The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-20
ENGINEER ARDEN FIRED.
Supt. Wadley Gives Him His Final
Dismissal.

An Investigation of Charges of Mis-
conduct Leads to His Being Dropped.
a Claim that He Ran Past Stations
and Stopped His Train in Disobe-
dienoe of the conductors Orders and
Came Near Causing Serious Wreck.
Engineer Daniel j. Arden of the Cen
trial railroad has been discharged for
misconduct He was discharged once
before by Supt. Wadley, but was reinsta-
ted by order of Judge Speer His frs t
discharge was several months ago durin G
the strike of the engineers on the Savan-
nah, Americas & Montgomery railroad,
for his refusal to haul Sam" car,
which was part of his train.
Judge Speer decided that the clause in
the constitution of the Brotherhood of
Engineers prohibiting the handling of
cars of a road on which the engineers
were on a strike by engineers of another
road was unconstitutional This was
decision of great Importance to the rail
roads, and was regarded as an important
point gained by them. Judge Speer, how
ever, thought to pacify the local brother
hood, and ordered Arden's reinstate-
ment, much against Supt. Wadley's
wishes.
HIS DISCHARGE FINAL.
1t is probable that Arden's discharge
this time is final The railroad makes
out very bad case against him from its
side. Engineer Arden, it is stated, left
Savannah with the Savannah and Yves
tern train one day last week for Lyons.
The train was a combination freight and
passenger. On the trip out the conductor
N Ia pifh
er could not, or would not, heed
his signals and he was compelled
to put man on the engine with him to
look after them. Arden passed Penn
broke, regular station, without stopping,
and had to be ordered back by the con
ductor, and afterwards stopped at Nor
risOn, flag station without orders.
The real trouble occurred on the return
trip. As the train was pulling up Bel
KNAPP hill it broke in two, leaving six cars
in the rear. The engineer ran on a mile
and a half before he stopped. He then
came back without placing a man on the
rear car to look out or even examining
the rear car to see whether the draw
bolt was dragging, which had it been the
case might have caused serious acct
dent.
BROKEN UP TRAIN.
When within fifteen or twenty car
lengths OF the cars Which had broken
loose Arden obeyed the signal Of the CON
ductOr to hold up. As he did so another
ear broke loose, and there being no one to
put on the brakes, it ran down into the
rear cars, smashing in the front end of
one of them.
The charges against Arden were negli-
gence in falling either to put a man on
the rear car coming back to look out for
accidents or to have placed his cars in the
switch at Belknap and gone back with
his engine after the cars had broken
loose. Arden said that he could not put
his cars in the switch because he did not
have a switch key, having lost his key,
and be did not put his fireman on the
rear car coming back because he needed
him to keep up1steam. He said he did
not know the cars had broken loose until
to blow his break loose signal
as soon as he discovered the fact, but his
whistle hung.
ARDEN's DISCHARGE RECOMMENDED.
The investigation was conducted by
Trainmaster EppersOn and Master Me
chanic Epperson, and on their recommen-
dation Arden was dismissed It is
claimed by the railroad officials that his
carelessnesS might have caused a serious
wreck, as had several cars broken loose
while returning for the rear cars the col
lisiOn would have been sufficient to have
knocked some of them from the track and
perhaps caused loss of life, as well as
property.
The officials do not think that the engl-
neers will make any trouble on account of
Ardens dismissal