The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-12-05
Engineers and Firemen are
Stoned by Mobs Of
Angry Men.
The State Authorities Seem
Slow in Furnishing
the Company
Protection.

morning by engineers who say unani-
mouSlv that it is absolutely unsafe to
run an engine on the Wyoming di-
vision. They are mostly good repre-
septatiyes of the American skillful
mechanic, but thew say that they are
not candidates for the morgue and
they want to quit. The freight and
coal service that promised well on
Saturday is broken worse than ever
To-day there are engineers and fire
men enough here to man every train,
but they insist upon protection, they
not only being afraid Of being stoned
to death, but they also report that
their engines are switched of the track
and that distractions are placed on
frogs and near switches. There are
five engineers this morning who are
suffering from
BRUISES ON HEAD, FACE AND BODY.
1t is a miracle how those men es-
capped yesterday with their lives at
Sugar Notsch, three miles below here
and outside the city limits. Crews
gathered about engines and hurled
most vile epithets at the crews aud
threw rocks of all sizes from the size
of hens eggs to the size of bricks.
Engineers say they were warned al
Sugar Notsch last night that if they
ever came through there again on en-
gines they would be carried back
to Wilkesbarre on stretch
er. Engineer Harry Herrick,
who was reported to have
run into coal train at Sugar NOtsch
crossing last night, swears to-day that
the coal train was purposely pushed
into him and that not man could be
seen on the coming train. Engineers
also say that as soon as the trains
were stopped crowd got on board
and uncoupled the ears and threw the
coupling-pins away.
SOME UGLY DEVELOPMENTS
arc expected to-day. for the authori-
ties seem slow in giving protection.
Reports are poured into the ears
of men at work that there are
hundreds of miners ready to
swing in and commit deeds Of.
violence Threats are fying about
thick and fast and unless the authori-
ties can cope with disorders in the
next twenty-four hours there viii be
no engineers or firemen TO run freights
of coal. At the round house in North
Wilkesharre, this morning, are ten
engines with ear windows smashed ont
and in some cases entire frame works
of cars demolished. As soon rs new
engineers get off their engines to go
into the restaurant they are sur
rounded by
CROWDS OF STRIKERS
and urged to 90 out Of town. An
old New York Central engineer said
to Superintendent Esser this morning
that he had been through three strikes
and that he was not TO be easily
frightened, but that he had been
threatened, his ear had been smashed
over his head at Sugar Notch and he
had been obliged to run for his life on
his arrival at Chare's restaurant; that
here he was surrounded by a dozen
strikers who kept around him while
he was eating and would no! leave
him he says the mob would not let
him put his engine in round house ia
BILE at North WIlkesbarre ana he could
not take it into the round house.
The company will try to-day to put
fifty deputies at Sugar Notsch and
guard every switch and every rail, if
necessary, but they are discouraged
because the authorities do not yield
to their demand for protection. De
tective OBrien, chief of the COM
pany's service, Is now in consultation
with Sheriff Walters.
Fifteen Lehigh valley collieries