Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-30
A RIOT.
SO" Strikers In Chicago kEisck Men
Who Pad Taken Their Places
and Use Tafm RoughiJ.
Pinkerfon's Men sIs Hustled Around In
short order-No signs Of the
SGrihe Being En- ded.
A STATEMENT FROM PowpERLY.


Was chatting under the conservative
measures SO opted by their chief and thu
statement that he contemplated stimuli
taneous retirement from the strife will
| the 20" snd from his ONCE IS head o
| the organization, was the all absorbing
topic for discussion this morning at th'
oeao 1arters of the strising engineers
| Chief Arthur talked frankly on the situa
| ton and tte rumors that we're curren
| TO day. He said: HThe statement tina
the Burlington strikers have cut away
| from their leaders and their grievance
| con mittees Is base fslsehood. There /:
| not word Of tru h In 1t. The grievance
commi. ees yesterday unanimously in
dorsed the action Of the grand chief ali
the way through. II 1t is true that com
nittees have been appointed by the rad
Gals, and that they have visited every
road running into Chicago as reported,
and obtained pledges from sll switchmen
and switch engineers, that under NO cir
cumstaDces will they move Burlington
cars, II has been done unknown to me-
I CO not believe the mt mbers ct the
Brotherhood will do anything contrary to
ne laws Of the organ.z,tlon, or not in
dorsed by me-"
NO SIGNS OF WEAKENING.
Chicago. ILL Marcn 90 -rhe VS. on
the Burlington Railway Continues witt :
uus the siIs hest indication Of weakeH!ng
on either side. Both the engineers al d
the Ulcers of the company profess to be
COL fldent of success. Fifteen switch en-.
gines Were at work in the freight yards
we're unable to accomplish gre t
desi, AZ ii was found necessary to put an
engine on each end of everv train, in Or
der to get over the d ficuity Of the
strikers or their sympstnIzars pulling
the coupling pine. Toe company has now
hired all the swi chmen 1t has need Of TO
take the strikers places. All are not at
work yet but will De by tomorrow after
noon Ole hundred OF them are In the
city ana niuery-three will arrive from the
Reading district In the morning. RI.
mors that the 20" will be boycotted by
engineers aud sWitchmen Of the othei
roads are heard everywhere, but as yet no
freight has been offered any other roads
except the Stock Yards Transit CompsUy,
he manager OF which not q ID the frsigh,
SCENT Of the Burlington Railway that he
was unable TO do anything with 20" cars
oecsuse the compsby's swircbmen would
uot touch them, so that the truth Of the
rumor rematls to be seen. The proba-
ollity OF the brakemen going out c)I-
tinues to grow, though that action is not
looked for until the o. shall have or
.ained its full component of swI!cbmep.
The Chicago. St Paul and Ksnsss City
Railway have 200 cars consigned to the
Burlington Railway On their tracks
D her RAILWAYS aTe In similar condiuou,
sud IL the 80" cannot take care of It.
reiglt the Otner roads will tender 1t oil
he freight on their hands in order to
avoid blockade.
TIE FIRST ENCOUNTER.
CHICAGO, ILL Maicn 29.-The first en-
;ounLsr between symp.in z.Is of the
,trisi0g swltcnmen and men who have re
placed them took place at 4:30 q. m.
" sen Q" switch engine and lis crew
st.empt' 10 transfer some freight cars
10 the Northwestern track. A crowd Of
swirchmen of other railways were q cont
The place and begsn to i=er at the pew
mn on the %" engine. When |
ne train reached Kirzle street and
W estern avenue 1t ran Of a switch that
had been TUNED and q number of cars
we're ditched. The mob then set Up IN
The crew of the engine ana train, and the |
Are m, n and engineer took to cir heels, |
getting number of cuffs as they escaped
rne new swftcnmen follow.d
,uit, and were pursued and
.oushly used by the crowd,
Tulcn wss MADE up of the toughest
,itiz ,ns. PIpkerton men, Of whom there |
We're six or eighL on the train, attempted |
20 prote CT the train men, but the moo SET |
lpon them with savage glee and disarmeo |
mem In twipkliOg. They were powell
ess and after maxi. e few III )rts to de.
e nd thems Ives took to fight, to escape
he drubbiDg they were Receiving st the
4 ards of the furious mob. Several of the
? inkerton men were hurt and one OF them
: thought to have sustained serious In
uries. 4
Ga the ssme tram was Division Super-I
BtendeLt John Beeler Of the Burlington.
w hen the trouble commen ced he nurrie
o the front end and some one in the
,rowd recognized bin. Tne disclosure
II bis identity was the signal Tor the mob
20 fall on him and beat him. The attack
zane from all sides, and IL was only after
having been badly used up that be es-
sped and ran TO the switch house where
re locked himself in and ESCAPED further
punishment.
Tne riot created great excitement, and
P inkerton men and officers q jcked to the
Gene. TIE mob qulck'y dispersed,
however, and only one man was
arrested. HIS name is william Q ink,
Ind he Is locked up st the West Madison
street p lice station. the police were
ordered to the scene OF the disturbance
rom nearly sill stations. Qrirk, who was !
.rrt sted, was Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul switchmsn. dis arrest precipi-
ated the strike Of 1877 witcDmen, twenty
,ignt ergtr GERS ana twenty-eIgnt firs men
,u The Chicago, Mtlwauk aud St Paul
Railway. When il wa Known tina, Q lirk
had been arrested, crowd followed MIN
10 West Madison street station and en-
ieavored 10 get him released. Numer-
US Offers If bail were |
made. Eight Thousand dollars |
urety for his appearance was offered.
Tut he wss locked up When the crowd |
esllzed their comrade had to remain In
he station, the llSsukee and St. P,ul |
nep, In their rage decided to strike, sno |
deserted their engines. The |
shole yard force OF switc 1mep,
Engineers and remen, 227 in ali, |
luit work, leaving twenty eight en-
lines standing on the tracks. It is
umored the brakemen Of the same road
viii go out to-nign,. The strikers say
d.