The record-union., 1894-07-03
Special to the REcoRp-ux

! Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
| CHICAGO, July 2.-To-day's develop
ments in the great Puilman-American
Railway Union strike have been prolific
in sensationalism, the principal theater of
action being in Chicago and adjacent
suburbs. Wild rumors were rife, and
when it was announced that more orders
had been issued for the Second Regiment
to proceed at once to Blue Island eighteen
miles out, extra editions of all evening
papers, with warlike headlines, were
eagerly scanned by thousands of anxious
people. This report proved later to be
unfounded
The first serious clash occurred to-day
when 200 Deputy United States Marshals
were surrounded by 1000 strikers,
who openly defied Federal authority.
Weapons were drawn on both sides, and
| Deputy Marshal Logan was painfully
cut with knife. But when bloody
conflict seemed imminent, the deputies
retired to their barracks to await rein
| forcements, leaving the strikers masters
of the situation.
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.
CHICAGO, July 1.-The General Man
ayers Of the Chicago roads this evening
issued the following bulletin:
| The worst reports come from the Rock
Island, which was not able to move any
of the trains on account of the 1900 peo-
pie at Blue Island, who controlled the
situation, the United States Marshals and
the Cook County Sheriffs being powerless
to handle the mob.
On the Michigan Central the indica-
| tions are that considerable trouble will
result on account of the employment of
new men to take the places of the switch
men who have struck.
| The Illinois Central is still in bad shape
regarding the suburban business, but is
moving through trains
| The Milwaukee and st. Paul is also
badly embarrassed by the striking en-
ployes. Seventeen roads in Chicago are
! more or less embarrassed by the strike,
and many passenger trains are being
moved, as on the Panhandle, under heavy
guards of Deputy Marshals for the mail
! trains and Deputy Sheriffs for other
trains, in order to get them through the
strikers and sympathlzers who congre-
gate along the tracks. The railroads have
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continues, and will not parley with men
who went out on the strike. The places
of men who struck will be filled as fast
as possible, and force will be met with
! force to the extent OF asking the State Tor
troops to keep the roads open whenever
| this action becomes necessary. If the
State cannot afford ample protection, the
railroads will ask the United States Gov
ernment to send troops to the scene of the
/ disturbances.
Dispatches to the General Managers
| Association I'D to P. NJ. are as follows:
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road has abandoned all It's suburban buSi-
ness for the night
! On the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul no freight has been moved in or out
| of Chicago to-day. All passenger trains
are on time.
! on the Baltimore and Ohio all passen-
ger trains, with full equipments, are
nearly on time.
The Chicago and Northwestern, Elgin,
Joliet, and Eastern, and Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul have given notice to
! connecting lines and shippers, saying
| that they will not receive perishable
! freight or live stock.
ON the Wisconsin Central all passenger
and freight trains are running.
The Chicago and Northern Pacific SUBJ
urban trains on time. Freight is moving
without interruption.
On the Chicago and Calumet Terminal
| the switchmen and transfer employees are
| all out.
| On the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
the situation has changed for the worse.
a large body of striking switchmen and
| their SympathlzerS are congregated at
| Western avenue, and to avoid an open
conflict with the mob the yards have
| closed. Passenger traffic is moving.
Business will be temporarily suspended
at the stock yards tomorrow. whether
| there is formal strike OF the packing
house employees or not. The pens are al
most entirely empty. Cars loaded with
dressed beef are standing on the tracks
and the beef is in danger of spelling.
The ice-making machine must soon stop
running, owing to a lack OF coal. There
are 400 cars of livestock on the Burling-
! ton road on the way 10 Chicago, but there
| is little possibility of their reaching their
destination under the present conditions.
Every switchman, fireman, engineer and
| yard foreman at the yards has quit work,
| and each is watching to see that no train
moves. The ice companies in this city
are bringing ice by boat, and the price
! has already advanced greatly.
| The Injunction orders of the Federal
| Courts names tWenty-three roads in all
in the membership of the Railway Asso-
citation and the Union Stock Yards
! Transit Company that must not be inter
! fered with. All members of the Ameri-
can Railway Union and all persons what
| soever are ordered to refrain from inter-
! fering with trains, freight or passenger.
| The men are also ordered not to enter the
/ Yards or premises OF the companies with
/ intent to do unlawful acts or compel by
| threats violence or by other means, the
employees of the road to quit work. The
order also enioins the defendants from
! inducing by persuasion, threats, vio-
| lence, or by any other means, the en-
ployes of the companies to leave the
service OF the company or to induce them
to refuse to perform their duties"
Judges Grosscup and Woods issued an
! Injunction to-day restraining the strikers,
! Interstate Commerce Act. 1t is a very
sweeping order, and aims to protect the
! roads, common carriers to transport
| freight as we'll as the United States mails.
the grain trade on the lakes is COM
pletely paralyZed, as the railroads are
unable to get any corn or oats to the ele-
/ vators.
President Debs received dispatch
from Columbus to-day, declaring that the
! National Association of Street Employees
! stands ready to assist the strikers.
United States Marshal Arnold was
1 pulled off car platform at Blue Island
/ to-day after the fight, and kicked and
| rolled over in the dirt by the strikers.
! The representatives OF the Santa Fe at
/ the general managers meeting said to-
/ day information had been received by the
road to the effect that the telegraph oper-
ators had gone out at EmDoria kans