The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-03
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Party of Special Strike Officers
Fired Upon.
One Is Killed and Tive Others
Wounded.
QUIETAT OTHER POINTS
Efforts to Burn Car in Chicago
Frustrated.
Both Sides Settle Down for a
Long Struggle.


Houston, Oct. al. J. Pipes, special
officer from Athens. Texas was shot
and killed just inside the gates of the
shop yard today while en- route with
small party of officers and strike
breakers from a train to the yard. S.
B. Crockett. another special officer of
the party, who was near Pipes. and
who was wounded, says the shots were
fired from within the yards where
number of guards were stationed.
Captain H. S. Sisk also injured, who
was escorting the party to the yards,
says the shots came from the crowd Of
strikers following his charges and that
he believes he fired one shot in reply.
Another version of the affair de-
veloped in a statement by J. H. Day,
one of the company's employees. that
| they were not fired either by guards or
by strikers. He asserts the shots
came from side direction. In addi-
ton to those shot or stoned Gorodn
Knight. a strike breaker, was stabbed
in the face. All the injured are ex-
pected to recover.
Chief of Police Voss said that his
investigation indicated the strikers
were rot making threats but were try
ing to persuade the strike breakers not
to take their places. All was quiet at
the shop yards today.
Chicago, Oct 3.-One act of vio-
lence was reported during the morn
ing at Dauphin park where an at
tempt was made to set fire to a box
car of a train standing on a switch
track. Policemen extinguished the
flames before much damage had been
done. The men who sought to burn
the car escaped.
Dauphin park is about a mile from
the Burnside shops and the police
les were strike sympathizers or Nag-
rants.
Peace and quiet reigned at the
Burnside shops of the Illinois Central
railroad company during the early
morning hours. The 500 men who are
still employed at the plant were not
annoyed as they passed through the
big gates to the shops. Groups of
strikers stood outside but they made
no attempt to interfere with the men
who remained at work. A force of 200
policemen was on duty patrolling the
plant and preventing the gathering of
crowds No striker was allowed to
go within l feet of the fence sur
rounding the works. Illinois Central
officials declared that the company
could fill the vacancies caused by the
walkOut in an hour, but that there
was no need of maintaining such a
large force at present. They insist
that the companys service has not
been interfered with in any way by
the strike. Representatives of the la
Dor unions deny the truth of the COM
pany's claims and insist that there are
not more than 200 men at work at
Burnside and that the entire repair
department will be crippled and entire
service impaired in few days unless
the strike is settled and men return
to their places.
One Dead in Battle at Houston.
Houston, Tex, Oct. 3.=One unidenti-
fled strike breaker dead, another. S. d
seriously wounded, Gordon Knight, of
Athens, also strike breaker, badly
cut and bruised, and Captain S. d.
SiSk, special guard, battered, is the re-
suit of a melee that followed the dis
embarkation shortly after midnight of
strike breakers brought from New Or
leans to replace employees in the
Houston shops of the Hartman lines
now on strike.
Conflicting statements are made as
to the responsibility for the affray
Quiet at Memphis
Memphis, Oct. 3.-NO change was ap-
parent in the local strike situation to-
day. The Illinois Central dispatched
four freight trains from the local yards
this morning instead of the usual rs or
80. Although the railroad has a large
number of men at work in the freight
offices they are inexperienced men and
the strikers say the freight is accum-
ulating.
Local freight agents say that bus
ness is improving for the receiving and |
delivering of all freight within a day
or two.
Settle Down for Long Struggle.
New Orleans, Oct. 3.-Both sides of |
the railway strike appear to have set
tied down for a long struggle. The |
railroad officials in this city will not |
discuss the strike. except to predict |
that they will soon begin accepting all |
freight offered for shipment. The |
strikers have been orderly since two or
three strikers were sent to Jail for dis
obeying a court injunction. The rail- |
road has not yet put strike breakers to |
work in the shops. docks or freight
sheds.
Quiet on Coast.
San Francisco, Oct 3.-There was no /
change apparent today in the shop |
mems strike on the Hartman lines on |
the Pacific coast. The various shops |
were picketed as usual but the union |
outposts refrained from violence or |
harshness in accosting those who |
passed through their lines. No attempt |
to increase the small force still at work |
was reported by the night duty men in |
the local shops. Supplies for the guards |
quartered within the stockade have |
been taken in at intervals.
At Oakland. where nonunion men !
We're smuggled in night before last, |
quiet also prevailed. Trains were NOV
ing everywhere on schedule
A meeting of the switchmen of the |
Oakland yards has been called for to- /
night when the question Of a sym |
pathetic strike will be considered.
It is reported a proposal has been |
sent to the railroad by the strikers of /
the Bay region, offering to discounten-