Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-07-05
LINES TIED UP.
Greatest Strike Ever Known In Raii-
way Circles is Now in
Progress.

Progress.
Chicago. ILL.,, June 2S.-Ihe American
| Railway union boycott of Pullman cars
| has resulted in the most widespread ana
| comnlete tie-up of railway lines IN the
West in the history of railroad opera
tons. Chicago is the great center OF the
strike. Operations on several lines CEN
ter;ne here are completely paralyzed. On
other systems trouble at the terminals mas
| made it impossible to handle outgoing OF
| incoming trains. and local tratlc IS sus-
| pended. On still other roads trans are
arriving and departing from SUBURBAN
terminal stations and all are more or less
delayed by the strike Of yard and switch
ING employees The roads more or less
! affected by the boycott, according TO
| telegraphic auvices and to information
had at the local offices, are the following:
NORTHERN PACIFIC.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE Il ST. IAUL~
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
SANTA FE.
DENVER & RIO GRASDE.
ROCK ISLAND
MISSOURI PACIFIC
UNION PACIFIC
DENVER 4 GULF.
WISCONSIN CENTRAL.
CHICAGO 4 WEST MICHIGAN
CHICAGO l. GREAT WESTERN.
CHICAGO & WESTERN INDIANA.
CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK
CHICAGO Il EASTERN ILLINOIS
LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY q CHICAGO.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
BALTIMORE & OHIO
PANHANDLE.
UNION PACIFIC.
MOBILE Il OHIO
CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON.
The first passenger train due to leave
East on the Baltimore u Ohio today
could not leave on account OF being UNI
able to couple on an engine. The en-
gneers of other roads using the same
yards kept switching across the Baltl-
more & Ohio tracks in such a manner
that the B. & O. engine was held back as
effectively as though locked to the rails
Forty police were sent to the yards.
At the request of railway employees in
the East, twenty-five men were sent out
by the American Railway union today to
aid in organizing in that part OF the coun-
try. These men are bound for New York
and will begin work among the employees
of the New York Central. Engineers
and fremen on all roads centering in Chi
cago are greatly inceDsed at the discharge
of the four engineers by the North est
ern road, and decisive action on their
part in aiding the general strike is looked
for
e. A. Bancroft. representing the Santa
Fe system, applied to the United States
authorities in the name of the receiver
for protection to his road against inter-
ference by the strikers. Judge Grosscup
is out of town and the marshafs Office
decided to act under the order entered in
the coal strike trouble and decided to
send out deputies.
-Four engineers of the Chicago & North
Western railway were arrested today,
charged with intimidation, and were
taken to the West Chicago avenue police
station and locked up. The American
Railway union engaged attorneys to de-
fend 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
largely out of this fact. Action against
the Fort Wayne will also involve the
Chicago & Alton road as both come into
the city over the same tracks. Every
thing was blocked after midnight last
night, at the Western avenue yards of
Paul and Panhandle roads.
The entire day crews on the Milwaukee
& st. Paul and Panhandle roads quit
work this morning and there is not
wheel turning under any passenger car
on either road that is not manned BY
officials The men are in an ugly mood
and violence is predicted. There are said
to be only two Pullman cars on the en-
tire Milwaukee & st. Paul system, but
the use of these cars has been as eff
fectual in tieing up the road, at least at
the Chicago end as though there Were
hundreds. Strikers are threatening to
throw these two cars into the ditch.
At Mayfair, on the Des PLANES div5s-
ion of the North Western, trouble WAS
feared. for the switching yards are To-
Gated at this point. During the morning
the strikers congregated in the yards and
five police officers were sent to preserve