The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-24
MANY ouTKAGEs
Thas Have Been Committed by Strikers
md Their sympnthizOra.

Thnt Have Been Committed by strikers
and Their sympathizOrs.
BUFFALO, N. Y, August 2s-1t is diff
ficult for persons at distance to clear
ly appreciate tho indignities which are
daily imposed upon the present switch
men in the railway yards here and upon
the militia who are protecting men and
property. General Portor characterizes
the situation in this respect as guerrilla
warfare, The men who Left their work
in the railway Yards ton days ago are
alleged by their leader to be innocent
Of any depredations. The onus Of tho
assaults and OF attempts upon property,
which, are OF almost daily occurrence,
are charged upon tho class of floating
vagrants. The former switchmen con-
demn the sheriff because troops were
ordered here and it isasserted and be-
lieved no violence would be done.
During the three days past, and while
vehement demands had been made for
the withdrawal Of the soldiers, tho AS
sociated Press correspondent has col
lated several instances OF which not an
evidence OF hostility may be left for
construction or characterization by
those who protest against the presence
OF troops and who claim that no yio-
lence is being done.
A switchman employed about the
New York Central said to Superintond-
ent Rossiter on this subject: "0t course
they do not trouble US here about the
depot, because they dare not, but they
have frightened my wife nearly to
death, going to my homo and threaten-
ing her that my house would be burned
unless quit work"
Train No. SS stood in the Erie yards
at East Buffalo, between Babcock street
and Bailey avenue. Despite u line Of
militia on each side Of the tracks coup
ling pins wero pulled and the train
was cut into dozen parts. AS Niagara
Falls train over tho Central came into
the city OF night a switch was thrown
open almost at the station and the man
who did 1t escaped.
The Central express train coming in
at night was attacked by men crouching
behind freight cars, and stones and
scraps OF iron were hurled at the en-
gine and through windows. A flying
spike fractured tho arm Of trainman,
frightened men and women alighting
from the rear coach were jeered by men
IN the darkness. Four were arrested.
One confessed as striker. Switches
have been CioHged with scrap iron, and
this morning, members OF the Separate
company who had been targets for fly
ing pieces OF coal, shouted TO the men
who threw them that unless they quit
troops would swap piece for piece.
Among the switchmen at work in the
senacca street yard OF tho Eric is W. II.
Estcrlin. He is about so years old, is
attired like cowboy and Is believed to
have been one. w. A. Hester, traffic
manager OF the Erie, found that Ester.
lin had pistol. So did the strikers.
The butt Of huge weapon stuck out Of
his pocket and the skirt OF his jumper
had caught upon II, revealing 1t to the
men. Estorlin's post is close to the
sidewalk, and idling strikers stood in a
line along tho walk. They demanded
OF the police that the switchman should
be arrested for carrying concealed
weapons.
DO you call that woaLo concealed"
asked Esterlin, who speaks with u
weapon"
The police decided that he might not
carry tho pistol and demanded its sur
render, Mr.. Heister said he would
take, pistol and Esterlln objected. "If
you let mo keep my gun 1 don't caro-
rap Tor them. I'haye been pretty much
used to taking care Of myself From
! to I p. m, ESterlln worked at his post
enduring the ioulest abuse from the
roads former crploycs, Once lie re-
marked: ~ cant fight your tongues,