The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-10

GROWING EVERY HOUR.
Dallas, Tex. March THE strike Oh
the Missouri Pacific syst,m is extending
and growing lsrger cry hour. The strik,
embraces the working men from Marshall
| to Fort Worth except here in Dali s. The
prospect Is Inst tie trsckm,n will isin the
/ strikers st any mOtOeat. The track men
or section hands had been allowed s.. %
per day and this HIS been reduced 20 81 90
per das. Orders have been r, ceiypd here
10 reduce the clerical force, thus throwing
ont OF employment those who are not par
ticip.tiDg In the strike. No one cen tel!
where the trouble will end. The strikers
saw they are In earnest and this is no blrff
The railroad men expect The passenger
trains II cease running In taI or two
About 600 men ere now engaged il the
strik-. Ii is expsc'ed th4t he section
hands vest OF Fort Worth viii strike to-
day. the strikers still -Ssert that thev in
tend 20 harm no ore. ami DO no .mage t.
property.
The strikers have abandoned the idea O!
stopping passenger trains, as they isa-ad
they might incdr the displeasure of the
government. There is great deal of live
stock here and st Fort Worth, stopped IN
route 10 market, which the railro ID com
pany is FEEDING. Freight over the Mis-
souri, Pacific and Texas Pacific is susper d.
ed. Merchants who nave goods en- route
regard The situation with alarm. The
strikers have many symptthize-s, and il is
thought the strike will extend to all en-
ployes.
WANT THEIR SEED POTATOES.
BOnhsm, Trxrs, March 7.-Yestsrday
the agent of the Texas and Pacific rsilwsy
here received orders 70 discharge all en-
ployes except the agent and telegraph
operator until the trouble between the
company and the strikers Is settled. No
freight trains sre moving except one onc4-
sionaliy slippad out at night. The strikers
say they are not gcing to let anything ex
cspt mail coaches go over The road to-moI
row. Merchants dislike to see the trains
sioppad now, as they have just ordered
potatoes for spring pl,ntiug, and unless
| freight move there will be no seed potatoes
Ia the market. However, the
greater part Of the people are
| In sympathy with the strikers.
WILL SWEAR OUT WARRANTS
Fort Worth, Tex,s, March THE
strikers remain firm, and all freight trains
which came In yesterday have been stopped
here, until tweBty-thrye engines are dead iu
the round house The lssL train at ll:30
was losded with cabbags, oranges and lem
ons, and has bsen sidetrscked. Three cars
of icr, beerand seed pOtttOe are also side
tracked and will be damaged by delay.
Several car loldS of cattle were un-
loaded a, the stock yards tonight,
and will be fed at the expense of the
railroad COMPANY until the strike j.
over. The strikers, without pay from The
company, coal ali passenger engines and
aid in every way the passenger traffic
| Fort Worth wholesale men are suffering
from the blockade, bairg unsble TO ship
any o IS, the companies refusing to re-
&c We freight. The stoprage of freight
trains has augmented the business of the
express companies wonderfully. 1t was
understood last night that committees o.
strikers had gone out to section houses to
induce the section men to join them in the
strike. The officials OF the roads have de-
cided to swear out warrants to-day against
the men who are killing the engines and
holding freight here.
| WANT HoxIE's RESIGNATION.
Dallas, March Two special engines
arrived last night over the Missouri Pa
cifc. 1t is lieved they were volunteer
engines from the Transcoutinental road to
relieve the freight blockade. A railroad
man who has just returned from the west
says the strikers sre well backed with
money; that $1,000 came from single
source. IL is claimed the Central Organi-
cation of Machinists ordered the strike, ard
it is demanding the resignation of Mana
ager Hoxie as an Indispensable preliminary
to peace proceedings.
| SHOPS DESERTED.
Fort Wayne, Ind, March THE strike
of Wabash shopmen insuguratsd here
Tuesday still continues. Fifteen workmen
who refused to come out heretofore, yester.
day joined the strikers, leaving, as the