Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-01
THE GREAT STRIKE.
The rort Wayne Employees Quit.
ting WOrg-rhe Pan-aandie
(By telegraph 10 tho Dispatch.

l,y telegraph 10 the Dispa;ch.l
CHICAGO, March 31.--The rumor that
the tie-up Of the Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul road was determined upon
at a meeting Of strikers late last night
proves to have been true. The engi-
neerS, fremen. switchmen, brakemen,
and number Of conductors Of that road
have quit work. The strike includes
the employees OF all divisions centring
in Chicago, both freight and passenger.
The last passenger train. manned by a
Brotherhood crew left the Union depot
at ii o'clock last night The leaders Of
the striking freight-men were busy
all yesterday notifying every st.
Paul employee of the meeting to
be held, insisting upon his attend
ance. Incoming trainmen were met at
the depot and hurried over to the hall.
Fully 700 men were present This in
Guided all the freight and switch en-
gineers and firemen living in Chicago
and many from points hundred miles
away, oil Of the local switchmen and
brakemen, and largo number Of freight
conductors. The meeting was an eX-
cited and enthusiastic one. No outsiders
were admitted, and it was not possible
to ascertain what had been done for
some time after the adjournment. From
one of the men it was then learned that
when a motion was made to tie up the
road it was carried without dissenting
voice.
About seventy-fve men, engineers,
firemen, and sTitchmen quit during the
afternoon and tonight at the Fort Wayne
round-house, at Fifty-hftb street. About
twenty engineers are usually kept there.
1t was reported at the shops tonight that
during the day four west-bound trains
left Fort WAyRe, Ind, but all had been
side tracked en- route to Chicago.
CHICAGO. March 8i-1hs strike has spread 70
the Fort Wayne employees Sax crews LETT thelr
engines in no yards at Carroll avenue and Car
pointer street al r. Nj. IL was reported u 1t
tho Fort Wayne men at other points In tho city
also cult, asd this wss confirmed att O'Clock.
The strike on the fert Wayne In Chicago Is gen
ersl and is supposed 70 be the result OF the com
psny 2ccentiBE train Of freight this afternoon
from the Burlington road.
The strike on the Panhandle road was ended
by the oNrials Of ihs read showing that the
shifting of Burlington cars. which caused IL, had
toen done by some Of the minor officials and
that none ef tho woTkmen had been asked 70
handle Burlington cars. About 10 O'Clock train
Of nfieen ears vas made up and quietly trans
fsrred % tins Fert Wayne road; while at about
tho same time another train OF twenty-five cars
was made UP fer the Lake Shore road and
started out with forty Finkerton men aboard, who
hal provided themselves with rocks In case OF
emergency. No strikers were 10 be seen, and
the transfers we're made without the slightest
hindrance. When Fort Wayne was ordered 10
move these cars the men promptly refused, and
ran their engines In. Tho news spread from one
engine to another. and in few moments all ths
crews In the yards had quit wOrk-engineers,
nremsn. aud switchmen. just at this time the
2:3O Fort Wayne passenger outward bound from
the Union depot, came along and stopped al
Sixteenth street The engineer and fireman
learned Of The strike aud loft their on
CINE, and for time it looked as
though the train would get no further, but
the conductor finally volunteered 10 hold the
throttle and fireman was found, and the train
proceeded after a slight delay. Eighteen switch
engines had been made Idle and the crew Of tho
9.2O Z. n. passenger engine. The Fort Wayne
train dispatcher says that he had assurances
from passenger engineers that they would not
20 out, but no dependence is placed In them.
Along the line Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road freight business was completely
paralyzed, and passenger traffic almost sus-
ueuled.