The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-16
greatly exaggerated, but the above can be
accepted as reliable and correct.


accepted as reliable and correct.
1t was reported that during the morning
gangs of men pulled the pins from the
Erie trains near the William street cross
ing, and extra police were called to the
scene. Two striking switchmen, John
Gibson and John Schafer, were in police
court this morning. charged with assault
ing Charles Hershey. Frank Bondage, of
the Lehigh Valley road, and +. Sprague,
of the Erie road, appeared to prosecute.
The case was put over till Thursday.
Grand Master Sweeney was interviewed
this afternoon and said:
The strike has spread to waverly and will
probably go to Hornellsville and Bradford,
where the switchmeu are dissatisfied. 1t has
not spread to any other roads In Buffalo. We
have como to an agreement with the Western
New York & Pennsylvania, and will have no
trouble with that road. A conference with the
general superintendent OF the Buffalo, Rochester
4 Pittsburg has been arranged for today. j ex-
pect that a settlement will be made with that
road. The Erie and Lehigh switchmen had
been treated badly, their advances being
spurned by those high in authority.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.-The Philadel-
phia & Reading Railway Company tins
afternoon issued notice offering reward
of $1,000 to be paid to any person furnish
one guilty of violence to the company's
employees or the destruction of its prop
erty. The strike on the Lehigh Valley
road, which is viewed with seriousness by
the Reading management, occasions no
apprehensions as to its outcome. When
asked whether he would make any con-
cessions to the demands of the strikers,
President Mcleod answered emphatieally:
"No sir"
ELMIRA, N. V, Aug. 15.-Great excite
ment prevails at Waverly. N. Y, on ac-
count of the strike of the Lehigh switch
men. A collision between the strikers and
switchmen seemed inevitable this MORN
ing over an attempt to run an engine and
caboose out of Erie, Pa, just across the
line. The men surrounded the engine and
refused to let it go. Sheriff Powell turned
the switch himself, but it was Immediately
turned back by the strikers. The switch
was finally made, but the strikers pulled
the coupling-pin between the engine
and cars and made another de-
lay. The sheriff tried to ar
rest some of the men, but they were
Immediately rescued by their comrades.
Superintendent Stephenson and the sheriff
mounted the pilot, but could not keep the
men away from the engine. At noon the
train had gone about 200 yards and the
strikers were in command of the situation.
Alterations between the sheriff's posse
and the strikers have been conducted thus
far without any serious results. A special
has Just been received from Sayre which
says that sixty men were ordered to re-
port to Superintendent Stephenson this
morning to take the place of the strikers.
They reported, but refused to go to work.
A union meeting of trainmen was held
this evening at Sayre, and it was decided
that they would not doswitchmen's work
north of Sayre. The turmoil subsidized
this afternoon. The sheriff admitted his
powerlessness, but more trouble is threat
ened when he undertakes to make the
promised arrests with large force. One
striker, William Jones, was hurt in one Of
the melees with the sherifrs forces.
New YORK. Aug. 15.-The strike of the
switchmen at Buffalo is beginning to make
itself felt at the end of the railroads in
Jersey City. traffic from the West being
partially suspended. Many trains ara
stalled at Buffalo. and many will remain
there for several days.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 15.-The switchmen
employed by the various Big Four lines
passing through this city today made a
formal request for an increase in wages
to the rate paid in Chicago, the highest in
the country. The request was taken under
consideration by the road managers.