Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-22
THE SWTTCHMEN HOPE
But It Seems Certain That
Their Cause Is Lost.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ARE FIRM.

Which the Strikers Were Depending
Incidents which-1Iave Hurt the Men In
Public ReGard--The Troops to Remain
Until the Trouble Is Overall the
Roads Moving Freight in Large
Quantities.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug 22.-''The strike
is ended. The men are beaten. They
acted prematurely, were i'll advised, and
if they cannot make terms with the COM
panies within AS hours their places will
be lost to them" This is the summary
of the situation as expressed this morn
ing by Florence +. Donovan, member
of the State Board of Arbitration. He
has been n sympathiZer with the men,
and therefore his opinion is of value.
The side strikes at Niagara and Ell
mira are inactive; the firemen have not
gone out; the railroad photographers have
made no move; the trainmen are in an
aggravatingly hesitating mood, and alto
gether the unfortunate switchmen, in the
face of the defeat which stares at them
have the added grief of realizing that
they went into action without having
taken the most elementary steps to-
ward forming sympathetic alliances that
would almost surely have been able to
pull them through.
Freight traffic was resumed with n ven
geance by all the roads to-day, and the
officials of all the lines give out the most
encouraging reports. Within three or four
days the freight blockade will probably
be removed.
The Erie is no longer crippled. Supt
Charles A. Brunn told q United Press re-
porter this morning that his road sent out
10 full freight trains yesterday, besides
= u II L
sion Bridge yards.
to-day, and they are kept busy, too. We
have to-day begun loading our grain cars
and in a day or so our elevators will be
relieved of the blockade"
The Central no longer feels the strike,
so far as it's road is concerned. To day
they have full force of switchmen at
work. The new Eastern hands are turn
ing out we'll, but those from the West are
failures, with few exceptions. Freight
trains in the big East Buffalo yards are
being sent out regularly. The Black Rock
and Niagara Falls yards are open too,
while The Ohio street yards, where the
grain trains are made up, are being
| cleared up rapidly.
There is a marked improvement in the
Lake Shore, West Shore and Nickel
Plate and Lehigh yards. The new men
| are being broken in rapidly, and as they
become acquainted with the track and
| switches their work improves. All the
yards did n good days work yesterday
and most of the roads resumed the night
freight service.
Two very unfortunate affairs have done
much to turn public sympathy against
the switchmen. One was the derailing of
| the Erie train and the other was the cap
turc last night of Daniel Cahill, who CON
fessed himself u striking switchman.
| William Kaye, a non-union man, was
turning switch at the Lehigh junction,
East Buffalo, when Cahill set upon him
and assaulted him. The timely arrival of
| the guard alone saved the mans life.
| Cahill was arrested and turned over to
| the police. He confessed the assault, said
| he was striker, and that he committed
| the act because he felt that a man who
| took his place deserved to suffer for it.
The authorities are hard at work en-
| deavoring to locate the miscreants who
came so near wrecking the passenger train
| late Saturday night near Linden station.
1t is reported that five suspicious charac
tiers were seen in that vicinity during the
| afternoon, and the railroad officials think
| they are the victims of a conspiracy, but
until fuller information is obtained it is
| impossible to tell whether the attempt
| emanates from the strikers or from tough
characters, large party of the latter being
in this vicinity
That the train was not wrecked is
mystery. While running at good speed
the engine jumped the track and the
baggage car followed.
| Prompt application of the air brake!
brought things to n standstill with
shock that threw the passengers int
CONSERVATION and they swarmed from
the cars thoroughly alarmed. Examina
tion of the track showed that fish pilates
had been wedged in blind switch anC
judging from the remnants, what ap
peared like a freight car door had als'
been placed across the rails
John Brown, Thomas O'Brien, Johl
Hughes and Michael Fallen, all strikin.
switchmcn, were arrested last night il
the East Buffalo yards of the Erie. The,
were acting suspiciously, and the polio
thought they meant trouble. Brown wa
in the act of throwing a coupling pin al
some of the Erie switchmen, and other
were urging them to leave their work
They were locked up and will be sent t.
the penitentiary.
1t is reported that meeting of tn
telegraphers employed by railroads il
this territory was held, but it is though
hardly probable they will take any specia
action unless the situation should be
come more extensively involved than nov
seems probable.
Corporal Becker, of Company 1, an
private Could who were injured durin;
! the hand to hand battle with the mob O
strikers Saturday night, are still confine
to the hospital tent. Becker has ba
cut received by blow from a couplin
pin, and Gould's injuries consist of cut
on his body.
The strikers were pretty badly pune
I tured with bayonets, one of them, probab
fatally.
Notwithstanding all the hubbub about
there being too many soldiers here it is
evident their presence is felt to be
necessity by those who have property q
stake.
n auufacturers and business men who's
establishments are near the railroads O
in any way liable to be identified wit
them, have taken the alarm at the pres
ence of apparent danger of disorder i
this city, and following the example c
the railroads have asked the sheriff 70
protection.