The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-21
PITTSBURG, FORT WAYNE AND
OTHER R, R. STRIKES.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.


PITTsBURG, July 21.-Between one and
two hundred strikers performed guard
duty last night and patrolled the road
from the Union depot to East Liberty stock
yards.
An attempt was made about midnight to
move train from the outer depot, but as
no engineer could be found willing to lrun
the engine. the attempt had to be aban-
doned. The strikers say it will be i'm
possible for railroad men to obtain men to
run the engiras. They will offer no resist
ance to soldiers but will board all trains at
all stations, draw coupling pins, cut trains
loose, and thus prevent the departure of
all freight.
Adjutant General Latta of the state
militia arrived at |. As this morning. The
first division, 1900 strong including the
Keystone battery and the sixth division
under command Of General Brinton, are
expected to arrive this morning. Rail
road officials hope by thronging the tracks
with the military to awe the strikers and
keep them open.
The strike on the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne
Il Chicago road stops all shipping over the
Pitisburg and Erie 4 Cleveland roads, as
these roads use the Fort Wayne tracks for
some distance below this city. Freight
trains on the Conuellsville branch of the
Baltimore & Ohio R. r. were stopped last
night, it is said, by strikers from other
roads and the trains returned to the depot.
No trains will be sent out over this road to-
day. 1t is not definitely known whether
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & st. Louis
Pan Handle route men are out or not, hut
the situation here is such that the road
has no outlet for freight 1t was reported
early this morning the Allegheny Valley
road men Will strike, before noon to-day.
The men interviewed decline to express
| themselves clearly, but do not deny the
correctness Of the report. Passenger
travel and express matter are running as
usual on all roads.
NEWARK, O., July 2I.-The shopmen
joined the strikers this morning, The
military forces number l79 men. 1t is
reported the troops fraternize with the
strikers and refuse to fire upon them.
Gov, Young is telegraphing to Cincinnati
and other points for more troops.
| PITTsBURG, July 2l.-A meeting of the
Fort Wayne strikers at the round house
this a. n. adopted the following resolutions:
That we will in no wise interfere with
| the passenger traffic or with the u. S.
mail trains; that we agree to furnish full
crew of men, free of charge, to the railway
company to promptly move to the city all
! freight now in the yard destined for Pitts
burg firms, to the Duquesne depot.
! ReSOtUed, That under no circumstances
will we move through freight until we are
allowed sufficient wages for our labor, to
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ReSolued, That we appreciate sympathy
so fully rendered us by the public at large.
I PITTsBURG, July 81, 2 P. M.-The sit
uation is practically unchanged. The
Pan Handle road is moving local freight
and if the Instructions on the Pennsylvania
| Central r. r. we're removed, could easily
move freight. The strikers on the Pitts
burg 4 Fort Wayne road were Joined by
two hundred men from the company
shops this a. m. The strike is wholly
against the ten per cent. reduction which
went into effect June 18TH
/ On the Pennyslvana road, the sheriff
and his posse and the military will at once
proceed to the outer depot and endeavol
to make arrests of the strikers who are
congregated there. The result is anxious.
ly awaited.
! CLEVELAND, July 2l.-The fifteenth
regiment Of Ohio national guards station
ed in this vicinity, has been ordered tc
report for duty at Newark Immediately
1t is reported that the train men on the
Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad strike thi.
morning at Wellsvllle, Ohio.
NEWARK, July "a. An attempt Il
move freight train was contemplated
under guard of the military, but after
consultation with the strikers the move
ment was abandoned. Troops wert
marched into the yards but afterward:
withdrawn.
A bridge over the canal contiguous to thc
rail road yards on which large crowt
r was constantly passing, fell this morning
seriously iniuring three or four persons.