The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-11
RAILROAD RACKET.
THE GREAT STRIKE STILL HOLDS.
All Kinds of Business SUFFERING from the
Delay the Movement of Freight Trains.
No siEas of Concession on Either
slds-Tho Cattle Trade Injured.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Harch lO.-Not pount
Of freight has passed over the Great Bridgt
into or out OF St. Louis since the employees
Of the Bridge & Tunnel Company strucl
at the command Of the knights Of Labor
except over the St, Louis & San francisco
line, and It's trains can penetrate the city
only as far as the Grand avenue depot, fol
from thence to the Union depot, a distance
OF about two miles, they are obliged to
use the Missouri Pacific tracks, ifany, and
this the strikers viii not allow. Outside
merchants are now beginning TO under
stand the seriousness Of the situation, and
at pointa along the Gould system ship,
ments have entirely closed, or in very
urgent cases the orders are filled by OK
press; all through freight from tho West
and Southwest is also diverted from the
city, for 1t is impossible to transfer any OF it
from this To the east side OF the river, or
vice versa, The effect Of all this upon
business interests has already become up.
parent, and many prominent business
men express the opinion that the divert.
ing Of trade from this city on account OF
the strike, Ia not only temporary, but will
be permanent, The groCers complain
that they are unable 10 ill one-half their
orders, and fear that II the strike contin.
ues much longer, their customers will
seek other markets, and when once turned
away from ST. Louis, the majority will
stay away on account OF their unwilling
ne6s to transfer their patronage so often.
These same statements are made by
nearly all wholesale dealers, and their es.
Inmates Of the disastrous effects OF this
strike vary In proportion, as their custom
ers are situated on the Gould and other
roads entering the city,
Passenger traffic has not been inEerfered
with, excepting suburban travel, which
has been almost entirely suspended. All
through trains are made up by officials OF
the different roads and those Of the Bridge
& Tunnel Company. The knights Of
Labor have offered to furnish men to do
this work, but their offers have been re-
fused on account Of the unwillingness OF
the companies to trust their property in
the hands Of green men.
Perfect quiet reigns at all the yards and
depots owned by the roads whose EN-.
ployes have struck. All passenger trains
left from their accustomed positions at the
Union depot this morning, and most OF
them on time. AT the Iron Mountain
yards, no force Is on duty except that sui.
icient TO make up the passenger trains.
All the engines there have been placed In
the round house, exCept one, which is
used for switching purposes. No dis.
turbance ot any kind has occurred at that
place. At the Missouri Pacific yards the
same quietness prevails. Small groups OF
strikers assembled early this morning, and
these, together with those guarding the
property ot the railway company and the
lew yardmasters now employed as switch
men, are the only ones to be seen there.
Both sides seem 10 he waiting for the
other TO show It's hand and the situation is
one oi expectancy, neither having made
proposition to the'other as yet, and in fact
have made no statements whatever, ex.
Cept to give their versions OF how the
present troubles arose, which are diamet-
really opposite and tlatly contradictory,
one to the other. No conference between
the strikers and their employers, Gs far as
known, has yet bean proposed, and the
future policy of neither side is known.