The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-21
BUFFALO STRIKE LOST.
Trains Moving Under the Pro-
lection Of the Militia.
F'REMeN UNLIKELY TO QUIT.
Dastardly Attempt, Presumably by
Strikers, to Wreck an Express.
unless tho Swftchmen Ihduce Other
Employees to Go Out Iheir Cause
Seems Hopeless-The Erie Reports
All Trains Running.

BUFFALO, Aug. 2L.-Erle e9press No. l.
due here at 1925. was deraileI at Linden
station, seven miles east CT Attica and
about forty miles east of tssis city, at 10
O'Clock tonight. That it waS the work of
traln-wreckers there can be 30 doubt. A
hshplate was found spiked To the under
side Of one rail. Fortunately only the en-
glne went off the track. Fise suspicious
characters were seen loitering in the
neighborhood, but they were not appre-
hended. The engine left tie track and
tipped partially on one side, the driving
wheels sinking into the roadbed. A
wrecking train was seat to the
scene. and the track should be
cleared by morning. All the trains
have orders to run with extra caution
during the trouble. The engiueer had the
train under control, and shnGoff and re-
versed the engine and applied the air
brakes, bringing the train almost to
standstill before the obstruction was
reached. Passengers in the font coaches
were thrown from their seats, while those
In the Pullman were severely shaken up.
No one was injured beyond Few bruises.
The Erie road has offered $1,000 reward
tor apprehension of the culprEfs.
An attempt was made to wreck q Lehigh
train near the Buffalo creek connection
this morning. lot of links and pins
were wedged in the rails. but fortunately
the train did not leave the track
1he hremen al l a.. IN. are not known to
have struck. This evening railroad man
said:
The engineers and fremen aEe going out
within forty-eight hours. This is positive. l
am IN a position TO know what am talking
about feel certain the engineers and firemen
will join the strike, and the Erie srainmen are
goin to quit. They are well oreanized The
Lehigh trainmen are not well orgasiz ID and will
hkeiy stay at work. The firemen may strike
without the consent of Sargent
This is the view of an afteruoon paper
OF the switchmen's campaign.
The plan OF Grand Master Sweenes's campaign
Is gradually coming to view. Ii is.to bring the
main roads into compliance with sne demands
by successive strikes. The grand master said he
would be not at all sanguine of rheresuit OF the
present strike, but he is not greatly disturbed at
the probability of failure. II the yards ara
cleared here it 10 said there will be stOppage of
work at Rochester. then at Syracuse and then at
west Albany, where over 1900 lien are en-
plOyed.
There need be no more mincd,g terms as
to the fate Of the striking ,switehmen here
while the status which prevails tonight is
maintained. Unless the labor leaders
adopt decisive measures in new directions
the switchmen in the Buffalo yards will
undoubtedly be defeated. They know it
themselves. but still cling to Che convic-
ton that something will yta happen.
Their faith is in their leaders. They hope
the fremen may come out, aifd yet the
mass of them, while hoping, nave little
knowledge of the progress sof official
diplomacy and tonight, as at the begin
ming of the week, they are dunfs,ly await
ing an issue.
"All passenger trains ON tla, Erie are
running on time" said Chief Train Dis
pather Fitzgerald today. 1--WE: have also
started three trains eastward, and hope to
get out four or five more during the day.
There is no reason now appareat why we
should not be doing the full amount of
business in the course of tive or three
days" A general officer on one of the
trunk lines who has had wide experience
with striking employees said toaay that it
was absolutely ridiculous to hook for a
strike of firemen as soon as somorrow.
The law and legislative committee of the
board of supervisors will tomorrow visit
all the railroad yards for the I91lrpose of
making an official Investigation. No
troops will be recalled until after this trim
at the earliest.
At precisely noon Lake Shore switch
engine backed out of the roundhouse and
was set at work. A large crowd of switch
men and friends gathered and quietly
watched the new men at woTk. They
looked sullen and ugly, but made no
demonstration. Three additionsi locomo-
tives were set to work with aon-union
crews by the Lehigh company az Tiff this
morning. In the Central yards a SQUAD
of soldiers accompanied each engine, and
heavy guards along Topawarsda street
kept the crowd of curious lookers-on at a
respectful distance.
During the afternoon the non-union
switchmen on the New York Ceatral were
all supplied with revolvers and given di-
rections to use them only for sea-defense.
Manufacturers and business rsen IN the
neighborhood of the railroads have taken
alarm at the presence of apparent danger
of disorder in the city, and have asked the
sheriff for protection. The ERIC shops in
Buffalo are closed. owing to lack of work,
and in consequence 600 wOrkmea are idle.
In addition sixty-nine men III the East
Buffalo machine shops have beess paid off.
An unknown soldier of the Twenty
second New York regiment, wit5 bayonet
in hand, rushed up TO butchers stall and
demanded something TO eat, atshe same
time attempting TO stab the propeietor. A
policeman was called upon, blss had no
authority 10 arrest the man. Ie asked
the merchant to give the solt8er some
sausage to appease him. He d9t so. but
the half-crazed man attempted 20 stab
bystander. At last by main force, he was
returned to the regiment and placed in the
guardhouse.
There was a skirmish with strikers at
East Buffalo tonight. The strikers stoned
non-union men on the Erie tres;g. A de-
tachment of the Seventy-first regment
came UP, and when the strikers continued
stoning the order was given to gre. The
strikers then scattered in every direction
and escaped the militia. A pieket was
wounded in the arm last night by striker
with knife.
The New York Central cleared :.s wards
OF live stock and perishabie freigs,t today.
AT Black Rock and beyond sre great
storage yards in a district largely occupied
by the working classes. who are an SYM
pathy with the strikers. In vies of this
and possible tie-up of the Grans Trunk
road of Canada, the lines of troaps have
been extended over this territory snd on to
the great bridge at Niagara Falls.
ELNIRA, n. Y. Aug. D.-The blockade
at Sayre. Pa, and Waverly. ~. Y, was
virtually raised today. About Z 30 this