Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08
INTIMIDATION AT ST. LOUIS. Men Forced Out of the Yards By Strikers-Deputy MarshaIs Stand Guard Armed With Winchester Rifles.

Men Forced Out of the Yards By
 StrIkers-Deputy MarshaIs Stand
 Guard Armed With Winchester
 Rifles.
 ST. LOUIS, April 7.-About noon to-day a large crowd of strikers, numbering over a thousand men formed at the relay depot in East St. Louis, and headed by the leaders of the strikers in that city, marched to the Ohio and Mississippi railroad depot where number of platform men were at work. No guard of police or deputy sheriffs had been stationed there, and the employees were easi- ly forced from their positions. Thence the mob advanced upon the Vandalia yards. Here few deputies were on duty, who ordered the men back. They refused and made rush, bearing the officers down and swarmed through the gates into the yards and forced all the employees at work out of the yards. From this place they marched to the c. B. & Q. yards, where simpilar scene was enacted and all the employees forced out. The men then rushed on to the Chicago and Alton yards, and upon arriving there were met by a strong force of deputy sheriff mar shals armed with Winchester repeating rifles. They ordered the mob back and called upon them to disperse. This the crowd refused to do, and upon attempting to rush through the gates the marshals brought their rifles to their shoulders and threatened to fire if the crowd advanced. This cooled their ardor somewhat, and they turned back, none the less determined however, that there should be no work done in that city while the Knights of Labor are still on their strike. The deputies remained on guard at the Alton yards fear ing second attack upon that point, while the strikers proceeded to the Cairo Short Line yardswhere they found theirway unobstructed and by the same means as those employed at the other yards forced the men to quit their positions, The mob then dispersed, having accomplished their object, but not before calling meeting of all the strikers to take place at Flanagan's Hall. All the yards were thereafter deserted and no business done in any of them. Adjutant General Vance of Illinois spectator ot the ac- ton of the mob and immediately telegraphed the situation to Governor Ogles by. It is generally thought that the situa- tion has become serious enough to warrant the ordering out of the militia to enable the railroads to carry on their business. Twenty of the fremen employed upon the engines of the bridge company struck to-day in sup port of the Knights of Labor. This, unless others can be found to fill their places, will stop the transfer of all freight and passen- ger trains over the bridge.
 News has been received from Sedalia Mo-
 that of the 20 men who went back to work in the shops ten were persuaded out this after noon. Quite an excitement was occasioned at 7 o'clock around the Laclede Hotel this city when twenty men armed with Winohes- ters were marshalled into the dining room for supper. Although not uniformed they presented a warlike appearance, walk volvers in their hip pockets. Inquiry disclosed the fact that they were mostly from Louisville and were brought here to guard the Louisville & Nashville rail- road properta in East St. Louis. Their presence caused the widest excitement to-. day in East St. Louis, but it is quiet there tonight.
 BEILEv1LLE, H., April 7.-Sherif Ropri- quett summoned posse of three hundred men here this evening to go to East St.Louis to morrow morning and preserve order. The sheriff has also sent out telegrams to every constable in the county ordering that they report to him with attachments of men at East St. Louis. The action of the sheriff has produced the widest excitement here, espe-