Omaha daily bee., 1893-07-20
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Tungate Appointed Yardmaster Regardless
of the Protest ofUnion switohmen.
CHIEF BECKETT ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
Blaze in the Lister t,lock-A CONFECTIONERY
Conflict with Burgiar-saved by q
Scream--Peddier Badly Punched
and Bruised.

Charles B. Tuugate took charge Of the
Union Stock Yards railroad yards last night
at 5;45 o'clock, bringing with him three new
switchmen.
j. McMonagle and j. NJ Sullivan, switch
charged before MIR. Tungate took charge
They were discharged for the alleged cause
of not reporting on time for duty or sending
any word 20 the head yardmaster. All the
other switchmen went to work, thus knock
ing out the report that none of them would
work under Mr.. Tungate.
Mr.. Sullivan is financial secretary of the
switchmen's union, and says that he will lay
his discharge before the union for investiga-
tion. His statement is that he was "fired"
for being five minutes late. All sorts of
rumors were ahoat early in the evening. The
police had been told that a gang of Omaha
switchmen were coming down and that the
old gang would walk out during the night
A man who is pretty well onto the stu
alton said to reporter for The BEE "There
will be no trouble whatever Mr. Tungatc
has taken charge of the night yard work
He will not cut wages or discharge any man
who attends to his work. Some of the old
men talked of walking out at first, but after
due consideration have concluded not to do
so. They are paid the full scale OF prices
here and do not have to work any harder
than they do in other yards Some of them
have families and their homes only partly
paid for. If they should go on a strike they
might lose what money they have worked
hard to save and be thrown out of work for
months They have taken sensible view
OF the matter and are going to go ahead with
their work"
In order to take advantage of any distur-
on N
change in the yards Mayor Walker at Z
O'Clock swore in the following men as special
policemen: }. S. Muller, Edward Tischler,
Paul Stevens, Frank Glass, Scott KENNEL
worth, G.. w. Thompson, G.. Groskey, j.
Walker, A. f. Bryan, b. c. Davis, William
Lobbs, William Pumpong and Charles Hath
away.
Those men were assigned to different
stations throughout the Stock Yards COM
pany's railroad yards and remained on duty
throughout the night. No disturbance
whatever was reported.
Chief Beckett Wounded.
An unfortunate accident occurred last
evening in the police court room Just after
Mayor Walker had sworn in thirteen special
policemen to look after any difficulty which
might arise over the change made in the
night yardmastershfp in the stock yards.
The room was we'll filed with men who had
just pinned their new stars on them and the
mayor had just stepped from the platform
when there was report that made every
body in that court room jump for a second.
1t was only 44-calibef, but it sounded like
| the gun of Il battleship. In second Chief
| Beckett said, MY Cod boys, I'm shot"
| The blood began streaming down his right
| leg until his shoe was filled with his own
| blood. The ball entered just above the right
ankle and passed through the leg and ou.
| into the floor without breaking bone.
| After striking the floor the ball glanced off
again and went into the side wall.
| 1t was John Mullen's gun that did the
work. Mullen was sitting in chair and the
| chief was sitting on the end of a table.
| Mullen arose and stepped in front of the
chief and his gun fell to the floor, but ex-
| ploded as it fell. 1t must have been forced
| out Of his pocket by the position he was sit
ting in. Mullen says he does not know hov
the gun got out OF his pocket or what set ii
| off. 1t was an accident. The affair drew
out large crowd of people.
| DR. Ernhout was sent for and soon gave
| out the cheerful information that no bones
were broken. He then bandaged the leg
nicely and the chief was taken to his home
on Upper N street. 1t being only a flesh
wound the chief will not be laid up long
if nothing unusual happens. Chief
| Beckett is man with great deal of nerve
He was perfectly cool headed while the
wound was being dressed and talked with
the mayor and the officers as cheerfully as
| though nothing unusual had happened. He
| bled freely and was made very weak from
| the loss of blood