The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-29
CHICAGO's BLOCKADE.
Passenger Trains Delayed and Per-
fshnbIe Freight ROtting.

CHICAGO, June ALPHABETICALLY all the
trains leaving this city during the after
noon and up to 6 O'Clock tonight got away
with their Pullman cars, but were more or
less delayed. The Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul road has agreed to handle no
more Pullman coaches. All the freight
yards in the city are crowded with freight
loaded with perishable goods, which
the roads are unable to move. AS the South
Water-street markets were sold entirely out
to-day, il is expected that fruit and gar
den truck famine will be inaugurated to-
morrow. The $40 train the Grano
Trunk, east bound was made up with the
usual Pullman, but no passengers ap-
peared the coach was left behind. Two
trains on the Baltimore & Ohio which left
the city, at about $50 and the other at
d. m, for the East are stalled at the
Western-avenue crossing on the Panhandle.
The switchmen refused to work the gates,
and it was impossible to proceed. A de-
tail of police was sent for, and as soon
they arrive an effort is to be made TO gel
the. trains out.
Four engineers of the Northwestern road
who called on the officials of the American
Railway Union last night and induced the
order for the strike on that road were
discharged to-day. This is considered by
the Union an important factor In the trou-
ble Three men, members of the subcommit-
tee sent out by the Union officials last
night to the Northwestern yards, at West
ern avenue, to order the strike which took
place at midnight, were arrested this morn
ing on complaint of the railway officials.
They were charged with intimidation and
were taken to West Chicago-avenue station
and locked up. The American Railway
Union engaged attorneys to defend them.
Owing to the strike of the switchmen on
the Panhandle the trains of that road
have been brought in over the tracks of
the Fort Wayne road. Threats to tie up
the latter road and even the entire Penn
sylvania system grew largely out of this
fact. Action against the Fort Wayne would
also involve the Chicago & Alton, as both
come into the city over the same tracks.
Everything was blocked after midnight last
night at the Western-avenue yards of the
Northwestern yards of the Milwaukee &
ST. Paul and Panhandle roads.
No trains, through or suburban, were
running on the Illinois Central into or out
of Chicago to-day. BY 10 O'Clock this morn
inc the Galena and Wisconsin divisions of
the Chicago & Northwestern were at
standstiH
About one hundred policemen were sta
toned to-day along the tracks of the Illi-
ncis Central and Rock Island roads in the
city. Vice President Hartman of the Illi
nois Central, to-day sent a message to
Chief Brennan's office with letter re-
queSting that more police be detailed to
guard Illinois Central property. The Chief,
however. said that he did not see how
more men could be detailed to that road.
The Chief thinks the roads are making too
great demands and expecting too much of
the city police Not moving
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road.
No subui ban trains came in or went out
this morning the report said, and at the
Western avenue, where the trains were
made up, no men were at work. Inspector
Lewis had thirty policemen there guarding
the company'S property
Signs of trouble were detected early along
the Chicago & Northwestern line. At West
ern avenue and Kinsie street crowd Of
railway strikers gathered about o'clock,
and thirty officers were sent to the scene
of the threatened disturbance. AT Mayfair
on the Desplaines division of the North
western trouble feared. Freight
switching yards are located at this point.
During the morning the strikers congre-
gated in the yards and five police officers
were sent there to preserve order.
The entire day crews on the Milwaukee
q st. Paul and Panhandle roads quit work
this morning and there is not wheel
turned under any passenger car on either
road that was not manned by officials. The
men are in an ugly mood and violence is
predicted. There are said to be only two
ST. Paul system, but the use of these cars
has been as effectual in the tieing up of the
road at least at the Chicago end, as though
there were hundreds. The strikers are
threatening to throw these two cars into
the ditch
A complication has arisen which may
lead to trouble between the Illinois Central
and the engineers. Last night an Illinois
Central switch engine cab was wrecked,
and the company discharged Joseph Finn,
who was in charge of a locomotive. He
says that a side rod dropped ard the revo-
luticns of the broken piece of machinery
unavoidably wrecked the cab. His explana-
ton was not satisfactory, and he was dis
charged. Finn is a member of the Loco
motive Brotherhood.
Enough coal brought to the docks
in this city by way of the Western Indi-
ana road last night to fuel the steamers
day morning. but to-day the supply was
again exhausted 1t is feared that the ex-
tension of the strike to the Western In
diana will cut off many from, that sourcc
Eight hundred men employed in the
Northwestern shops, near West FortieIn
street struck this morning.
AT IL O'Clock tonight all the switchmen,
firemen engineers and trainmen on the
Chicago & Western Indiana struck.
Tonight the employees of the Union Stock
Yards and Transit Company decided TO in
form the company tomorrow morning that
unless ii refused to handle the freight
of the lines hauling Pullman cars they
would strike. The number of men is not
over three hundred. but their action will
completely tie up the stock yards and para
lyze the packing industry.
Although ii was feared tonight that the
malls would be congested at the postofice
on account of the few trains leaving Chi
cago. the mail pouches were accepted by
instance The Chicago & Erie express No.
% which is scheduled TO leave at sos, did
not leave tonight. and the mail which it
has contracted to carry, was returned to
the government building.
Telegrams were sent tonight from the
American Railway Union headquarters in
this city ordering all men on the Denver &