnRsh.Up.
Operations On the Road Entirely sus-
pended.
There is a terrible condition of affairs
existing on the Nashville and Norihwes-
tern railroad. Yesterday morning its M
paid employees warned the officers Of the
road through the morning papers that no
trains would bepermilted to run after Mon
day, June Sth, and no trouble was an
ticipated until that time, bnt matters were
suddenly brougt to a crisis early yesterday
The last train from this point for Hick-
man went out at 5:l5 P. NJ, Thursday. 1t
was the regular passenger and mail train,
and was taken out by an assistant in the
shops There was no fireman on the loco
motive. tI.4a
The accommodation train due here at
| AS yesterday morning did not arrive un-
til 10 o'clock. When within three quar-
ters Of mile of the city it had colided
with train of forty or fifty box-cars Of the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, into
which it had been thrown by the turning
of switch that put the main track to the
side track upon which the Nashville and
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connective was checked up after going
through and completely demolishing two
box-cars, and getting pretty severely
brushed by the collision. The wreck Of
the broken cars lodged upon the main
track, thus obslrncting the road for num-
Der of hours. After hastily reversing the
locomotive, the engineer had jumped of.
| No one aboard either of the trains re-
ceiyed any injuries. There was no means
of knowing who had meddled with the
| switch, but the affair is laid at the door of
the desperate employees.
The accident to the accommodation, pre-
vented the leaving of any train in the
morning, and at 5:l5 p. NJ an attempt was
made TO get out the regular passenger train
for Hickman, conductor Ike Woods. Ii
was declared by the employees that this
train should not go out unless one of the
engineers who had been all along employed
should take charge of the locomotive.
None, however, could be found who would
undertake the work, and Jack Rhea, an
engineer who had formerly been employed
and discharged, was put on.
The train rolled out Of the depot unmo-
Tested, aud there was not the slightest indi-
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be accomplished. The stout locomotive
seemed belchlng defiance as it gathered
speed and clanked along at a good rate I'M
til half a mile out, when a red flag, the
startling signal OF danger, luttered out
just ahead of the swiftly moving train.
The switch had been turned, and the track
now led off an embankment. In few
minutesmore thetrain and passengers would
have been hurled TO destruction, bat the
engineer, knowing we'll the import of the
scarlet signal, instantly reversed the loco
motive, and the train went rumbling sui
lenly back to the city. The point at which
the switch was turned was outside the cor
porate limits.
After the train reached the depot, the
employees informed Gen. lines, the Re
ceiVer, that a locomotive and the mail car
might he sent cut without molestation, and
that one of their number would volunteer
TO go as engineer. This the Receiver
would not hear TO, and the mail car did
not go out. No trains whatever went out
either yesterday or last night.
During the day, great many of the en-
ployes were about the depot, and excite
ment is running high. They number from
seventy to one hundred men, and are
determined that nothing shall be done
upon the road until their Just demands for |
the pay due them are complied with.
What will be the ultimate fate of THE |
most unfortunate road, il is difficult to say.
Prosperous under the management of the |
old and legitimate administration, during
the six months it has been in the hands OF |
a Receiver it has been driving swiftly to
destruction. Not even paying its running
expenses, it gives no account of the $780,
600 of State bonds issued in its behalf |
Two bogus directories have been foisted !
upon it by political shystering, and in each |
case the balance of the State bonds which |
were TO be issued to the road in ac- |
cordance with the provisions Of the |
omnibus bill, have been held back by |
injuncliOns. To-day the bogus admin |
istratiOn il without a dollar, and are com. |
PEELED TO resort to borrowing to meet the |
most trifliBg claims. The starving emu |
ployes have grown desperate, and the ex- |
treme measures TO which they have re- |
sorted are not without some show of iustif- |
cation. L. lie reported that Gen. InHes has |
rendered his resignation as Receiver, and |
that the Governor has refused 10 accept IL. |
butthere is no good authority for this report. |
The attorneys Of the bogus Directory |
we're in close consultation yesterday, but |
We believe there is as yet no promise Of re- |
lief The only remaining remedies are |
decisions from Judge Trigg dissOlving the /
iuiunctions, or the turning of the road over /
to it's legitimate officers.
Great excitement has followed upon the |
incidents of yesterday, and further deyel- /
Opments are looked for with intense in |
terest. No attempt has yet been made to /
arrest any of the large number of employees
who have virtually assumed control Of the /
road.
We understand that warrant has been /
issued for the arrest Of Tom Canning, one
of the leading spirits in the movements i'm
augurated by the employees.
At a meeting of the Workingm ems /
Union OF tins city, last htght, the iOllONlng /
preamble and resolution were unanimously /
adopted: -5.a....
Whereas, The employees Of the North
western Railroad Company have'been for
a long time unjustly deprived of their just /
dues until forbearance ceased to be virtue
and, whereas, they have resolved to secure
their wages due them, though it may re-
quire extreme measures TO do so and |
whereas, Ii is our duty 10 extend our
sympathy to all oppressed woIkingmen
Therefore be il
Resolved, by the WorkingmeD's Union
of Tennessee, That we do most cordially |
extend our sympathies to the employees of
the Northwestern Railroad Company and
further, We will do all in our power to
assist them in their struggle to maintain
their rights. ..B