Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-07-07
HELD THE TRAINS.

| HAMMOND, Ind, June 30.-The Monon
passenger train No Q which left Chi
cago at s:82 Friday night is in the
hands of the strikers. Manned by 14D
of them it came into Hammond at
11:4O. The strikers are in high
spirits. When they heard of the
avowed intention of the Monon
officials to take the train to In
dianapolis If it had to run over the
bodies of 1000 strikers, they held a
meeting and decided to protest. Every
body voted to capture the train. AL
though the train carries mail they
were not at all afraid. When the train
came to the state line at 10:4s it was
signaled to stop. The engineer had
scarcely done so when the crowd SUR
rounded him. Then an engineer took
the place of the regular Monon man,
and while the strikers yelled the
| train went into a switch and then
| pulled slowly into the city. The mob
controlled it. 1t was run down on IL
switch and will be left there until the
strike is ended. 1t carried four sleep
ers, two mail cars, two baggage cars
and four day coaches.
Sheriff Fredericks, of Lake county,
has asked Gov. Matthews to send
troops to Hammond. He says he cam
not protect life and property on the
| railroads. The Western Indiana
| tracks at the state line are
completely blocked. Five passen-
ger trains are standing there, one be-
hind the other. Four of the trains be-
long to the Erie and one to the Monon
road. The first train has been there
since 4:3O Friday afternoon. The pas
sengers are tired and hungry. The
mob which stopped the trains held a
meeting along the tracks at 10 o'clock
and voted to hold the trains till the
strike was settled.
About o'clock Sheriff Fredericks,
with twenty-seven deputies, arrived at
the scene of trouble. He approached
the leaders of the mob and demanded
in the name of the state of Indiana
that they keep the peace. The
men laughed at him and the
women howled. He and his deputies
We're completely surrounded by the
strikers. He saw how utterly fruitless
his efforts were, and after a little
further parleying with the men he re-
treated. Then he wired the governor
that he was unable to keep the peace
and protect the railroads and he asked
for help. Up to midnight he had re-
ceived noreply.
1t is expected here that the governor
will call out the troops. While the
hungry passengers were waiting for
something to happen the fourth Erie
passenger, No 12, which left Chicago
at s:12 p. m. came up. 1t was also
blocked. This was the first train car
rying United States mail. That seem
ingly made no difference to the strik-
ers 1t was held the same as the
others. None of the trains will go on
until the Pullman cars are allowed to
go with them.
After all four Erie trains were
blocked the strikers controlled the
situation. Guards were stationed
about the tracks and no person was
allowed to pass unless he could satisfy
the strikers as to his business.
Three of the strikers were arrested
on the warrants sworn out by Walter
E. Overton, of the Monon. The war
rants were sworn out before United
States Commissioner William A. Van
|
States Marshal Hawkins. The men
arrested are Alexander Shields, presi-
dent of the local branch of the Amer
lean Railway union; Walter IL. St.
John, bill clerk in the Office of the
Michigan Central here, and John r.
Roscoe, an employe of the G. III. Ham
mond Packing company. They
are charged with obstructing and re-
tarding the passage of the United
States mails by stopping train and
seizing an engine attached thereto,
said train being a regular mail train
on the Louisville, New Albany & Chi
cago railway. A special train came
here at 1 a. m. and the prisoners were
taken to Indianapolis.
SPRINGFIEID, ILL.,, June aO.-The COM
panies of the national guard stationed
at Belleville, Carbondale and Olney
are now under arms awaiting orders
to move on Cairo if proper requisition
is made by the sheriff of Alex
ander county.
CAIRO, ILL.,, June 30.-The aspect of
the strike conditions in this city have
not materially changed since Thurs
day, but affairs are in worse condi-
ton, if possible, than before. Ten
mail trains and one local passenger
train are lying idle in the Illinois Cen
trail yards, three tons of United
States mail are detained at the
passenger depot, and through an order
issued by Second Vice President
Harahan all the striking employees of
that road here and at Mounds juno
| tion a miles north numbering about
400, were discharged at 8 p. IN. Thou
sands of dollars worth of perishable
freight is side-tracked, with no pros