The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-16
1t Is Assuming Serious Proper
lions.
DETAILS OF THE DAMAGE DONE
Extra Officers Sworn in Yesterday-The sher-
if Powerless Very Few Trains Moving
Strikers Making Resistance.


last night the police have found the re-
mains Of an empty kerosene can, showing
the manner in which the fire was started
by the incendiaries. The car department
claims that the work Of the men at the
freight car department was much impeded
by the cutting of the hose by unknown par
ties. Twelve lengths of hose were cut and
rendered useless during the night.
1t is estimated that from 100 to 200 cars
were
DESTROYED BY 1NcENDIARY FIRE.
Everything was quiet in the yards up to
noon. The reported strike will be likely to
spread to the Erie yards AT Hornellsville.
Grand Master Sweeney emphatically con-
dennis the sets Of lawlessness, and states
ii was the work of irresponsible individu-
ais, who could not be controlled, and not of
the strikers.
1t was reported that during the morning
a gang of men pulled the pins from the
Erie trains near the William street cross
ing and extra police were called to the
scene.
Two striking switchmen, John Gibson
and John Schafer, were In the police court
this morning charged with assaulting
Charles Hershey. Frank Brundage of
Lehigh Valley and E. c. Sprague of Erie,
appeared to prosecute. The case was put
over till Thursday.
A rumor prevailed at noon today that
Freight Conductor Martin Nevis of Erie
had died this morning from the result of
his injuries. Nevis was hit on the head,
it was supposed, with a sIung shot He
wTs 6azed for short time but at noon to-
day he was on the street.
Reliable reports received from East
Buffalo and Cheektowaga show the iehigh
Valley had lost seventy-two freight cars by
the fire and the Erie fourteen. Railroad
men profess to be utterly unable at present
TO tx an estimate of the loss. They are
ACTING VERY CAUTIOUSLY
on this point fer the reason that claim
will be made against the city and county
for damages and the amount of costs has
not yet been figured up. 1t is known,
however, that many of the cars were old
and empty.
The Erie train reported in earlier dis
patches as being on fire did not contain
merchandise of extra value.
Forty-seven special deputy aheriffs left
for Cheektowaga at 1880 and more will be
sent out during the afternoon. If the
sheriff finds he cannot preserve order he
will appeal to the governor for military aid.
MANY SENSATIONAL RuMoRs
were in circulation in which the extent of
incendiary work was greatly exaggerated.
but the above can be accepted as reliable
and correct
Grand Master Sweeney. in an interview
this afternoon said the strike has spread
so Waverly and will probably go to Horn
ellsville and Bradford, where the switch
men are dissatisfied. 1t will not spread to
any other roads in Buffalo We have come
TO an agreement with the western New
York and Pennsylvania on the ten hour
basis ard will have no trouble with that
road. A conference with the general su-
perintendent of the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg has been arranged for today
expect a settlement will also be made with
that rosd.n
Sweeney further said the Erie and Le-
high switchmen had been treated badly,
their advances being spurHed by those in
high authority.
NO VIOLENCE ATTEMPTED.
The passengers on the Erie and Lehigh
Valley trains that were ditched did not
reach the Erie depot until , :45 a. N. They
stated that the strikers went through the
coaches detached the engines and broke
the air connections. II. Dickerman, a
drummer who was on board one OF the
trains, said that no violence was attempted
with any OF the passengers. He continued
s.Three strikers boarded our train. They
were all apparently sober, and met with
no resistance. They politely informed the
pass engers that the train would go no
of light complexion and with sandy hair
He simply stated that he was striker
that be had wife and family to maintain
aud the road would not do the square thing
by the men.
A party of actors were mistaken for
non-union men and we're closely inspected
by the strikers, but were found to be actors
and were not molested.
The Sixty-nfth regiment has just been
sent to Cbeektowaga to guard the Lehigh
Valley and Erie yards the rest OF the night.
1870 A. N.
The Seventy-fourth regiment has Just
been called out TO protect the Central and
West shore property, it being feared that
the ewitchmen on these roads may go out
tonight
PULLED THE COUPLING PINS.
This afternoon twenty or thirty striking
ewitchmen boarded freight train pulling
into the city to set the brakes and stall the
train. They pulled the coupling pins,
throwing the pins and links into staenant
pools and then disappeared. A new supply
of pins and links were procured and the
train proceeded amid considerable excite
ment
The only Lehigh Valley train that moved
TODAY was coal train which went out at
$3.50 guarded by eight policemen. The
Nickel Plate succeeded in moving thirty
five cars of live stock from Lebigh to the
Lake Shore tracks, but when the
men learned of it this morning
they refused TO make cars up in trains
bound for New York
One hundred and seventy-three cars of
live stock belonging to the Erie & Lehigh,
which were standing on the West Shore
tracks, the men refused TO handle. They
were discharged in turn as they declined,
and in consequence stood IN hourly expect
alton of being ordered out by the union.
In the Philadelphia & Reading yards not
q car has moved since Saturday.
A large force OF men are expected to-
morrow morning and an effort will be
made to push the work
snERIFF's POSSE DESERTS HIM.
The sberiff's posse which went to Eas.
Buffalo this afternoon was greeted with
ieers by the assembled strikers. The
ssspecialsn, who had been as brave as lions
on tho tram and who INDUCED in tall talk
and felt courageous on the way, as soon as
they landed and in response TO the appeals
of the men, one after another threw away
his club or handed il to the powerless
sheriff, while at each conversion a
cheer went up from the strikers, and
soon all that remained Of the sheriff's
brave posse could be counted On the fingers
of one hand. The sheriff bowed down to
call out the militia.
ThGro c1G 80 disturbance up to il p. m.