Deseret Evening News | 1906-05-23 | Page 4 | An Insane Operator

AN INSANE OPERATOR EntIre nha h by hy SendIng Out Messages Chicago ngo lla May 3 A dispatch to tim tio from trem Huntington In dIana dlana rays a aAn An Insane In ano telegraph operator opera lor blocked S the entire Wabash railroad system In Inthis Inthis Inthis this state tat for Cor halt half an ant hour yesterday by out Olt unIntelligIble messages to the Various train dispatchers Much confusion was Vas caused and alt all trains had hail to be stopped slopped In m order to tD prevent accident When Chief Operator Beau Beauf f went vent ott Olt to his hili luncheon he left lort Kellan In Itt charge of the key k y bard which nil ishi J f tho overcome by the tha heat beat Kellam un to his hili employers employer was In lii an Irresponsible condition and uti its soon noon aa as the room was vacated ho decided de that the past pot methods of train dispatching all aU wrong Smitten with an flit Idea that U It would bo be entertaining to the rural population t run nil ull passenger trains on n a freight schedule mind and rice Ilee veri versa er n a with n mu hendon collision or two In Iii every division lo 11 i Ive tho the wrecking o ho lie tn to put It Into execution sent message me after message to the tho dispatchers countermanding all nil standing orders then countermanding Ills his own orders Ho lie requested nit all pas lIas passenger trains to run backward and amid to turn to the right at lit every crossIng He lie nUo all nil tracks trucks cleared cleaned for tor fora tora a special truth train of br 10 49 cabooses which h wait running through the state stoic at It muss mlle nn ritu hour carrying the president of or tho tile United States and amId his hla cabinet All attempts to break brenk Into Inlo his hIe wire wha were fruitions fruItless II but at nt last hast one ono of or the dispatchers dispatcher the tho line lino Lund And then thon notified nil all operators operator to hold haiti the time vari various ous passenger and freight trains until Intelligent orders could be b secured I When returned to find lCd Kel Kellam I I lam lain playing checkers on the tha keyboard ha M realised that tho the man was as deranged and ordered him from coin the post poet Hel Iet Helium ium refused and aMI It required three mon men monto mento to 10 drug druK him away to jail Then Themi all ml were ero cleared up tip and the wheels wheela bf bl began an n to move nove again will be commit committed ted led to 10 an all asylum n