Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — A Telegraph Blunder. [ARTICLE]

A Telegraph Blunder.

Thirty pupils of a deaf and dumb school in Virginia started for home over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad last week. The conductor of the train telegraphed to Parkersburg, “I have thirty mutes on board. Be prepared to receive them.” The dispatch was received all right, but the operator read it mules instead of mutes. Two cattle-cars were awaiting his train as it pulled into Parkersburg.