The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-05
,pecial Dispatch to the Standard

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Kalispell. Mont. Nov. 4.-Roy Good
win called a strike on the Kafispell
division of the Great Northern last
might to go into effect at IL p. m. Only
10 employees of the road attended the
meeting. at which it was decided to
strike. Those loudest in the demand
for a strike are not are at work on
the line and many of them are not
railroad men. At the appointed hour
no one stopped. All the crews came
when called. and trainmen, engineers,
trackmen, dispatchers and operators
declared their intention to stay with
the company and respond to all calls
for duty. Employees of all classes loud
ly denounce the strike. Three fire.
men, one engineer. one section fore
man and about 80 hoodlums, who have
been discharged. compose the sum to-
tai of the strikers. They were Joined
by a few Knights of Labor of this
city who are not representative la
boring men in any sense. At IL
o'clock "a mob of about so went to the
round house and ran snow dozer
into the turn table pit. completely
blocking it. They then killed all the
engines in the round house. Superin-
tendent Ryan Immediately began to
take prompt action. Sheriff Baldwin
and City Marshal Hoover were called
upon and promptly swore in "a large
number of deputies, who patrolled the
track till morning. Two freight
trains came in at o'clock a. m. Depu-
ties were placed in charge of them and
they were kent alive. No further
demonstrations were made on the part
of the mob. which divided up into
small SQUADS.
Roy Goodwin was to lbe seen chasing
around. up and down the tracks. CIV
ing whispered orders. 1t was Super
intendent Ryan now who made the
demonstrations. At o'clock a. m.
Justice Nash and Assistant County
Attorney Bremen were routed out of
bed and warrants were sworn out for
Roy Goodwin. Nick Moran, t. p.
Bickles. A. Malcolm and Steve Tucker,
charging them with malicious destruc-
tion of railway property. Goodwin
was found about "a. m. and put under
arrest with bonds fixed at $500, which
he only secured after securing the
town till noon. The others were ar
rested later and put under the same
bonds. The examination was set for
2 o'clock this afternoon, but subse-
quently postponed to 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning. The hostler at the
round house says he can identify the
ones above named as those who came
to the round house to kill the engines
and ditch the cars. When the citizens
learned this morning of the attempted
strike, and learning that 1t was called
and agitated by those who have no
interests in common with the railroad
men in active service. general indigna-
tion was expressed and Goodwin was
denounced in no uncertain tones. Aft
er his speech in Spokane. in which he
urged bullets in the place of ballots.
citizens who held any respect for him
lost 1t. The damage done by the mob
was soon repaired and the trains set
to moving without interference.
I The sensation of the day was when a
urowd of citizens assembled at the de-
pot to await the arrival of the west
bound passenger. 1t was reported out
of Columbia Fails. Is miles distant. al
2:40 p. m. Fonty minutes elapsed and
uneasiness began TO be felt. In just one
hour Engineer Buckley whistled in. The
news was then given that a dastardly
attempt had been made to wreck the
passenger train. The torch had been
applied TO bridge just west of the big
cut this side of Columbia Falls and the
fire was just gaining headway as the
train dashed onto the bridge. The en-
gineer applied the air, and the train
was stopped right on the bridge. Fiji
teen minutes later and s1le train, with
dts human freight would have been piled
up. and the awful results can only be
imagined. Then Goodwin was denounc-
ed in THE strongest kind of language as
an unsafe man TO be allowed in any
community. A reward OF $500 was offer
ed by the Great Northern and $500 by
Governor Richards for the apprehen-
sion Of the persons who ATTEMPTED 90
wreck the train The line Of action
adopted by the strikers is right in line
with Goodwin's Spokane speech. and
the community VIII only be satisfied to
see him summartly dealt with by the
courts and II any further attempts az
anain-wrecking are made the citizens