The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-21
The Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Pennsylvania Railroad.
Pittsburg, July 20.-The strike in
augurated on the Pennsylvania railroad
still continues, and the excitement
occasioned thereby has been increased
in intensity by the determined efforts
made by the railroad authorities to re-
move the blockade. The strikers are
hourly increasing in strength. As the
trains come in they are met, and the
crews after taking the train to the
yards join the strikers.
Nine hundred loaded cars are lying
on the track between the Union depot
and East Liberty, while the number en-
route swells the total to 1,5Ou. This
number constantly increases, IL the
maze of track will soon be all occupied
by inert masses of rolling stock heavily
laden with goods for all parts of the
west and east. ~SiXty-eight cars OF
stock from the west, which had col
lected on the Pennsylvania tracks, were
permitted by the strikers to proceed to
East Liberty and discharge their loads.
Thirty-eight cars more of cattle arrived
over the Fort Wayne road and were
unloaded also, but a committee of
strikers accompanied each engine to
see that the crews did not oppose the
strike. An immense crowd assembled
at the outer depot at 2Sth street, but
nothing occurred up to noon, when at
a meeting of the strikers, n of them
read u dispatch from Hornelsville,
signed "P. j. DANA" which created
the widest excitement. 1t announced
that the firemen and brakemen OH the
New York and Erie railroad quit work
this morning. The sheriff appeared at
the meeting and read the Presidents
proclamation, which was greeted with
misses and boots. He assured the
strikers that the law would be enforced
at any cost. Gen. Pearson then aid
there seemed to be a disposition to
treat the matter lightly. He warned
them that it was serious. He had the
warmest sympathy for them, but those
who knew him knew he would obey his
orders from the governor. He was fire.
%quently and roughly interrupted by
characteristic questions.
The military now here are INSULT
cient to suppress any possible riot.
Serious trouble Is expected from the
determined strikers should the military
attempt to break the blockade.
About 40 members of the Eigh-
teenth regiment, under Col. Guthrie,
are at East Liberty. AT Torren's sta
ton, this afternoon, the strikers gath
cred in force and loudly denounced
Gen. Pearson and the military, and
threatened to shoot Pearson should he
attempt, as he promised, to bring the
first train through himself.
The stock yard men seem determined
to preserve the blockade wen by re-
sisting the military. Up to midnight
No ntto,,,t ft,n G p,aIa tn fnnun tho norS
Serious results are likely to follow such
an attempt.
Situation on the Baltimore and Ohio.
Columbus, July 20.-The blockade
Of trains at Newark in consequence of
the strike on the b. Il o. road contin-
ues. No freight trains have been per-
mitted to go out so far. Several trains
attempted to go out but were stopped.
1t is reported that torpedoeS have
been put on the track at some points
for the purpose of intimidating new
crews.
The sheriff read the riot act this
morning, but it had no effect on the
strikers.
The conductors and engineers refuse
to join the strikers but give them aid
and sympathy.
The sheriff of Licking county has
demanded military aid from the COVER
nor. Assistance will be forwarded as
soon as the state officials are notified.
The local authorities have done all thew
can, which has had no effect.
Martinsburg, July 20.-A striker
named Davis has been arrested and
the officers are looking for other con-
spicuous Instructors of trains. The
Wheeling militia will probably leave for
home this afternoon. Lieut.. Curtis,
U. S. A, reports that, upon arriving at
Keyser the tiremen and engineers were
taken from the train and it was run on
a siding, his detachment being too
small for effective operations.
The New York and Erie in Line.
New York, July 20.-Late last even
ing a meeting of tiremen and breakmen
vas held in Hornellsville, at the close
of which a message was sent to the
Superintendent of the Erie road, noti-
flying him that the men on the western
Susquehanna and Buffalo divisions had
resolved to quit work at l o'clock this
morning. The superintendent pro-
ceeded at once to Hornellsville, arriv-
ing there this morning, and found the
strikers had quit work and taken meas
ures to prevent any train-passenger or
Ireight-from leaving or passing
through Hornellsvslle, east or west.
simultaneously the brakemen and
switchmen at Salamanca, on the west
ern division quit work, and when Mr..
Briggs, superintendent of that division,