The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-21
KELLEY REFUSED A TRAIN.
The Railroads Won't Furnish His
Men Free Transportation.

Three Thousand Laboring Men March
From Omaha to Council Bluffs to
Help the Commonwealers and Are
Joined by 5000 Men at Council
Bluffs-They Seizea Train but Kelley
Declines to Use It-He Now Pro-
poses to Travel East by Wagon.
Omaha, Neb., April 20.-A crowd of
5000 laboring men from Omaha marched
across the bridge to Council Bluffs this
morning for the purpose of compelling the
eastern railroads, by force, if necessary,
to furnish train for Kelley's army. BY
the time it reached the center of the city
Of Council Bluffs it had grown to 5000
men and forty or fifty women.
The column had been preceded to Coun-
Gil Bluffs by committee of prominent
citizens, appointed last night at a meet
ing of the Central Labor Union The
committee was to call on Gov jackson
and the managers of the railroads and
urge that the commonwealers be at once
started on their way east While the
column was marching toward the Mis-
souria river, Gen. Kelley was
in Omaha, seated in the private
car of President st. John, of
the Rock Island road, hold
ing an animated conference. Mr..
st. John said, in response to a request for
a train, that he was not in position to
grant it, even should he desire to do so,
as the matter was now wholly in the
hands of the presidents committee of the
trunk lines, and the road could not grant
request for a train unless the presidents
of all the other roads agreed Kelley then
left the car and called on other friends
for advice.
TRAFFIC STOPPED.
Meantime the railroads stopped the
running of trains into and from Council
Bluffs and ran all their rolling stock out
of town. The Omaha people got no more
satisfaction out of the Council Bluffs
railroad officials than Kelley did out of
President St. John. The roads are united
in there determined stand not to furnish
transportation for the commonwealers un-
less paid for it.
The throng of workingmen captured a
lot of cars and an engine for Kelley's use,
but when the train reached Weston, ten
miles east of Council Bluffs, Kelley re-
fused to have anything to do with it, and
1t was returned to Council Bluffs.
The scheme that Kelley is now consid-
ering, and one to which he inclines
favorably, is to divide his men into
detachments of 100 men each, levy
on the farmers for horses and wagons,
and taking different roads, march east on
foot. The suggestion is that the devasta-
tion they would work would make the
Iowans glad to provide railroad transpor-
tation and supplies to hurry them out of
their state.
KELLEY's MEN UNDER SHELTER.
Omaha Neb., April 2O-Kelley's army
is under shelter this morning. although
suffering from yesterdays exposure.
Twenty men are sick. The railroad peo-
pie threaten if the army takes a train to
send wild engine down TO meet it for
the purpose of wrecking it.
KELLEY BEGGING FOR A TRAIN.
Weston, Ia, April 90 "General''
Kelley and ex-Congressman Pusey left
here for Omaha on an early train. The
weather is severely cold and the ground
was covered with ice this morning The
industrial army put in a hard night, but
most of them were enabled to find a dry
place to sleep. This morning Mr..
Nixon, who runs wood yard gave the
men about twenty-five cords of wood and
they built rousing fires. Several of the
men are suffering from pneumonia, but
they have a good supply of medicine.
Kelley spent the day in Omaha
and Council Bluffs endeavoring to secure
railroad transportation for his men
He rejected offers of Omaha sympa-
thisers to send his command to Kansas
City by teamboat down the Missouri
river, and also one TO divide his men and
send half TO st. Paul and the remainder
tn Rock Island