The morning call., 1894-07-04
through and suburban passenger train
service will be resumed as usual to-mor-
row.
POUR IN THE LAKES.
Marine Engineers Ready to Join the
Strikers.


CHICAGO. July 3-With this mornings s
dawn opened what was expected to be
day fraught with exciting events bebttlng
the climax of the contest between the great
combatants in the great Pullman ana
A. Il. U. strike. Not until the small hours
OF this morning were yesterdays hostlll-
ties suspended, and then for an hour or
two only to await daylight, that they
might be renewed with redOubled ylRor.
All night long from every section west OF
PittsbuFg came reports OF strikes, tieups,
oil efforts by the roads aided by municipal.
State and Federal fficers, to start moving
the clogged wheels of commerce ana Oh
determined resistance TO such action on
the part of the strikers and their sym
pathiZers.
Interest centered principally on Blue ISL
and. This town is eighteen miles out OF
Chicago. where traffic on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific is effectuaily tied
up, despite the fact that several United
States Deputy MarshaIs are on hand. they
being outnumbered ten to one by the
strikers. who are In anthing but an ami
able frame Of mind. Every legal resource
has been tried in vain, and the United
States Marshals are openly deied.
Even the marine engineers have caught
the infection and stand ready, together
with elevated railway men, to add their
quota to the great army OF selt-nade
idlers. what they expect to accomplish
or what assistance they expect in COM
pelling Pullman TO submit the differences
between himself and his late employees to
arbitration is not clear.
Land and water ara to join hands In
the strike. deputation OF marine en-
gineers visited Uhlch's Hall last night
and stated that the local union here had
resolved not to handle pound OF freight
hauled by any one of the b0ycOtt-d roads.
He said he had been authorized to give
this information by Thomas F. Dowd,
president of the local union. This is the
first offer to pour the lakes into the con-
troversy, and the union will probably avail
itself of it to suspend freight business ard
involve the shipping on the lakes. The
marine engineers are United States eX-
amined and licensed men. and If they 20
out their places cannot be supplied. The
Railway Union is much elated over their
accession.
The grievance committee of the en-
ployes Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railroad was in session last evening
and were visited by a large number of
men. employees of the road. There is no
strike on the Milwaukee road" said
Chirman DurbiD, NOR will there be one
until it is ordered by this committee. A
year ago we had strike all to ourselves
and gained what we demanded. Since
then we have maintained our road fedora
ton, composed of the lodges of the regu-
lar organization. We think we are fully
able 10 attend to our part of the business"
The Pullman boycott is gradually spread
ing. The Burlington. which employs non-
union men, is about the only Chicago road
not affected. The Chicago and North
western, which, up to last night had
escaped, is completely tied up to-day. Its
suburban traffic is very heavy and great
inconvenience results from the stoppage of
this branch of business.
The Illinois Central, Erie, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul and Great Western all report
like condition. A general tie-up at De-
troit to-day stops the Michigan Southern
and Michigan Central effectually. The
Western Indiana terminal, over which
the Grand Trunk. Chicago and Erie, Wa
bash, Eastern Illinois, Santa Fe and
Monon roads enter the city, was handling
passenger trains with reasonable degree
of efficiency ur to last night. To-day all
these roads are again In trouble. The
new difficulty is presented by the refusal
of engineers and iremen to risk their lives
by working with green hands, and the
railway managers themselves are not anx-
inus for fighting. They are exceedingly
fearful of precipitating battle on the
Fourth of July, and will make no
serious effort to move trains before
Thursday morning They also say
the suspension Of business at this time is
not unmixed with evil. "We know per
fectly well the freight is in the country
and must move sooner or later" said one
Of the managers to-day, "and we shall
ultimately get our share. 1t will not be
long before the Inconvenience resulting
from this suspension will be keenly felt
everywhere, and then we believe public
sentiment will be a great factor in the ex-
tlncton of Debs and his people,"
To-day for the first time in the history
of The livestock trade in Chicago not a
single carload of animals reached the Union
stockyards by rail. Absolutely the only
livestock received was bunch of thir-
Teen hogs that came in wagon. Thou
sands of the pack g-house employees and
other workmen of the packing town were
made idle.
Great anxiety was caused to-day among
the railroad officials by the theft of
powder at Lansing. The fact that to-
morrow is a holiday, allowing the ranks
of the strikers to be re-enforced by thou
sands of workmen who are at work to-
Gay, gives the situation q serious aspect,
and the mystery which surrounds tile
disposition of the stolen powder adds
gravity to the theft.
Deputy Sheriff Spears at Roseland tele-
phones to the Sheriff's office that ia his
opinion the stealing of the powder at
Lansing was for the purpose of blowing
up the bridges at those points to prevent
the arrival of the deputies.
most sweeping order was telegraphed
over the entire Northwestern system to-
10000 men. 1t is intended to strike from
the payroll during the continuance of the
strike every man who is not absolutely
necessary for the dispatch of what busi-
ness the company may be able to handle.
The strike has practically killed all ac-
tion in the railroad offices. and every road
running into Chicago is making large re-
ductions in its office force. Nearly all the
employees in the freight departments have
been laid off, and more discharges will fol-
low II the trouble is not over by Thurs