The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-12-12
The Strike Along the lehigh
Valley Road Officially
Declared OF.
It Came Not Very Much Of q
Surprise to the conse-
gated Strikers.
Nearly All the Old Employees
Will Be Immediately
Reinstated.

WnKEsBARRE, Pa, Dee. g.
[special.] At Lebigh Valley station
this nerning the officials could moi
affirm or deny the report that = salts
factory settlement Of Lehigl VALLEY
strike was imminent. They had
had no notification of such IN out
come, and everything was proceeding
a. it has the past week. The force Of
deputy sherifis on the platform hai
been increased to twelve, and in the
yards the force seemed stronger than
Yesterday. Passenger trains re run.
ming on nearly schedule time. and
through trains from New YGk and
Philadelphia came through LAT night
in better shape than since the strike
began. Confidence of the company
that the adoption of the block ystem
would reduce accidents to a
minimum, seems somewhat rude
ly shaken this morning when,
to add to their discontinue Ofa wreck
of three locomotives at Sugar NDtsch,
last night, there came another bad
smash at Port Bawkley station about
$50 this morning. Three engines
standing near the station were smash-
ed into BY a freight train. the freight
engine and two of the others were
badly damaged, and a few freight
cars left the track. No one was hurt
but the cylinder head of the freight
crushed through the door ofthe depot,
narrowly missing several bystanders.
1t is impossible to find how the acct
dent could have occurred, as the
track is straight tor miles on both
sides of the station. At the strikers
headquarters there is no notification
Of the strike being settled.
The men are all thoroughly interested,
however, and the crowds at headquar-
tiers are unusually large. Strikers
say that four bogus kilograms on the
company's telegraph blanks, signed
by Chief Sargent and others ad-
dressed to the subcommittee saying
the strike il over. Strikers are
incredulus and have telegraphed
Chief John H. Rice for information.
They are pleased At the prospects Of
going to work, but say they will stay
out all winter rather than knuckle
under. Everybody here awaits the dis
closure of arbitration committee ex-
pected to-day. There is . general
Of freight east from Cox
ION to-day and the Lehigh Valley
collieries have received q large mum.
Der of empty cars. Superintendent
Mitchell has gone to Mauch Chunk
this morning and Superintendent
Esser is at Port Bawkley and Coxton.
Several prominent officials left here
for Bethlehem and Philadelphia this
The first authentic information of
he termination of the strike came to
his city by long distance telephone.
precisely at II o'clock today. The
consisted Of a formal mott
ication of the strike being ended.
This was signed by General Manager
Voorb;ss and was accompanied by yes
erday's letter of the board of arbitra-
ion to President Wilbur and his re-
,ly thereto. At the strikers head
quarters the news was announced by
| reporter, but the men refused t7
.redit the story, saying they should
lot he satisfied until they should re-
GIVE telegram from Chairman Rice
n form that he had agreed upon be- |
ore his departure yesterday. This
# itself would indicate that
he men
LAVE BEEN EXPECTING A SETTLEMENT
rom some source. They evinced no
pecial feeling Of jubilation or depres-
ion at the formal announcement.
hough nearly 200 were assembled in
be hall at the time. They found