San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-28
p A TIE : UP.
NO WHEELS TURNING ON
THE S. A. P.
TELEGRAPH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ARE OUT.
The Train Men and Other En-
pioyes i'm Sympathy and
Assisting Them.

The San Antonio and Aransass
Pass railway is tied up today.
The $50 miles of road operated un-
der this charter are not resounding to
the hum and roar of their daily trains.
The officers of the road felt business
falling off at several small stations
and cut down the salaries of the oper-
ator-station agents at one or two
points.
The operator-agents were poorly
paid, and this caused a grievance.
They laid it before their grievance
committee and alter an investigation
the committee demanded of the roads
officers that they must be reiDstateG
at former pay or the photographers OF
the road would not work.
Receiver Yoskum left for the east
yesterday without leaving any def
mite answer, and this morning all the
operators went on strike.
The train men, engineers, switch
men and conductors unions also
aided their comrades and refused to
work, and the road is henceforth tied
The strike extends from Kerrville
to Houston on the main line, from
San Antonio to Corpus Christi, and
from Ioakum to Waco on the
branches.
At the Arkansas Pass depot this
morning the conductor, Mr.. Luke, and
| Engineer CJnnant refused to take the
regular passenger train out, but Of
| fered Superintendent Sands to take
out the mail car and engine. Mr.,
Sands replied that unless the entire
train was taken out the mail car
would not go, and summarily dis.
charged Conductor Luke.
The Order of Railway Conductors
now have q grievance, after the tele
| graphers' demands are settled and
say Conductor Luke will have to be
reinstated.
| A deputy U. s. marshal was present
| when Mr.. Sands refused to let the u.
B. mail 60 out, and reported the mat
ter to U. S. District Attorney A. j.
Evans.
This official says all the officers OF
the road will be arrested If the mail
is not taken out, and there is heavy
fine attached to such refusal.
| Passengers were sold tickets at the
depot, conditional with the departure
| of trains. No freight is being received
| only on the same conditions There
is no disturbance among the men; all
are quiet and peaceable, and the po-
| licemen who were summoned to the
| depot In anticipation of trouble, by
| the road officials, have had nothing
to do.
! kilograms were sent in all direc-
tons this morning to find Mr.
| Yoakum, one of the receivers. He
was finally located In Galveston.
Receiver Mcnamara is in Mexico
The Western Union wires have had
| no business from the Arkansas Pass
railway this morning.
| q. d. Bunnell, o. >. and D. inspec.
tor of the 8. A. P, was also dis
charged by Superintendent Sands
who asked him to take charge OF the
telegraph office, which he refused to
do, saying he was fond of life, and did
not like "scab"
| There was only one man on the
whole line who went to work. he
took charge of the Boerne office and
started to send message, but soon
received one telling him he was a
"scab," aud something else which
would not stand criticism. He stop
ped work on receiving the compile
mentary (?) message.
Engineer Tom Canuant offered to
take the mail car out with engine No.
|, but refused to go without a con-
| ductor.
Nearly every engineer in San An
tonic who works on that road were
told 70 go out on their runs out re-
fused fatty.
Up to going to press there were no
trains running on the s. A. 2. or had
any arrests been made.