The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-30
BAD SITUATION IN CHICAGO.
Strike on Rock Island Road To-day
Stock Yards Tied Up.


CHICAGO, Ills, June 80, 1894-Five hun
dred employees of the Rock Island road
struck at seven A. NJ today. Switches were
spiked and other threatening demonstra-
tions made, and police protection was called
for by the company.
The Union Stock Yards Railway and Tran
sit Company is completely tied up this morn
inc. Not even the Lake Shore Suburban
train was allowed to enter the yards In
stead of the usual fourteen or sixteen freight
trains arriving up to nine O'Clock,
but one train of thirty cars had
arrived This train came in from the
Burlington road and was managed by the
Burlington crew. As a result OF the t1e-up,
2,0U0 men, employed in the killing depart
ments of the packing houses, were laid off on
account of the scarcity of cattle and hogs.
Fully $4,000 employees in the different de-
part1nents will be laid off on Monday unless
the strike is settled and trains permitted to
haul live stock into the yards.
PAN HANDLE DASH.
A Pan Handle train carrying i've sleepers
was tagged at Riverdale, and the engineer
erd firemen were forced to hold the train
while a force of strikers of 800 men detached
the Pullmans The forward part of the train
moved on to Bernice but when the officers
of the road learned that it was proceeding
without the sleepers hey.immediately blocked
it.
This train was made up at the Union
Depot in one section, and left on schedule
time at twenty minutes past eight O'Clock.
It contained two mail cars. five Pullman
sleepers, two baggage cars, two express cars
and four day coaches. The mail on board
was destined for Cincinnati, Louisville, In
dianapolis, Springfield, o., and intermediate
and contiguous points.
The train went out of the Union depot
with policeman stationed on every plat
form and two on the engine 1t was feared
by the officers of ths road that an attempt
might be made to wreck the train between
Western avenue and Canal street. The
train proceeded slowly to Western avenue,
and at each street crossing was greeted with
boots and jeers of strikers.
II was not thought there would be any
trouble beyond Western avenue, and the
train was divided into two sections at this
point. In order to be doubly sure OF pro-
lection the policemen were carried as far as
Brighton Park, where they disembarked
and returned in special car
The Louisville and Cincinnati section OF
The train then proceeded to Riyerdale, where
1t was tagged, as heretofore stated
Half an hour later application was made
to Sheriff Gilbert for protection, and thai
official at midnight was asked to go out on a
special train, swear in posse, dispefse
strikers and start the belated passengers
Eastward.
This he declined to do, saying nothing
could be done until daylight. At AN. the
Train and its second section, carrying mail,
was still held by the strikers.
shortly after A. NJ the train and its
second section. carrying mail, gathered up
tie Pullmans, and before the strikers knew
what was up they rushed eastward at the
rate of fifty miles an hour
ASKING FOR TROOPS
From q simple boycott on Pullman cars by
d. Ia TT.,f1 = ffrt1f ie
Incoming q general and mighty combat be
tween all the Western railways and thel1
employees.
That is the situation now, and the gravity
pr3it grows with every hour.
The first demand for troops came from the