The New York herald., 1877-07-25

EASTERN PASSENGER AND EXPRESS CARS
STOPPED -sTRIKE ON THE vANDALIA, MIS-
soUnI PACIFIC AND MISSOURI, KANSAS AND
TEXAS RALRoADs-THE MEN DETERMINED
TO HOLD OUT.
lBy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
sr. LOUIS, July "a, 1877.
The situation has grown very critical here, and
there are grave apprehensons tha. the re-
suit will be the disastrous ana sangui
nary character. In the ear,y morning everything
quiet and passenger trans permitted to pass
through East ST. Louis without interruption until the
arrival the East bound vandaia train tho relay
house ut this point. Alter tho short halt which Is
customary with all trains, and when the tram just
getting In notion strikor drew the coupling PIN be.
hind the mail and callod TO the conductor,
''Go on with your United States mail; we've
got thing against the government" THIS act and
declaration greeted with loud shouts by the 500
strikers. Conductor MacMahon stepped out on the
platform OF ana appealed to the mob replace
the coupling pin and permit him to proceed He
said, 81 have 1876 passengers on board, and they
have paid their passage to Eastern points
the faith OF your promise that you would not inter.
fere with passenger travel You honor bound 10
let them pass (Cries Of ''rhat's so, - "Let them
CO." &cl 'lts q mean, contcmptble trick, said the
pucky conductor "and " you persist in II proves
that you not honorable men," The appeal OF the
conductor created a dissension la the ranks
Of the strikers, many OF them contend.
ing that tho train should be allowed
TO pass, ana others declaring should not Nearly
hour was spent in wrangling among the men, and
finally the committee in charge decided to let the
CO. and It Is unnecessary TO say It went very rapidly
EXCITEMENT PASSENGERS
In tho meantime there was great excitement amor
fha tHO Ort thrca n tha adj
tainted, OF them, invalid, being still uncon-
sc!ous when the took Its departure
When the mail train the Cairo narrow gauge road
tho relay house tho passenger car was de-
tached from the mail coach and the conductor pro-
cecded without his passengers In the meantime the
leaders tceeraphed the river TO their repre-.
sentatves this side to allow any moro passen.
ger trains to pull out from The Union Depot
MORE LAwLEssNEss
At eleven O'Clock twenty-five strikers under the
leadership Of Frank Becker old engineer on the
Ohio and Mississippi road, boarded an engine and
tender, steamed through tho tunnel and dashed into
tho Union Depot. This the frat appearance OF
the strikers in tho limits OF St. Louis proper
ana their arrival created n great sensation
ia that hitherto quiet nojghporhood. They quickly
aIghied from the engine that had borne them over
and with o shout, proceeded the depot sheds.
where they seized two engines belonging to tho
Missouri Pacific road, aud, mounting the engines.
steamed rapidly up the track milo and half, to the
machine shops OF that company
VICTORY DEpEAr
Tho strikers say there Is middle ground In this
case It IS either absolute victory defeat with them
and they propose tho issue square and clearly
defined from now on, aud TO effect this they will pu,
total embargo freight and passenger traIlc Their
organization increases IN strength ard perlectness
every hour but 80 long as they are not interfercd
with in their purpose to obtain what they consider
fair and lust for their labor there will In
no violence or disorder but If they are forcbIy op
posed there VIII be trouble and plenty OF IT, The
policy OF ,he railroads continue TO be passive one
and It is likely anything Will DO dono or the pres
cnt nt least, to unduy excite or influence the men,
THE vASDALIA RAILROAD sTRIHR
Major simpson, superintendent of tho vandaIia linz
received a despatch this morning IRON tho employees
at yattoon ON Indianapolis and ST. LOUIS road d.
In ndng an OF twenty per Cent on ther wogos
by noon to-day or they would cease work rhc Major
auswcrcd that nasmuch all the trains on the roaJ
had been stopped by the strikers hero prior TO the
REGENT of this despatch II did seem necessary TO
make further reply.
FORCING OUT MISSOURI PACIFIC MEN
The strikers who across the river thus morning
went TO the Missouri pacnc Railroad snops and forced
men 10 quit. There was no disturbance II Is not
known yet what action the railroad company will take
or what the men who compelled to stop work will
do.