The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-19
GUARDING STRIKERS
Fully 5000 Troops to Be at Buff
falO Today.
MEN QUIET BUT DETERMINED.
The Iackawanna & Western cOncsde to the
Demands Of the Men-strike Will Pro-
baby Become General-very Few
Trains Moved.

BUFFALO, Aug. 16.-The sixth day Of the
switchmen's strike closes with increasing
complications. The leaders witnessed the
mination to meet every move Of their OPP
poneuts with counter stroke.
Fully 5000 troops will De here tomorrow
guarding the strikers. The railway
officials rely upon the presence Of the SOL
d1ers to permit them to raise the freight
blockade with the non-nnion men already
engaged. AS q counter stroke it is con-
sidered probable the foremen and train
men on all the lines where the strike now
prevails viii be called out.
The latest addition to the striking
switchmen is ninety men in the nickel
Plate yards who struck because they were
asked to handle boyeotted freight. Thus
the switchmen upon the entire Vanderbilt
system in the trinity are out.
The strike leaders claim tonight that the
Vanderbilt system at this point Is block
AIDED and inactive. They claim also that the
Erie, Lshigh Valley and Buffalo Greek
roads are likewise paralyzed. They do not.
feel it necessary to call OUT the men in the
allied trades, though the reserve force may
Lackawanna & Western, Buffalo. Roches-
ter and Pittsburg and eastern New York
and Pennsylvania switchmen.
BOOM FOR THE STRIKERS.
The Delaware, Lackawanua & Western,
which has already conceded the demands,
went still further today aud formally noti-
fed them that they would not be asked TO
handle boycotted freight.
There is no doubt that before yielding
the tight the leaders will extend the strike
west even TO Chicago aud eastward to New
| Y ork, ultimately calling out perhaps not
I only the switchmen, but tiremen and train
men. The strikers expect developments in
the next three days.
The strikers claim full sympathy on the
part of the fremen whom they state will
quit their engines whenever the order
reaches them. 1t is said the trsnmen will
Join the switchDen whenever ordered out,
but the hremen will probably be first called
out.
AS to the condition OF the tie up the
roads officials statements are strongly con-
tradictory Tonight 1t is claimed by the
Central officials that their freight trafic in
and out Of the East Buffalo yards is
PROGRESSING WITHOUT INTERRUPTION.
The Central will tomorrow resume work
at the Black Rock and Erie street yards.
They estimate that by Monday the freight
business will be moving normally.
Preparations of a suggestive character
were made today at Felcn hospital. Over
twenty cots with bedding have been ar
ranged together with several filed stretch
ers Several surgeons have signiied their
intention OF assisting the stah should the
necessity arise.
The troops are complaining greatly ct the
way they are treated both as TO food and
Accommodations
lnsUector-gensral McGrath and Major
Rosolle arrived this afternoon and
THEY WILL LOOK AFTER THE MATTER.
and see the men have proper attention
One or two skermishes with gathering
crowds were reported during the day, but
tie incidents were not serious. The peo-
D e gather and taunt and annoy the troops
Some efforts were made during the day
to move trains at the Rabcock street CROSS
ing OF the Erie, but the nOn-uniOn men re-
fused to work and decamped One train
was finally made up and sent out, but it
could not get through the blockade
HELD CONFERENCE.
The state board of arbitration and aftor-
news Of the roads involved had confer
ence today TO arrange for submitting the
difficulties to arbitration. The Phila-
delphia & Reading corporation refused to
arbitrate, however.
There is marked falling OH IN the pas
senger business of all railroads leading
into the city
This morning Charles o. Hara of Oswego,
a private of the Forty-eighsh company,
while On duty in the Central yards, East
Buffalo, was struck by an engine and
INSTANTLY KILLED.
The meeting Of the fremen tomorrow
will be one of the most important crises in
, the strike. If the tiremen conclude to go
out it will be on all lines on which tbs
switchmen are out. The traiDmsn will
hold a meeting at some time between now
and tomorrow evening. They Will doubt
, less act in conjunction with the hremen.
4 The conductors are known to be in touch
with the other three organizations and II .
climax is reached they will work in nar
mony with them.