Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-26
RUSSELL AS JONAH.
Illinois Central Strikers Are
Probably Winning.
IT LOOKS LIKE RUSSELL MUST GO.

The Superintendent Likely To BE Thrown
Overheard to Appease the Men-Scenes
In the c. and +. L. Yard@An Embargo
on the Central Cars-Perishable Freight
Set Aside to Rot-A Train Broken Up
at Centralin.
CHICAGO, June 26-There is n prospect
that the strike on the Illinois Central rail
way, which has paralyxed traffic on that
road from Chicago to Centralia, and along
the Wisconsin branch, will be settled to.
day. General Superintendent Sullivan
has promised the strikers to give them the
final decision of the company as to wheth-
er it shall discharge or uphold Superin-
tendent Russell the obnoxious official. A
semi-official report says that tremendous
pressure has been brought to bear on the
corporation, and that it has tacitly agreed
to dismiss Superintendent Russell
The Strike Fully Approved.
At the close of a conference with the
strikers last evening Superintendent Sui
liyan said: Il agreed TO give the men
final answer concerning Russell at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning, and while
have not concluded what the answer will
be, am quite sure it will end the strike"
Grand Master Wilkinson arrived from
Galesburg yesterday, and last evening
| declared his approval of every move that
has been made by the striking trainmen.
A General Tie-Up Threatened.
One of the alarming factors in the strike
| and one which doubtless has great weight
| In forcing the Illinois Central company
| into q more conciliatory tone, was the
presence about the conference room of
delegations of swnchmen from the other
| roads entering the city and the forcible
language of the strikers committeeman,
who openly declared that unless Superin-
{ tendent Russell was removed within two
| days every road in the city would be tied
up and every possible effort made to en-
| force the order
A skirmishing Party Sent Out.
| During the forenoon the strikers sent
| out a committee on an expedition which
had for its object the stoppage of the
| handling of traffic for the Illinois Cen
trail and its tenant the big Four by the
| Chicago and Eastern Illinois, and Wabash.
| The Big Four, or Kankakee line, comes
| into Chicago from Kankakee, sixty miles
away, over Illinois Central tracks, and
the switching is done, when done at all,
| by the striking switchmen. 1t was deter
! mined TO thwart this attempt of the ia
| booed lines to do business over other lines
at once. Accordingly delegation, head
| ed by Chairman Caldwell, of the griev-
| anee committee, went to Dearborn sta
| ton, and passed into the yards.
/ They Scratched Their Palms.
| The striking committee went down into
the yard They stopped in front of the
| first switching engine they met. 1t had
just been attached to a long string of cars.
The engine and switching crews were both
| on board. The strikers stopped and began
| scratching the palms of their hands With
| vociferous profanity the switehmen sprang
from the engine and started for the strik-
| ers, who still stood scratching the palms
| of their hands.
why are you calling us scabs?' they
cried as they ran toward the delegation.
"You are handling scab freight off the
| Big -Four and Illinois Central lines was
the only reply. But it was enough.
Left the bananas to Rot
"Cut off that engine" shouted the fore
| man of the switching crew And then to
the strikers, Sect aboard, boys" An in.
slant later the engine fled down the track,
| leaving its train behind One crew had in
| their train about dozen cars loaded with
bananas These cars were cut out of the
| train and thrown on to side track be
| tween two occupied tracks and a long line
| of empty cars were then thrown upon the
track between them and the switch. This
would completely lock them in where they
could not be moved or unloaded This
was kept up until every empIoye on the
trains had pledged himself that no Illinois
| Central cars would be handled