Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-24
TWO CENTS.
STRIKE TACTICS AT BUFFALO.
Little Hope OF Help From Other OrgsnIEs
tions-An Attack on Non-Union Men.


be the board Of arbitration investigation this
morning and the conference Of the executives
of the switchmen, firemen and conductors and
trainmen organizations this evening. Messrs.
Clarke and Wilkinson arrived here this morn
ing. IL is more than the general opinion
that the conference will advise declaring the
strike off. Ii is also stated that a renewal Of
the federation agreement between the four
organizations. which WIS disrupted last June
the result of internal strife, viii be effected and
their lines strengthened for next year.
Whether Mr.. Sweeny will accept the advice Of
the conference. If given. and give up the present
struggle without first exhausting all the re-
sources at his command is problematicnl The
news from Rochester this morning would seem
TO indicate that he will not. but intends as was
indicated in these dispatches Saturday. to
rag the roads by strike after strike all along she
systems and 10 endeavor 10 harsss them into
agreeing to some sort Of compromise.
MEN on TRAIN ATTACHED.
The strikers and their sympathizers continue
their night attacks upon the troops and non
union men. The Buffalo and Southwestern divis-
ion of the Erie tried to send out an unguardei
freight train on Its road last night There were
were three non-union men on top Of the cars.
As the train Stacked up near Seneca street a lot
of strikers boarded il and threw the three non
union swltchmen off the cars and assaulted
them with coupling pins. Charles b. Hens
tenz was severely cut and was taken into the
Erie round house. where a surgeon dressed his
wounds. Allen Richardson. who halls from
Boston. was badly injured that he was taken
to the hospital. Henstenz said that his assail-
ants tried TO throw one Of the men under the
train. After the assault the men fed before an
alarm could be given and escaped.
There was the usual annoyance to troops last
night and early this morning but Leyond the
affair at Tiff farm nothing of a serious nature
Is reported.
ArTEMPy TO WRECK A FREIGHT TRAN.
Another attempt was made to wreck freight
train in the yards at Suspension bridge at $50
o'clock last night. An east-bound New York
Central freight was making up and getting
ready to leave. While backing it on a spur at
the eastern end near the Lockport road a switch
was turned between the trucks Of a car and the
result was that car in the middle of the train
was derailed and thrown on Its side. The train
was stopped and the deTailed car cut out. The
switch house. where the switch tender stood
with his lantern. was only four rods distant, but
the marauder made good his escape
THE EFFECT on GRAIN SHIPMENTS
The strike of the Lackawanna switchmen
will only slightly interfere with the ship
ment of grain from Buffalo elevators on
this side of the creek. The houses on the
island are hGmpered much ss they were
this morning from that side. The Erie, Niagara
and Central are loading through stuff with
better success than any day since the
strike, but nothing is being done to-
ward relieving the glut of track re-
ceipts or moving local orders. Receipts
were nearly 100000 bushels and shipments
two-thirds of that amount Coal will be scarcer
than ever with the Lackawanna's supply cut
short, and there some difficulty in
finding the boats Of that line this
morning. The shipments of coal during
the past twenty-four hours were only 2 ESQ tons.
just about a fair load for one Of the big
liners. Cement and salt are also scarce. so
that the shipments of up freight from this
port is practically dead. Flour is ac-
cumulating rapidly at all the freight houses.
some of the largest being filed During the
past two DAYS over lO0. 600 barrels were received
and 1t is said that the stock in the warehouses
and freight sheds is nearly 100000 barrels.
QUIET AT NEW YORK.
There is no sign or talk of strike at the Grand
Central depot this morning. Freight is moving
and men work around as though there never
had been strike. Vice President Webb said this
morning that he had received word that ten
switchmen struck at East Rochester this morn
ing. but went back in an hour after the yard-
men had lectured them. The feeling among the
railroad officials is that the strike is effectually
broken.
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force OF men are doing about the ordinary
amount Of work in :he railroad yards in this
city today and the question of a strike is rarelv
discussed. 1t appears to be generally accepted
that there will be no strike here.
STRUCK A SLEEPING SOLDIER
This morning about $50 O'Clock Lehigh
Valley engine was backing n work train TO East
Buffalo when ii struck sleeping soldier John
Delaney Of company ID, twelfth New
York. Delaney was on the bridge over
Clinton street with his head resting against one
of the timbers. He was dragged some distance
before the train was stopped and was picked up
with very bad cut on the head and suffering
from internal injuries. He was taken on the
caboose to the Emergency Hospital, where the
doctors cannot say whether or not he will re-
cover.
Riotous Strikers Committed.
BUFFALO. Aug. 24.-The conviction has grown
here that Police Justice King of this city. before
whom arrested strikers have been arraigned for
violence. has been dealing with them in a man
ner too lenient. Hence the four riotous strikers
who were companions Of Manahsr, who was
yesterday shot by a twenty-second regiment
picket, were today arraigned not before the
police justice. but before Judge Green of the
supreme court. They were committed TO await
the action of the grand jury. This morning
the wounded riotous striker. Manahar, is giving
hls ante-m0rtem statement 70 the coroner. He
will die, il is believed.
A Short Strike in Rochester
ROCHESTER, n. Y, Aug. 24-It was reported
early this morning that seventy-fve switchmen
on the Central at East Rochester had struck.
Inquiry later showed that there are but rs or
100 switchmen along all the Central tracks in
the city and that oply twenty-five are employed
in the East Rochester yards. ten night and
twelve day switchmen. These twenty-five
struck this morning at 4 o'clock, but the trouble
Was of short duration. The men do not belong
to the union and the strike was not SO much in
sympathy with the Buffalo men as il was be-
cause the men here had slight grievance in
that they did not get extra pay for Sunday
work as was the custom in Buffalo. Assistant
Superintendent Gould went to the yards and
talked with the men, adjusting the grievance.
The men went home to change their clothes
and soon afterward returned to work A detail
Of eight policemen and q lieutenant was dis
patched to the yards at once, but no disturbance
took place. The strike Of the switchmen Of
East Rochester did not occasion the least ex-
element at the other points along the line
where switchmen were employed. The men at
the Platt street freight house did not 20 out
nor was any trouble noticed at the Central
street station.