Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-07-05
THE RAILWAY STRIKE.
The Situation Has Assumed a
Dark Outlook.
Strikers Commit Many Acts of Violence
List of Railroads Affected by the
BoycOtt-NOtes of the Situa-
tiOn at Various Points.
THE WORST SINCE 1877.

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went into effect. The railroad man
ayers admit as much, and realize that
they are called upon to confront a
strike of a magnitude and far-reaching
effect surprising even 1.-THE great rail-
road strike of 1877" The railroad inter
ests now are so much greater than at
| that time, and the strikers have chose
an initial point, Chicago, the most inn
| portant in the country from which to
| operate, beginning a tie-up here that
effects greater area of country, larger
railroad interest and greater interests
outside of the railroad business than
at any other place where the strike
could have been inaugurated.
| There are efforts, and in exceptional
cases successful, to run out and run in
a few passenger trains, but the traffic
conditions can be summarized in the
statement that all freight traffic west
and south is wholly suspended.
All freight of any character is being
refused by the majority of the roads,
or all those running west and south,
and in consequence the city is threat
ened with a fruit and vegetable fam
inc, as well as milk famine, for milk
trains are interdicted along with Pull
man palace cars, against which the
| fight was begun.
A Gigantic Undertaking.
But the fight has gone away beyond
that point and the Pullman contro-
versy has become lost sight of in the
gigantic undertaking of the American
Railway union to fight the Railway
Managers association to finish.
| That is the character of the fight
now on. The American Railway
union is determined to exterminate
the Managers association. Pullman
cars no longer cut figure in the boy
colt, but it is now laid upon every
road belonging to the Managers assoc
citation, whether running Pullman cars
or not. The st. Paul. the Wabash, Lake
! Shore and other roads running Wag-
ners and theii own sleepers are no less
interdicted and ordered to be tied
up than roads which persist, under
their contracts, in running Pullman
cars. The magnitude of the strike, or
as it is more euphoniously called by
| the strikers, the boyco can in
measure be understood when it is said
the following railroads have been in
volved by ukases from President Eu-
gene V. Debs, of the American Rail-
way union:
Railroads That Are Affected.
aeehlson' lopeka g SANTA e baliinore q
Ohio, hiC3go & Western Indiana, Chicago
chiearo & Erie. CHICAGO & Great western
/ Chicago 4 Northwestern. Caicago & Alton
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New 4i5an- h cbicaga. tiff-lt5g,5i Ct7..5,,..ti
CHICAGO S St. Louis, Pittsburgh ogt wayne
9 Chicago Union stoca afos ana Transit
co'i''a5, !" lseols'a Aesfi, y ash- i1e
| ,5ss9t 'e-,.iinl,I
the FOREGOING comprise the roads
1 col4Verrina IN this city against which
| the boycott mas been laid. ana one ana
! I'll 3f which Sra efff.e3. nractieallv 1.aI
40 or are s. cripoled as is BE
! ineffective I'm he!pin.r solution
/ Of the trouble nrce.pitsgted upen
! them ,v President l3ehs in ms combat
i against the railroads IF the country.
/ Besides these Chicago railroads the
tie-ap has proved effective against tie
/ following roads in the west and the
I east for that section, too has been
touched BY the boycott.
Cincinnati ScutheIn- Learer S Rio Granae.
= 'is - 80 80
Iaeiae. 81 athcrn l.ac.tlc. ullion Pacific.
lney Grow Violent.
| The feature of tlie strike, or boycott,
Saturday and Sunday was nantes
tation OF riotons disposition on the
part of the strikers. Trains were
held up, stoned. ears were de-
tached engines seized and crews
driven from their trains. while
the traiumen were bntteted, ia
many cases pvt to fight TO
save their lives from the mob and such
as escaped were jeered. Intimidation
was used to drive sWitchmcn from the