Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-07


Central pledged themselves to obey
cal to strike whenever issued. A re-
quest for cooperation was sent out to
them from headquarters this evening,
and it was announced that beginning
tomorrow the orders would refuse to
handle trains with Pullman cars or
operated by substitutes. Included in
later meeting of Illinois Central en-
| ployes We're the suburban trainmen,
and 1t was announced at headquarters
that strike was Immediately inaugu-
rated.
The engineers on the Chicago &
Northwestern also held IA meeting to-
dayto discuss the cases of the four en-
gineers discharged for carrying the
strikers committee through the yards,
1t was decided to make demand for
their reinstatement, and to strike in
case the demand was not acceded to-
sstvo hundred brakemen on the roads
out of the Polk-street station and 200
engineers and fremen on the Chicago
| Great Western were either made mem
bers of the union or affiliated this
afternoon and all Immediately joined
the ranks of the strikers. In addition
at the Polk-street station twenty bag
gagemen walked out in sympathy with
the union men. Seventy coach clean
ers on the Santa Fe, including four
women, also struck this afternoon.
Two hundred and fifty engineers
met at Twelfth street and Ogden ave-
nue. this afternoon and agreed to sup
port the strikers by refusing TO work
with substitutes. They represent four
or five roads.
The Fort Wayne is suffering but at
one point in it's yards, although the
strike has been declared in effect for
twenty-four hours past. At Sixteenth
street to-day the men were out, but at
other points orders were not received
until tonight The same is true of the
Rock Island, Burlington and other
roads which are reported as tied up,
when only three or four crews were
notified to quit, and the others were
kept waiting for orders from union
headquarters.
So far the police have had little or
no trouble in keeping the peace. The
strikers as rule have been orderly
and well-behaved. In two or three in
stances individual combats have oc-
Cured, but nothing approaching a riot
has been started. Squads of police.
men guard all important points in the
yards and at the stations and large
numbers of railroad special officers are
constantly patrolling the tracks.
The Monon yards were tied up this
afternoon, all yardmen, train and sig
nal men quitting work. The signal
men and switch tenders on the Bur-
lington quit at 2:30 o'clock without or
ders The coach cleaners and car re-
pairers on the Chicago & Northern Pa
cific who returned to work this morn.
ing were again induced to strike late
this afternoon.
A mob of 1000 people, composed OF
strikers and their sympathizers
stopped the New York and Chicago
limited, on the Chicago & Erie road
near the state line at Hammond, Ind.
at $40 this evening and compelled the
crew to sidetracll the two Pullman
sleepers carried by the train. The
limited was due there at $3.50 and the
crowd which had gathered by thai
time, waited patiently until its arriva
at $40. their purpose being to prevent
the passage of any Pullman cars
through that place. The train was
stopped as soon as it had crossed the
state line.
The Pullman cars were next to the
: engine. The leaders of the crowd or
dered the crew to detach the Pullmans
! from the rest of the train, and the en-.
gineer was compelled to haul then
about $50 feet. to siding, where the
engine was uncoupled, and the Pull
man cars were pushed onto the siding
by the crowd. Then the crew was
notified that they might proceed will
the rest of the train, but at II O'Clock
no such move had been made.
The sheriff was on hand with twenty
deputies, but he was powerless to pro
tect the train Tonight he wired Gov
Matthews for troops to prevent inter
ference with the operation of the
, roads. No reply has yet been received
The whole town is in sympathy with
the strikers. and denOunce the sheriff
action.