The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-03-14
FREIGHTS HALTED
AT KINGS MOUNTAIN
AND FRIENDS or WHITE sTRIK.
ERs CHASE NEGRO FIREMEN
FROM ENGINE CABS.

Negro firemen on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad have been living
hard as they passed through Kings
Mountain, Waynesburg and other
points in this section. Sympathy ev-
erywhere up and down the line is
with the white striking firemen, and
number OF the negro "scabs" have
been run away from their engines by
sympathizers of the white men.
Passenger trains Of the Queen &
| Crescent route are being operated
practically on schedule time. but
| freight traffic has been virtually aban-
doned. Only one freight train passed
Somerset yesterday and II was without
a fireman, an armed crowd at Kings
Mountain, having forced the firemen
to leave his cab. A railroad detective
who had been riding in the cab, sup
piled the vacancy ana was firing the
locomotive when II passed Somerset
The fireman's side or the cab was
armored with sheet iron.
A railroad detective was severely
cut by a crowd at Oneida, Tenn.
Freight train going South was boarded
at Oneida and the negro fireman was
removed from the cab. The detec-
tive, who was riding in the cab was
ordered to leave, but resisted and was
badly cut by members or the boarding
party. He was taken to a hospital
in Lexington. He is ,aid to have re-
celved gashes on his face, arms and
back and to be in a serious condition.
No other casualties have been re-
ported but the firemen IT said to have
been compelled TO quit their posts at
n number OF stations. No fireman on
a freight train has been permitted to
pass Kings Mountain. Although curl
Gus crowds are congregated at most
OF the railroad stations along this
part OF the line the gathering at Kings
Mountain but found that no violence
ana aggressive Three freight trains
we're tied up there YESTERDAY on &C
count of the firemen having been re-
moved from the cabs and two addition
al trains We're halted One freight
train is standing at South Fork. where
the fireman slipped out of his cab and
disappeared before the engineer miss
ed ham.
At Science Hill Monday night a
crowd had gathered at the station to
watch the trains pass, and as a freight
passed carry ing a negro fireman q
shot rang out from the engine can
and whistleu by a Science Hill citizen. .
The fireman thought the crowd was a
mob after him and is said to have /
fired to scare them. The train was
stopped and he was taken off and .
made to leave town at once.
Detective James Carl, who was shot .
through the BODY by a mountain marks .
man at Glen Mary, Tenn, Sunday is .
in a critical condition at the Somerset /
Hospital. Detectives are riding in the .
cabs with the engineers and firemen .
OF all moving trains, and extra guards .
are being placed along the company's .
right Of way.
Sheriff McCarty went to Kings .
bu found that no violence /
was being attempted against the ne
groes. The Colored firemen who
would come though would generally /
Jump off and run at the sign of a .
crowd, many of which were half grown
boys.
Orders were received by the agent at
not TO permit a crowd TO
gather around the depot. Everywhere
up and down the line, sympathy seems |
to be entirely with the strikers and
against the railroad. but there seems
to be no desire for violence on the
part of anv in Lincoln, the demon
STATIONS seeming to be more for eff
feet to scare off the 'scabs" than any
thing else.
A sympathetic strike of the engin-
GERS Is expected to follow the action
of the firemen.
They have notified the officials that
the risk is too great and they will not .
move a wheel even under guard. Brake l
men on the line also delivered them .
selves Of an ultimatum that unless the
company took steps to remedy the
situation at once they would strike in ,
sympathy with the firemen.
Several machinists of Somerset who |
have been discharged because Iney re-
fused to take the place of the strikers /
have appealed TO their union, and as a
result the machinists may follow suit. |
The Queen and Crescent has issued or /
ders that no negroes be placed on duty
north OF Chattanooga and the employ |
inent Of white strikers be pushed. The |
latter. however, are no longer in evil I
dence, for the strike sympathizers
have made too evident their intention .
to forcibly aid the cause of the fire
men