Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-21
THE STRIKERS.
Missouri Pacific and Wabash EaiIroad I'm
pIoyes SIN holding Out-No Freight
Trains Running.
MARCH 10

I Missouri Pacific ana WABASH Railroad A-l-i-
pIOyes sim holding Out-NO Freighs
Trains Running.
MARCH 10.
From the very first hour Of the strike
matters have continually grown worse. On
the 10th inst. Governor Narmaduke sent
the St. Louis militia to Ssdalia to restore
order among the strikers. At st. Louis the
/ Missouri Pacific is refusing freight and dis
charging or suspending many Of its en-
IpIoves not come cted with the strike. Some
OF the Wabash men are out here aud OF hers
say thew will strike. The Missouri Pacific
Company has hired a number Of Pin ksrton
detectives AID sent them up to Sedalia
armed with Winchester rifles to protect
their property till troops arrive.
A Special from Moberly says the strikers
are firm, and are encouraged by news that
/ them men on the Central Iowa road have
] struck. There have been no disturbances
50 far. AT Sedslia there are now over
/ seventy engines in the round houses and
yards, which have been killed by the strik-
! ers, and over ten miles of loaded freight
/ cars on the side tracks. No passenger trains
/ have yet been stopped, but no passenger
/ trains have arrived from west of Kansas
City or south Of Parsons, Kan, since sun
day.
At Kansas City the strikers decided to
offer no interference with the movement of
trains on the Wabash road, it being under
protection of the Federal Court. That road
is consequently running freight as well as
passenger trains. The Missouri Pacific pas-
senger trains are not interfered with, but no
freights are permitted to leave.
The troops from st. Louis were brought
to CentertOWn, within fifty miles
of SedaEa, and side tracked. Later
they were sent back to Jefferson City,
where they were suppered. After supper
they were returned to CentertOwn, where
they now are in the cars. Late last night
an armistice was agreed upon until noon,
the fourteenth instant, at which time the
strikers are to have an answer. Governor
Marmaduke and General JamisOn are to
act as nediatOrs, and see what, if any, COM
promise can be made.
At Moberly everything was quiet, but the
strikers say they will not resume work until
former wages are restored to every workman
on the entire Wabash system, and claim to
have advices that by tonight or Tomorrow
every workman on the road will be on
strike.
At Atchison the striking shop men still
hold possession of the shops and lOcOmo-
tiVes, and the railroad officials are waiting
developments at other localities on the line
Of the road. The strikers held their regular
meeting last evening, which was fully at
tended by the shop men, and also by a
number of freight brakemen who are paid
by the day or trip, and are only paid when
they work. As there are no freight trains
running, there is no work for them and
consequently no pay. This has pnt
them in bed humOr, and it
is said that they have concluded to
Join the strikers, and tomorrow will quit
idling and go to striking, Gov. Martin has
been repeatedly asked to call out the militia,
but has done nothing more than notify
the militia to be ready at moments notice. I
The strikers are orderly and quiet, but firm.
The employees of the Greenleaf repair shops,
ten in number, struck this afternoon ct 3
o'clock. .....
at Parsons the situation remains practi-
calIy unchanged. The men are all out and
no freight trains are allowed to run. 1t Is
rumOred that the strikers have ordered ali
engineers and men along the line, as far
south as Musc0gee, to come to Parsons for
protection; and also that after tomorrow no
passenger trains will be permitted to pass,
except the engine and mail car. This morn
ing Superintendent Golden and Sheriff
Lampson attempted to fire up an engine to
take out freight train, but were not per-
mitted to do so.
At Dallas, Texas, the section hands en-
plOyed on the Texas Pacific struck this
morning on the invitation of CoUriers who
passed through on hand-cars. BlOOdshed
IS apprehended If the com pauV attempts to
move trains with their small force.
The yard shops at Palestine are in charge Of
the Sheriff and deputies, who took out sew
eral trains to-day. The strikers have been
excluded from the yards.
The coal miners strike at Pittsburg is
generally unchanged. About 4, 600 men are
out on the strike and 1000 are at work.
Three hundred men got an advance from
the Birmingh ham Coal Company in Birming-
ham, and went to work to-day. The river
and rail rOad mines are nearly all idle. All
the men are out in the fourth pool, except
at Neil's, which is the largest mine In the
pool. The operators declare they will not
pay the advance.
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