The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-06

points. Not . dollars worth OF damage
has been done TO the property. either seri-
Gus or slight"
Master Mechanic Warner. who came
| over with Mr.. McCabe, said that be had
| twenty-five engine crews ali ready 20 20
out, and be is confident of soon getting she
engines all running again. The last heard
| here from the eastern end Of the line was
| that trains were running 70 Staples,
MINI, 143 miles west Of ST. PavL
The Lake Shore now has eight crews.
| full force Of enginemen and trainmen for
passenger service. bat no attempt has yet
been made to re-org.nize the yard force.
Eo5e Of the agents or operators struck,
but yesterday about o'clock 4. 5. Trickey.
au American Railway Unio man, who Is
agent al MeMurray, refused to take mes
sage in regard to the employment Of new
men unless il was sent as a paid COM
mercial message, as he did not wish to
handle strike business. The next train,
leaving at sis, took out George ID. snow
to replace him. The car repairers and
coal beavers also remained At work except
the watchman At Sedro. who refused TO
coal Caugbrean's engine.
When the Northern Pacific and Lake
Shore trains were coming in about
O'Clock last night a crowd was strung
along Railroad avenue close to the track
from Columbia 10 Marion street and the
police and deputies forced il back clear of
the avenue and past the ends Of Columbia
and Marion streets. This broke il up and
there were few on the ground after that
time. Thirty deputies were on duty all
day and half of them guarded the yards.
closely watching the cars and engines.
The leaders of the strike were busy do
ing missionary work among the non-union
| men in the yards and succeeded in pei
suading four of them 10 quit the service.
| They express confidence of success, saying
that the railroad company cannot escape
| heavy loss through the disabling of locomo-
tives by incompetent men. They are pre-
| pared TO carry the strike still further 10
| win success and yesterday q committee
| went 10 Tacoma to attend a conference of
committees from different labor organiza-
tons. The men az Tacoma were said to be
I willing 10 declare general strike OF union
/ men in all trades and a similar step Is
J talked Of in this city.
A crowded meeting of the American
Railway Union was held last evening in
1 Red Mems hall, at which the committee
! sent to Tacoma earlier in the day reported
tina, everything was going iavorably to the
strikers in that city, and that the con-
| ductors would be on strike in few days
| They said that the freight conductors were
already out and that the passenger con-
ductors would join them. but few were
prejudiced against the American Railway
Union and were looking for promotion, so
had resolved TO remain at work until
called out by their own officers. 1t was
1 n l.
| more, of the Lake Shore road. had been
asked to resign because he had refused to
pilot non-union crew over the road, and
resolution was adopted pledging the
| union to hold out until he was reinstated.
Several new members were admitted.
An open meeting was afterwards held
at which G.. A. Lafayette and w. q. Arm
strong delivered speeches. They said that
| every labor union in the city would up
| bold the American Railway Union in
| every way possible, and q communication
from Stcamboatmen's Union gave an
equally unqualified pledge of support
Salvador Ellieott, who has just returned
from "a tour through Central California,
gives gloomy account OF the condition of
affairs there. He said:
II went all through the state from Chico.
on the north. 10 San Jose. on the south,
and found the crops of pears, peaches,
apricots and berries rotting in the
orchards for lack of transportation facili-
ties To the East. The growers have not
the facilities to dry 1t all as fast as it is
| picked, so there is no way of saving il.
Vines are being grubbed up because grapes
are too cheap and wine has fallen so low
that one frst-cIass hotel man told me it
4. -. 4. IL
on his table than tea and coffee. You can
buy 2-year-old zinfandeI for IS cents a
gallon. Last year the farmers had a pretty
fair crop, and with good one this year
they would have been all right. But now
the crop is lost. and the people are broke. -
Engineer C. +. Bedding, who ran train
No IS to Fall City on Wednesday, desires
il known that he ran the engine only be-
cause he wanted TO go there himself and
no other engineer could be found to take
the train. lie did not undertake TO work
| IL except on that occasion.
The first outbreaks of violence on the
Northern Pacific have occurred at Tacoma
and Spokane. dangerous riot having oc-
Cured at the latter city. The following
dispatches tell the story:
Tacoma. July a-The Northern Pacific
1
Seattle and Carbonate with non-union
men. Pullmans are carried on the Port
land trains.
Last night John Gribble. one of the old
| est engineers on the road and we'll
known citizen, was attacked by Engineer
Foster and two or three other engineers.
/ knocked senseless and severely beaten
Grihble had told Superintendent McCabe
| that he would pull out his own
train on his regular time. but would not
take another mans run. lie met several
engineers. told them what he had done
and advised them 90 do the same as the
! brotherhood rules allowed it. Without
previous warning Foster, man of 800
pounds. hauled OF and hut Grlbble be-
tween the ewes. knocking him senseIess.
Another engineer, also n sympathizer with
the strikers. Jumped on him and pounded
him. The strikers are trying 10 intimidate
men loyal 10 the company.
Three non-union men employed IN the
Northern Pacific roGndhouse at this place
wcre waylald this evening Il few minutes
after o o'clock by gang 81 strikers and
beaten unmerciluNg. The non-union men.
James Mcfarland. i. Vivian ]. McCtei.
land. were - badly injured that they
were sent home IN hacks after A
Northern Pacific surgeon had dressed
their wounds Mcfarland had Seeln
wound eight inches loug Vivian was ca,
across the face. ear and chin aud McClel-
/ land was kicked In the face. The assault.
ing strikers were not sppgeaendea
I Tacoma. IulY a. Special Organic
Phillips, II the American Railway Union,
arrived here Fhis afternoon. having crossed
the Cascades on \ bicycle. He came here
/ from Chicago. ard has been doing What