Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-17

Locomotive Firemen held its regular |
meeting last night behind closed doors
Superintendent Fennell, of the Lehigh !
Valley. stated last night that for the |
present the company viii pay particular
attention to the lake freight business. |
1--WE will soon be in good shape to handle
our business" said Mr. Fennell, "as we
have sixty men in East Buffalo now ready
TO go to work.
Superintendent Brunn, of the Erie
expressed himself as satisfied that every
thing viii be running smoothly today,
although the company win not attempt
to do any night work while the strike
lasts.
Word from Philadelphia was received
last night that President Mcleod was
prepared to send on all the men needed
as soon as he was assured of proper pro
lection This he will get for General
DOYLE has ordered all of the Fourth
Brigade to report to him here today.
Representatives of all the roads went
before Judge Green late yesterday and
represented that their property was not
sufficiently guarded by the troops
called out by the sheriff. The Judge
granted an order to General Doyle who
at once issued a general order calling out
the entire Fourth Brigade
The Fourth Brigade comprises fifteen
separate companies from different points
between here and Syracuse This brings
an additional force of ], ,l4O men on the
scene today, making a total of about
/ .. 200 men under arms here. These com
panies viii be armed and equipped sim
/ ilarlv to the Goth and. 74th The Fifth
Battery. however. will leave its guns
/ behind and the men will be armed with
/ sabres and pistols. Some of these COM
panies started for Buffalo this morning
William Purcell of Rochester, chair
man of the state board of mediation and
arbitration. with Messrs Robertson, Of
Troy. and Donovan, of Brooklyn, arrived
here Yesterday to investigate the situa-
ton They had an interview with Gen
eral DOYLE and afterwards called on
Grand Master Sweeney conference
was held last night between the members
of the state board and about a score of
switchmen. together with Grand Master
Sweeney. 1t lasted until nearly mid
night
Today the members of the state board
will confer with the railroad representa-
tives. Commissioner Donovan, at the
close of the meeting, was asked if they
had formed any impression regarding the
situation. He said they could not DO so
until they had heard both sides. The
railroaders. when seen, were full of glee
over the tidings which came from out.
side points where strikes have been
declared, or where men are reported on
the eve cf striking.
The strikers are withdrawing from
the Erie and Lehigh Valley roads, where
the militia are in control to the outside
territory, where they can have things
more their own way and where they can
make much trouble. An instance of this
was given late yesterday afternoon When
a large body of strikers intercepted an
Erie freight at Laylor park near Alder
and stalled it, pulling all the coupling
pins and setting the airbrakes. The
! train was backed to Alden and lay therl
, all night Troops will be sent there to
z day.
But one act of violence occurred during
! the night. II brought out the first sho
of the campaign. At midnight Captain
IT, E. Wood, Company II, Seventy -FouItl
!, Regiment. who with his company wa
guarding the Lackawanna bridge, free
, on a man on a moving freight train whit
threw a stone at him. The stone strucl
p the captain in the leg and he promptl
!. sent shot from his revolver into tn
darkness. but he did not hit the man, 81
far as is known.
, The early hours of the morning passe
! without incident and at 10 o'clock thi
morning all is reported quiet at the seen
% of the trouble.
= A general order was issued iron
. brigade headquarters at 10 o'clock thi
, morning, assigning the troops to pos
! itions. The Sixty-ffth Regiment vii
4 cover the territory between Tiff fart
= and Babcock street junction on tn
Lehigh The Seventy-fourth viii havl
charge of the Lehigh from there into tn
= city. The Thirteenth of jamestown
y Forty second of Niagara Falls, Forty-thir
of Olean and Twenty-ffth of Tonawand
!, are 20 be Joined to the Sixty-fifth. Com
= panies A, B and D have gone to tn
= Lehigh trestle to relieve Captain Bal
\ cock
y There were two fatal accidents in til
A railroad yards last night An unknown
man was struck by a New York Centrl
II engine at Cheektowaga and instantl
- killed, Michael Mccarthy, youn
\, scooper, was run over bya Lehigh Va
&. ley engine and died sool afterward.
& Disposition TO Create Trouble.
There nave arrived so lar lhls mofnN
= about 800 additional troops making l,6'
!, now in camp in the yards of the thr'
= roads. The other companies on the ros
y number 900 men and are expected he
~ momentarily. There is an apparent d
4 =, sire on the part Of the strikers and the
Ai sympathizers to create trouble. They a
pear to be doing everything in the
81 power to bring about a collision betwet
SIS their forces and part Of the militia, aI
n, are leading up to it gradually in order
al throw the blame for the first Of d
e. outbreaks on the military IL
ny impossible TO predict what the day W
m bring forth. The sentries are patrolliI
ey the yards on beats eight to twelve fe
Ih apart. Tents have been ordered TO q
m camp from Albany, and everything inc
lie Gates that the stay of the soldiers W
IN be a long one.
1--WE VIII Do No Destruction"
N. Grand Master Sweeny was seen I'll
es morning and asked what he thought
the calling out of the Fourth Brigad
,iq He replied that the presence Of t
ms. troops was unnecessary to prevent
ire struction of property by switchme
ev 1--WE will do no destruction; we ha
done no destruction; we have pla