Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-04
LINES TIED UP.
Greatest Strike Ever Known in Rail-
way Circles is Now in
Progress.

| way CIfCloS Is NOW ln
Progress.
! Chicago, ILL.,, June 2S.-The American
I Railway union boycott of Pullman cars
has resulted in the most widespread and
complete 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
| tering here are completely paralyzed. On
other systems trouble at the terminals has
made it impossible to handle outgoing or
incoming trains, and local traffic is sus-
pended On still other roads trains 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
teegraphic advices and to information
had at the local offices, are the following:
| NORTHERN PACIFIC.
| CHICAGO d NORTH WESTERN
| CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL-
| ILLINOIS CENTRAL
| SANTA FE.
DENVER & Rio GRANDE.
| ROCK ISLAND
| MISSOURI PACIFIC.
| UNION PACIFIC.
| DENVER d GULF.
| WISCONSIN CENTRAL.
| CHICAGO d WEST MICHIGAN.
! CHICAGO & GREAT WESTERN.
| CHICAGO d WESTERN INDIANA.
| CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK
| CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS.
| LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY & CHICAGO.
| SOUTHERN PACIFIC
| BALTIMORE IL OHIO.
/ PANHANDLE.
| UNION PACIFIC.
| MOBILE d OHIO.
| CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON
! The first passenger train due to leave
| Rolf &
could not leave on account of being I'M
able to couple on an engine. The en-
! gineers of other roads using the same
yards kept switching across the Balti-
more & Ohio tracks in such manner
! that the 3. d 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 firemen on all roads centering in Chi
cago are greatly incensed at the discharge
| of the four engineers by the North-W West
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
! for protection to his road against inter-
! ference by the strikers. Judge Grosscup
| is out of town and the marshal's 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
| the entire Pennsylvania system grew
largely out of this fact. Action against
the Fort Wayne will also involve the
| Chicago d 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
| the Northwestern, Milwaukee & St.
| Paul and Panhandle roads.
| The entire day crews on the Milwaukee
| & st. Paul and Panhandle roads quit
work this morning and there is not a
! 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 divis-
| ion of the North-W estern, 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
order.