Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-23
ON THE BRINK OF A RIOT.
MELODRAMATIC SCENES IN THE
YARDS AT CHICAGO.

Guard Of 200 Deputy Sheriffs Backed
by 100 Detectives. 25 Policemen and
: so new swttchmen-Appe4 ais # the
STRIKERS to the Engineer Prove Effect
ive-The New Men Also DESERVING,
CHICAGO, April 22-The Lake Shore
Railroad Company fled bill in the SUI
perior Court this afternoon citing that
the company owns certain lands, tracks,
and terminal facilities in the county which
are now being trespassed upon by 60 men
not now in its employ, naming the strik-
ing switchmen. The bill recites that
these men are interfering with the move
ment of trains, and are IN other WAYS
trespassing, and praying for an injunction
to prevent their further interference with
the operations of the company. Judge
Garnett issued wrlts Of injunction against
the men this morning. and at u 40 O'clock
train loaded with 200 Deputy Sherfs left
the Lake Shore depot for the scene Of the
strike 10 arrest these men and bring them
into court. On board the same train, car
rying the Deputy Sheriffs, were sixty
switchmeu who had been employed to take
the place Of the strikers. The deputies
all were armed with hickory clubs, dis
playing no firearms. The new switchmen
had also been sworn IN as Deputy Sner-
ifs. In addition to the regular deputies
there were forty men from Plnkerton's
agency and about Sixty from three other
detective agencies.
squad OF % policemen were taken
from the Twenty-second Street station
and posted along the track for some dis
lance north Of Tnirty-ninth street within
the city limits.
ADDRESSED BY STRIKERS.
The train stopped at Thirty ninth street.
Here a committee of striking sWitchmen
waited upon superintendent Amsden and
asked him to allow one of the men to 90
into the rear car and address them. In
accordance with the request, Tom Collins
got on the car and spoke as follows:
Nv e want you men to hear our side
OF this matter. You have heard the
company's side and you should hear both
sides. Come over to our hall and hear us,
and if you do not want to go there fix any
other place. Come out and talk it over.
This is question between capital and
labor, and the time has come that the con-
Met has TO take this shape. We do not
want to lnjure the company's property,
but we want our rights" Collins left
the car, followed by three of the
imported swtchmen, and the cars
We're surrounded by strikers and
their friends VINO used every argument
they could 10 persuade the switchmen to
leave the cars. Up to , O'Clock seven men
mad left, some gong through windows
and some out of the doors. A bout 1000
, men surrounded the train at Root street.
The crowd increased mOmentarily until
fully 1000 men were in the yard.
THE CRITICAL MOMENT.
The critical moment was at > 80 O'Clock.
Engine No. 45S, with Engineer Caddy.
~ FrtT nNuf Of II.
bell loud V. Ten d putty SheriffS guarded
It on the front, sides and rear. Before the
engine reached the main track the depu
ii were almost lost in a mass of excited
men who crowded the tracks. Tom Col
Inns mounted the engine, and began talk
2 ing 10 the engineer. The wheels soon
stopped, and Collins was heard to say !:
"Be kind enough to do this, YOU are no
capitalist. For Gods sake run that en-
CINE back for us labOring men. Do it,
Will your The engineer reached
3 for his lever, the great wheels re-
= yersed, and the engine started back
to the rOundhouse amid deafenng cheers
from the swi,chmen and their friends
W hen opposite the tank perInteudent
Wright got on the engine and talked with
: the engineer while the engine stood still
and therr was silence over the great
crowd. Caddy shook his head and ran
the engine back into it's stall.
, HUNTING FOR AN ENGINEER.
{ superintendent Wright was asked if he
I could not get man to run an engine out
t and said 81 will try again. l think | car. -
/ 4. ). Wright, General superintendent, A.
I. Armsden. Division Superintendent, J .
r 7. r. Mckay, General Freight Agent and
e ardmast-r Jones held repeated confer
n ences with individual mem hers and with
the committee OF strikers, but no arrange
, ment was arrived at. At the outskirts
were many women in carriages who wave d
their hands eTchiefs when the engine back
ed into the yard again. The committee OF
. strikers kept at work at the swlfchmen
. who bad been imported by the railroad
. company. They argued with them,
=. they begged them 10 show themselves
. men and get Tut of the car. They told
. them: The castle you are in now will
. tumble down and The railroad magnates
WI be buried with you in the ruins.
: Have you family? So have we.
Here's So for you to come out ana here's
y $40 more," and bills were put up before
I the windows. "lf you don't come with US
4 YOU can 20 To the uttermOst parts of the
: earth and odium will follow you"
= NO TRAIN RUN.
= Up to O'clock the railroad officials
j. were endeavOring unsuccessfully to get
. the men to run an engine on the main
' track, and the strikers were labOring with
g the switchmeu to try and make them give
uF. Up 10 o'clock 10 OF the new men
had joined the strikers, and the supposi-
tion was that they would all join. Six Of
the strikers have been arrested
= on warrants sworn out by
3 Z c company. At O'Clock the company
II officials thought IL was not worth while
= To Try 10 move any more trains tonight,
II and the Deputy Sherfs returned TO the
II city. The difficulty seems to be that the
engineers refuse 10 take their engines out.
A reporter who talked TO several OF them
says they all seemed afraid TO run against
= IN wishes Ottne strikers. and some of the
e railroad officials do not know what move
, to make next. Everything is quiet at
i present.
The strike on the Lake Shore road has
stopped the laying Of water mains
throughout the city. a Cleveland frm
= has tie contract for furnishing the city's
J. water pipes, and they are shipped over
= the Lake Snore road. The street i'm prove.
d ment where water mains have To be laid
will be suspended until the embargo is
raised
FIVE STRIKERS ARRESTED.
/ A deputy sher n arrived in the city this
l. evening, having 10 charge five strikers
b. VINO had been placed under arrest by n