El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-11
WHAT THE TRUTH is
it is Hard to Say, Since the
Accounts of the Situation
Are Never TWi.e
Alike.

CHICAGO, Ills, Dec. 11.-Reports
received this morning by local Of
ficials of the order of railway tele-
graphers show that the strike on the
Santa Fe system is more effective now
than at any time since its Inaugural
ton Secretary Perham sent a tele-
gram here which states that the bogus
message purporting to come from
general chairman Newman has had
but little effect.
Places All Filled.
CHICAGO, Ills, Dec. 11.-President
Ripley of the Santa Fe says that 1t is
probable that by tonight all places
made vacant by the striking telegraph
ers will be filled and that within a few
days the road will be running the
whole business in a normal manner.
New Operators At Work
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. IL
New operators have been placed in ev-
cry office made vacant by the strike
between Point Richmond and Fresno
Two Wrecks.
DENVER, Colo. Dec. IA Santa
Fe special train with two coaches car
rying a great many non-union opera
tors gathered from all available
sources, left the union depot this
morning The operators were to be
put off wherever needed.
The trai nhad no reports to run by,
therefore it was obliged to literally
feel its way along. Despite the un-
usual caution with which the train ad-
vanced it had only reached the West
Denver yard when it collided with a
Cripple Creek freight train.
The engine turned completely over,
lying beside the track on it's side. One
of the coaches was derailed but not
badly damaged. The freight engine
and four cars were demolished.
Engineer Berry escaped from the
engine before it overturned. His fire
man was injured. The telegraphers
were terribly frightened. They believ-
ed the train had been wrecked by the
strikers. At Olathe, Kansas, at s
o'clock this morning there was a rear
end collision of fright trains, in which
the property loss was heavy.
The Union on Top.
DALLAS, Texas, Dec 11@Santa Fe
strike affairs are not improved any to-
day for the company. Traffic is bad
1y congested and all main line passen-
ger trains are behind time.
Twelve non-union operators were
brought to Dallas by the company last
night for distribution over the system
tributary to this city. The union COM
mittees got them this morning, and
shipped them to New Orleans and ST.
Louis
Conditions on the Santa Fe are more
mixed today than ever.
No definite information can be OBJ
tanned from an uninterested source
and the reports from both the Santa
Fe management and the o. r. T. are
SO far apart that no dependence can
be placed in either.
Trains are running on regular time
from Ell Paso to the main line but
they are getting along with few oper-
ators. There are several operators at
the different stations along this line
but none of them are rendering service.
All the wires from Ell Paso to Las We
gas are open and it seems cannot be
closed. The local officials have tried
in every way to get Albuquerque but
have failed and the suspicion has
arisen that the new men put on to fill
the places of the strikers do not know
how to handle the business or refuse
to do it.
Chairman Lisle of the local commit
tee on the G. H. here has received in
formation o fthe most encouraging
kind from the president in which he
states that, Notwithstanding the fact
that the Santa Fe officials report that