Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-03
The STRIKE TODAY.
Much Anxiety Pdlt By All Concerned
for the Outcome.
U. $. TROOPS IN THE CONFLICT


TO DO day frsught with exciting
events befittlng the climax Of the con
ilct between the combatauis In the
Pullmsn.Amerlcan Railway Union
,tfike. Not until the small hours Of
this morning were Yesterdays hoatlll.
tles suspended, and then for an hour or
two only, 10 await daylight, that they
might bo renewed with redoubled
vlgor. All night long, from every
section west OF Pittsbufg came rupofla
OF strikes, tlt.ups, OF forts by the
roads, sidoi by municipal, state ana
federal officers 10 stsrt moving tue
closeed wheels Of commerce and oi
determined resistance 10 such action
on tho part Of strikers. and their sym.
pAthiEera.
Interest centsra principally on Hue
Island. This town IN eighteen miles
out VI Chicago, whers uAllic on the
ChioagO, Rock leland aud Pacific IL
,liectuaily tied up In spite OF tue fact
that several United States deputy
uinrshala are ON hand, they being out
numbered ten 10 one by the strikefs,
vuo arc In anything but an smiablc
Ifame u. mind.
Every legal resource having been
tried Ia vain and the United States
MARSHALL authority openly deiied,
nothing seems 10 remain but TO Invoke
federal aid to get trains moving ami 70
this Gnu the troops are held In readiness
NJ Fort Sheridan.
Even tho marine engineers have
caught the Infection nnu stand ready,
together with elevated railway men TO
add theif quota to ihe crest army Of
srlfmaue luiers. What they expect TO
accomplish or what assistance they OK
rect TO DO Ia compelling Pullman to
submit the difiert noes between him.
iii aud his laIe employs to atbiua.
ton IL % 81 known.
the shipment OF fuel ~ this city IL
ssfiously embarrassed, a. IL the move.
ment Of every otner commodity for
that matter. There 10, IL Ia sale, scarce
~ ION of soft coal In the city, al
though $4,000 tons are burned daily.
There ~, however, a great amount Of
hard coal scattered throughout tho
vurlous yards, hut this IL TuinouF, OK
pfAsivo mta aus OF making steam.
Every railroad entering Chicago v
/cdppled. Many VI the trunk lines
ere pArAly zsd. Traffic has been sus-
lUudel On FOme OF the lines. The
trai ~ practically at n standHtiil.
Ate O'Clock tonight an attempt will
be maJo 10 stop all trains on the Lake
Stfvst r0ad. Thia lins does not handle
Pullman care, but MI. Debs has called
the firemen out because the company
10 using n0n-upion coal for fuel nAuled
~ the Panhandle road.
rJOps are being moved TO clear the
bloUkaue 10 California aud Colorado,
Lut there IL a prospect that they will
DO stopped Ia transit by engineers VIM
are In sympathy with tho strikers.
An attempt to move troops from
Springfield, Illinois, TO Decatur anu
DsuVlllc created a small riot.
NOT A QUESTION OF PuLLMANis,I.
Ia an interview last evening John
II. Egan, manager Of the General
Minagers' Association, said the rail.
wy companies DO not recognize In
tulu sIriku thu element Of PullmAnlam
uud viii not have 1t inteDected into
'gu question at any stage VI any pTopO-
elton. We have no compromise 10
Ouef, aud there " none that We Will
accept, ~ the railroad companies Are
standing together. There IL no back
u4wn from our previous stand and we
ar filling the places OF the strikers
whom We no longer consider In our
service.
THE SOUTHERN PAoIFic's LOSS,
BAN FRANCISCO, July S.--W. q.
Cufus, assistant W General Manager
Towne, of the Southern Pacific CON.
pany, estimated that the company's
iuss owing TO tho tic up il s2OO,0OO n
dpy and that Ia the iive days that the
~.
gftgates over million dollars. The
iiuit iuteres. will be- seriously menaoed
a way out Of the difficulty Ia not
iound. There aie 200 cars OF green
ifuit between here anu Ogden, aud II
h doubtful n even Ice can Hnve them.
Tue cars ale valued nj S4OO each, NO
tnat $1,000 IL Involved IN this one
item. Fruit 10 ripening rapidly and
within the next ten days sixty add.
tional carloads will be ready for shin
ment.
U. =. TROOPS CALLED INTO ACTION.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.-U. 3.
troops have at las. been calleu into NO.
ton Ia the great railroad strike IN this
aiaIe. For tho dist time In the history
OF California, the military authorities
OF the foueIal government nave been
called into the Held to prevent ,rouDls
within the boatdtTa Ui the state. BY
orders OF General kuger, six companies
OF sol1iere, fully armed and ready for
service OF thitty.hyo days are now Oh
Ihelr way To Los Angeles.
The military assistance TO tho rail
Toau company has been given vt the
request OF the u. 3. marshal Of the
sUulnern district OF California. Feel.
ins that ho WAS unablu tU give pr1teC-
ton 10 tbs u. =. mails the MARSHAL
called upon tue military authorities.
The departure OF the United StAtea
troops from Angel island has double
slgmhuauev. II shows thatt the u Tilted
States government has become In.
VOWED in the trouble and that tue
Southern Pacific Railroad company
IN succeeding admirably IN ita effort
q open simultaneously the two great
hItategetic terminal Oinls IN the state.
The departure Of the troops 10 Lus
Angeles mas another meaniug. 1t
means that the great coast terminal
Of The santa Fe sysIem Ia also to be
Olensu.
incidentally tho strikers will be over.
swed on all important points on the
SOUTHERN line, AZ LAthTop, Bakersiield
anu FresnO-lnree OF tneir slrOngeat
positions. Tnis military assistance, 80
tauaole 10 the railroad aud no earnest.
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