The Portland daily press., 1892-08-19

lie j. ESIDA IVA AOAoAS1AN0s II
street crossing about midnight became
| SO boisterous and unruly that they were
| charged on by company OF soldiers.
| They were routed but not before q
number of them had received bayonet
| wounds.
Breaking the Blockade.
BUFFALO, August 18.-The New York
Central road has begnn to break. the
blockade and trains are being moved to
day under the protection of soldiers. /
The Central has 100 new men in it's
yards. They sleep and eat in one of the
repair shops.
The strikers stand about in groups
watching the movements OF trains but
| attempting no disturbance.
Another Great Line Tied Up.
BUFFALO, August 18,-The western
connection of the Central & West. Shore
| is tied up as far as the freight traffic is
| concerned. The strike seems to be cpl
demic and there is no telling how fast or
| how far it will spread. Yesterday the
switchmen on the Central & West Shore
struck. There was strike in the west
| bound yards of the Lake Shore at East
Buffalo early this morning. Two trains
of the Central freight were delivered to
| Lake Shore by the New York Central,
| and two yard crews at work in the yard
refused to handle it. The men at once
ordered to be discharged and their en-
gines were turned into the round house.
The news quickly travelled to Hamburg,
Elk and Scott street yards. In a short
| time every member of seven crews con-
| stituting the night force quit work. The
other five engines were taken to the
round house by the engineers and their
fires dumped. By two o'clock not a
wheel was being turned in any of the
three yards of the company. When the
day men put in an appearance they were
promptly notified of what occurred. 1t
seemed to meet their unqualified APP
proval and they all went home without
reporting to the supervisors.
Spreading Proportions of the Strike.
BUFFALO, August 1S.-Advices from
the yards at 8 p. m. say the impression
is, growing hourly that the fremen and
engineers will soon go out. The soldiers
say the engineers give them as much
trouble as the strikers and annoy them
in every possible way Colonel WEIGH
says that the whole state militia could
not cover the territory to be guarded any
too well.
A General Strike Threatened.
BUFFALO, August 49, As the situation
now stands there will be general strike
involving engineers, firemen, conductors
and trainmen on the Lehigh, Erie Central,
West Shore and Lake Shore by Saturday
or Sunday or the strike will be regarded
as fiat failure. The grand officers of II
unions are either in this city or within
easy call. The meeting of firemen to-
morrow evening will be one of the most
important events of the strike. If the
firemen conclude to go out it will be on
lines on which switchmen are out. Train
men will hold a meeting sometime be-
tween now and tomorrow evening and
will doubtless act in conjunction with
the firemen. The conductors are known
to be in touch with the other three
organizations. If the climax is reached
they will work in harmony with them.
M Strikers willing to Arbitrate.
& BTFFALo, N. Y August 1S.-At the
conference yesterday Between the state
baard of arbitration and attorneys of the
New York Central and Lehigh Valley
systems, the board was unable to obtain
any definite answer from them as to
whether the companies would submit
the trouble with their workmen to arbi-
tration. The attorneys said they had no
authority to answer. Today the board
decided to address a letter to the chief
officials of the roads involved in the
strike, in which they said the board had
held conferences with Mr.. Sweeney,
grand master of the switchmen's organi-
cation, and representive switchmen of
the several roads, who expressed their
willingness to agree to settlement of
the controversy by arbitration, either by
the state board or any three disinterested
persons who may be designated. The
board wishes to ascertain whether the
corporations concerned will consent to
adjustment of the difficulties by such ar
bitration. The corporations refuse.
Two men have been arrested for try
ing to ditch the fast mail train.
The Nickel Plate switchmen have
struck.