Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-10

Of ten miles an hour. The pas
senger train west bound was standing on
the main line and the collision occurred.
Both engines lost their pilots and were
bruised badly Fireman Hall jumped and
bruised his knee. Brakeman Barris was in
iured. Conductor Lyman was thrown
over seat and bruised Miss Ed.
munds, of this city, was bruised
and had a knee injured. N. r. Brooks, q
travelling man for a Boston house was thrown
against door and suffered injuries TO his
head. None Of the coaches were derailed
This is the report practically as furnished the
B. Il M. headquarters in this city.
A PILOT CONDUCTOR sckLDED
CREsToN, Ia, March 9.--The west-bound
train due here at 4: 20 a, m. had not arrived
at O'Clock and there was no telling when il
would get In, owing TO the incompetency of
the engineers, a fact which is openly talked
of here. No attempt is made 10 run on sched
ule time The same is true of the freight
service. Authentic news OF an accident comes
from Burlington passenger conductor who
was on the engine plotting new
engineer The latter got his boiler so full of
water that the water, instead of exhausting
and going up the sn1okestack in steam, ran
back through the flues into the fire box An
explosion followed which blow the door of
the fire box on and the pilot conductor, who
stood in front of il, was so badly scalded
in the face that it is feared he will lose his
eyesight. .
Proves Their Incompetency.
LINCOLN, Reb., March 9.-TSpeeial Tele-
gram TO the BEE. 1.-The wreck on the Atchi-
son & Nebraska branch between two passen-
ger trains is fair index of the competency
of the Burlington road, and in whose hands
the lives of those who travel is placed. B, s.
M. travel has greatly fallen off, and a gentle
man, a resident of Orleans, who reached this
city after many tribulahons, relates an ex-
perience that goes TO show that the present
service in eastern Nebraska is magnificent
compared with what the people get in the
west. He states that the few uniformed
hired Pinkerton men from Chicago parade
around the depots at junction points, and the
parties who risk themselves to the care of
the new engineers have an experience in
making the trip over the road that would
compare well with railroading fifty years
ago. The later news from the east adds to
the confidence of the engineers and firemen
at this point. The accidents on the road and
the mutilation of the rolling stock contribute
evidence to the statement made by the broth
erhood that such results would be found
forthcoming day ago in the yards in this
city two passenger trains collided, and while
the facts were suppressed as much as pos
sible it was in evidence that the green man
hauling passengers was incompetent The
brotherhood keeps a watchful eye on the
rolling stock of the company. They report
bl5 lOuUWlDB engines
in the last few days: No. 13,
hind end collision. Nos. 2S and SO,
side collision with considerable damage.
No. las, back ends of tank STAYED in, six
crown sheets weakened No, IS, branch,
frozen and bursted Nos 75 and So, head
end collision. They also report fifteen sets
of CRATES put in engines on account of being
burned out. The brotherhood has also de.
voted great deal of tune to ascertaining the
antecedents of the new men running engines,
and in this a number of the Reading men who
returned home contributed valuable informa-
ton. The men assert that of the imported
engineers at least one-half of them are men
who have been discharged for drunkenness
or incompetency.
'.Notice to the Public"
LINCOLN, Neb., March Especial Tele-
gram to the BEE. THE b. & M, through
their reports to the Lincoln papers, assure
the public that their trains are running regu-
larly and safely. To disabuse the public and
our travelling brothers of such deceptions, we
hereby state that we have waited in the b.
s. NJ cars for two hours for simply local train
service, during which time our engine is re-
ported off the track at one end of the yard
while at the same time passenger engine at
the other end of the same yard has been to-
tally wrecked, besides mashing up a passen-
ger coach. '..
If this be smooth running" and Irregular
SERVICE" and competent engineering we
deem Unnecessary to inform the boys, through
the columns of the BEE, the true effect of
"scab" engineering. Respectfully, and in
the interest of public safety,
lSigned l.. g. Hill,
j. l.. WEBER, r.
JACK ID. FANGKER,
JACK f. GARRETT,
WILL c. CAMPBELL
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