The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-19
EIGHT HUNDRED MEN AT PRESENT
REPORTED OUT.
State Militia to the Number of Eight
Thousand Men Guarding the Com
panies' Interests and Preserving
Order-A Crowd of Three Thousand
Charged Upon and Put to Flight by
Soldiers With Fixed Bayonets. q
Special TO the REconp-uS1oN.

/ creaSIng complications. The leaders
witnessed the massing of troops with a
growing determination to meet every
| move Of the opponents with a counter
stroke. Fully 5000 troops will be here
by tomorrow guarding the 800 strikers.
The railway officials rely upon the pres
| ence of the soldiers to permit them to
raise the freight blockade with the non
union men already engaged. AS coun-
ter stroke it is considered probable that
| the tiremen and trainmen on all the
lines where strikes now prevail will be
called out.
The latest addition to the striking
switchmen was ninety men in the nickel
plate yards, who struck because they
We're asked to handle boycotted freight.
Thus the switchmen upon the entire
Vanderbilt system in this vicinity are
out. The strike leaders claim tonight
that the Vanderbilt system at this point
is blockaded and inactive. They claim,
also, that the Erie, Lehigh Valley and
Buffalo Creek roads are likewise par
! alyzed. They do not feel it to be neces-
| sary to order out men in allied trades.
though as reserve force will possibly be
| the calling out of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western, Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg and Western New York
and Pennsylvania switchmen.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern, which had already conceded the de-
mands OF the men, went even further to-
day, and formally notified them that they
would not be asked to handle bovcotted
freight.
! NO doubt before yielding the fight the
leaders will extend the strike West even
| to Chicago, and Eastward to New YorI,
ultimately calling out perhaps, not only
/ the swltchmen, but firemen and train
men. The strikers expect DEVELOPMENTS
In the next three days The strikers
/ claim full sympathy on the part Of the
hremen, who, they state, will omit
their engines whenever the order reaches
them.
1t is said that the trainmen are ready to
JOIN the swItchmen whenever ordered,
but the firemen will probably be the first
called out. As to the condition of the
tied-up roads, the officials have made
statements strongly contradicting the
claims of the men. The New York Cen
trail is moving freight not in a desultorv
way, but in trains. Tonight it was
! claimed by the Central officials that their
| freight traffic in and out of the East Brlf-
falo yards was progressing without inter
| ruption The Central will tomorrow re-
sumo work at the Black Rock and Erie
street yards. Their estimate by Monday
/ is that the freight business will be NOV
| ing normally.
Preparations of a suggestive character
were made to-day at the Fitch HosDital
! over twenty cots, with bedding. have
! been arranged, together with several field
stretchers. Several surgeons have signi-
| fed their intention of assisting the staff
should necessity arrive.
The troops are complaining greatly at
the way they are treated, both as to food
| and accommodations. Inspector-G General
McGrath and Major Rosene arrived this
afternoon, and they will look after the
matter and see that the men have proper
attention.
One or two skirmishes with gathering
crowds were reported during the day. but
the incidents were not serious. Peonle
gather and taunt and annoy the troops.
day TO move trains at the Babcock street
crossing of the Erie, but the non-union
men refused to work and decanped.
One train was finally made up and sent
out, but it could not get through the
blockade.
The State Board of Arbitration and the
| attorneys of the roads involved had n
conference to arrange for submitting the
difficulties to arbitration. The PhiladeI
phia and Reading refused to arbitrate
however.
There was marked falling off in the
passenger business on all the railroads
leading into the city this morning.
Charles O'Hara of Oswego. private of
the Forty-eighth Regiment, while on
duty in the Central yards at East Buffalo
this morning, was struck by an engine
and instantly killed.
The meeting of firemen tomorrow
evening will be one of the most imnor-
tant crises in the strike. If the firemen
conclude to go out it will be on all lines
on which the switchmen are ont. The
trainmen will hold meeting some time
between now and tomorrow evening
They will doubtless act in conjunction
Will ll1O lllCllISn. Il ne conductors
known to be in touch with the other three
organizations, and if climax is reached
they will work in harmony with them.
Walter Webb, Third Nice-President of
the New York Central Road. has sent q
letter to the State Board Of Arbitration.
saying there are no differences or grew
ances existing between his company and
employees, therefore arbitration is unnec-
essary.
Up to midnight the firemen had not
gone out, and it does not seem likely
they viii go out tonight. The Erie and
New York Central yards were quiet to-
night. Neither road attempted to take
out any freight and none came in.
JEERING MOB PUT TO FLIGHT.
BUFFALO, Aug. 18.--Late last night a
jeering throng gathered about the little
detachment of soldiers in the Switchvards
and became so threatening that reinforce
ments were sent for. The crowd. which
numbered 1900, did not dispense at the
command and the soldiers charged with
fixed bayonets, prodding many OF those
nearest them in the legs. The mob was
soon put to flight.
EIGHT THOUSAND MILITIA.
ALBANY. Aug. 18-Governor Flower
has ordered out 5000 additional militia.
10 be in Buffalo at noon tomorrow, max
ing total force of 5000.
ALL THE VANDERBILT LINES IDLE.
BUFFALO, Aug. 1S.-The switchmen of
the Lake Shore Road struck this r1orn-