The New York herald., 1877-07-30
ILLINOIS.

TROOPS CONCENTRATING AT EAST ST. LOUIS IN
EXPECTATION OF AN ATTACK UPON THE
BRDaE-GENERAL ORDER BY GENERAL BATES,
coMMANDINa-HE ARRESTS s1xTY-rvE srRrK-
ERs-ENGNEERs' STRIKE ON THE vANDALA
EoiD
EAST ST. Louis July 20, 1917
East ST. Louis has looked like n camp to day. and
everything has been hustle aud activity. The State
militia com mncnced pouring iEto town at about five
O'CLOCK. and by ten O'Clock about eight hundred mad
arrived. since then number OF additional
companies have come, and tonight there are
from eleven to twcivc hundred soldiers in the CITY,
besides tho United States troops. Some Of the latter
have been withdrawn, but there remain enough to
guard the properly OF tho Ohio and Mississippi and
the Southeastern roads, and also the bridge.
Tho State troops comprise the Fifth and Eighth
regiments of Illinois State Guards.
About midnight General Bales issued tho fol-
lowing
HEApoUAnrERs Srcoxp BnrGApe
FIRST DIVISION ILLINOIS N1rioNAL GUARDS,
ASSISTANT AprUrASr GKSERALs OrricE,
EAST 81 LOUIS. July -, 1871
GENERAL ORDER No. q.
Having in ,compsnee eth orders from the Governor and
command Of the Illinois National Guards at East st. Louis
cr the pnrpose o, aiding the eyl authorities Of -
preserving the peace and protecting properly therein
OF said county and city. hereby command al
said county and city 70 observe tho and aid ia the
b,ages are hereby prohibited and will be promptly dis
persed
Private citizens in any consider able numbers
in public armed with weapons OF any kind will be rcgardeu
rioers and dealt with accordingly The
city ad o the tsSo"znares pi hs country win be kept
persons will bs arrested and punished pro-
vidcd by, law. Citizens and corporations With
Violence er e%poyt. y epoTns the
TACT 10 these headquarters will c protected by the orco
Of this command In tho peaceful pursuit OF their
avocations.
BY order of Brigadcr General Z. n. BATES
Commanding the Illinois National Gu ards.
j. N. REESE, Assistant Adjutant General
In accordance with the order trains began MOVING
to-day. All roads, except the Toledo and Wabash
have sent out both passenger add freight trans Con.
strikers, and about noon quite a crowd gathered
about passenger train, aud said II should
not 30 out. As they were quite dcmonstrativc Gen
eral Bates scnt company OF militia to the ran who
surrounded the strikers and took ftynvc prisoners
who were placed in congneInent. THIS quIeIed things
lett subsequently, and more trouble occurred.
About one hundred strikers their sympatblzcrs
VINO lnduIgcd In loud talk werc arrested during the
day, and ny night lew strikers be seen about
the depot or OF any yards.
STRIKE ON THE vASDALIA ROAD
The engineers on the VaEdala road struck last nQbt
at twelve O'Clock Notw thstanding this however a
passenger train on that road went this evening
the engine being driven by ood
BANK TELLER As AN ENGINEER.
when the tram on the Vandaa road which was Il
leave rerre Haute at twcDtyfve minutes past eleven
last night was ready To start the engineer deserted
In few minutes another engineer was found In
tho person of Mr. Frank Meyers, teller In
the bank Of McEon 4 TueIl, who mounted
the CAB and brought the train through. On mis- ART
val here this morning Mr Meyers ran tho locomotive
10 the round house. whore he Was assaulted BY thirty