The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-24
SOLDIERS FIRED ON THEM.
Strikers at Buffalo Have Tronble witt
the Military.

the Military.
BUFFALO, Aug. 24.-Yesterday after
noon Thomas ]. Manahar, Thomas
O'Laughlin, Bernard Dunn, Patrick Mad
igan and VIM. Cotter began throwing
stones at two non-union men working
In the Tint farm yard. Lieut.. Austin
and Sergeant Conrow OF Co. c, 22nd regi-
ment, ordered the stone -throwers to dis
perse. They refused to do so and were
fred upon by order of Lieut.. Austin.
Manahar was struck by two bullets. One
took effect on the left elbow, while the
other passed through the abdomen, to
the right of the kidneys. He was taken
to hospital. His condition Is extreme
ly critical.
OIaughlin, Dunn, Madigan and Cot
ter were arrested by the police, charged
with rioting. the private who did the
shooting was also taken in custody by
the police. The officer of the company
protested against the arrest of the private
and informed Gen. Doyle of 1t. Gen.
Doyle ordered a company and q battalion
il needed, to set the soldier at liberty.
Later the soldier was released from ar
rest.
Allen L. Richardson, a non union
switchman. was thrown from the top OF
a box car in the Erie yards by strikers
and badly injured.
Thomas Gable, a nom u nion man work
was
Set Upon by strikers
and badly injured. The injured men
are at the hospital. No arrests have yet
been made in the latter cases.
Throughout the recent strike history,
the Lackawauna men have been showing
their allegiance to the railroad. All their
demands had been granted. Their hours
and pay had been fixed to suit them, be-
ing the hours and rates for which other
switchmen struck. Yesterday q train
load of western freight was shunted from
the Lake freigh hit yards into the Lacka-
wanna yards. A crew there refused to
move this freight and was discharged.
The other men in the yards then quit.
The number OF men who went out 10
126. A Lackawanna official says the
freight which the men objected to
handle was believed by them to be from
the Lshgh. This was MISTAKE as II was
ordinary lake freight. Lackawanna
trains were running as usual an hour af-
ter the strike. Two hours later, for sim
liar reasons, IL is said, the switchmen in
the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg
road went out, adding Is more to the idle
'switchmen.
Grand Master Sweeney is gaining rec
ord for taciturnity. His own lieuten.
ants are in the dark as TO
- What His Policy 10. -
The state board of arbitration attempted
TO learn from the grand master when, II
ever, he was going to order out the
switchmen now working In the jurisdic-
tion affected by the strike. Mr.. Sweeney
practically refused to give the arbitrators
any information. Mr.. Sweencys conduct
in this matter was the subject OF much
gossip about Firemen's hall. The men
all express implicit confidence In the
grand master.
When asked II he took courage from
the striking Of the Western New York
and Pennsylvania railroad men and OF
the Lackawanna men, Mr.. Sweeney re-
piled: at doesn't alter the situation ma
terialiy. / didn't order them out. They
went out OF their own free will. did
not want them to be Blaming me IL the
strike should not prove n success.
Jos. Heimerle, recording secretary and
treasurer OF Buffalo lodge No. 80, Switch
mems Mutual Aid Association and one Of
the leaders OF the switchmen, was ar
rested, charged by the Lehigh Valley
railroad officials with assaulting non
union switchmen. Heimerle denied that
he had been saulting anybody. A re-
volver was found in his pocket. He fur
nished bail and was released.