Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-08

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very able manner with songs and recitations.
The members of both brotherhoods are con-
fdent tonight that they are going to be vic.
torious. The men sent here to take the
strikers places are dissatisfied and are re-
turning to their homes, stating that the COM
pany has deceived them and have not lived
VI to their contract.
The Tie Story Denied.
NEBRASKA CRY, Neb.; March 7.-[Special
Telegram to the BEE. 1.-The reported wreck
on the Kansas City, st. Joe & Council Bluffs
road yesterday near Hamburg sent to this
city and reported from here to eastern pa
pers is said by officials of that road to be a
mistake. They say it was merely a slight
and unavoidable collision; that there was no
tie on the track, no damage, no one injured
and no arrests. The report is claimed to
have beeh sent here by enemies of the road.
The Situation at Kansas City.
KANSAS CRY, March 7.-[Special Tele-
gram to the BEE. III. S. Barble, general
freight agent of the Hannibal g. st. Joe, and
the Kansas City, ST. Joe & Council Bluffs,
has served notice on all roads running into
Kansas City that, commencing tomorrow,
they will be ready for business; that is,
will take and send freight This means that
under the Interstate commerce law the other
roads will be obliged to receive the freight.
A. j. Vallandingham, general freight south
western agent of the Gulf route tonight
stated that the road would receive the freight
of the Burlington, come what might, and the
representatives of the other lines here
make the same statement. A
secret meeting of all the grievance
committees of the brotherhood between Kan
sas City and Chicago was held here tonight,
at which the decision was made that the
strike would be extended the moment the
other roads took the Burlington freight 1t
is generally conceded both by the representa-
tives of the brotherhood and the railways
here that the situation is serious in o marked
degree and merchants and others are pre-
pairing for a railway blockade. The COM
pany's officials claim that the road is operat-
business Of the road does not require
the number of trains run before
the strike. The strikers, as a matter
of course, claim to be more confident
than ever and well content to let matters go
on as they are at present. One Of the griev
ance committee of the Union Pacific re-
turned to-day and made statement before
| the local committee which greatly encour-
aged the strikers He assured them that the
| engineers and flremen all over the United
States were with them, and that the men on
| other roads We're sending in thousands Of
| dollars for their aid. Seventeen thousand
| dollars, ne Salu, was reCelVeQ III CnlcaSO
Monday. "This is all we ask" said Mr.
| Stevens, in speaking OF the matter. "The
| money that is pouring in will enable us to
| continue the strike as long as we
| wish to keep going and to watch the other
| roads more carefully than ever and to see
| they don't touch any of the 90 business
| As long as they do not they will be all right,
but they will do so at their peril. The men
| on all the roads are firm and stand ready to
obey the chiefs commands the moment they
| Ior. iccua1 AS long n q the SOf ia doing n
larger business than at present the strike
will not extend any further. But il the road
succeeds in running its freight reg
nlarly and in 81, handling anything
over the system, and they treat with other
/ roads it will be seen how far the brotherhood
viii dare to CO." The strikers express them
| selves as very sorry that the derailing of the
occurred. Assistant General Superintendent
| Fitch, of the 60 in speaking of the occur
| renee said: 1--WE know the striking engineers
and fremen had nothing to do with the
of men. But there is always class of vaga
| bonds who take advantage of strike to COM
| nit vandalism, thinking the blame will fall
| on the strikers 1t is such men who put the
| rail on the track against whom the road has
| to protect itself"
Manager MerrilI's Statement.
ST.. JOSEPH Mo-, March 7.-[Speeial Tele-
| gram to the BEE. General Manager Mer-
| rill gave the following official statement con-
cernlng the number of trains on the Kansas
City, st. Joe & Council Bluffs and the
Hannibal & st. Joe tonight. Yesterday
forty through freight trains were sent from
Hannibal TO Brookfeld. The same from
Brookfield to Hannibal; one from Brookheld
| TO Macon and return two from Brookteld to
Bevier and return; two from PALMYRA juno
tion and return; four from Brookfeld to st.
| Joe; one from ST. Joe to BroOkfeld one from
| Brookfield to Kansas City, and two from
| Kansas City to Brookfeld. All passenger
trains are running with the exception OF the
Eli, the Chicago fast train, which will be run
ring again in day or two.
The burlington y Northern Strike.
MINNEApoLIs, March 7.-All brotherhood
engineers and firemen on the Burlington 6
Northern road struck at 10 o'clock. The eff
feet Is not yet observable, because the road
does not send any passenger trains out until
Ans this afternoon. At that time the ofh
cials claim the Chicago and st. Louis expires.
will start as usual, while the brotherhood
claim the road will not be able to move
wheel. The roads freight business was yer,
large before the Burlington strike, but Il
now nothing more than local. The strike ef
| fects about hundred men.
| MILWAUKEE, March IA special TO thu
| Evening Wisconsin from Lacrosse says: A
| a late hour last night notice, which Is re
garded as having the authority Of the broth
erhood, was served on Superintendent Barr
of the Burlington & Northern road that !
the road continued to handle Chicago, Burl
ington Il Quincy business it would destroy
the god will and friendly feeling of the en-
gineers and firemen toward his road. A re
ply was served on the men to- day that the.
should report by 7 this evening, whether o
not they were prepared to handle any and al
/ l,.,ai Mt tha sst hAU uArQf
consider themselves discharged.
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