Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1894-07-14
THE SITUATION.
Freight Trains Go Out with
Local Mails.
a Long, Hard Tie-up Now Looked
FOr-Little Surprise at the De
termination to Run Pullmans.

The strike situation in Tucson is un-
changed. Local frsIghts go out semi
occasionally, and the towns along the
road lack nothing in the way Of provis-
ions and water. The road employees in
Tucson are doing nothing but discuss
ing the situation, which they have done
very thoroughly, and wait for some-
thing to turn up. No trains have start
ed out of Los Angeles, so while the
men know what they would do if train
was brought to them to Yuma, they
have do trains there to move.
Last night word was passed among
the men that Master Mechanic Gray
wanted TO see the engineers and firemen
at his Office. When they arrived, how
ever, he notified them that he had
changed his mind, and had nothing to
them.
Yesterday permission arrived from
the postofhce department at Washing
ton to send mail in charge OF freight
conductors, on freight trains. About
i 80 in the afternoon freight went out,
and on this several sacks were shipped,
consigned to Benson, Wilcox, Lords
burg and other points. Mail to Nogales
and Sonora points has heretofore been
sent to Mammoth, the first day, up the
San PEDRO to Benson the second day,
and down the railroad the third day.
This was the nearest regular mail line.
the Nogales stages carrying no mall re-
gularly. A good deal of mail has been
sent down in the care of the driver.
Now with freights carrying mail 1T can
go to Benson and down the New Next
co & Arizona road as usual.
Today at 1870 freight went west,
taking mail.
The Maricopa & Phoenix road has
changed it's time table temporarily, and
now makes daylight runs instead OF IN
the dead of night.
The railroad men in Tucson expresses
little surprise this morning at the press
dispatches to the effect that the South
ern Pacific will move Pullmans on their
passenger trains, and will not move
them without. The strike, they now
think, will be long and stubborn. The
company with the big expense OF Its
pays rolls cut down 20 or so per cent has
not a great deal of loss to figure for
except interest on their investment.
The men are generally in good position
for long tie-up, and say they can stand
it awhile yet. One man is of the opinion
that thirty days from now will see no
change in the situation.
Many of the men deplore the rleting
that is being done back east. They say
that they do not believe in violence and
the destruction of property; that there
are not non-union men enough to run
the railroads, and that the companies
may be brought to terms by firm hold
outs without rioting. Certainly there
is little reason to believe that in Tucson
any rioting will occur.
At the shops all goes on as usual.
The engines are already in better con-
dition than ever before, and from the
present outlook will by fall be in the
best order they ever were.
At Ell P8so the situation is about the
same as in Tucson no trains but locals
moving and the men willing enough to
handle the same, on the condition that
no Pullmans be attached, aud that the
trains be brought to them by union
men. A few hard-heRded switchmen
struck outright, and refused move local
trains. An FL Paso official, while help
ing to make up train, was caught in a
frog and narrowly escaped being cut TO
pieces.
A sad incident in connection with the
strike is the serious illnesss of Mrs. W.
F. FeweI, of this city, at Visalia, Cal. They
telegraphed Mr.. Fewel to come at once,
and he will leave at the earliest oppor-
tunity.