Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-17
The Road Violates Us Promise Handling
q" Freight.
CHIEF ARTHUR NOT COgLTBD.
in the Dark as to the Q Be- Of the
ACion---0rders the Men
Resume.
REPORTS ALONG THE Line.
Not a Train Moved at Any POint--- Bu
nsS Of the Road Completely ParaAd.
Committeeman ConrOa's Expls
nation Of the AoVs---The
Burlington Strike

KANSAS CITY, No, March 16.-he
strike situation on the Santa Fe road sd
changed. BI
Not wheel is turning, except a y
switch engines.
The engineers and fremen persist
saying they have received no orders
strike. They are .imply tired an
want rest. No trains have been move,
in any direction since the strike was in
augurated at D. M. yesterday, and tn,
officials refuse to receive freight O. any
kind.
The Union Depot presents a ngular
Castle Garden appearance, as hundeds Of
smigrants have been brought in whoe des-
tiultion was somewhere on the linef the
Santa Fe. Two hundred OF then are
crowded into the emigrant room, Gndthere
are new acceSSiOns hOHfly.
Assistant Superintendent Speer SAP that
be will have trains moving tO-mor5oT, but
the outlook at present is not dAtterlg for
the road. The managers OF the strie alb
solutely deny any order being given for a
strike. The engineers say they bye no
grievance, but say they will res. unll the
Burlington road comes to terms v.h its
employts.
A GENERAL TIEUP.
A dispatch from Topeka, KansaS iays
General Manager Goddard, General Traffic
Mausger White and General SuperE Elend-
ent Sands were at the Santa Fe oihts un.
til an early hour this morning and W.re in
constant telegraphic communication with
division saperiutendents all along the sys-
TEN. The report from the superiutend-
ents was that the men have gone out ali
along the line, and business is practically
suspended except pas ;eoger traius which
are now on the road and which will pot be
stopped until they reach the end oi the
line.
There are about seven hundred eDS1sers
and seven hundred iremen employe! on
the Santa Fe system and twenty Ih:
hundred trainmen employed witht-m,
making forty-tSo hundred men thaEn
directly out of employment.
General Manager Goddard says he
amount OF psrishable freight on the ne
between California and Chicago is hsr
than usual amounting to about eighty &c
car loads, ueaIly all OF which is stock nd
fruit. IL cannot be moved, ard If ae
strike continues any length Of time .s
company will b0 liable Tor the VIII
amount. In addition to this there 40
over eleven carloads of merchandise tgl
up on the various divisions IL is stal
by the officers OF the company that tksg
will make every effort TO find engiuesls
and fremeu with which 10 man this freigt'
and get it to its destination. They b.
lieye that traffic will be resumed within
few days.
THE STRIKERS SIDE.
A union meeting OF engineers and fire.
me1 WAS held Lass night. Nearly all the
enginemen Of the ESten division of the
Santa Fe we're present. The following
st Itement Of the situation was authorized
to be published;
The question IT the right 10 stop was
fully considered, and Tor the prese1, II wos
unanimously agreed that. ~ far az we are
concerned, the Santa Fc management hAy-
ing agreed that they would TO; handle any
Q freight, the engineers aud fIemen know
ing full well that the Sauta Fs has violated
this agreement every day for the past
wesk, there is nothing left for us 10 do hat
to qIit hauling any cars until this trouble
is settled.
This ia a question Of life and death
with the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Eu.
gineers and Firsmen, and they had been
finally advised that the management of the
different connecting lines with the Q are
wo' king in an underhand manner to defeat
them, and they think, 10 Justice to them
selves and the travelling public hereafter,
il is better that this matter he brought TO
q settlement at once, and have usyd this,
their last resort, to bring about an squita-
bic settlement. They also desire to state
10 the people Of Topeka that the manage
ment OF the Santa Re had been fully'waru-
eli and knew what was going TO happen
more than a week ago, instead OF thirty
az WAS stated in last evening s
papers"