Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-01
.SWITCHMEN IN A TEMPER.
DETAILING OF TRAINS RE
PEATED AT CHICAGO.

/ Minute Among the Possibilities.
\ CHICAGO, June 30.-The usual two car
i loads OF Piukerton men arrived at Boot
n street shortly after 7 O'Clock this morning,
\ and business was Immediately started by
| the Lake Shore Company. The entire
\ Pinkerton force, with the exception of
half a dozen men, are now armed with
| rifles, and a guard was sent out with
every train and accompanied 1t to Cole
hour. The trouble at the stock yards
last evening, while not serious in
itself, is looked upon by the
| officials as an indication Of a
new source of danger. The en-
| ployes of the packing house, numbering
10000, are in thorough sympathy with the
| strikers and as they now leave work at
| 4:30 O'Clock in the afternoon their pres
| ence in the neighborhood Of the wreck is
| thought to be somewhat menaciDg. The
switchmen employed by the other roads
| in the stock yards are not trusted i'm
| plicitly by the Lake Shore officials, who
are of the opinion that any of them would
embrace an opportunity of turning
| switch under moving train.
OFFERS OF A REWARD.
From Chicago to Miller's Station, Ind,
| 80 miles, fences, switch houses and tele-
| graph poles are draped with posters, Of
| fering $500 reward for the arrest and con-
Il viction of any one violating that section
| OF the statutes which prohibits Interior
ence with the property of a railroad CON-
! pany by any outsider. The strikers laugh
at the notice, and think it absurd to sup
pose that any OF their number would turn
lnformer for the sake of any reward.
While there seemed no likelihood of any
trouble to-day except, perhaps, at the
stock yards, there was considerable
ianXiety manifested ON both sides as to
1.-THE probable action to be taken by the
Lake Shore switchmen at other points.
THE yardmaster of the Toledo yards has
been in Chicago since the commencement
lof the strike, and yesterday received dis
patches from some Of his trusted men at
home saying his presence was required
4there without delay as a strike seemed
Imminent. He left for Toledo last night.
BENT ON LONG FIGHT.
1t seems evident from the events of yes
terday afternoon and evening that the
Lake Shore strikers are determined to
make long and bitter fight. Many rail-
sTOad employees sympathize with the
STRIKERS and express a belief that the
Strike has only begun and that the com.
pany will not be able to hold
sout with the necessary force OF
deputies as long as the strikers will be
liable to annoy them. On the other hand,
1.-THE officials of the road declare their de-
Termination to 20 straight forward on the
present line and fight the battle to the end
If it takes a thousand policemen to ac-
icomplish complete victory. The whole
strength of the strikers is now evidently
directed toward the transfer business,
Especially to thwarting the attempts of
THE Lake Shore Company to deliver freight
tbY other lines.
The SHOT.
The shot fired by lae Pinkerton guard
lat the man who derailed two cars by
Throwing a switch under moving train
last evening caused great excitement
among the switchmen and their friends
land many threats were made.
A morning paper says that In the
crowds at Packerstown last night there
were dozens who openly declared that the
Lake Shore road should not deliver an
SOther train 20 any line in those yards, and
that iflt was attempted today blood would
tbe shed. One man said THAT the id
poafer who fired into this crowd will go to
iail tonight. and if he shows his nose in
these parts again Pll make a pepper box
tout OF his carcass. We will teach these
fellows with their big guns that there are
Icrack shooters in these parts, and before
lanOther twenty-f0ur hours there Will be a
dead Pinkerton man on these tracks, or
I'm a liar"
The sympathizers with the strikers are
VERY OutspoGen. George Dalton, the
PinkertOn man who did the shooting, was
ARRESTED and afterwards released on bail
3Ie was nearly mobbed before aid reached
him after firing, although his shot went
wide of It's mark.
HANCHETT'S STATEMENT.
In an Interview last night Sheriff
lHanchett stated that his personal guar
3antee, given two months ago, that the
'eight Objectionable switchmen of the
Lake Shore road sho-ld be provided with
situations inside OF sixty days, was given
with the knowledge and approval of
President Newell. 1t was upon this
promise that the switchmen then ended
the strike. Sheriff Hanchett charges that
positions were duly provided for the men
and they were about to accept, but were
suddenly induced by the Lake Shore Off
cials to refuse. County Commissioners
Mccarthy, who was present at an inter-
view between President Newell and
Sheriff Hanchett, corrcbOrates the state
ment that the Sheriff was authorized to
act for the railroad company.
ANOTHER SHOT FIRED.
-Four strikers were arrested at 8 O'Clock
this evening, alter being fired at by
Pinkerton man. They pushed fiat car
in front OF moving train and attempted
to throw the switch.
Thomas Collins, John Cusick, John
Harrey, Frank Foster, Peter O'keete, a
saddler, Charles Chambers John Hines
and Joseph Bennett were before Justice
Mech this morning, charged with intlm-
ldatiOD. The prisoners were arrested
near rnirty-ninth street yesterday. They
were on the tracks of the Lake Shore
Railroad Company. and, it is al
legged, intimidated engineers and conduc-
tors who were running trains for the COM
pany. Their cases were continued until
July7. Collins was held in $1,000, and
the others in $1,000 each.
Late this afternoon a train on the
Lake Shore read was thrown off the
track by strikers near Fortieth street. A
Baltimore and Ohio train came along af-
terward and was derailed. Then a Lake
Shore stock train, east bound, came
along and was allowed to pass through
lall right. There were four men who
turned switches, and as soon as they did
$50 they ran swiftly across the prairie.
fIhree or four pistol shots were fired after
Them, which brought them to a stop.
finley were arrested and carried to the
town Of Lake Hall, where they were iden-
kIhed as the men who threw switches and
4lerailed trains the other day. Packing
gown was comparatively quietat O'Clock
this evening