Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-20
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
SITUATION At BUFFALO.
Strike on the Grand Trunk
Expected. !.
miners Defeated At COAL Greek.
The Town Under Military
Control. :
The HOT WAVE REACHES EUROPE.
Close of the Grand Circuit
at Springfield.
The HOT WAVE REACHES EUROPE.
mUrTRRINGs OF. A STRIKE

MUTTERINGs OF. A STRIKE
On the Grand Trunk and other
Roads-Fears That 1t VIII Extend
tost Louis - Enough Men in the
Several Yards to Man All the Switch
Engines-To.Day VIII Lik oily be De-
cistve of Defeat or Victory Chief
Arthur Summoned to Budalo-Citi.
gems Want the Troops Withdrawn.
BUFFALO, Aug. 19.-Autteringa have
been heard all day among the Grand Trunk
switchmen who Cross the International
bridge with trains of freight for eastern
connections. Most Of the men are Cana
,aians. One hundred cara of Erie freight
lire standing in the Grand Trunk yards at
Victoria and Amagaria. The company re-
,seived them, but the switchmen refused to
handle them.
No effort was made to force the switch
men to handle the freight. It can now be
men on the Lehigh, Erie, Lake Shore,
West Shore and Central roads will go out
! between o'clock tomorrow evening aud
Sunday morning. The members of the
brotherhoods on the above roads and pos
sibly the telegraphers will follow the fire.
men. This strike will be the outcome of q
secret meeting of five local lodges of fire.
men held tonight.
NAY EXTEND TO ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 19.-The switch
men in the Big Four yards are uneasy.
The Big Four is the only one of the Van
derbilt's reaching st. Louis. One switch
man said this afternoon that the men were
all ready to go out as soon as the word was
given and tie up every eastern road enter
ing st. Louis.
THE SITUATION.
BUFFALO, Aug. 19.-Csreful inquiry
through the strike districts today has
demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that
the railroads have enough men available
when the tied-up roads are again in opera
ton In theCentral yards personal observa-
ton leads to conclusions opposed to the
strikers statements that the new men are
restrained of their liberty. The Lake Shore
has enough men in its yards to night to
manage the usual number of switching en-
gines. The Erie to-day moved five trains
with ten switching crews and it has in
quarters more than the normal number of
men employees in sending out the Erie's
daily quota east
The Central road is tonight moving traf-
6c in its yards for the first time since the
strike began. The Lehigh road has in one
of Its roundhouses mon suRcient, the
officials assert, to move its traffic under
protection, and the Nickel Plate IL possibly
the only road affected which may not have
! secured new help. If the roads are not alb
solutely crippled the volume of traffic
| moved tomorrow must prove that fact.
The only trunk line uninterruptedly carry
ing, freight eastward is the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western. The Lake Shore il
| clogged and the Grand Trunk Is threatened
with q strike. The Michigan Central il
involved like the Lake Shore In the for
/ Of to-morrow's efforts to move freight
| freely is now to be relied upon for east
ward carrying of traffic. Tho importance
of what the men upon the Lackawanna will
| conclude to do as to sympathetic strike
| il obvious.
SWEENEY WANTS TO ARBITRATR.
Master Workman Sweeney this evening
addressed to officials of the tied up roads
i letter reciting the history of the demands
of the switchmen for ten hours work at
previous rates for overtime, and the right
of appeal of the discharged or suspended
switchmen to higher authority. He then
proposed arbitration of the differences be.
tween the roads and the men by three per-
sons, one each to be chosen by either side
poses that pending the final conclusions of
the committee on settlement the
switchmen who prior to Au-
gust 10 were employed on the
road and such other employees as have been
discharged on account of their refusal to
do switchmen's work be permitted to re-
sumo their former employment. The Lake
Shores response to Mr.. Sweeney's letter
contradicts many of his statements in re-
gard to the company's action towards its
men, and closes without . definite state
ment as to what course would be taken by
the company.
sour records show" said Grand Master
Sweeney to day, "that over 700 non union
men have been brought into the city dur
ing the strike. We have sent some away,
| some have gone away themselves, We sup
pose the others are held prisoners by the
militia stationed in yards and at the Erie
chops, for they are not working in the
yards"
STRIKE OVER ON THE CENTRAL.
Mr.. Webb, of the New York Central,
said tonight: "We have been handling
freight at all points. We have hired some
new men and have taken back some Of the
old men who have felt treasured. We
have full night and day forces at every
point and are doing as large business al
we did month ago with the single excep
ton of our interchange with the Lake
Shore, which is taking but few cars. II
the next twenty four hours We shall senc
out probably I 200 to ]. 400 cars. So fal
as the New York Central is concerned tn
strike is entirely over"
t /. At the Seneca street crossing to-day
: In
bring the fret string of freight from Obi
street to East Buffalo under protection
was stoned. He was not seriously injured
. No arrests were made and the eoidiers die
not fire.
EMPLOYEES PAID OFT.
BUFFALO, Aug. 19.-The Erie compan.
yesterday ran its pay car from the cas-
l. into the yards at Louisiana street. Evi
e IDENTIFY the strikers had been notified t
report there for their pay and discharge
The men gathered without demonstratio
about the car, being held away some dis
- tance by 200 soldiers who surrounded II
A passageway was made by two lines 9
soldiers and through this the men pas.e
II to the pay window, where they receive
y their envelopes in silence and turne
I away. The Lehigh pay car rolled up
r. the station at William street this atte
Is noon. where the strikers were WAITING
a The car was surrounded by troops and Il
men were admitted to receive their pa,
The Lackawanna also paid off its employ
to-day.
y THE STRIKER STRUCK.
At 6 o'clock tonight q Lake Shore e.
n CINE with crew of men was switchir
sms cars of perishable property. Switchm,
r. Albert L. Bowen was on top of car.
III striking switchman climbed on top of u
car and attacked Bowen. Officer Mattist
- started to the rescue. Before he reach,
the car Bowen had driven the striker o,
~. Bowen received a severe cut on the hea
dy but remained at his post. Afterwa
nd Bowen had occasion to leave the train, VIII
IN he was set upon by q mob. Office
rescued Bowen after the latter had receiv
severe cuts about the head. Maths
took Bowen to the dining car and to
=: phoned for an ambulance. When t
ambulance arrived DIR. Neal bandag
Bowen's head, and with Officer Maths
started for the ambulance. They b
scarcely left the car when a striker stru
a Bowen vicious blow in the face. OF,
Mattison arrested the assailsnt.
ORDERED TO wAvERLY.
ELMIRA, N. Y, Aug. 19.-An atten
to move trains at Waverly to-day Z
with resistance and the Twentieth Sc
not rata company and Sixth battArv have b,