Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-15


sent out for the same reason.
BUFFALO, y. Y, Angus, lt-There
Is no further Disgusting the fact that
the strike OF the Erie aud Lehigh Valley
switchmen is a seriOut matter. Riot
and iuceudiariSm mark its tidal wave.
Whether it would have proved so
very serious TO the railroads TO have $50
or 200 men leave their posts Of duty
without warning is not now the QueS-
tiOn. Property belonging 10 the rail-
road company has been destroyed by
inceudiary fires, men engaged IN the
peaceful performance of their duties IN
the comUany's service have been
assaulted and sent the hospitals,
the movement OF trains has been
seriously iuterfered with and the lives
Of innocent persons who were in no way
connected with the strike and had not
even heard OF it, have been endangered
by the derai.ment Of passenger train
on one of the roads. Such is the lndict-
ment up 20 the hour of writing
There had been more or less trouble
since Saturday between strikers and
their sympathizerS and the men who
were doing the strikers work, and
Teh ueSultOry assaults had occurred.
Things began 90 put on more ser
ious aspect st2 o'clock this morning
when incendiarv fires broke out stimuli
taueously in the Erie and Lehigh Val
lev yards. Eighteen or twenty freight
cars filled will wool, cotton, hay aud
various other merchandise, two pasSeu-
ger coaches and two watchmen'S houses
were burned.
The fires occurred i'm places where
the fremen could not suppress the
flames ON account of an absence or
water besides the difficulty OF access To
the fires. The water tank adjacent TO
the coal treStleS were smashed and an
engine that was taking water there
wrecked by string Of runaway coal
cSrs that had been turned loose from
the treStle.
Fire was first discovered in the east
bound yards, cart Of Bingen street.
Here a little Office building and two or
three freight cars were destroyed. AT
this time the yardmaSter made the dis
cOvery of flames In TWO passenger cars
used for the conveyance OF worEmen,
and turned in an alarm from Williams
street.
In the yards east Of Dingens street
fires RACED among the cars of merchan-
disc. Ii took the hose from three carts
tor each the flames FROM the nearest hy-
drant.
Firemen, however, prevented the de-
struction Of n great number of cars and
the loss of perhaps hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars worth Of property. The
cars destroyed were IN the midst Of q
great number OF other ears.
The first intimatiOn OF anything
wrong was when the coal cars were set
loose and demolished the water tank.
Then the fires broke out simultaneously.
Captain NurtZ, of the Eleventh pre-
ciuct, put q force OF dozen officers In
the yard as soon as the alarm was given.
The officers were unable 20 find any
suspicious characters.
That is what happened upto daylight
, ana morning. But that was only the
beginning. The strikers or their SYM
pathiZers have pulled pins, turned
switches and driven OF crews. Three
men are at the hospital badly hurt
one was assaulted az 3 o'clock this
morning. two others at II, and another
at this afternoon. The Strikers had
b turned switches, and had thrown six
cars from trains before that.
One Of the mos. CowGrily things done
was the throwing of switches under pas
sepger train No. Il, az Williams street,
a. T.3O o'clock tonight. Two passenger
coaches were thrown from the track,
but the conductor does not think any
body was hurt, though many were badly
frightened.
Fifty men boarded passenger train
No. 8 at II o'clock this morning, and
molested the employees, driving them
of. The crew finally succeeded In get
ting the train 10 the station. The men
took possession Of the Seneca street
switches three or four times during the
day and drove of the signal men.
In the Lehigh yard at Check-TOwaga
tonight the scenes Of last night were
repeated. IL is plainly intimated by
the Erie officials that workmen from
the East have been engaged 20 take the
places of the strikers. Three Stalwart
policemen were stationed at the land
ing. and in the hallway leading to the
Office Of Superintendent Brunn and his
associates to O-day.
The strikers say they sre determined
20 win the fight, aud they assert the
roads are losing heavily 0y not having
men TO perform the work OF the Strik-
ers. They say the Erie is thoroughly
demoralized on account of the strike,
and that every side track On the Buf-
falo division is completely blocked.
Two trains Of freight cars standing
on sidings In Check-Towaga, the rail-
way suburb Of Buffalo, were burned to-