The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-08-18
MADISON. SOUTH DAKOTA. THURSDAY AUGUST H. 1897

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passenger train due here at 12:40 o'clock.
A police escort was sent witk the engine.
III the Central yards at o'clock all the
men had quit work aud all the engines
were Icing Ixia up. Twenty Of the
policemen under Captain Zacher We're
on guard in the yars.s.
The New York Central yards here
passed through strike two years ago.
The company Defeated the men, filing
the yards with non-union men. It was
not belived that the union could again
get stronghold In the yards, but COM
mittees have haca as work for several
months preparing for strike. A vote
was taken III tie -s-ards q week ago and
resulted in ssee-fcnrths Of the men
agreeing tosstrike for the ten-hour sys-
tern III necesF r. The notion Just taken
was the result OF the ballot. The COM
pany employs about twenty-five day en-
gines and something over dozen night
engines, each having switching crew
Of three men besides the engineers and
ire.ner. making total Of about one
hundred and twenty-five men In the
switching service In the yards. The
strike of the Central and West Shore
will very nearly blockade the business
Of the lakes so far as Buffalo is con-
cerned. Already the shipments Of coal
have about stopped. The average
movement has been about two cargoes a
day since Friday. Already the North
western holr agencies are complaining
that they are getting swamped with
flour, and with only the Lackawanna
left to help them ont they will
accomplish very little towards
keeping up with Eastern business.
The receipts Of grain are 50 heavy
that the elevators will soon b
full. General carriage freight III accuma.
lating 80 rapidly that the warehouses
are overflowing with it. The strike in
the big raiirD6d slors Ii already becom-
ing appsrxnt Cars to rebuild and repair
are growing fewer in the shops, while
they are piling up on the road IF the
strike continues much longer" !" said one
of thu Lebsgh Valley iien, tsthe road
win be compelled to makes serious re-
duction In lis shop FORCE
Officers of all the roads went before
Judge Green and reported that their
property was not sufficiently guarded by
the troops called ont by the sheriff. The
Judge granted an order to General
Doyle, who ut once issued n general or.
der calling out the entire Fourth
brigade. Tie Fourth brigade comprises
fifteen separate companies from differ
ent points between here and Syracuse
This brings al addditi0hAl force 81
l,40D nden oil the scene, rinslKing 3 total
Of abo1ts s2!O0D in6n undsrafsds here
A,general order was issued from brig
ade headquarters at 10 q. ID. assighisan
the troops tospositions- TIE Sixty -fftl
regiment viii edVer the territory betwe4r
Tilt BARN md Hood etsjunctior, ,.6fa
the Lslaeh; the Seventy fourth win have
charge OF theE4ehigh from there into ths
city; the Thirtsentli Of jamestown
Forty-second Of Niagara Falls; Forty
third Of Clean, and Twenty-ffth ol
Tonawanda, are TO be joined to thu
Sixty fifth. Companies A, B and Z
have gone to the Lehigh trestle to relieve
Captain Babcock.
There were two fatal accidents in thu
Erie yards during the night. An un.
known man was struck by a New Yorl
Central engine at Cheektowaga and in.
stantly killed. Michael Mccarthy, 4
young scooper, was runsover by LehigI
Valley engine and died soon afterward