The Indianapolis journal., 1890-08-09

lraln, and that carried no passengers. Mr.
Webb rel terated his statement that the
company would surely have trainsrunning
In the morning.
j. j. Holland, of the executive board of
the Knights of Labor, was seen a few mo-
ments later at the Grand Union Hotel He
expressed himself as firmly as did Mr..
Webb, only his way of putting it was that
trains would not move for several mornings,
In Mr.. Webbs office telegraph instru-
ment was clicking along at a fast rate. A
reporter who could read the instrument
heard Utica call up New York and ask for
men to be sent there to get passengers out
of the yard. Another message from Pal
myra said the freight yards at that point
We're blocked and all freight at stand
still Then New York called up Syracuse
repeatedly. but could get no answer. 1t
was rumored that number of operators
would go out at midnight. These messages
would seem TO contradict the statement of
MI. Webb that there was no trouble west
Of Albany.
In the waiting-room of the Grand Gen.
tral Depot notice was posted to the effect
that the sale of tickets had been suspended
temporarily, and that the ticket agent
would refund all money paid for tickets if
availed themselves of this offer.
AT 1880 o'clock j. j. Holland was seen,
and he stated that he had not ordered the
strike. but thought that the head of the
local division. X. of L., might have done it:
on the matter, but declined TO talk further
than to say that it would prove to be the
biggest strike before it was over that the
people of the East had seen for some time
at late hour it was stated by some OF the
strikers at the depot that the Lake Shore
road as far as Chicago was in the same
tied-up condition as the Central. This
rumor could not be verified. as the officials
of the Central declined either to deny or
affirm the story.
The scene about the depot few minutes
after it became known that a strike had
been ordered was one that will long be re-
membered. The waiting-rOom was crowded
with passengers. For some time the real
state of affairs did not dawn upon the
passengers. When the fact of the strike at
last became known there was a wild rush
for baggage. A raid was made on the
Grand Union Hotel. which was nearest, the
clerk being nearly mobbed in the wild rush
for rooms. Even cot-rOOm was soon ex-
hausted Then the rush was to the Muir.
ray Hill. while many passengers started
for the West Shore. The police were finally
compelled to drive the unhappy travellers
from the depot and hotels.
The West Shore road was in a shaky con-
dition tonight. but up to midnight a strike
was averted. Every conceivable effort was
employed to suppress the news of the strike
upon the Central from the men, and to that
end "pickets' were stationed with the night
depot master all around the Weehawk ken
depot Four freight trains went out dur
ing the evening without interruption. and
the st. Louis express came in on time at IL
p. NJ. There is q train expected at $3.50 to
pull out for Albany. It's destination. how
ever, is prOblematical. Many of the disap-
pointed passengers of the New York Gen.
trail wandered wearily over to the Wee
hawken depot to go to their destinations II
possible. They may be detained.
The postoffice authorities received a tele-
phone message at 10:30 from the Grand Cen
tral Station, saying that no more mails
would be received over the New York Gen.
trail tonight. This was the only informa-
tiOn of the tie-up which Assistant Super
intendent of Mails Hoff had received up to
that hour. Mr.. HOff said it would be i'm
possible to say what arrangement would be
made by the railway mail service to handle
the mails affected by the tie-up.
The expected strike on the West Shore
road did not take place at midnight, for at
that hour the train for Newburg left on
schedule time. All the evening and this
morning long lines of trucks and express
wagons were crossing Forty y-second from
the Grand Central Depot taking baggage to
the West Shore depot at Weehawken. The
American express employees were called out
at midnight for the work. One of the com
pany'e drivers, Frank j. keenan,. was as.
saul.eslapd severely injured by a milk
wagon driver. Robert Witt at the depot al
midnight Witt was arrested.