The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-29
| STILL STRIKING!
The Santa Fe at Galveston
in the Possession of the
Strikers.
All Freight Engines CHILLED"
end Only Mail Cars Allow
ed TO Go Ont.
The Military Under Arms and
the Governor Appealed to
for Assistance.
RAILWAY RUMBiINGs.
The Santa Re ParaIyzed by the sirik.
ers AT Galveston

ers AZ Galveston.
GALVESTON, August 2S. To-day's
developments of the striking knights
of Labor, against the Gulf, Colorado
u Santa he railway has assumed
gravcr proportions than was ever an
ticipated. Though still orderly and
quiet they have deter minedly carried
into execution every one OF their ma
tured plans to impede freight traffic,
despite the feeble efforts of resistance
by officials aud non-uuion employees,
backed by police authority. As a re.
suit of this, all freight movements are
entirely suspended, ard the strikers
are in full possession awaiting the sur
render of the bcsieged railway. Every
freight engine has been killed, and
they now lie in the shops under the
surveillance of the strikers who,
though not by any meaus threatening,
have, nevertheless. given IL out that
they will not brook hostile Interior
enCe.
The first effect of the utter helpless
ness of the railway authorities to sue
cessfully carry on their side of the
warfare was developed last night
when the remaining employees. to-
gether with large crowd OF negroes
sought TO project aud send out u
freight train. Winchester rifles end
reviewers w1re dcmOnstratively eX-
hibited, but the sti ikcrs, however, de
liberately went TO work killing freight
engines rs II ii was u legitimate oper-
alton, one even going so far as to
haug his lantern on the back of the
barrel OF the Winchester of
one the lower officials of
the road. After eircctually dis
posing of all the freight engines, a
band of the strikers held meeting
and decided not to interfere with the
carrying out of the mails, but to let
mail aud express cars 20 out on pas
senger time schedules. No passenger
cars, IL was agreed, should be run, but
subsequently 1t was agreed not to in-
terterc with passenger traffic at all.
Before this latter determination was
reached, the noon passenger train was
boarded at the shops by strikers and
taken to the depot, aud after
the passengers were discharged the
trD'n was sw itchcd so that
passenger coaches could be cut out
without difficulty.
All this time the railroad author
ties had been passive. The stI ;Icrs
took possession OF al passenger en-
gines, cleaned them up and put them
in the rOund-house in readiness for
duty; they did this service gratui-
tously. Fcai rg that passenger trains
would be Included IN the strikers
category of prohibition the rs'lway
authorities invoked federal aid under
cover of protecting mails ard accord
idgly a United States marshal went
out ON the morning train which went
through unmolcsted.
With view to getting out freight
trains, General Manager Snyder and
Presiuent Sealey called on the mayor
for police protection which was or
dercd, and the entire police force of
twenty-seven men were dispatched to
the scene. An inbound freight tran
which had been stopped at Virginia
Poiut was then ordered In. This was
the orly rems'n'ug olive" freight ell
g'ne accessible. IL was Intended that
this engine should be utilized to take
out delayed freight trains. The strik-
ers however, were posted, aud with
the police met the traiu at the
switch, and both police and strikers
simultaneously jumped on board,
After the train had been sidc-tracked
according to custom, the strikers
began to act. The engineer was called
oil and the strikers then took posses
sion. The engiuc was then blown oil,
the fire dumped and and in Il few min.
utes the engine was dead The po-
lice IN the meantime were on the en-
CINE aud were pessive spectators of
the scene. This cilectually settled the
business. The police claim they were
Only authorized % prevent destruction
of property and not to fight strikers
who outnumbered them ten TO one.
Tonight all is quiet Mayor Fulton
has issued u proclamation calling Oh
the strikers to dispense, and the mill.
tary have all been notified to hold
themselves in readiness. A,
many of the military ar,
Knights of Labor, II Is moi
likely that u lively response win be
made to the demand Tor militar,
protection. The mayor knowing
this, Governor Ireland has been All
yised aud will probably rider foreign
troops to the scene.
The strikers now claim as another
grievance in fayoro uniform rates OF
wages along entire extent of tn,
road, that at Temple for example, la
Dor Is held SO cheaply that all worl
that eau possibly be done is per
formed th,re TO the detriment o
Galveston. 1nis they claim vii
point headquarters of the shops.
The Santa Fo officials are still deter
mined and declare they are not subjec
10 dictation which includes wages q
clerks and operators.