The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-13

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ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 12-Very
meagIe reports OF the situation in
East st. Louis had been received in
this city up to l o'clock to-day. All
was quiet among the people, the mill
tia maintaining perfect srder and no
disposition being manifested at any
point to create a disturbance or to
commit unlawful acts. Troops are
guarding all the yards, and the streets
and open spaces around the relay
depot are patrolled and people are not
allowed TO congregate even in small
groups. But little real work has been
done in the yards so far and but few
trains have been moved This is
chiefly for the reason, however, that
in some OF the yards there are not suf-
ficient men to make up trains, while
in others there is little or no freight to
move. The Louisville and Nashville
yards are practically at a standstill.
This is the railroad at which the
strikers are the most iDcensed, and
but few outsiders care TO be employed
there. They have moved no trains
yet to-day, Two shots are reported to
have been fred in this yard about
O'Clock this morning, but nobody
seems to know where they came from,
or by whom or for what purpose they
were fred. A large train came into
the Indianapolis and st. Louis yards
this morning from the east, but none
have been sent out yet. The Vandalia
sent out one and received one. The
Ohio and Mississippi is busy receiving
freight, but no trains have gone out
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
and the Chicago aud Alton are doing
all they can with the men they have,
and the Wabash is doing its regular
business.
THE GOULD-PowDBRLY INTERVIEW.
The General Executive Board and
the Joint Executive Committee of
Districts 10l, 80 and II were in session
to-day at Hursts Hotel, but took no
official action other than to receive
reports from different points on the
Gould system and to transact routine
business. In a conversation with a
reporter this afternoon, General Com
mitteeman John W. Hays said that
the statements attributed to Jay Gould
in an interview telegraphed from New
York last night, in which Mr.. Gould
says that Mr.. POwderly at one Of the
New York conferences referred to the
members OF District l0l as outlaws"
and said that they had disobeyed the
laws of the order, was false in every
particular and wholly without foun-
dation. He characterized it as zone
of Jay Gould's lies for the purpose of
misrepresenting the Knights OF Labor
and destroying public faith in the
order. What Mr.. Powderly did say"
said Mr.. Hays, "was that the strike
was unwise and had been i'll advised,
because the local committees had
taken action upon matters concerning
a very large extent of territory with
out first consulting the general Off
GERS of the order. Other than that he
made no remarks of the character at
tributed to him by Mr.. Gould"
"Were you present at the inter
view referred to, between Mr. Pow
derby and Mr.. Gould2I g ssGs2si
" Yes | was, and l have very dis
tinct recollection of what occurred"
"You are quite certain that Mr..
did not make the state
ments which Mr.. q ouldsays he made?"
g. am positive that Mir. Powderly
said nothing of the kind, and Mr..
Gould is repeating his old tactics of
misrepresenting us. What Mr.. Gould
says about our refusal of his PROPOSE
ton to include in the matters to be
arbitrated the question with respect
to damages to the roads caused by the
strike is true"