The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-09
QUIET AMONG THE STRIKERS
Committee of Knights Induce a Number
ofWabash Yardmen to Cease Work.
Trains Moving at East st. Louis Without Mo-
lestation-Master Workman Powderly
Receivers Sufficiently to Talk.
ST. LOUIS AND ELSEWHERE.


No rntareararce with Movement of Trains On
Either side of the River.
ST.. LOUIS. NO.. April ga committee OF
Knights of Labor visited the yards OF the Wa
bash road in North ST. Louis, to-day, and re-
uuested the men working there not to handle
cars containing freight from the Missouri Pacific
road. After a brief consultation all the men in
the yard quit work, and business there was
brought to standstill It is said the engineers
and fremen also quit, but that they did SO as in
Hiyiduals, and not through any action taken by
the brotherhood to which they belong.
Sheriff Ropiequet, Of st. Clair county, brought
10 East St Louis, this morning. about two hun
lred men from Belleville and other places in
Ihe county, and swore them in as deputy sheriffs
Tor service in the railroad yards at East St
Louis. They were armed and ordered to be
ready to answer calls at a moments notice.
The day. however passed off very quietly. and
there was no occasion for their services. They
returned home tonight Some OF the most
prominent men of the county were in the
posse. Trains moved without interruption in
most of the East St Louis yards
to-day. and q good amount of business was trans
Der of Winchester rifles and reviewers have been
sent across the river and that the men in all the
yards there will be well armei hereafter, and
fully able to resist all raids on them. Adjutant-
general Vance, of Illinois, was in East st. Louis
again to-day. watching the situation and tele-
graphing Governor Oglesby regarding the state
Of affairs. He would not reveal the tenor OF his
dispatches, however. Matters here have been
very qu1et in the Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain yards to-day, and the usual business
was transacted without interference.
Mr.. Hoxie this morning sent the following
telegram to Dir. Gould:
'aThe business of the system has about re-
sumed its normal condition at all points. A
Fort Worth dispatch of this morning says that
everything was quiet Yesterday were moved
264 trains of 453 cars, an increase of 228 loads
as compared with the same day last year. Trains
and business to-day are moving without Interrupt
non. One hundred and fourteen Of the men who
struck on the Texas line have returned to work.
The report of the force employed on the system
April shows that 1862 men are now at work.
The total number in the employ of the company,
March 6. was IA, 3l5, showing q decrease of the
force of 4663 OF the men who went out on
strike, 49, or IA per cent, have returned to
work. The number of employees on April was
32a per cent less than on March 5"
AT Alvarado, Texas, an attempt was made,
last night, to assassinate R. M. Abbey, mem
Der of the Alvarado Guards. He was one of the
men who received notice to leave town. Mr..
Abbey was fred at as he was entering his house
by six men in ambush. Fifteen shots were fired
at him, but he escaped uninjured.
startling report was received at Galveston,
OF q late hour last night, from Waco, that body
of Fifty men, masked and armed, were tearing up
the track and destroying long bridge the
Missouri Pacific railway, near Leorna, nine
miles south of Waco, but it proves to be the in
vention of lunatic. Sheriff Harris and posse.
who went out on special train from Waco to
investigate, has returned, and says there is no
mob there, and Is fully convinced that mono has
been there. This is corroborated by the farmers
residing in the vicinity of the reported outrage