The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-11
DISASTROUS TO BUSINESS.
ST. LOUIS MERCHANTS BEGIN.
MING TO FEEL
The Effects OF the G0uld Strife
Freight Traffic Completely Shut
0R-LabOr Notes.


since the employees of the Bridge and
Tunnel Company struck at the COM
mand OF the Knights of Labor, except
over the st. Louis and San Francisco
line, and its trains can penetrate the
city only as far as the Grand Avenue
Depot, for from thence to the Union
Depot, a distance of about two miles,
they are obliged TO use the Missouri
Pacific tracks, if any, and this the
strikers will not allow. Outside
merchantsare now beginning to under
stand the seriousness of the situation,
and at points all along the Gould sys-
TEN shipments have entirely closed or,
in very urgent cases, the orders are
filled by express. All through freight
from the West and South is also
diverted from the city, for it is impos-
sible to transfer any of it from this to
the east side of theriver, or vice versa.
The effect OF all this upon the business
interests has already become apparent.
and many prominent business men
express the opinion that the diverting
OF trade from this city on account of
the strike is not only temporary. but
will be permanent. The grocers COM
plain that they are unable to fill one
hall of their orders, and fear that il
the strike continues much longer their
customers will seek other markets, and
when once turned away from st.
Louis the majority of them will
stay away on account of their unwil.
Engness to transfer their patronage so
often. These same statements are
made by nearly all wholesal edealers,
hnar n,fs, To- Il 4 l
effects of this strike varies in proper
ton as their customers are situated on
the Gould or other roads entering this
city. Passenger traffic has not been
interfered with, except the suburban
travel, which has been almost entirely
suspended All through passenger
trains are made up by the officials of
the different roads End those of the
Bridge and Tunnel Company. The
Knights of Labor have offered to fur
nish men to do this work, but their
oilers have been refused on account of
the unwillingness of the companies to
trust their property in the hands of
green men.
PERFECT QUIET PREVAILING.
Perfect ord'r and quiet reigns at all
the yards and depots owned by the
roads whose employees have struck.
All passenger trains left from their ac-
customed positions at the Union De-
pot this morning and most of them
on time. At the Iron Mountain Yards
no force is on duty except that suffi-
Gent to make up the passenger trains. |
All the engines there have been placed |
in the round-house except one which
is used for switching purposes. No |
disturbance of any kind has occurred |
at that place. At the Missouri Pacific |
yards the same quietness prevails. |
Small groups of strikers assembled ear.
ly this morning and these, together |
with those guarding the property of |
the company and the few yard masters |
now employed as switchmen, are the |
only ones to be seen there. Both sides |
seem to be waiting for the other to !
show its hand and the situation is one
OF expectancy, neither having made a
proposition to the other as yet and
in fact, have made no statements what
ever, except to give their versions of
how the present troubles arose, which
are dramatically opposite and fatty
contradictory one to the other. No
conference between the strikers and
their employers as far as known, has
as yet been proposed, and the future
policy OF neither side is known.
THR SITUATION UNCHANGED.
The situation remains about I'M
changed in East st. Louis this morn
ing. The Knights of Labor there
have not struck as yet, but large mum.
bers of that organization from this CITY
are there attempting, it is supposed, to
persuade them to join the movement.
The effect OF the strike in East st.
Louis upon the cattle trade is espe-
cially severe. No stock cars can cross
the bridge, and therefore the receipts
are materially lessened as the strike
proceeds.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT KERRGAN
of the Missouri Pacific railway this
morning issued an order expelling
from the Missouri Pacific yards all ,
Knights of Labor. This order in ,
cludes the delegation of men appoint ,
ed by the Knights to guard the com !
pany's property. The circular issued
to the strikers ordering them off the
company's premises is as follows: !
"You are hereby notified that your :
action in withdrawing from the en- .
ployment of the Missouri Pacific Rail !
way Company was voluntary aban- !
donment of the service of the COM n
pany, and that you are no longer in .
its employment, and that your names
have been stricken from its rolls. All .
such who are now about the COM }
pany's premises are hereby notified =
that they must Immediately leave the =,
same, to the end that the company =
may resume the traffic of the country. y
''WM. KERRIGAN."
Although the officials will make no :
statement concerning the affair, it is
generally believed that they are now I
employing new men to take the places :,
OF the strikers, and-that the movement 9
OF freight trains will be attempted to- +
night. Should this prove true the 4
Knights of Labor viii undoubtedly 4
offer resistance. '
WILL RESUME FREIGHT TRAFFIC THURS d
DAY. $,
1t IS now ahthoritatively stated that @
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company O
will attempt tomorrow instead Of to- h
night, as stated in previous dispatch, h
to resume freight traffic upon its road. Il
The order issued this morning by Sup
'erintendent Kerrigan applies not only
to the men formerly in its employ in
this city, but to all the strikers on the n
system, and they have all slong the "
line OF the road withdrawn quietly X
from theoompany's premises. 81
TROUBLE AT FORT WORTH. ny
A special from Fort Worth, Tex, to 10
the Post Dipdtch states that the first <,
trouble there between the knights of >
Labor and EOn-Knights Of Labor oc-
CURED this morning when the new
men employed by the railroad to run Ve
the engines were attacked while per a
forming their duty and forced to va 81
cate their cabs. The strikers then II
KILLED" the engines. Quiet now pre- an