St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-28
ELEVEN ROADS TIED UP.
B0Yc0T7 or PULLMAN cA9S IN CHI
CAc0 rs EFFECTIVE.
STRIKERS ARE IN CONTROL.
st. Paul Sleeper of the Chicago
Great Western Cut Off by
Twenty Men In the Chicago
Depot-PO.ice Active i'm Pre-
venting Riots In the Railroad
Yards.


Depot-Po.ice Active in Pre-
venting Riots in the Railroad
Yards.
CHICAGO. June 27.-The employees of
the Chicago Great Western railway went
out tonight, making total of eleven
Chicago roads now tied up or crippled
by the American Railway union boy
colt of Pullman cars. The roads so far
affected by the strike at this point are
the Illinois Central. Santa Fe. Chicago
Great Western. Chicago & Northern
Pacific. Western Indiana, Wisconsin
Central, Chicago Il Eastern Illinois,
Wabash. Grand Trunk. Monon and the
Baltimore & Ohio. On some OF these
roads Pullman cars were still being
carried tonight. but the strike leaders
confidently asserted that tomorrow will
see the boycott completely effective.
The men, who have been leaving slowly
and in small lots, are beginning to show
the effects of the A. Il. U. "niissionary"
work, and tonight the boycott sentiment
was much more general and more APP
parent than at any previous time since
THE STRIKE BEGAN.
An attempt was made this evening to
send out the ST. Paul train on the Chi
cago Great Western with aPullman
sleeper attached. The tram started
out, but when it was found that the
sleeper had been coupled ON trainman
pulled the bell rope. and as the engineer
vprcnH ttl. tro mo q
to the coupling, and in few moments
the train pulled out. leaving the Pull
man in the depot. Crowds of strikers
aud sympathiZers gathered in the rail-
road yards in various portions Of the
city, and the police were kept busy in
preventing threatening riots. Strikers
drove Illinois Central employees from
the yards at Fordham despite the efforts
Of a detail of police. and all additional
force was sent to that point. Later in
the evening large crowd gathered in
the Western Indiana yards at Archer
avenue, and became so threateningly
demonstrative that the police force
there was doubled.
SUBURBAN PASSENGERS
on the Illinois Central South Chicago
branch were the first to feel the effects
OF the tie-up on that road today. Traffic
was blocked, and the company was
compelled to transfer Its patrons from
the branch to the main line at Seventy
first street. At this paint the South
Chicago branch leaves the main line and
runs southwest through a number OF
suburban stations to South Chicago. A
tower at Seventy-frst street controls
the switches leading to the branch.
Two operators have been stationed In
the tower. but they left their post last
night, aud their places could not readily
be filled. They left the switches set
tor the main line, and sub lrban trains
on that road were running OH regular
schedule. Trains from South Chicago
to Randolph street ran AS far as the
main line, but were unable to proceed
north.
Through trains on the Illinois Cen
trail and roads using its tracks passed
Grand Crossing and Pullman without
interference. None carried
PULLMAN CARS.
Few employees were gathered around
the tracks, and no demonstration was
made. AT the Fordham yards, near
One Hundredth street. the day shift of
swltchmen. switch tenders and yard
employees left their work and joined the
strike. About 10U men are employed in
the yards, and all went out. They sue
ceeded i'll completely tying up the
yards.
The first evidence of violence In con-
necton with the Illinois Central "tie-
up" which has thus far presented itself
is hole in Pullman sleeping car win
dow, which came in OIL one OF the trans.
The window was bro ken after thetrain
entered Chicago, and it is supposed to
be the work of one of the strikers at
Grand Crossing. No passengers were
injured.
General Superintendent Watts, of the
PittSburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago, ar
rived from Pittsburg today. "You may
say positively and emphatically for me
that our Panhandle division will run
Its trains, run them on time and with
their Pullman coaches" said Mr.. Watts.
If it seems necessary we will ask for
police protection to conduct trains out
of the city,"
At noon the tower on the
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
at Seventy-frSt street was manned, and
South Chicago trains began running as
usual.
The Illinois Central has given notice
that it eau accept no freight of any
kind,
The strike has precipitated fuel ia
mine on the steamboat docks. There is
not pound Of coal to be had on any of
the docks, and business on the river is
at standstill. Arrangements are be.
Ing made to put hard coal on some of
the tugs. The strike came SO suddenly
that it found the coal men utterly ui.
prepared for it, and while they have
plenty OF coal in the switch yards OF the
illinois Central, they cannot get it to
the dock.
When the through trains from Kansas
City and on the Baltimore & Ohio road
arrived at the
GRAND CENTRAL STATION
the switching crews refuse to take them
out to the yards. The load crews OF the
trains also refused to back their own
trains out. When the engineer Of the
Kansas City train pulled into the depot
he was asked to take his train back Tito
the yards by Supt. Kelly. He refused,
and both he and his fireman left their
cab. Supt Kelly then boarded the
engine and took the train down to the
yards himself. The Wisconsin Central
and Baltimore & Ohio had similar ex-
periences. In every instance the road
trainmen refused 10 do auy switching
as iOnS as the Pullman cars were at
tached to the trains.
The plan to secure aid from other or
ganizatlons in the conduct of the fight
against the Pullman company assumed
definite shape today, and u conference
ofleaders of the Knights of Labor, Broth
erhood OF Locomotive Fireman and
American Railway union was held.
General Master Workman Sovereign,
of the Knights: President Dehs of tins
A. R. o.; Secretary Arnold, of the Lo.
connective Engineets, were all at the
meeting. -
THE SWITCHING fkrWe
In the yards Of the Wisconsin Central
have gone out on strike, and traffic
dependent upon that branch of rail-
reading was practically at a stand still.
The situation for the Wisconsin Gen.
trail. which uses the Northern Pacific
terminals, is ssriods. In tho freight
yards long lines Of cars laden with