Evening journal., 1892-08-17

twenty PAGES. Not soul who does not
wear the blue and brass buttons Is allowed
within the lines
A gang Of STRIKERS collected on the big
Lchigh bridge just across from General
Doyle headquarters They began to guy
TIE sentiies at FIRST Accomplishing moth.
ing by this they swore "A bit 40 them This
made no more of an impression than did
the guying. Finally, in evaporation, the
strikers picked up stones and rocks and
hurled them at the heads OF the guards.
General Doyle was az once told OF the at
tack aud ordered Colonel Fox to detail
company TO clear the bridge. The task was
a difficult one The soldiers had, besides
their guns and pouches, to carry great over
coats and blankets strapped 20 their backs
in the charge across the trestle work
Thus handicapped the boys tried TO pick
their way across the ties amid voileys Of
rocks. They finally succeeded In pushing
the strikers of the bridge, aud then at the
sayonet's point drove them to the street
below and outside the sentry lines The
militia We're strongly tempted TO ire, but
they had positive orders not to do so unless
they were shot at.
The strikers are very bitter in their de-
nunciations OF General Doyle for calling ont
ihe troops. They say he was actuated by
purely personal and selfish motives, being
Identified with the Lehigh in an official ca.
pacity. They say he used his authority as
military officer 10 serve his corporation.
This they declare 10 be an unwarrantable
oifense, one that would not have been com
mitted had General Doyle not been attached
TO one Of the companies against which war
Is being waged. The strikers say further
that Doyle had no right to order out the
militia until Governor Flower so directed.
he did so simply at the request OF Inv
shofDf and not at The mandate of the spQs
loii'ece to which he n responsible. ase ~,
To Force the Fighting.
General Doyle says that in acting as he
did he had the advice Of legal counsel, who
assured him that he was warranted in call
ing out the troops as soon rs the sheriff noti-
fed him Of his inability TO control the situa-
ton and asked him for aid. General Doyle
jnstiles his actions, too, by citing the fact
that the strikers were engaged in rotous
rcts outside the city limits and beyond the
jurisdiction Of the police. The deputy sher-
IFS had surrendered 20 tho law breakers,
aud since its arrival its presence, he argues,
has prevented any serious destruction of
property
Reading special agents are recruiting men
for Buffalo throughout the entire length OF
the road. Ovor $50 are said TO have already
been secured, and they will be shipped at
once TO take the places Of the strikers.
The Reading road II is said, is determined
70 force the fighting and is resolved on beat
ing the men at any hazard. To precipitate
matters, it is said TO have been decided to
call upon all employees OF the Lehigh Valley
division not already out on strike and ask
their intentions. II they appear to be wav
ering or weak in their loyalty to the road
discharge VIII nc once follow
President Mcleod, Of the Reading, Is here
also, but he refuses 10 say anything. All
the passenger trains on all the roads are on
time
There has been a great deal Of stealing
from the cars during the fires, and 81, 600
worth OF goods have been taken. One car
fun of brussels carpet, was raided, and
huge rolls OF fine carpets carried away in
wheelbarrows.
The situation Is strained The militia ex-
pect an attack and the men have been
given these orders: III you are ordered TO
shoot, shoot to kill, aud don't waste, your
ammunition