Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-22
LIKE A LOST CAUSE.
The Way Things Look in the
Buffalo Strike,
TRAINS MOVING ATA THE YARDS

The New Hands Getting the Hang of the
Switches and Much Improvement Mo-
ted-Sherif Beck Takes New Grip on
Resolution and Says the Troops Will
stay-Dastardly Attempt of Some Mis-
creants to Wreck Passenger Train
Turbulence at the Yards-No Firem ems
Strike LikeIy-At Coal Creek-Attemp pit
to Lynch Bud Lindsay.
BUFFALO, Aug 22-Freight traffic was
resumed with vengeance by all the roads
yesterday and the officials of all the lines
gave out the most encouraging reports
last night. As the green hands are being
broken slowly the work in the different
yards improves and inside three or four
days at least the outlook for the freight
blockade being removed is decidedly prom
ising. The Erie is no longer crippled.
Superintendent Brunn told United
Press reporter last night that his road
has sent out thirteen full freight trains
during the day besides opening up the
Black Rock Suspension Bridge yards. No
work was done at Suspension Bridge or
Black Rock last night. Mr.. Brunn de-
clares that those yards are not sufficient
ly protected to work in them at night
as vet.
Not Enough Troops on the CIR ound.
"Mr. Brunn," the United Press man
asked, "do you think it safe for the
troops to be removed as-yet?"
Il do not; decidedly not. There are not
enough here as it is. If the troops were
sent back at this juncture acts of lawless-
ness would occur that would shock the
people of this state Even with the troops
here there is trouble occurring every day
and night. The attempt last night 10
wreck the Erie express with go passen-
gers on board was dastardly piece of
work / am making an investigation
now and l am satisfied strikers were re-
sponsible for that work. We shall begin
tomorrow loading ocr grain cars and in
day or so our elevators will be relieved Of
their blockade.S
All the Roads Show Improvement.
The Central no longer feels the effect of
the strike as far its road is concerned.
Yesterday they had a full force of switch
men at work The new eastern hands are
turning out remarkably well, but those
from the west are failures, with few ex-
ceptions. Freight trains in the big East
Buffalo yards were being sent out regu-
larly. The Black Rock and Niagara Falls
yards are open, too, while the Ohio street
yards, where the grain trains are made up,
were being cleared Up rapidly. General
last night that the Lake Shore sent 420
cars to the Central yesterday. This is the
most the Lake Shore has turned over since
the strike began week ago There is a
marked improvement in the Lake Shore,
West Shore, and Nickel Plate and Lehigh
Valley yards also.
New Men Learning sie Ropes.
The new men are being broken in rap
idly, and as they become acquainted with
the tracks and switches their work i'm
proves considerably. All the yards did a
good days work and most of the roads
have resumed their night freight service.
The Lehigh, Lake Shore, Nickel Plate,
and West Shore sent out few trains last
night. Troops were on top of every car
and there was no molestation from the
strikers or their sympathizers up to late
hour.
As to the Firemen.
There does not appear to be a strong
probability of the locomotive firemen going
out as a body, even if some of the local
men sympathiZing with the striking
switchmen shou!d take it into their heads
to leave their engines. One member of
the order, high in autL ority, told
United Press reporter: 1--WE have no
grievance at all and as our men are gen
orally well satisfied l do not conside. a
strike at all probable or likely, unless the
engineers should go out, which is not ap-
preh ended"