Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-08-24
DAY OF EXCITEMENT.
No Union Switchmen
Working at Buffalo,
STRIKERS ARE FIRED UPON.
A Soldier Arrested But General Doyle
Promptly Shows His Authority.

CLEVELAND. Aug ,a-Chief Arthur Of
the Locomotive Engineers has returned
from Canada. He expressed the opinion
that the Engineers Brotherhood will not
Interfere In the Buffalo strike. AIR.
Arthur will not 20 to RufAe
BUFFAJo. Ans sA-ts "cruel wan"
as II l. now called by the soldiers ana the
newspaper correspondents. is still 10 evt
dence. The events Of tho day. while not
altering the situation. which Ia the fail
urc u tho swttchmen's strike. have been
more numerous and exciting than for sev-
er.l days. and the military authorities
and the correspondents sre busy enough.
The latter have more than suerilla-like In
cidents u tho several days past TO write
about On tho side of tho strikers the
material events q the day have been the
accession ts the ranks of the switchmen
of the Delaware. LsokawannA and West
ern and the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg, which completes the sls-up. II
such IL may he called. a I'll the roads
centerina In Buffalo
The men Of the LATTER road. who quit
work late In the afternoon. arc not numep-
Gus and their action does not cut any
figure, az the road tsrminetes 10 Buffalo
on the tracks controlled by the Buffalo
Crevk Terrnfpal company. whose men
were already out Its only signiicancs Hes
In the fact that the Rochester and Pitts
burg is the great soft-coal centre for this
and the up-lakes territory; and with 10 In
the strike all the GOAL roads centering ss
the port OF Buffalo are involved.
The Lachswauua Addition
TO the involved roads II Of more irn-
portsn9e, as ITS tracks and trestles are
numerous, and will have TO have proteo
ton IL there Ia a continuance OF the tie-up.
All reports 10 tho contrary, there have
been but two cases where strikers o.
inischief-mskers have been actually bit
when shot by the tvoopa Late yester-
day afternoon, however,. the Twenty
second regiment, stationed a. the Tift
farm, where tbs Lehigh Valley docks ara
located, had n brush with strikers. one OF
whom wss shot aud 90 badly wounded by
soldier thae hs b likely no die. The
affair grew onk of assaults ou nou- union
swi,chmen and several arrests were made
The soldier who did tho shooting went
with the police 10 make stntemcnt aud
was himself made prisoner. As may he
Imagined. Colonel Camp was not long IN
making IL evident that the rwenty-second
regiment did not relish such treatment by
the civil authorities. and when General
Doyle told im IN take al the men he
wanted TO rccnpture his soldier and take
possession Of police headquarters II neces
sary the order was obeyed with alacrity
and things
Looked Decidedly Interesting
A larye-sised Incident was spoiled, how
ever, when the police released the soldier
before his comrades came To rescue him.
The fact thse there h nos more trouble
by reason Of annoyances and tauuts TO
which the soldiers ave subjected, b wor-
thy OF remark. Rumorv as 70 the reten-
tiou and withdrawal Of the troops are
more than numerous, and IN Q talk With
Adjntant Geneval Portep. the United
Press was authorized b say that he pro-
poses to retain the present force here uD-
I'll 10 Is fully evident that the city author
tiles can protect property and Hives h q
proper nlHnnev This conclusion has
been renched after AN almost thorough
insp-ct ~ ~ ,hs situations and the sta
tion, o' he troops. IL may be assumed
tina, the mon will all be here until the
close o. the week ae least unless the
strike is i", ,arei off,
Reports thrt the local hremeu have do.
cided o s,rika and have made their wishes
know to General Masto< Sargent re-
ques, ug ':ir 10 take their view of the
case ln ihc Conference are not yea traced
To any .ligble source.