The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-01-01
The Investigating Committees.
Engtnpers' strike.

DETROIT, Mich, December 3O.-All
the members OF the International Broth
erhood OF Locomotive engineers
| in the service oil the Grand
| Trunk Railroad Company abandoned
there engines at 4 T. VI. Yesterday IN
obedience to the orders from Chief
Engineer Macarthur Of the brotherhood
The engine attached to the eastern
bound tram from here last evening
WAS abandoned at Detroit junction at
d T.. NJ. and the train had TO be brought
back to this city by the yard engineer OF
he Michigan Central Railroad. No
grand trunk trains have lcit this city
to-day.
ToRGNTo December S0.-.The engineers
OF the Grand Trunk railroad abandoned
their trains last evening and went on
strike. To day the deserted trains are
standing everywhere on the tracks.
ST. ALBASs, December 30.-The Grand
| Trunk engineers have seized a turn-tabie
a. Point ST. Charles, and refuse to let
any trains pass. The Montreal authorl-
ties have been applied to for aid.
Toronto, December SO.-Thc only
! train in motion west Of Montreal is a
western bound passenger train, which Is
| approaching BellevIlle. The track at
| that point is barricaded on both sides Of
the town, and the strikers are so demon
| .trativc that n company oi militia has
| been called on, TO assist the civil authori-
ties in protecting railroad employees III
their endeavors to clear the line tor an
eastern bound passenger train, to be
started from this city Sunday morning.
ST. ALBAHs, VI, December 3l.-Thc
Grand Trunk Railroad has applied 10
the Central Railroad to run their trains
from st. .Jchnsbury to Montreal, which
was done to-day.
BUFFALO,, December 3l.-A sleeper,
the last car on the New York express,
due here at LIS this morning, was
thrown from the track about twenty
miles from here, ovcIturnii = the car.
The occupants. lady and @'ntleman
and the conductor, escaped uninjured.
The coupleing hgnk. causing the journ"l
to heat and the car 1" 4 fire, but IL Was
cxtinguished by p''3Ie on the line OF
the road, with snow
TORONTO, Decent 'r 1.-THE tarmina-
ton of the strike seem, Us distant rs ever.
The company are confident OF their abil
ty To provide drivers for passenger and
most OF their freight trains, and resume
business us early as the civil and mill
tsry authorities can guarantee the safety
of these substitutes and the company's
property. The strikers on the other
hand made desperate resolve that the
trains for trshc shall not be resumed till
their demands are satisfied. The
heavy snow drifts Of Friday still cover the
track over the whole line west OF Toron-
To. The strikers being SO numerous and
the intimidation so greet no attempt has
bee made to move an engine. Matters
are almost Us bad between Toronto and
Montreal. The train which left Toronto
this morning with Fridays through
passengers Is now lying at Coburg, fearing
to proceed. while ut Belleville matters
assuming more serious aspect and for
the time the strikers are in the ascend
ant. Last mig ut % men of the Forty
ninth battalion were ordered 10 that
station to preserve the pesce, while the
line is being cleared and TO pilot TO
Montreal the passenger train which
awaited orders seven miles east.
While the track men cleared the line
at one end OF the road the strikers
would block it at the other By running
snow ploughs and the cars oil the track.
Much time has been lost this way and
the company have decided to wait till
! daylight for further work. Early this
! morning locomotive fireman wsnt out
and piluted the express train to Belle
Vile. 90 its arrival the strikers assem-
bled, and several hours elapsed before
driver could be got to mount the
| engine to take the train west. At
! the station the platform was crowded,
! ana the military Were unable 10 prevent
the strikers from severely beating the
engineers, the volunteers not being Or
Gered to load or use bay onets. One of
tie strikers, in attempting TO wrestle q
bavonet from volunteer, received q
severe wound in the neck. Several
others were badly knocked about Sew
esai pistols were fred, but nobody was dan.
gerOusly wounded. The engine Mas then
returned TO the shop. -Four companies
of the Fifteenth battalion have been
since orcered out, but the men seem un-
willing TO 20, and at P. NJ. only forty
were Uude. arms Reinforcements
from the country arrived at O'Clock,
but the company haue abandoned all
hope of starting toe train before to-mor-
row.
LATER.-lt is understood that negoti.
atoms are now pending between the
Grand Trunk Company and the Govern
ment for the complete protection Of the
compsny's property By military suthori-
~, and that no sttemp, will be made TO
resume business on the road until such
security be guaranteed.