Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-28
HIGH HANDED
WORK OF THE STRIEING SWITCHNEN AT
CHICAGO YESTERDAY.

CHICAGO, June 2b,-ln the superior
Court this morning Judge Shepard issued
an Injunction against seventy of the Lake
Shore striking switchmcn on an affidavit
signed by +. L. Wright, General Superin-
tcndent. On his affidavit Mr.. Wright
charges that on April IL, lSSG, the defend
ants made . request in writing, which
they presented to the company, asking for
the discharge Of eight men, The company
refused to grant the request on the ground
that, with one exception, the eight men
had been in the employ Of the company
from ten to eighteen years.
The only complaint made by defendants
against the Objectionable men WAS that
they had remained in the employ OF the
company during the strike OF ISL.
The affidavit goes on to say that the
company cannot discharge the eight men;
they cannot take them out of the employ
of the road ~ s]witchnlSn and yardmastcrs
without sending them out of the State.
They are all men who have families to
support, and the company cannot put them
i'm any other line of employment in which
they can make ~ much money.
Ii is then charged that the strikers are
interfering with the business OF the c0m-
pany i'm its capacity oil common carrier;
that the company Is ready to pay the
strikers what money is due them; that
they have no right on the premises Of the
except To collect what Is due
them, and that they can get the amount
through the cashier at Chicago. The
Court is asked To restrain the strikers from
interfering with trains, pulling out coup
linz pins or trying tO induce the men now
ut work to quit the employ of the road.
AN EFFORT To CLEAR TRACKS.
The railway company was engaged this
morning i'm c~ndeavoring to clear the tracks
south of FUrty-third street Of the wrecked
trains which remained there over night.
Nearly all the tracks from FOrty-third
to Fitty-iifth street were blocked this
morning with partially overturned cars:
All traffic on both the Lake Shore and
Rock Island roads was delayed III conSe-
ouence of the blockade. by 10 o'clock the
tracks had been pretty thoroughly cleared.
During the night the round houses and
other property of the Lake Shore road We're
guarded by PinkertOn'S police and MEM
beers of the town of Lake police force.
II was the general expectation that the
camnan would make another determined
| effort 10 10 move q train to-day, althOuSh
7 i'm the opinion nf the officers ct the town oil
/ LakepOlicG The train, even OF taken 10 the
town limits mt EnglGw0Od, $Ould probably
! stick there. IA h estrikcrs had 4 committee
at that point and the town police cannot
afford protection beyond the corner oil
State and Sixty-thirl streets.
At this point there are Mt least thirty
tracks abreast which are connected by
switches and constituted the principal yards
of the Lake Shore Company.
Even If trains should get through Engie-
wood trouble is expected in passing the
South Chicago yards, where the mass ol
reople are in sympathy with the strikers
IN \ RAT HOLE.
Five men stood In Superintendent
Wrirht's office this morning. Two oil
them were badly battered mp. One had 4
had cut over his eve, his cheek was swOl'
len and he bore bruises all over his body
They we're demanding their t~ransporta-
ton hack home.
eve were taken into q rat hole yeSter'
dav," said the worst used up OF the men
and left To be killed" | was taken viii
five or six others and left in the round
house Yesterday afternoon. There was 8
fellow left With us who was called u lie
t~ecfiye. Ab0ut twenty of the strikers
e,me in-made a rush nj Us, and the tie
trctiyc skedaddled the first one, Their
waS no chance for us. The mob WAS armed
with mOnkey-wrenches, iron bars coupling
p;ns and iron ore. They threw me dow
h,mmered me and nearly killed me. ]
ont AWAY. and bleeding freely, met n po-
Iiceman. who stopped me, turned me round
and asked me ii my throat was cut
toId him that had been mobbed ut Forty
third street. lie asked HE If ! had taEer
the nloce of the strikers. | said Yes. lie
kicked me and said, L wish theyd killed
Won am going TO my home twenty
miles the other side of Toledo.
BY STRIKERS.
The Lake Shore engine in charge oil
r%conloF crew leff the round house shortl.
after - o'clock, Two cabo0seS were at
tarhed to it instead Of one, As at hfst an
nouneed. On each cabOose were aoou'
ffteen Town of Lake police and twenty
Pinkerton detectives. The train proceeded
nj A rate no faster than n walk until u ar
rived in Englewood when tn
officers mounted the coWeatcher
If both the engines and OF Tn
eabooscs, and the train started OIL at IN
rate of two miles an hour. A large Grove
of the strikers had rushed ahead oil u
tr,;n while it was proceeding at q SLOW
rate. and at a dead run set out Tor Engie
wood. ~o,a5 III
As tbs trains speed was accelerated IN
oropcd VAS . passed, and q storm 9
stones and cinders were throws INTO IN
-. m. outside of the engines and C