Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-20
QUIET AT BUFFALO.
Railways Getting Ready to
Resume Their Business.
SAY THEY HAVE PLENTY OF HANDS

And Will Start the Trains With a Rush
Right Away-webb Not Satisfied With
the Protection AHorded-Non-U
Men on the Central Return to Work on
the Report That X. of L. Men Are Com
tng-Incidents of an Exciting Charac-
ter-Strikers Talk to the Mayor.
BUFFALO. Aug. 20.-1 p. NIT can now
be said almost certainly that the locomo-
tive firemen on the Lehigh, Erie, Lake
Shore, West Shore, and New York Cen
trail roads will go out between O'Clock
this evening and tomorrow morning. The
members of the Brotherhood of Trainmen
and Conductors on the above roads and
possibly the telegraphers will follew the
fremen.
BUFFALO. Aug. 19.-The general situa-
tion last night was quiet. Representatives
of the United Press, after thorough tour
of the important posts established by Cen
eral Doyle, found the troops and police
alert, little being done in the way of mov-
ing freight and a general air of "what
nextF All the troops ordered have ar
rived, been posted, and are unusually
alert. Militia guard duty in cases like
this is very trying. The guards have to
keep all outside the line who have no
business there, and at the same time to
allow free movement to and fro of the
employees on duty inside, all of whom
seem at night like spectres gliding back
and forth among the net work of rails.
Webb Demands Absolute Protection.
The railroad officials talked confidently
of their intention to move freight in guam
tity eastward last night, but the visit to
the yards showed that but little was being
done. There We're couple of disturbances
in the yards before midnight, and when
word of this reached Vice-President Webb,
of the Central, he ordered further opera
tions suspended for the night on the
ground of insufficient protection for the
roads employees. This action on the part
of the Central's leading official now here
is regarded signifying that the road
will insist on the fullest protection from
the civil and military authorities or it will
not attempt to do business. In view of
the repeated statements from various
sources, alleged to be official, that there
Were more troops here than are needed the
position of the Central will doubtless
cause the authorities to adopt more Wig
orous measures than are even now in
force.
Waiting for y poI:r at Sayre.
The Lehigh Valley had plenty of men to
work in their yards yesterday, but little
was done in the way of sending out
freight, "We have not been II aking much
effort to shove freight out" said Chief
Clerk Smith, of the Lehigh, because of
the fact that there is no room for the cars
down the road. Today we made several
trips to the lake freight house and re-
leved it of much of its freight. The men
are making up the cars in the yards into
trains and getting them ready to move as
soon as we can make room at Sayre. When
nothing had happened. We have eight
engines manned and ready to work as
soon as the word comes"
Non-Union Men Want to Get Back.
Important news developed here yester-
day afternoon. 1t is that Knights of Labor
from eastern places are here to take the
positions made vacant by the strike of the
non-union switchmen on the Central, and
that the old hands who struck Monday
night We're falling over each other in their
endeayors to get back in the employ of the
Central road. Yesterday afternoon COM
mittee of seven striking non-union switch
men waited on Assistant Superintendent
Gould and asked IL they could go back to
work. They were led by John Welch.
1--WE have come to our senses" said Welch.
SWe are ready to go back to work because
we believe now that there enough
troops here to protect us. The reason we
struck was we thought we would get killed
if we remained at work. We were threat
ened by the strikers from other roads. The
men approached us and threatened to take
our lives if remained at work" They
were put back at work.