Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-18

OH strike with probability of 500 or 400
more being added to the number in the
next few hours. The strike on the Cen
trail and West Shore causes much appre-
tension The aim now seems to be a
general tie-up,
The widest rumors prevail as to the
probable outcome of the trouble, which
strikers predict may extend from the
Atlantic to the Pacific unless their de-
mands are accedeo to.
An enormous amount of traffic will
be tied up by this strike, as it will no
doubt involve the Lake Shore roads and
perhaps all the lines in Buffalo.
Up to midnight the situation was not
ominous. Only two arrests had been
made of strikers for rioting and in one
instance twenty five policemen succeeded
in dispensing body of 200 destruction
lists. But as the strikers grow in num-
bers more outbreaks are feared.
With trouble at Sayre, Hornellsville
and Binghampton and prospective strikes
at Waverly, Jersey City and other points
the handling of freight by the men i'm
ported to take the places of strikers must
necessarily be impeded and it is not easy
to foresee the outcome should the diff
Guilty extend, rs the strikers affirm il
will, from state to state.
The strike on the Central was ordered
by the switchmen's union. The griev-
ance committee of the New York Cen
trail waited on General Superintendent
Voorhees, Tuesday afternoon for final
answer to their demands. Mr.. Voorhees,
declined to grant them, and Tuesday
night the climax came. The committee
met at Kaiser's hall and decided to
strike. The committee continued in
session until late hour, but about 8
o'clock the order was sent to the various
yards OF the company at Black Rock,
Suspension Bridge and Niagara Falls,
to stop work at midnight
The order to the two latter places was
not expected to go into effect until
o'clock Wednesday morning, when the
messengers would arrive from Buffalo.
The switcmen in the yards in this city
were also ordered to go out at midnight.
1t was understood that the order will
not for the present affect passenger
train service, but may at any moment.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western switchmen have plainly been
in sympathy with the striking brethren
of the Lehigh and the Erie, and they
will not probably remain long at work
handling freight for the other lines.
The strike is extending and may be far
reaching in its consequences and dis
astrous to the business community. The
Centrafs yards are of vast extent and in
three different sections of the city.
Three-Fourths Favored a Strike.
The New York Central's yards here
passed through a strike two years ago.
The company defeated the men, filling
the yards with non-union men 1t was
not believed that the union could again
get stronghold in the yards, but COM
mittees have been at work for many
months preparing for a strike. A vote
was taken in the yards week ago and
resulted in three-fourths of the men
agreeing to strike for the ten-hour sys-
tenn if necessary. The action of Tues.
day night was the result of the ballot.
The company employs about twenty-five
day engines and something over dozen
night engines, each having q switching
crew of three men besides the engineers
and firemen, making total of about 12i
men in switching service in the yards.
BIooknded Business.
The strike on the Central and West
Shore will very nearly blockade business
on the lakes, so far as Buffalo A. con
cerned. Already the shipments of coal
have about stopped, The average move
ment has been about two cargoes day
since Friday. Already the northwestern
flour agencies are containing that they