New-York tribune., 1886-03-17
MORE TRAINS SIDE-TRACKED
A MOB FIRED on BY A sHERIFF's POSSE.
vICE-PREsIDENT HoxIE REFUSING TO TREAT WITH
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
tBr TELRGRArI TO THE TRIBUNE.

tBr TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE
ST. LOUIS, March 16.-The authorities and the
strikers into collision ut p to-day at Benton
St. Louis County. half dozen shots were fired. but no
hurt At 3l5 the Missouri Pacific sent out the
first train OF the day. excepting the aisthe Krkvood
accommodation The train travelled far as Benton
Station, where seized by strikers and sderacked
The mob at work disabling the engine when Sheriff
Allen aud posse arrived the scene. He ordered the
men to leave the train and premises OF the railroad COM
pany but they refused He reiterated his order and the
men not obeyng the posse undertook TO remove them
and In the excitement haldozen shots were fred but
mostly In the air The then left the train and t
taken back tho city The Knights here that
the who started the trouble did belong to the
organIzation.
Three OF engineers abandoning passenger engines
at the request OF the Knights occurred day At Mar
shall Texas, fifty mechanics brought from New Orleans
to take the places OF the strikers in the shops Joined tho
strikers stating that they had been deceived by the rail
company They SAID that they assured before
leaving New Orleans that there strike at Mar
shall when they found that there they joined the
strikers and made Knights OF Labor 1t reported
from Fort Worth that we'll belonging to boarding
house in which a number OF scabs boarded has been
poisoned all the and some OF the family made
sick The boar1inghous keeper is one TaRgert and he
says he does not believe 1t was done by Knights.
The striker Hearn, who beat new switchman at the
Union Depot yesterday, was fined 50 to-day. When
leaving the he said that he would fix score At
the same figure" The demands Of the East st. Louis
swtchmen been acceded by four roads and the
others will TO time The roads accedlng rec
ognized tho Knights OF Labor. They the Chicago
and Alton Ohio ana Mississippi, Louisville and Nash
Vile, and Belt Line.
Vicc President IoIie received the following letter to-
day.
II. NJ. H0xIE, First Vice-Iresidcnt
SIR II has been intimsed to me that the committee
wonl br admitted to conference with youin regard to
the difficulties existing with the said employees and
System your wish such committee Is ready for
aeonerence at such time and place as you may deter
Chairman Knights of Labor Executive Committee.
To this. after acknowledging Its receipt, Mr. Hoxe re-
piled as follows
While am always ready to confer with and hear tho
Complaints OF any of the employees of the companies
which represent. cannot soc that meeting with tho
| committee such as you propose would adjust the
| trouble. as | informed that the reason for
the existing difficulties was the discharge
OF A. Hall by the receivers OF the Texas ana Pa
cinc Railway road not under my control and with the
management of which have no voice or authority. 1
would further state that the action taken Dy 9nr iat1
employees has reduced our traic that we shall not
again require Rs many men In our shops as hereto
FORE but all good men who deserve ehpoymeht anu are
acceptable to superlnteudents will hereafter as
dered ma n they have any Complaints will take pleas
ure Ia meeting them Tor that purpose. H. NJ. HoAiE'
Receiver Brown teegraphed to VicePresldent Hoxie
to-day that lie has si1ty-seven men at work in the
struck and that no expects many more tomorrow The
shops at Big Springs Baird and Fort Worth. he says
have men enough at work for the present wants At
Omaha Neb the Knights the Missouri Pacific are out
and no light moving the Nebraska div-
sion An attempt to move a train yesterday was pre-
vented by five who captured the engine returned IL
to the round.hOuse and obstructed the track with
several box
A card signed by prominent business men OF the city
was publ sed this afternoon TO tho effect that ST. Louis
merchants stand ready deliver merchandise To any
point as quickly and certainly as the merchants OF
any other city 10 the same points
CLINTON March l6-Word reaches here from Savan-
nah about 800 tack builders the new Chicago,
Burlington and Northern Railway have struck. They
compelled the and nremen OF the construction
tralDs leave their cabs The company Is paying OFF
the strikers they drinking heavily ana arc all
armed clubs No information has been received as
TO the cause OF the strike
INDIANAPoLIs Marcn 16 (Specidb-Ihe Journal says
that there good authority for stating that the man
ayers of the indianapolis and ST. Louis ROrd are seli
onsy considering the stopping or ali except mali trains
on ali running St. LOUIS unless The strike on
the Pacific ends in the next forty eight hours
The managers take the position that the time has
como settle the question whether the railway man
agers or knights OF Labor are running the roads.
JETFERSOS, Tex, March l6.--Deputy Marshals owen
and Meeks who had in charge seven men arrested at
Marshall arrived here this evening on special train.
The prisoners we're lodged in Jail. Their offence is un-