The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-08-24
Grand Masters Sweeney, Clark, Will
kinson and Sargent Will Discuss
the Buffalo Strike.
Little Likelihood That Any Of the
Other Orders will be Called
Ont.
Strikers Harrass Militia, aud Fusil.
ade Ii Kept Up for Several
Hours.


buffalo, N. Y, Ang. 24.--The strike
situation can be summed up in one word
waiting. Grand Master Wilkinson,
Of the trainmen, is here, and Chief Con-
ductor Clark. OF the conductors, will be
here during the day. Sargent, Sweeney,
Wilkinson and Clark viii hold confer
ence. Chief Arthur, of the engineers,
is not expected to be present. The re-
sult of the conference viii decide the
action to be taken. The belief il grow
ing daily that this action win be an
abandonment of the strike. The plan,
it Is said, Is to let the strike down easy.
VIII Advise Peace.
The conference will advise peace.
Grand Master Sweeney viii yield grace
fully, and the striking switchmen will
go back to their places If they can, or
will seek work elsewhere. This is ad-
mittedly the critical point Of the trouble,
however The firemen are reported to
be clamoring for strike, but Sargent
says that no matter il they voted unan-
imousiy to strike he would not
consent unless be considered ii
prudent. And furthermore, however,
much he may be in favor Of going ont
with the switchmen, the firemen win
not do so unless all the other railroad
labor organizations 60 ont. The next
twenty-four hours viii probably tell the
tale.
The Rochester and Pittsburg men
who were expected 70 80 out are still at
work. So are the Lackawanna men,
though that road had narrow escape
from being tied up. It appears that
quantity Of freight arrived here by
steamer marked to 90 BY the Lehigh
Valley. The agents here tried to play
trick by changing the marks and bills Of
lading to send ii over the Lackawanna.
The latter's men discovered the ruse and
promptly refused to handle the
freight. The road did not insist on it,
20 that the men are still ct work. There
were the customary number Of
small rows in various parts
of the disturbed district, but
nothing Of serious nature
occurred. There was shooting all along
the front from the Ohio street trestle to
the Tifft farm. Out ON Seneca street 4
great many shots were fired and many
more ON the Tiff farm. So far as
learned they were for the usual causes
night breakers throwing bricks. or mys-
terious forms scudding through the
darkness They harrassed the militia
for over two hours, firing shots from
reyolvers, putting torpedoes ON the
tracks and otherwise disturbing the
night. The soldiers turned out several
times, and the yards were searched, but
not stranger could be found. Asquick,
however, as the guards were returned,
the trouble began again. The men who
were making all the trouble stayed in
the yards. They could easily escape de-
lection among the shadows OF the long
strings OF cars, and every time soldier
saw skulking figure pass by i'm the
darkness he sent bullet after it. The
shooting was general and hundreds Of
volleys were fred.
The rattle and roar Of the firearms,
the shouts Of the sentries giving the
alarm and the commands of the officers
aroused the people living IN the neigh
borhood Of the camps and only had they
settled down into an uneasy slumber
3 when those who lived nearest the camp
were awakened by the sentries call from
out along the silent yards where the
signal lamps looked like huge vari-
colored glow worms. Corporal Of Post
No. 4, and then came shouts and shots
thick and fast, and those who listened
heard the whixz of the balls as they
whistled through the night air, Or the
chung Of the bullet as IL struck the
woodwork of the car. Some OF the
skulkers may have been hit but the
hospitals do not report any of them ap-
plying for repairs.
Between 1890 and o'clock striker
was shot and slightly wounded BY 4
soldier stationed at the Hamburg street
crossing ol the Lehigh Valley. The
Emergency hospital was notified and he
was conveyed thither ii an ambulance.
At the hospital he gave his name as
William Moran and said his home at
as Seneca street.
A proposition has been made to the
sheriff on behalf Of the strikers. It il
that the sheriff swear IN 400 of the strik-
ing switehmen a. special deputies, each
man to bring certificate from Master
Moriarity, Of the local lodge of switch
men, that he Is responsible person and
can be depended On. The sheriff made
an appointment to meet the committees
again. The strikers want the troops
withdrawn, and they promise II return
that they viii guarantee the safety 81
railroad property. and will not go into
the yards, but patrol streets adjoining
and keep outsiders from making trouble.
MR. GoMPERS TALKS.
His 0plnien 81 the ynrious strikes Nov