The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-26
THE BUFFALO STRIKE.
Grand Master Sweeney Assaulted BY One
of His Followers

~, ". u
the snitchmen's order at midnight last
night officially declared that the strike
had been a failure. Today the ldle men
are irving to get back in their old places.
Some of them will do so. These efforts
and their results and the movement or
non-movement of troops were the features
of today's developments.
A visit WAS made this morning to the
various offices of the railroads on which
the strike occurred. The question was
asked whether the companies would now
reiustate their old men. The reply IN
variably was that the men would not De
taken back lib body Some or them
would not be taken BACK
under any Circumstances and the
others could get back only under the
conditions governing the new men IL
any of them made application for work
the application would be filed and consld-
! cred in due time, the same as the appiI-
! cations of unknown men.
Michael Broderick, II years old, was
| throwing stones at some soldiers thls
| morning. He was ordered to desist, but
continued to throw. Some of the soldiers
started to capture him, but he ran and
would not halt when commanded to do so.
| One of the soldiers fired. The ball entered
! the stomach of the boy, and he was taken
| to the hospital probably fatally wounded.
| The troops have begun to move home
ward Orders were issued at military
| headquarters this morning, the effect OF
which will be TO send home about 800 OF
| the troops.
SWEENEY ASSAULTED.
At ten minutes of IL o'clock, at the cor
ner of Swan and Main streets, crowd OK
switchmen surrounded Master Workmen
| Sweeney, demanding that he declare Il
! strike from New York TO Chicago, Words
ensued and SwitchmanQuInn OF the NIckle
Plate yards struck Mr. Sweeney a blow
knocking him down. Blood flowed in II
stream from Mr.. Sweeney's nose. Quinn
got bis leaders head against telegraph
pole and punched and pounded him until
! pulled away. Great excitement prevailed.
Mr.. Sweeney had his wounds dressed in
| n drug store A number of strikers as
sembed on the sidewalk in front OF the
place and threatened to do further violence
to the grand master. Mr.. Sweeney was
! frightened, and the police dispersed the
crowd. A bitter feeling against Mr..
Sweeney has developed among the late
strikers, who consider that they have been
BETRAYED by him. One of the strikers saId
| that Mr.. Sweeney had given them no
chance to get their places back again. Ii
he had given them an inkllng that he i'll
tended to declare the strike of, the men
| say, they would have had chance TO see
their former employers and make terms
NNo
midnight gave them no chance
DR.. Daniels, who attended Mr.. Sweeney,
who. after leeches had been applied and
his head baudaged, was taken TO his hotel.
says that Mr.. Sweeney sustained cash
one and one-half inches long, severing the
nasal arteries aud that 1t took four
stitches TO close the wound.
THE KICKEEs.
1t is stated vaguely tonight that the mer
who would have had the strike maintained
are holding IA meeting in some hall down
near East Buffalo, and there are sug
geStionS even that these men wish, with
out knowing just how, to open up tht
strike again upon their own responsibility
This. however would require a leader Of
temper and caliber which is believed no
to exist among the dissatisfied men. Feel
ing the Importance of their desire, how
ever, it is felt by many conservative peo
pie herelthat the impulse OF aggression ma!
break out in violence at scattered points
where the thinned out military have tn
lghtest picket lines.
Late this evening a report came from
/ East Buffalo that at the meeting, thos'
present repudiated Mr. Sweeney and de
cided TO ask Mr.. Barrett, who Is next il
authority TO MIR. Sweeney in the switch
mems order to take up their views an'
try and reopen the strike which Mr.
Sweeney last night declared off. Thert
comes along with these statements. also.
, report that among those who are dlsconten
ted there exists doubt as to Mr.. Sweeney
integrity in the settlement OF the strike
The same doubt has been heard expressed
during the day, and it is thought likel,
|, that Quinn, who struck Mr. Sweeney, hat
; ; been tlrst declared by the grand master /,
be "a liar, because OF an inslnuation. If no
a charge. that his tSweeheys ) hands wer
not clean in this aifair. There can be n
warrant. the best informed believe, fo
/. such an intimation against Mr.. Sweeney
= THE ARBITRAToRs.
: The state board of arbitration resumes
+ its inquiry into the causes aud circum
2 stances of the switchmen's strike today
T Mr.. Sweeney stated that he had receives
T AT his home IN Chicago notice rom tn
Buffalo switchmen that the railroads her
5 had notified them thar the men in III
5 future would be worked upon the perhou
Y basis, and requesting his presence. MI
1 Sweeney came and ordered the tormuia
e tion OF grievances aud their presentation
Z This course having failed, Mr. Sweeue
/ visited the railroad mansgers. The Lehig
o and Reading system refused 10 trea
Y with the Switchmenis representatives. Nj
# Sweeney then saw Mr.. Laying OF the WeS
Is Shore, who took a negative position at III
It oytset and maintained il Mr.. Walters c
L the Erie would give no definite reply, an
- .HN- Deli Oi tue western -NeN SEA az
Pennsylvania referred Mr.. Sweeney 10 th
r other officials ot the road. Mr.. Sweene
, was asked TO name the roads where th
- men struck for cause, and he mentionr
e the Lehigh Valley, the Buffalo Greek, 80
n Erie. the Central and the West Shore. III
s. sympathetic strikers, lie said, were froI
the Lake Shore, the Nickel Plate, III
? Western New York and Pennsylvania, tl
is Buffalo, Rochester and PittsOcrg, aud th
= Delaware, l.SckAwaua and Western
ALBANY, y. Y. Aug. 25-Governc