New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-17
LaWlessness Among Striking
SWitchmen at Buffalo,
n. 7.
Cars Burned, Trains Wrecked
and a Passenger Train
Derailed.

Erie q Lehlgh valley STItcnmen IS
serious matter. Riot and incendiarisIn
marx its tidal wave. Whether it would
have proven SO very serious to the railroads
10 have $50 or 200 men leave th il posts of
duty without warning is not
questioned. Property belonging to the
railroad has been destroyed by incen-
diary fires; men engaged in The peaceful
performance of theif duties in the com-
pany service have been assaulted and sent
to the hospitals; the moYem nj OF trains
has been seriously interfered 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 derailnent OF a passenger train on one
oil the roads.
Such is the predican,ent up to the hour
of writing There had been more or less
trouble Saturday between the strikers and
their sympathizers aud the men who We're
doing the strikers work, and few desni-
tory assaults had occurred. This morning
series OF incendiary fires broke out
in the Lehlgh Valley yards.
Eighteen or twenty freight cars
filed with wool, cotton, hay and
various merchandise. two passenger
coaches and two watchmens houses were
burned. The fires occurred at places where
the tiren.en could not successfully allay the
flames on account of an absence OF water
and the difficulty of access to the fires. The
water tank adjacent to the coal trestles was
smashed, and an engine taking water there
was wrecked by string OF ten
RUNAWAY COAL CARS.
that had b en- turned loose from the
trestle Fire was discovered III the yards
east of Dingans street. Here u llttle~office
building and two or three cars were
destroyed. Atthis time Yaromaster Mead
discovered flames in two passenger coaches
and turned in an alarm. Inthe yards cas-. OF
Dingans, street fire RACED among the cars Of
merchandise. It took the hose from three
carts to reach the flames The hrenlen
however, prevented the destruction OF 8
great number of cars and the loss of per-
haps hundreds OF thousands of dollars,
worth of property. The cars burned We're
in the midst OF great number of other.
cars. The firernen llncOupled a number OF
cars AMI reno we'd them from danger. a
dozen or so of cars were thrown from the
Lehigh tracks and q number from the
Erie. The first intimation of anything
wrong was when the coal cars
were set loose and demolished the
water tank. Then the fire broke out.
Capt. Foutz. of the Fifteenth precinct. and
q dozen officers were in the yards as soon
as the alarm was given. It was only a be-
ginning. The strikers and their sympa-
thizers had opened switches, pulled pins
and driven off crews Three men are at
the hospital badly hurt. One man was as
saulted at 4 o'clock this morning, two 9TH
ers at IL and another at this afternoon.
The man who was assaulted at the depot
was on his way TO the wreck at the time.
The strikers had turned switches and
thrown six cars from his train before that.
He was
STRUCK on THE HEAD
and when taken to the hospital was COM
pletely dazed and did not know what had
occurred One OF the worst things done
was the throwing OF the switches under
passenger train No. II ut Williams street at
7:3O this evening. Two passenger coaches
were deraiIed but nobody was hurt. though
MANY were badly frightened. FIFTY Men
this morning. Tie crew finally succeeded
in getting tile train to the station. The
mob took possession of the Seneca street
switch three or tour times during the day
and drove off the signal men.
The strike on the Erie nd Iehigh Valley
lines has extended to Wayeriy, and on the
Lehigh freight Traffic is at standstiil
a train Of bee. stands on all Erie
siding there, the switchmen refusing
to allow il to be switched TO the Lehigh
tracks to proceed ito its destination. The
division superintendent OF the Z .liigh has
telegraphed Oswe-o for the sheriff TO come
to his aid, although the men are making,
no demonstration The men it is stated
that
THE ERIE WILL ALSO GO OUT
and the traffic all through theiown will be
at a standstiH The men are non-cummu-
NEGATIVE and their iuture movements are
unknown. The position Of the rail-
way orders towards the strikers is of
con siderable interest The Switch
mems Mutual Ali association,
the locomotive fremen, the trainmen
and the conductors up to year ago be-
long 10 one federation OF railway EN-
ployes. On account OF the action
places OF switchmen on the Bur
Iington this body was practically dissolved.
i his leaves the switchmen practically pct
ing alone, but as the Brotherhood OF Con-
ductors and Brotherhood OF Trainn,en also
have grievances they haye pro missed to join
the switcllnen in their fa lit.
FRESH FIRES BREAK OUT.
BUFFALO. Aug. Is. a. NV ord has been
received that train on the Erie road filled
with fine merchandise is now burn
ing fiercely with no protection.
Fire has broken out in three PLACES in the
Lelligh yards again. The lire department
seem unable TO quench i. Sup,. Brunn
reports the rire still raging among
oars Of merchandise In the railroad yards
at Cheek owaga, and says lhe sheriff seems
powerless to interfere though he has called.
on him to protect the railroad property.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. I5.--The places of
the swi. climen o. the view York. Lax Erie
Creek railroads who struck at Buffalo Tor
an advance in wages viii i ill all prnba-
bility, be tiled in = few days by non-union
men.
Township Frauds.
y INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 15.-A morning Pc