The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-02

tho hot rays OF q GUNNER Gun.
Early this morning, som5 of the
male passengers enIeayOrod 10 con-
meet hose with the Village
Tater main 70 procure water for the
Btockadod cay5 Tor drinking and toilet
purposes. The strikers on watch im.
meliaiely in,erposed and said tina. IL
an attUmpt was made they would cut
tho hose. Such Of tho passengers Gs
could aIord II, hirod conveysncos dur.
Ing the forenoon and drove TO Wost
Pullman whence thoy came into tho
city on the electric cars. But the ma.
lor!ty Of the uniortunutes spent the day
swclterlng and hoping In vain that the
fai!rond company would pud some way
to relieve thCm.
At the a. r. q. headquarters to-day
tho principal work was tho direction Of
affairs on tho terminal ayBtems OF tho
Illinois Central, the Burlington and the
Northwestern. 4 delegation from tho
Chicago {; Grand Trunk reported that
road tied up from Battle Crock 20 Chi
cag0 and that Superintendent. Atwater
had given It out that no freight would
be noyol on tAa. road until November
!, If necessary.
At Western aT0nuo and Indiana
'treot, an open air mass.mentjng was
old Of all tho mon employed In oyery
ranch o. train service on tho Ni,wau.
PC road within terminal limits. i
solution was passed without dis.
ntmg voice that the. men refuse 10
work. A similar meeting was held at
ElstOn, on tho Grand Trunk, which was
attended by engineers, hremeu and
BYischmeu, and at which a resolution
was passed that no work should be per.
formed after tomorrow.
TelcEram5 wore received from Ameri-
can Railway Union officials at Denver
that tho Union Pacific thero was tied
uD, and from Great Falls that tho Bion.
tana union was at Btaudstill, every
body, from trackmen to engineers, hav.
ing quit
On tho Wabash road only one train
has passed. Decatur. lila. Five hun
dred passengers are side-trncsel and
have tcloGraphel tho governor for as
sistance.
News comes from San Francisco that
a trestle was fired on tho Southern
Pacific, il was said By tho strikers, but
they deny it and rided in oLtingulshing
the flames.
--LATEST SITUATION.
In Chicago and vicinity. the day wna
spent by the two contending iorcos in
tho great railway strike in playing 4
waiting game, each sido narrowly
Watching the iiSxt movo Of the other.
Railway officials profess 70 be san
guiao Of tho ultimate defeat OF tho
strikers and tho lattor equally certain OF
final success. At 4 number OF vantage
points throughout the city, efforts wcrn
mado 70 mOvo freight trains, which
were promptly frustrated by strii;er8
and their sympathizcrs.
Passenger traffic on most Of the roads
was not seriously interfering with
whero Pullman cars were not handled,
except 1T Blue Island, where the Rock
Ialand trains are still held mp.
Troops at Fort Sherman are being
held in readiness TO respond to coll
for their aorvices TO protect property
from tho strikers.
Six persona were to-day given uu'
thority TO tic up oyory Chicago indus
trw By a resolution adopted NJ tho
meeting at the trade and labor a5sem-
blv the memberu Of the executive COM
mittee we're given absolute power TO act
in support OF the American Railway
Union until the boycott aud Pullman
strike lie settled.
Word from Philadelphia and other
eastern points is to the oloct that divia-
ions Of the a. r, U. are bcing organ
lied.