The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-08
Freight Houses and Yards Will Be Heavily
Guarded To-Day, and Another Raid By
Strikers Will Be Stubbornly Resisted.
Unconfirmed Rumors that Engineers
Are Anxious to Join the Strikers.
Secretary Turner Appears in Philadelphia,
and Declares There Is No Chance for a Set
tlement-Mr. Powderly ConvaleScent.
AT EAST ST. LOUIS.

Workmen Driven from the Railway Yards
by q Crowd of Strikers.
ST. Louis, April THE quiet state Of affairs
which has existed in East ST. Louis for the past
week was suddenly broken to day by a riot. A
large crowd of strikers, numbering over q thou
sand men, formed about noon at the relay depot,
and. headed by the leaders of the strike In that
city. marched to the Ohio & Mississippi railroad
depot, where q number of platform men were at
work. No guard IF polls or deputy sheriffs had
been stationed there, and the employees were
easily forced from their positions. Thence the
mob advanced upon the Vandalia yards Here
a few deputies were on duty, who ordered the
men back. They refused, and made a rush,
bearing the officers down, and swarmed through
the gates into the yards and forced all the en-
ployes at work out of the yards. From this
place they marched to the c., B. s. O.. yards,
where a similar scene was enacted and all the
employees forced out. The men then rushed on to
the Louisville g. Nashville yards. and upon arriv-
ing there were met by a strong force of deputy
marshals armed with Winchester rifles. They or
dered the mob back, and called upon them to
dispense. 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 IL 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
the city while the knights of Labor are still on
their strike. The deputies remained on guard
at the Alton yards, fearing a second attack upon
that point. while the strikers proceeded to the
Cairo Short-line yards, whittier they are now
t12;30 P. NJ. marching. Upon arriving there the
mob found their way unobstructed. and by the
same means employed at the other yards forced
the men at work there to leave their positions.
The mob then dispersed, having accomplished
their object, but not before calling a meeting of
all the strikers to take place at 2.30 o'clock at
Flannagan's Hall. where resolutions will be
adopted declaring that no one will be allowed to
FIJI the strikers places. All the yards are now
deserted and no business is being done in any
one of them.
Acknowledgement Vance was a spectator of the
action of the mob this morning in forcing the
men employed in the railroad yards to quit
work, and he has telegraphed the situation to
the Governor. 1t IS generally thought that the
situation has become serious enough to warrant
the ordering out of the militia to enable the rail-
roads to carry on their business.
Late this evening another but smaller mob
marched to the Chicago & Alton yards, where
they compelled several freight handlers to aban-
don work and join them.
Managers Of the railroads terminating in East
St. Louis, fearing that Governor Oglesby will
not order out the militia, are arming deputy
sheriffs with Winchester rifles to protect the
against another demonstration
such as was made today. The Chicago. Bur-
lington & Quincy, the louisville & Nashville,
the Vandalia, and the Chicago & Alton yards
will each be guarded TO- morrow by thirty to forty
men from country points, sworn in as deputy
sheriffs, heavily armed, and with orders to shoot
all trespassers on railroad property.