Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-17
THE SANTA FH STRIKE.
It is Surprise to the Officers Of
the Brotherhood and of
the Road,
The Managers OF Che Various Roads
knnnIng into Kansas City fear
Trouble with their Men.
a Female Fire man -PouderIy Puzzle6-A
oontract that Wss not Kspt-Visus
OF Various Men.
sAsTA FE READY TO COMPROMISE.


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March I6.-The
chairman OF the general grievance com
mittee Of the Brotherhood Of Engineers,
who is now in this city, received q teIe-
gram from Mr.. Arthur this morning in
structing him to send the Santa Fe COM
mitteemen 10 Chicago st once and init
mating that the SAnts Fe Company WAS
ready 20 compromise. Rumors are per-
sistently circulated here that the engi-
neers snd fitemen on the Missouri Pacific
system will strike st o'clock this after
noon. strike is also sAtd TO be imnend-
irg on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Gulf system.
STILL NO CAUSE ASSIGNED.
KANSAS Cry, Mo, March l6.-The
strike situsLion on the Santa Fe road is
unchanged this morning. Not & wheel
is turning except few switch engines.
The engineers and hremen persist in say
ing they have receiVedn no orders TO strike,
they are simply stirred" and want to
rest. No trains have been moved in any
direction. The officials refuse to receive
freight Of Sny kind. The Union depot
presents regular Castle Garden appear
ance rs hundreds of immigrants hsye
been brought in whose destination WAS
somewhere on the line Of the Santa Fee
Two hundred Of them are crowded into
the immigrants room. All trains on the
Gulf system and the Missouri Pacific are
moving promptly on tina and the engi-
Ieers esy positively that there will DE no
trouble on the Missouri Pacific, but claim
10 know nothing regarding the Calf.
WOMAN AS FIREMAN.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Msrch l6 At
ll:26, Ben Johnson, foreman of the
Aichis DO, Topeka and Santa Fe round
round at Argentine, backed an engine up
to The Union depot and coupled on 10
1rAin No. 3, which is through Cali
f1rnia express. Ben Whorton, who has
been an engineer on the Santa Fe for te
years, mounted the engine. He is not a
Brotherhood man, having been expelled
from the organic Ition during the great
strike Of 1887. He has since applied for
admission, but has been rejected. Shortly
after WhortOn had donned mis- oVersIls,
; sensation WAS created 10 the crowd by
the appearance OF his wife, who pushed
her way through to the engine
and was assisted to seat by
her husband. she declared her
intention Of acting IS hrenan on trip
and covered her clothing with : rubber
ulster, whiles fremsn's cap sst jsunt-
lily on her blsck hair. Promptly in re
spouse to the Conductors signal st 1885
the train stared ana proceeded slowly OF
its way. Not cheer or sound OF any
kind greeted It as it passed along and l.
could have been mistaken tOT z funeral
train. Every ca was packed with pas
sepgsrs as the trEin Carried those who
1ad tickets for M which was ou. to
leave ST ll:15. JIst before the train
started psper was handed to Whsrton
Offering to pay him double Wsges s1d all
expenses in the city.
HAS NOT REACHED DALLAS.
special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, March l6 The strike
on the Atchison, Topeka and SAINTS Fe
has not extended to tails point as yet.
One freight train north and one south
went out to-day. The railroad Officials
have nothing 10 say s5ou. the strike.
They report everything running smoothly
st this point.
AT Ell PAsO.
SpGcial to the Gazette.
Ell PAso, Tx, March l6.-0a account
OF the strike there has been n arrivals or
departures Of freight trains via the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway To-
day. Trains arrived and departed eas
usual over al the other lines csnsering
here.
THE NUMBER OF STRIKERS.
TOPEKA, KAN March 16.-GenersI
Manager Goddard, General Traffic Man
sger White and General Superintendent
S .nds were at the Sauts Fe offices until an
early hour this morning AMI were in con-
slant telegraphic communication with
division superintendent all along the
system. The reports from these superln-
tendents was that the men have gone out
sll along the line ard business is practiA
cally suspended, except passenger trains
which are now on the road which will not
be stopped until they reach the end Of the
line. There are sbou. 700 engineers and
700 firemen employed on the Santa Ee
system and $500 train men employed by
them, making 1900 men thrown directly
out of employment. General Mar sser.
Goddard says the amount of perI1habIe
freight on the line between
California and Chicsgo Is larger
thsn usual amounting to about
eighty-fve carloads, nearly al OF which
is stock and fruit. l. cannot be moved,
and II the strike continues any length of
time the company will he Hsble for the
whole amount. In addition to this there
are over HOO carloads CT merchandise
tied IN or the various divisions.
A union meeting OF engineers and ire
men was acid lsst night. Nearly all the
engineers Of the eastern division of the
SAINT. Fe were present. The following
statement OF the situation was authorized
10 be published:
"The question of the right to stop wss
fully considered and for the presentis was
unanimously agreed inst as far IS we are
concerned the SAINTS Fe management.
having agreed thst they would not handle
any Q freight, the engineers and fremep
knowing full well the Santa Fe has vio-
lated this agreementeyary day for the past
week, there is nothing left 70 US to do
but to quit hauling any cars until this
trouble is settled. This is question OF
life and death with the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and
they had been fully advised that the