Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-09
The Trials Of the %. =
Manager Stone Comes Forward
With Statement.
HIS SENSATIONAL CHARGES
Men High in the brotherhood Accused
of Completely In IA Dynamite Plot
Bomb MT Creston-The
Cost of the Strike.

CHICAGO, July 7.--General Manage
Stone, of the Burlington, gave out fol
publication the following sensational
statement of the facts as to the'recen
arrests:
"a few days after the middle of May, ;
said Mr.. Stone, ''the company was in
formed that attempts were to be
made to damage it's property and
trains by the use of dynamite, and that
Bowles, the Brotherhood engineer ar
rested Thursday afternoon with dyna.
mite in his possession, was about tt
leave town to put the plan in operation.
Bowles did leave Chicago, as was ex-
pected, having taken a package of dyna-
mite and caps with him from room "a,
Grand Pacific hotel, the headquarters OF
the grievance committee of the strikers,
and occupied by S. e. Hoge, chairman OF
the general grievance committee.
Mr.. Stone then furnishes in detail an
account of a number of explosions and
attempts to wreck the company's prop
erty and trains at points where Bowles
and Broderick We're located, and con-
tinues:
During this time Broderick and
Bowles had been furnished with funds
and letters of introduction to various
members of the Brotherhood, stating
they were on secret buriness of the ut-
most Importance to the Brotherhood, and
asking cooperation in every possible
way from members to whom they pre-
sented the letters. Letters of this char
acter were found on is:.persons when
they were arrested. Broderick before
going to the train at Aurora on
Thursday afternoon, went to the hall
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, and there got the package of dy,
Mantle, which was afterwards taken by
him, Bewles and Wilson into the train
with them. This package of dynamite
had been taken by John Bauereisen
chief engineer of the Brotherhood of thu
Aurora division, to the Brotherhood hal
for Broderick. He was, therefore, arrested
by the United States marshal as, an. ac
complice.n
Mr.. Stone declined to enter more fully
into the character of the proofs of these
acts. AS to danger to trains passing
over the road, he ridiculed the idea, a!
all the conspirators are so well known
that any serious attempts are impossible
Mr.. Stone further said these attempts
to injure the company's property were
by no means the first of the attempts OF
the brotherhood in that direction. On
April 10 MI. Hoge, the chairman OF the
general grievance committee, issued q
circular to the chief engineers of a mum.
Der OF divisions OF the brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, reading as fol
lows:
CHICAGO, April 10, 1883
ITO Q. Il. and Il. A. L. Div. No. -: The
Y. Is. q y. have only geb about one-half
OF the men, prior to the strike. They
want about 4O0 to 5Ol more, engineers.
We have decided to call on you to fur.
nlsh one or Two men from your division
we VIII ask the same OF all divisions
throughout the country, to come and
apply for situations on the "Q' under as
sumed names, and as soon as they
go to work to correspond witt
SoWders, National hotel, Chicago for in
structions. The object is to disable th'
engines IN every way they can, aud on
given day to quit work in body afte'
receiving instructions from us. Th'
company is on their last leg and by thi
means we propose to take the other W.
don't want any OF them to come here
but to make applications at the follow
ing points: Aurora, Galesburg, Burling
ton, Creston, Plattsmouth, Lincoln ant