The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-29
POWDERLY'S ADDRESS TO THE
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
He Advises Them Not to Interfere, Not
withstandiug Their Bad Treat
ment by the brotherhood.


and st. Paul Road last evening was run
into by freight on the Mendoza branch
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
at East Clinton, a mile south of the Full
ton junction. The Milwaukee engine
and mail and express cars were all de-
molished and the baggage car was
turned over. z. p. Wilhelm, of this
city, American Express route agent,
was probably fatally injured, and Thos.
Morrison was seriously hurt. Both were
on the Milwaukee train. In the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy engine cab were
the engineer, fireman, conductor and
Road Master Seigrist The latter is re-
ported fatally hurt.
The cars were piled up all over the
track, and the telegraph wires were all
broken. The blame for the accident is
laid on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy engineer, a green hand, who lost
control of his engine and did not stop at
the crossing.
ATTEMPT TO DISABLE AN ENGINE.
An attempt was made TO disable the
engine drawing the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy fast mail which left the
Union depot at 3:15 this morning. When
the train stopped at the Burlington
crossing coupling pin was placed on
the plates that guides the piston rod in
the cylinder. When an attempt was
made tc start the engine again it could
not move. The difficulty was soon dis
covered and the obstruction removed.
Had the piston rod been drawn out at
full length the coupling pin would have
been driven through the cylinder head
and the engine disabled
The bulletin board at the union depot
this forenoon said for the Chicago, Bur-
lngton and Quincy: due $50 and $50,
abandoned. Due 5:55 a. m., two hours
late" Two suburban trains from Down
ers Grove came in at $40 and 7:20 and
two went out at $50 and 7:3e o'clock.
AT o'clock this forenoon there were a
dozen men at the company's office wait
ing the arrival of Superintendent
Hodges. They were very reticent as to
where they came from or what their ex-
perience as engineers might be.
Assistant General Manager Williams
was at his Office at o'clock waiting to
hear from the trains which were started
at different points along the road yester-
day. The fast mail which lett Chicago
at O'Clock yesterday afternoon had not
hoe or1 ~
1t is thought the train is pro-
ceeding on its journey to
Council Bluffs without interruption. as
had there been any delay the company
would have been notified of the fact.
All was quiet around the Burlington
yards early this morning, and from Van
Buren TO Sixty-Second street but little
| was doing. At Z O'Clock the Downer S
Grove accommodation train, fifteen min
utes late, pulled into the depot The
Downer's Grove train was followed, fif-
teen minutes later, by another train from
the same suburb. The last train was
crowded with suburbanites.
| ENGINEERS FROM THE EAST.
| PITTsBURG, February s.--Agents of
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
system it appears have been successful
in securing number of engineers and
firemen in the East. This morning q
carload of fifty men passed through thi:
city en- route to Chicago to take tn,
places of the strikers. The party was il
charge of well dressed man who re
fused to give his name, but admitted
work on the Chicago, Burlington ant
Quincy Road. As far as he knew the,
were not knights of Labor, although
members of that organization might b.
found in the party. The report that
number of engineers would arrive from
New York on their way West was cir
culated last night, and when the trail
came in this morning delegation of th
Brotherhood was on hand to greet them
but no attempt was made TO modest tn
new men or interfere with them in an.
manner. The train left for Chicago a
7:45 this morning and viii arrive IN sha
city tonight.
T. B. Barry, a member of the Execr
tive Board of the Knights of Labor, is i
the city. When asked concerning til
published report that the Reading Raj
road Knights are going to Chicago I
take the places Of the striking member
of tie Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, he said: There is no found:
ton for this report. Notwithstandin
the fact that members of the Engineel
Brotherhood are ..scabbingr in I'll
places of the Knights of Labor striker
the Reading Knights have nevs
.sscabbed, )" as charged by the Brothe
hood, and have not thought of doing s
now. Every time, however, that ii
. Brotherhood has had chance they hag
s.scabbed" on the Knights of Labo
t notably in the Southwest and Readir
4 strikes
THE ENGINEERS POSITION.
: Chief Engineer Arthur to-day state
3 the position of the engineers upon Il
t main question thus: Eve will offer /
e distractions to the carrying of the mai
Q and were the mail en- route to this eli
we should bring it ib provided the pa
s senger coaches were cut of, but we a
S under no obligations to start the ms
:, from the center of distribution. II
|, company has contract with the Go
L ernment for carrying the mails. L
n them carry them or forfeit their CO
tract. We, turning to a post Off