Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-19
No CHANGE AS YET
The Situation at Buffalo Is Still
Grave.
The TRAFFIC is NOT RE0PENED
Tbs Troops Are on the Ground to Main
tain Order-Other Switch
men Strike.

BUYFALo, Aug. ls.-The sixth day Of
the railroad strike tawned upon sltu-
atloa .uaI Is most grave and threaten
ing. There a.e two new features to-
day. At I:30 o'clock all the Lake
shore switcnmAn at East and Sousn
Buffalo struck, while the LackAwAGua
men arr restless, and the sherlH has
asked the governor TO call out the en-
tire national guard for the protection
of railroad property. After declining,
on tle ground that u would De = need
less expense TO the county, the rail-
roads request was scceded to At mid
nignt, AID dispatch signed by Sheriff
Beck and Mayor Bish p Was sent 10
the chief executive or the state. Troops
are being ino0lilzed and soon Bunaio
will be little mere tasa huge bar
racks. Among railroad men the feel
ing Is ''now or never" as regards organ
ized labor. II Is looked upon oy them
"a hgnt TO the Death. IN the hight OF
taeir experI~nee cI two years ago with
ths New York C-ntrai and also with the
tescsgo, Burlington L Quincy.
Lake shore Fr~ish rraaic Fled Up.
The strike on the Lake Shore resulted
IN n thorough TIE up Of all freight
trnIhc, bu, the passenger trans have
been leaving AMI arriving nearly on
time. NlltIan sn are stationed ~
lu = througn tire Yards and st the
Exchange street depot, bu. they are
few IN aumber. The big Yards are
Literally gsuttea with freight and the
passenger trans glide between them
.ke tagses. The Rochester i Pltfsburg
Da-@eueer traIn tr ed To run III st $40
o'c.0cS, hu. was oh lged to back out
agala- There was much difficulty en-
T. ring tine Exchange sireet depot Tho
o!g train house was giutsed with cars.
the sw.tchm-n at work were
e 81 nend AMI they had the
d ftic lty nstursllv to Re expected
fr "a fiexp ris ,crd mn. So far 10
dIspoHtlcn toward violenc, has te-n
manifested n thl- point and such green
hands a. are At work are attending 10
their dntes under military guard. The
Erie began TO move freight this morn
ing. when Tr.inmast~r Barnett told
Colonel Welch he wanted soldiers 20
accompany them, aud that officer de-
tailed two companies TO go with the
trains To utica and there left them,
the trainmen SAYING they could get
through all right. More trains will
go east today.
The Lackswanns switchmen are still
at work. Tae vard foremsn -aid: 1--WE
are handling our own cars. but not any
cars of other roads. We are getting
along Fairly we'll"
AZ the Nicxe-P'ats Offices il WAS
stated that their swi,chmen were all ~
work. s'Whetner thev will go out"
"a a the Official in charge, "ws do not
know"
R~adiug Doing business.
ave are dong business" said .
Reading official this noon. This il the
day .st by President Mcleod for q
general resumption Of traffic on the
Reading system.
"wnst do you call dong business
was asked.
II mean We are moving trains."
Reporters at East Buffalo do not
say so.'
Nevertheless we are doing 80. We
sent out three trains this morning. At
$50 =. m. a general freight left for
Hornellsvllle; at 1920 another went
out IN the ssue direction, and at the
same time freight left the Yards for
Suspension Bridge. We have night
ward engineers at work. We made our
rekuIsr morning delivery 10 the Nickel
Plste and ar doing work a. usual at
our lake elevators on the Tiff farm"
The Reading officials have put nn.
circular saying the striks was plotted
at W-verly on July % and that the de-
msnds we're made to provoke q strike.
and il granted new ones would be
made.
At iO.30 shi. morning the Sixtv-fifth
regiment changed its headquarters
from Camp Lshiyh" To Colson aud
D'ngen streets, where the big Lehigh
trestiss are.
wiiisismsr Rnn Over.
Charles OHsrs 10 the Forty-eighth
separate 90 ,spsny of Oswsgo was killed
ct it:s5 On = morning on the New York
Central tracks at Curtis street. He was
run ovrr by tram. He had been re-
pestedly warned not tn Jump on cars
or crawl under them. but he edlsregarded
the warning.
Reports from the Black Rock yards
say everything 10 quiet there. The
strikers are unhks those st East Buff
fslo. They DO not hang about the
yaFls. ihsfe - nos stftseT 90 os seen
anyvhers. Up t0 noon the Erie had
not moved a freight. They expect TO
do some moving some time today.
Agent Riley has asked for police pro-
t.ctiOn N case th- strikers should chow
up when the ffeignt - beng moved.
There are nine men ouf on the Erie NJ
BlscS Rock. two dsv crews and ore
night crew. There : very little freight
in thc Erie yards az present.
There - nothing doing IN the Central
yards either, except load Of hogs
brought over from The Crane Trunk
and switched on sics track. where it
remains. The strikers number about
fifteen. This afternooa an effort viii
be made 90 .a0ve some Of the freight,
such ss perishabir gods and ICE.
A dispatch from Iockport SAYS. The
strike of the switehsneu does not al sct
tie hnes running into this city. fhe
switchnlen employed here on ne Gem
srsl road are Al non-unian men. .o
there : no ensnce Of ne strike reach
ing tnis city. AT the Erie everything
is gnlst.
NICEEL PLATE sES CO OUT.