St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
a Number OF Fiendish Deeds
on One Another's Heels at
Buffalo.
Ineendiary Fires, Men AS
saulted, Movements Of
Trains Retarded.
By Heroic Work Firemen Pre-
vent the Destruction Of q
Deal Of Property.
Secretary Loyejoy Denies the
Statements Of Gompers
and His Allies.

BUFFALO. Aug. 14.-There is no fur
ther Disgusting the fact that the strike
ofthe Erie and Lehigh Valley switchmen
is serious matter. Riot and incen-
diarism mark its tidal wave. Whether
it would have proved so very serious to
the railroads to have $50 or 200 men
leave their posts of duty without warn
ing is not questioned. Property
belonging to the railroad has been de-
stroyed by incendiary fires, men en-
gagged in the peaceful performance of
their duties in the companies service
have been assaulted and sent TO the nos
pitfalls, the movement OF trains has been
seriously inteTfered with and the
lives Of innocent persons who
were in No way connected with
the strike, and had not even heard of It.
have been endangered by the derail-
ment of passenger train OH one of the
roads. Such is the predicament up 10
the hour of writing. There had been
more or less trouble Saturday between
the strikers and their sympathiZers, and
the men who were doing the strikers
work. and q few desultory assaults had
occurred. This morning a series of in
cendiary fires broke out in the Lehigh
Valley yards. Eighteen or twenty
freight cars filled with wool, cotton, hay
and various merchandise, two passenger
coaches and two Watchmen'S houses
were burned. The fires occurred at
places where the frenen could hot sue
cesSfully
AlIaY the Flames
on account of an absence of water and
the difficulty of access TO the fires. The
water tank adjacent TO the coal trestles
was smashed. and an, engine taking
water there was wrecked by string of
ten runaway coal cars that had been
turned loose from the tres,Ie.
The fire was first discovered
ID the east-boun1 yards, east of
Dinzans street. Here is a little Office
building. and two or three cars were
destroyed. At this time YardmasteF
Mead discovered the flames in two pas
SengeT coaches and turned in an alarm.
In the yards east OF Dingans street the
fire ragged among the cars of merchan-
disc. 1t took the hose from three carts
to reach the flames. The nremen.
however. prevented the destruction of
great number of cars ana a loss of per-
haps hundreds Of thousands of dollars
worth OF property. The cars burned
were IN the midst of a great number of
other cars. The iremen uncoupled a
numbers OF cars and removed them
from danger. j dozen OF so Of
Cars Were Thrown
from the Lehigh tracks and a number
from the Erie. The first intimatiOn OF
anything wrong Was when the coal cars
were set loose and demolished the water
tlnk. Then the fire broke loose. Capt.
Foutx. OF the Fifteenth precinct, and a
dozen officers were III the yards as soon
as the alarm was given. 1t was only
beginning. The strikers ana their
sympathiZers had opened switches,
pulled pins and driven OF crews. Three
men are at the hospital badly hurt.
One man was assaulted at i this
morning, two others at II, and
another at 3 this afternoon. The
man who was assaulted at the Western
New York IL Pennsylvania depot was
on his way TO the wreck at the time.
The strikers had turned switches and
thrown six cars from his train before
that. He was struck on the head. and
when taken to the hospital was COM
pletely daZed and didn't know what had
occurred. One of the men was as
Saulted at the passenger station and
two at Williams street. 0 ne OF the
worst things done was the throwing OF
the switches under passenger train No.
II at William sstreet at 7:30 this even
ing. Two passenger coaches were de-
rallied. but nobody was hurt, though
many were
BADLY Frightened.
Fifty men boarded Passenger Train
No. 8 at II o'clock this morning. The
crew finally succeeded in getting the
train TO the station. The mob took
possession of the Seneca street switch
three or four times during the day and
drove of the signal men. In the Lehigh
at CheeklOwaga tonight the scenes OF last
night were repeated. 1t is plainly in
timated by the Erie officials that wor k
men have been engaged to take the
places of the strikers. The strikers say
they are determined to win the fight.
and assert that the roads are losing
money by not having men TO perform the
work Of the strikers. They say the Erie
is demoralized by the strike, and that
every sidetrack on the Buffalo division
is completely blocked. The trains of
freight cars on sidings in CheekloWaga,
the railroad suburb of Buffalo. were
turned tonight. The Lehigh has called
Oh the sheriff. and he sent six deputies
to the scene. He will swear in forty
more tomorrow morning. The police
have the entire yards to guard. and the
entire force has been called out.
At I O'Clocx
fire had broken out in three places in
the Lehigh yards again. The fire de-
partment seems unable to quench it.
The Erie's New York Express No. is |
held two miles out because it cannot |
pass. The New York Express No. 4 |
has not been sent out for the same rea-
son.
BUFFALO, 2 a. m.-Wori has been |
received that train on the Erie road |
filed with merchandise is now burning |
fiercely with no protection.
At the same time the switch lights OF |
the Erie. between Smith street and the |
Western New York q Pennsylvania |
yard, have been stolen. It is impossible |
to tell how the switches were set. |
Superintendent Brunn has started with |
an engine and two coaches to bring IN |
the passengers from train No. on the |
other side OF the fire.
At2:45 O'Clock the passengers on the |
two trains of the Lehigh and Erie roads |
which had been DELAYED at. Williams |
str eet, near the city limits. were
brought into the station by Supt. |
Brunn's special train. Nobody |
was injured. but the delay |
of four hours had been !
a dreadful experience which none of
them cared 10 repeat. Supt. Brunn re-
ports the fire still raging among cars of
merchandise in the railroad yards at
Cheeklowaga, and says the sheriff seems
p0Werless 10 interfere, though he has