The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-05
NEW COXEY'S ARMY ROUTED.
,uoUi \DRED W iRCHING STRIk-
,gs rIIE fRON NEW HAVEN.
,,., started rs strong From the Harlem
Rnrr ON Friia, and Took Recruits
..Tncy went Aiong-M archers on the
nranch Roads. TOO strong Patrol
Iuard tracks from lie re 10 New Haven.

yrw HAVEN, Conn, May 4.-Forty local
r,l,,mrH. iw"nty deputy sherffs OF New
tI.ysn county and dozen deputy sherifYs
! fran Fairfield county were summoned
nv president john NJ Hall of the New York,
ysw Haven and Hartford Railroad this
morinl to head OFF what is known az
cows army, composed of about 200
striking rack laborers, who started up
,ne nnc from The Harlem River to get all
the other rack laborers out A good many
in the army are Italians
President Hall kept track Of the army
from M. time it started until it arrived at
IVES, Haven, five miles west of this city.
hi. morning 1t made no stop in Bridge
mort. winch it reached at o'clock in the
morning for there it was learned that the
track ropairers of the road had struck
on saturday
The army went on to Stratford, where it's
leader, tried to persuade Foreman Mitchell
Neaon and his gang to join the movement.
When Nealon refused they chased him
across lots and were in fair way of taking
him captive when several deputy sberiffs
put the army to rout, and it headed once
more for this city.
At Milford the army won over al! the
track repairers, and they made a descent
on all the bakeries in the town. Every
thing was paid for.
All this time the officers OF the road. under
the direction OF President Hall, who called
in the local police and the county sheriffs,
we're preparing TO arrest the army the mo-
ment it put foot on railroad property in
this city, The police force was stationed
alongside the tracks where they were to
deputy sheriffs we're secreted in West Haven,
ready to attack the army from the rear
1t was noon when the army. marched
through West Haven along the tracks. armed
with pickaxes. clubs and shovels. A couple
OF wesdressed Italians led the force
dust as the army passed the station at
West Haven the noon train for New York
pulled into the station and stopped. From
the rear passenger coach a note was dropped
on the tracks and at the same time some one
on the train yelled to the two leaders of the
army. They picked up the note and read it.
In an instant the army wheeled about.
turned its back on New Haven and started
for the train still standing at the station.
Half a dozen deputy sheriffs boarded tho
train with the army to preserve order.
That was the last seen of the army in this
neighborhood.
What the note contained is not known,
hut it is believed to have been a warning
from some friends Of the army in this city.
STAMFORD. Conn, May THE strike
among the trackmen of the New York. New
Friday by gang OF twenty-five men who
quit work at the Harlem River. demanding
s? day and eight hours, instead of a ten
hour day for 80. has spread through
out the New York division. The march Of
the strikers along the system has PARTLY
When last heard Of here this morning,
b s~as cf ti1- strikers was at Naugatuck
had started out from Norwalk and was
marching over the Danbury branch.
II is estimated that 900 laborers have been
induced TO stop work.
NoRwALK, Conn, May 4.-There is much
trouble among the section gangs Of the
road A party of strikers arrived Ia South
Norwalk to-day and az result Foreman
Smith Of the South Norwalk section and
Foreman Callahan of the East Norwalk
section lost nine men each. The strikers
then proceeded to Norwalk and picked
M Foreman James Monahan's men at the
New Canaan crossing, four in number
incidentally they had secured Foreman
Joseph Monahan's men on the Wilson Point
section, nine in number.
From Norwak they went up the Danbury
road and it is expected that they will rake
in lot of section men.
The officers of the New York, New Haven
q general order TO all employees calling
for cl ,se watch to be kept on the tracks.
This was done for fear the striking track
men would attempt to wreck or derail
trains
4 large number OF men were detailed to
patrol duty, and II was said late last night
that every bit of track from New Haven
10 this city was being closely watched. 1t
vas also stated that number OF Pinkerton
detectives had been employed.
Where the men who left West Haven on
train yesterday went to was not known.