Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
THE o. AND IT'S seABs.
SOME OF THE ACCIDENTS AND
sM4sH-UPs ON THIS LINE.
One of the Results of the Employment Of
Incompetent Men TO Run the En-
gines ON the C. b. 8 Q. Road.

q m0Glve Engineers OF Butte nave 1AnQ
T into The MINER office the follow
pointers from the Atchison, Kansa
"1imes.' The facts speak for thenaselve
CREsroN, June 13.-A freight came
here last evening and tried to make I
stop, but did not do SO as well as he e
pected, and went through seven eaIs
the seotion ahead OF him and smash4 i
9 engine 1S9 in fearful shape. Also tv< s
!: wrecks in the yard. This is a fair sainp
, of the @ 3 competent daily work hele.
il LINCOLN, June 13.--The @. conpete1
scabs got paid off here yesterday, an
!. the company is not paying them enough
!, The engineers got an average of $66 pc
month, and the firemen $25 per month
One old Santa Fe fireman said he quit
lob on the Santa Fe to come here and &c
an engine, and he wishes now he was bac
there.
PLATrsMoUTH, Neb., June 8, 1885, Bus
ness ii very dull here for the @. Engin
81, Consolidator, is in the shop gettin
new crown and aue sheets. She would no
hold water for the competent scab an,
longer on account OF being burned.
Il we lubU 1bdFHHu GUdB 6CtSn HBQ1Qeo
Snyder, who was struck by a storm Oh
No. a few weeks ago, has died from 1
| fractured skull.
| HASTINGS, Neb., June 1.-THE G. is still
pulling empty cars out of the town
The flyer, No. /, went through with four
passengers yesterday.
Engine 126 came in light. Ensines sc
| and 456 came in on double-heaaer on q
| freight train OF ~ cars and half 81 them
emptys.
QUINCY, June 1l.-Scab Engineer Steiva
was helping freight train on the Quincy
grade with switch engine Ia. He told the
fireman that the injector should bs worked
very fine to insure plenty of steam. He
got the steam all right, but when aalf way
up the hill his water got SO low he had to
dump his fire, and the train he was helping
pulled him to Ewbanks, and havlng steam
enough to start, he got orders ard started
down the hill, and the engine died on him.
The fireman walked to Quincy, and engine
344 went out and towed her into Quincy.
She was burned in bad shape.
McCooK, Neb., June 9.-Bussness still
continues light for the @. No. 8 this morn
ing arrived two hours late, delayed by a
broken eccentric strap on engine 113.
An 0. r. G. scab, Sanborn, started east
on an extra last night, got as far as In
dianola, IL miles from here, and could not
get water in the boiler, and he came back
here.
Another one on engine 12o, named
Dodge, reported on the report book in the
repair shop to shorten both main rods one
inch, and file off back ends of side rods.
The above is an illustration OF the COM
petent scabs in the employ OF the O.
BEARDsTowN, ILL.,, June 9.-Business is
L G. l~ts- ~
scabs are a total failure as engine men.
Not day goes by but they have wrecka of
some kind, and it is impossible for them to
make time. Their ability as en- sineers was
clearly shown here in gettinE Bafluln' 'ss
show over the road? Barnum was to have
shown in Rock Island on the 7th; they had
shown in Peoria on the 9th and were in
Galesburg at 8 a. M, of the 7th on their
way to Rock Island and at II, noon, they
were at at Lynn, twenty miles from Rock
Island. Barnum is going to sue the scabby
@ for damages, as he did not get to show
in Rock Island in the afternoon. And
still they advertise last time on the @.
PLATTsMoUTH. June 12.-Tbe good work
still continues here. Engines 110 and 165
came in on one side this morning.
scab switchman got his head very
badly pinched while making coupling.
Two more scabs got fired for being drunk.
They cannot resist the temptation, you
know.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, June 11.-The @ is
still running empty trains in and out. OF
mere. | was talking to stock man to-day
that just got back from Chicago. He said
ne was going to ship his stock over the
Northwestern and the Q officials wanted
lim to ship over their ROAD. and he said
L. L - nd %hau hnr1ubt ia
stock paying Chicago prices for it and
hiring him to take it to Chicago, giving
aim passes for himself and two others.
About all the stock the @ gets now they
ouy it and ship it themselves to make it
appear that they are doing big stock
business.
OMAHA, June o." Everything is not
running smoothly with the Burlington, as
they have been called upon to put up with
4 very strenuous and determined kick up
On the part of their crew of night "scab
,witchmen. 1t seems that the latter have
become completely disgusted with being
lomineered over by Night Watchman
Ross, and at late hour Thursday night
The whole crew walked from the yards and
eft Ross and the Pinkertons to do the
switching and make up train. The uni |
ormed novices proved wholly inadequate |
10 the requirements, and after assisting in
making one train returned to police duty. |
strong effort is being made to pacify the |
indignant "scabs and prevail upon them |
10 GO back to work.
BURLINGTON, Ia, June 1.-THE Q Of
icials are awful tired OF the scabs here the
yay things are running. The road is in
rood shape to 60 into the hands OF re-
,eiver by having wrecks every day.
a. ~e kha r,ofapt hG that a
here in the beginning OF the strike
8 now on the chain gang for getting drunk
Ind disturbing the peaceful slumbers OF the
,itizens OF Burlington.
LINCOLN, Neb., June 9.-The scabby 9 is
still having trouble here. scab's whistle
struck up this morning and the scabs
thought there was a fire and they all yhis-
led and got the city fire department out
and fooled the boys of the fire department,
and they say the B. & NJ. can burn up be-
ore they will go down there again.
Engine 20 was towed into Hastings dead.
Engine 131 went after 20's train and broke
i cross head and was towed in also. No.
[ was four hours late.
A scab put his engine in the house Tor
nachinist to put in u water glass. Very
man.
No. 81 with double header was twenty
our hours going from Lincoln to Hastings.
81 miles.
A scab at Red Cloud backed his engine
put of the round house into the turn table
Dit and smashed the turn table and engine
trucks and tank and knocked in a cylinder
head. Also two engines were towed into
Lincoln dead, and most every point re-
ports wrecks and disabled engines. The
EAR reports show a loss of three. and one
half million dollars and we know they have
L. <l,,.,. 4 ~ n
rolling stock.
LINCOLN. Neb., June 3.-A scab let his
engine get away from him on the turn table
here to-day and mashed wiper's foot.
Also q scab was pushing another train out
of town and when be came back he ran OH
Of a stub switch forty feet from the end. OF
the rail.
WYMoRE, Neb., June 9.-The grass is
growing up SO high on this division OF the
@ that you can't find the road; every day
looks like Sunday. The yard is empty and
the rails are all growing rusty and they
don't show the brightness that indicates
good business, like they did when the old
veterans were at the throttle and the scoop.
A scab at Tecumseh loading stock backed
into the cars SO hard that he knocked one
end in and killed two head of stock and
broke the legs OF several more. Engine SO
stripped herself at Dewitt and came in on
one side. Engine rs on train "a came in
on one side and engine on No. SO also came
in on one side, making four disabled engines
i fhree daya nd Tho rf e0rnpafant