Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-22
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
The Situation of the Strike About
the Same as When First
Inaugurated.
The Council of the Federated Rail-
way Employees Will Confer
With Webb.
The Frightful Accident on the Bal
timOre & Ohio the Work Of
Train Wreckers.

timOre & Ohio the Work Of
Train Wreckers.
The Strike.
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 18.-The situation
of the strike in this vicinity appears to
be the same as on the night it was in
a%ugurated. The strikers claim they
intended no interruption of passenger.
service on the Central, merely being sat-
isfed in tying up the road in freight
traffic. This programme so far seems to
have been successfully carried out. At
West Albany tonight the yardmaster
said he had sent out everything during
the day-seventeen trains west and five
south. A number Of trains he said we're
made up of empty cars which we're side
tracked in the yard at Karners and East
Albany, in order to relieve the pressure
for opening the West Albany yard. One
of the leading Knights who had been pa.
trolling the company's property at West
Albany said the only loaded train which
passed through the yards south to-day
was a mixed dairy train and cattle train.
He added that the road was shifting cars
across the river to East Albany and back
again to Karners, and then back again,
in order to deceive the strikers into the
idea that the full resumption of freight
traffic was but a question of a short time.
The usual number of east and west
freight trains received daily at West AL
bany is seventy, while the num-
Der of north and south trains
averages thirty-fve. There was no
trouble in this vicinity to-day of any
nature, although the crowds tonight at
the several crossings between this city
and West Albany we're as large as usual.
The Pinkerton force was increased to 600
to-day, and an additional number of
rifles we're distributed among them. The
strikers had a secret meeting in the rink
tonight, but before doing so the execu-
tive committee of D. A. No. 246 posted
the following bulletin: "We have just
learned from reliable sources that Robert
Pinkerton had detailed a squad of his
cut-throats to mingle amongst u men.
You will be on your guard and give all
suspicious looking characters a very
wide BERTH" The house physician at
the hospital tonight said the boy Dryer,
who was shot by a Pinkerton guard yes
day afternoon, wrs in a very critical
condition. The other persons who were
shot are improving. The executive
board of NJ. A. ZIG posted a bulletin to-
night containing the following informa-
ton of a secret meeting held to-day. Eat
a union meeting held at East Albany late
this afternoon, consisting of l04 engi-
neers and tiremen on the Hudson and
Mohawk divisions of the Central road, it
was unanimously resolved that they
stand by the Knights of Labor in their
struggle for the maintenance of their
organization, aud pledge themselves
to do all in their power to prevail upon
those working upon their engines to
come out with them. A committee was
appointed to wait upon those not pres
ent, and also to represent them at the
Knights of Labor meeting at the rink to-
night"
81 Master Workman Denning headed q
delegation of the Knights of Labor who
visited the sheriff and applied for posi-
tions as deputy sheriffs in case any extra
officers we're to be sworn in. eff you ap-
prehend any trouble" they told the sher-
if, you may rely on us to protect the
Cent ais property" No bulletins were
sent out to Buffalo by the knights of
Labor. An occasional cipher telegram
kept the whole line posted as to how the
strike progresses. T. V. Powderly went
east on the Lackawanna to night for
New York, Grand Master Sweeny of the
Switchmen's Aid association, Chief Com
mander Howard OF the Brotherhood Of
Railway Conductors, Grand Master
Wikeson and Grand Vice President Nor
8 risy of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, G. F. Sergeant, head of the Brother
hood of Firemen, constituting the
executive committee of the supreme
council of the Federation of Railway
Brotherhoods, went east at 1890. They
will lay the matter before Vice-President
Webb tomorrow morning. One of two
things will result: Either Webb will up
hold Division Superintendent Burrows
ruling in case of the discharge of the
switchmen, or he will arbitrate with the
committee. If the latter, all we'll and
good; if the former, word will be re-
turned to Buffalo and John Devlin, who
will be on from the west in time to take
charge of the strike tomorrow, will or
der out all men belonging to the BROTH
erhoods. The strike Of the Steam Rail
road Protective union of New England,
federated with the Lees D. A. 246,
Knights of Labor, may follow. Dele
gates to-day canvassed the local labor
assemblies and found them favorable to
assistance it needed. In other words,
the lake fremen and grain shovelers will
strike at the drop Of the hat if the Cen
trail men are all called out.
It is reported the men who attended
the meeting in East Albany we're mostly
all fremen who are already on a strike,
having refused to go to work from it's be-
ginning an 1 that they have already ex-
hausted all available arguments to get
the remainder of the men out.
Ii Work of Train Wreckers.
PIrTsBuRG, Aug. 16-All doubt in re-
gard to the presence of cross ties on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, that caused
the fearful wreck at Osceola station
Thursday night has been removed.
Superintendent Patton made a thorough
investigation AMI is convinced that ties
were placed on the track by persons who
wantedEto wreck the Atlantic City ex-
oiYrni0n train The only motivn for nunh