Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-20
TROOPS CALLED OUT.
New York Militia March to the Scene %
tho Railway Riots in BufIhlo-More Act
of Violence Committed.

cars lying alongside the Cheektowaga
trestle. Again did the fire depart
ment respond, and about three-quarters
of an hour later two engines were en-
gagged in 6ghting the flames, but the
strikers soon cut the hose and the
steamers were rendered powerless.
The Lehigh Valley officials then APP
pealed to Brig. Gen. Doyle for imme-
diate aid. The general at once ordered
out the SiXty-tifth regiment and it hur-
ried on trot for the scene.
The SiXty-fifth reached Cheektowaga
about $50 o'clock, but the strikers were
invisible. They had been apprised by
their piclSets of the coming soldiery
and scattered like so many ants The
regiment encamped for the night in a
damp field.
The Seventy-fourth regiment reached
the yards at 2:15, and the yards were
at once placed under military COM
mand. There are 500 soldiers there,
and the yards are surrounded with
men. A guard with fixed bayonets
protects every entrance point
During the day incendiarism and
violence We're resorted to and indi-
vidual attacks on the so-called ''scab"
workmen made. The outlook is
melancholy and no one can predict
the end. More than 200 cars
have been burned, and train
load of passengers had miraculous
escape with their lives. Freight
trains have been boarded and train
men compelled to desert their posts.
Switches have been turned and cars
thrown into the ditch. Gondolas were
| released from coal trestles and al
lowed to crash down into the yards,
wrecking locomotives and cars and
creating general havoc with railroad
property.
All the deputies that the sheriff has
called out to comply with the demand
of the company for protection deserted
him Monday afternoon, and Sheriff
Beck came into town early in the
evening to demand that the
militia be called out This de-
mand was acceed to. The Erie road is
blocked now. The fires Sunday night
and the wrecks block one end and
standing trains block the other. The
strikers are busy disclaiming respon-
sibility for Sunday nights events, but
they do not try TO cover their delight
at the result.
1t was about o'clock Monday morn
ing that the strikers put in their best
work at the Lehigh yards, having at
that time managed to blockade the
Erie tracks and wreck several trains.
1t was very easy to set fire to the cars
"a lighted match in the oil box OF
the heel did the business. So about
,he hour named fire appeared
simultaneously in the Lehigh yards
adjoining the Erie, but so far east
that the city fire department could not
reach it. AT 3:15 a. IN. $50 cars were
burning and the fires were still break
ing out among the freight cars. The
fire spread away down the Lehigh anC
Erie. Long strings of cars were free
at both ends and burned toward the
center There was no possibility o.
saving them as no water was neal
enough to be of any use. Many Erie
men, among them several officials
were on the ground making every eff
fort to save what they could, bu
i. their efforts were almost unavail
ing. BY dragging cars apart BY
hand a few were saved but it wa
hardly one in twenty. No engines wer
there, and every car had to be moved
by hand. Around the burning car
: strikers and their sympathizers crowd
ed and enjoyed the result of their work
Perched high on box cars they mocle,
and jeered at the railroad men VIII
worked at the blazing wrecks.
: Master Moriarty of the local lodg
of the switchmens union states tina
the strikers were not responsible 70
the fires. He attributes them to 10
. of "tramps and buns that are alway
=. around when there is any excitement.
l Grand Master Sweeney emphaticall
condemns the acts of lawlesS
ness, and states that he has al
: surances from the men on strike tina
they were not responsible for wha
: was done, but it was the work of il
y responsible individuals who could nc
be controlled. Mr.. Sweeney furthe
4 said that the Erie and Lehigh switch
G men here had not been treated in sue
: way as to keep them in good humol
i Their advances had been spurned b
c those in high authority.
Il The only Lehigh Valley train tha
moved past the Buffalo Creek junctio
, Monday was coal train, pulled by ell
gine No. 276, which went out to Wi
> liam street about $3.50 p. m. guarded b
eight policeman. The Nickel Plat
!. succeeded in moving thirty-two cars
Y live stock from the Lehigh to tt
It Lake Shore tracks, but when I'll
70 men learned of it Monday morl
IS ing they refused to take the cars up
l. the West Shore trains bound over Il
6 Central for New York. Then it WI
n learned that 173 cars of live stock b
e longing the Erie and Lehigh we
ID standing on the West Shore track
e. The men thereupon refused to hand
ut them. Each man was asked seperat
&c ly to go to work on these cars, al
of each, upon refusing, was discharg,
n aud sent to get his pay In cons
re Guence the Lake Shore switchmC
IS stood in hourly expectation all day
g. being ordered out by the union. IT
y immense freight sheds of the road a