The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-28

Chicago, June 27.-On the Illinois
Central, South Chicago branch, today,
traffic was blocked. The operators in
the tower at -Seventy-frst street left
their post and their places could not
be supplied readily Through trains
passed Grand Crossing and Pullman
- without interference. None carried
Pullman cars. At Fordham yards
switchmen, switch tenders and yard
employees Joined the strike, tying up
the yards.
Causes Il Famine.
The strike has precipitated a fuel
famine There is not a pound of coal
at any Of the docks and business on
the river is at a standstill.
The first violence is the breaking Of
Pullman car window at Grand Cross
ing. No passengers were injured. This
afternoon the tower on the Illinois
Central at Seventy-first street was
manned and the South Chicago suburb
an trains began running. When the
through trains from Kansas City and
on the Baltimore & Ohio road arrived
at Grand Central station, the switching
crews refused to take them out of the
yard.
The road 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 to the
yards by Superintendent Kelly. He
refused and left the cab. Superinten-
dent Kelly took the train down to the
yards himself. In every instance the
road trainmen refused to do any
switching as long as Pullman cars
were attached to the trains. The Wis
consin Central and Baltimore & Ohio
had similar experiences.
WIZ Secure Aid.
The plan to secure aid from other
organizations assumed definite share
today, and a conference was held by
Grand Master Workman Sovereign, of
the Knights; President Dennis, of the
A. R. u, and Secretary Arnold, of the
Locomotive Engineers. The switch
men in the yards Of the Wisconsin
Central have struck. In the freight
yards. long lines of cars, laden with
peTishable freight, are standing and
cannot be moved. This afternoon 1000
employees of the Illinois Central in the
Burnside shops, walked out and took
the train for the city. When TIE hour
arrived for~che departure of t.. Wash
1ngton and New York train over the
Baltimore & Ohio road, the forward
coaches stood 100 feet down the track
from the Pullman sleepers. and no
effort was made to make connection.
Nice-President Harahan, of the Hi
no1s Central, telegraphed a bulletin to-
day to be posted up on all the
bulletin boards of the road from Chica-
gobo New Orleans and Sioux City. He
called attention to the situation in Chi
cago. referred TO the company's con-
tract with the Pullman company, re-
ferred to the company's obligations to
the public, and concluded with an ex-
tract from the company's charter,
which relates to the prosecution and
punishment of those who interfere with
the company's property.
They Talk of Murder.
When a westbound freight train on
the Michigan Central reached Burn
sides, today, the switches were found
set. The trainmen were ordered from
the city offices to turn the rails and
bring in the freight
- a crowd Of 200 strikers and sympath-
izers gathered about the train. A cou-
y Tle Of brakemen leaped to the ground
and attempted to turn the switches.
The crowd pressed forward and a
big switchman placed his hand on one
Of the braikemens shoulders
You're a contemplate cur and a cow
ard" he Kissed, land I will kill you if
touch that switch"
XIII him. Kill himr' shouted the
crowd. as it surged forward.
The engineer and conductor of the
but after a short parley it was decided
to leave the train on the track
Three signal men, who control the
switches at the Western Indiana tracks
at Archer avenue, joined the strikers
tonight, blocking the system. Under
q laaa oys1 q e-;or /
man was placed in the tower, and the
blockade was raised, the crowd making
NO demonstration.
At $3.50 o'clock the San Francisco linn
tied over the Santa Fe with four Pull
man cars, passed the crossing in safe
ty. The seventy-five signal men and
fifteen switchcnen employed in the In
diana WecSern yards are all on strike
Not a wheel has moved in connec-
ton with the illinois Central suburban
service after 9 O'clock tonight Seven
train crews after having brought their
trains into the Central station refused
to take dhem out.
Eleven Roads Tied Up.
The employees of the Chicago Great
Western railway went out tonight, MAX
ing a total of eleven Chicago roads now
tied up and crippled by the American
Railway union boycott of Pullman
cars. i ne EceQS 50 lar dIIScleQ Dy the
strike at this point are the Illinois
Central. Santa Fe, Chicago Great
Western, Chicago & Northern Pacific
West Indiana, Wisconsin Central, Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois, Wabash,
Grand Trunk, Monon and the Balti-
more & Ohio.
On some Of these roads, Pullman
cars Were still being carried tonight,
but the strike. leaders confidently as
serted 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 American
Railway union missionary work." and
tonight the boycott sentiment was
much more general and apparent than
at any previous time.
An attempt was made this evening to
eend out the st. Paul train on the Chi
cago Great Western with a. Pullman
sleeper attached. The train started