The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-19
THE MILITARY CAMPS.

Where tbs Soldiers Are Located-Poor Food
and Bad Surroundings-S,OO0 Called Out.
BUFFALO, Aug. Ex-Governor Flower. In
response to appeals from the sheriff and
Mayor, to-day. ordered out six thousand
troops in addition to those on the ground
yesterday, making eight thousand in all.
Soldiers kept coming all day and evening,
and still arriving at midnight. Some
Of the regiments are from New York city
and Brooklyn, and their members. though
famous for dress parades and fancy balls,
are we'll discip lined, and will undoubtedly
fight if necessary. The militia are not
here for . summer outing or picnic. as
many have already found out Yesterday
there was hardship seldom experienced by
troops in open war. The meals were wide
apart. and, as the ambulance record proves,
The heat and other trials Frustrated some.
Some had contracted colds sleeping with
put shelter upon the rocks in. the lower
yards, W hero Door Elsaeer was shot, through
accident, yesterday. and even to the rug
Redest the location and surrounding of the
military headquarters at William street
ytation is trying In the extreme. Here Is q
picture of the affected district whore the
military is located:
i
Of its forks looking up towards the city,
dive miles away. and with its stem trailing
of eastward The right-hand fork Is the
main line tracks of the Erie. over which
Lehigh Valley roads leave and en.er the
rity. The left-hand fork is the Lehigh and
the Erie entrance to tho fast-freight yards,
where part of the trouble 10. The stem of
the 10 the Eric main line eastward. Over
this figure. at the junction of the stem and
the two forks. 10 q b Oh trcstlc bridge of iron,
said TO have cost 100000, and belonging
60 the Delaware, LackawannA q Western,
which conceded the demands of the switch
men. Upon this high trcstle tho strikers
have roasted by day and watched the
yards and booted the troops, and at night,
In the darkness of such an elev alton, they
have used the trestle as vantage spot for
more earnest attentions than go with
jeers and hooting. mile away on the
right are tho New York Central tracks.
Straight out of the city and along the outer
edge of the right fork of the Y. William
street leads down and crosses the Erie and
forks and stem. William street 10 SCANNED,
too. at that point by the iron trestle of the
LackawAnna road.
GENERAL DoYLE's HEADQUARTERS.
Close down In the acute angle of the
figure is the William street station of the
Erie road, and this little lsad-cOlored hut
of one story has been possessed by General
Peter G. Doyle. commanding the troops. as
his headquarters. The station building
rambles rearward enough to give tho Gen.
eral q room, which he calls his office. where
he sits at square table and receives re-
ports and issues orders. Next to the COM
manders little den is the headquarters of
the ambulance corps Hero is display of
drugs and instruments, and surgeons are
always In attendance. This fact 10 evi.
denoed to outsiders by the standard of the
ambulance corps. nailed to staff, that IS
stuck In the soil beside tho headQuarters
building. And the fiutter of the W bite fiag
with its scarlet maltese cross 10 . tribe sig
nitcant to those who know its meaning
and reflect upon the possibilities of the
situation.
In o little hole opening from the surgeons
headquarters is fixed q telephone that is
constantly in use. Opening from the doc
tors apartment Is q passage to little We.
randa platform. In one angle OF this is an
+. osken barrel with a wooden cover that is
lifted with . elect. In this barrel is Ice
water. and constantly. while there are no
applications for Its contents, private sits
upon the barrels cover and holds it down
firmly. Whyf Because it is feared poison
may be thrown into the water. Indeed.
there Was rumor last night that the
water had been poisoned, and tho close
watching of il was the result. This rnmor
could not be verified. but the private sat
cover. Near by, in box car. is the police
headquarters for the strike district. where
Sergeant Lynch waits in readiness with q
score OF men for action. A ditch lies along
the edge of William street and 10 crossed
by all the tracks. The ditch IS an open
sewer. and. besides other refuse. it carries
with it's sluggish tide the drainage from
fat-rendering establishment that smells
horribly. Directly in line with the fat
rendering abomination 10 the establish
ment where the garbage of Buffalo is de-
stroyed. DwelIers thcreabouts say the
garbaRe-mill 10 odorless. bnt they speak
relatively. The fat-boling-w works ont
smell all smells. even that Of tho open
sewer. to which IL contributes, and the gar
bage-mill subsidies as to it's offensivcness
by comparison.
Out In o field. abreast head quarters, is q
goodly tent under which officers and such
men as could, found shelter. This was tho
only shelter for men of duty, who were
chiefly huddIed along the SIDES OF a
ditch, that lies In the utmost anglo of the
two forks Of the Y. Tho rattons Yes2nndaY