The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-05-25
A BOGUS ORDER.
Operators. on the Chicago and North.
western Road Desert Their
Keys
IA Obedience to an Order Supposed to
Have Been Issued by Chief
Ramsay.
The Order Was Not Genuine end the
Operators Were Ordered Back
to Work.

4 OhiSA0Cy May S4.-Ino CnreaCened
strike Of telegraphers on the Chicago
and tIorthwestern road occurred at A
O'clock 9. m. At o'clock disastrous
wreck Followed, involving many thou
sand dollars worth of property and
causing blockade of the entire Mil
waukee division of the read.
1t was just at o'clock when all the
operators north of Evanston, Is by enc
impulse, failed to answer the calls on
their instruments from the train dis
patcher's office. Scarcely had the off,
cials been notified and they in turn had
ordered the utmost caution in moving
trains when the first accident occurred.
A heavy freight train, composed Of
70 cars of ice, hay and beer for Chicago,
reached North Evanston, and, though
the switch signals were properly set,
struck an open switch and left the
rails, the cars heaping upon each other,
completely blocking all the tracks. The
engineer and fireman of the train saYed
themselves by jumping.
Just as the engine passed the station,
running at full speed on the main track,
the tower man is said to have remem-
bared that he should have switched the
train to side track. After the engine
had passed he threw the switch and one
after another the cars piled up on one
another until 10 were thrown across the
track.
Result of a Bogus Order.
CHICAGO, May A.-The strike, it has
been learned, was the result of bogus
dispatch sent over the wires of the COM
pany at 10 o'clock p. M, the origin of
which is not known. AS soon as Grand
Chief Ramsey heard of the walkout he
proceeded to repair the damage as far
as he could. He sent committee to
the general officers of the road in this
city with authority to denounce the
outrage and with message to all mem
hers of the Order of Photographers, or
dering them to return to work and ex-
planning that no official order had been
given to strike, if that action seems
necessary, until every division has
been paroled. Several hundred opera
tors at various points along
the road left their keys in obedience to
the spurious mandate, but all returned
to work when Mr.. Ramsay's order
passed. over the line.
The railway officials declare tnat the
strike was in novice responsible for the
wreck at South Evanston. Mr.. Ram.
say, when seen at his hotel, said the
bogus order was TO doubt the work of
Pm enemy of the telegraphers' order and
everything was being done to discover
his identity and to rectify the damage.
No legal steps will be taken until a
conference had been held with General
Manager Whiteman of the road.
Telesraphers' Trouble Settled.
CHICAGO, May 24.-In an interview
Chief Ramsay said the trouble with the
Chicago and Northwestern road was all
settled. II have had conference with
the railway officials, " said Mr., Ramsay,
"and they have explained their position
with regard to the recent discharge Ct
several of the operators on the Chicago
and Northwestern road. The reasons
given for their discharge were ample.
The committee is thoroughly satisfied"
he continued, land has broken up and
the members have left for their homes"