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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE l.Ki; AT H4ILKOAD Extend I in: Over l our StHlea The Striker ure Guiiilutr Nlreiiutti The HI ill tar Force AluioHt Lneless. We continue to condeneo tho full accounts of the great railroad strike into readable limits. Jt appears that , it was occisioned by the cutting down sf salaries by thq railroad companiee 15 per cent. This reduced the cotti-peusation cotti-peusation of the Becond clasa workmen work-men to a point which they considered lielow living rates, and the movement t quit work appears to have been almost al-most spontaneous. OHIO. On Thursday the strike on the Bui limore it Ohio road extended to the Ohio division, and all freight trains were detained at Newark and other poinls, but tliere are no demonetru tioue of violence. The diLticully extended ex-tended to Columbus, and al! ireigiit trains were slopped there and :.t utlier points. The conductors and engineers refused to join ths strikers, but give them sympathy. The Bherifl of Licking county has demundod military assistance. Governor Young una called out four nompanies to sup press the Newark strikers. He issued a proclamation commanding the striken, to desist from their lawleeu-ness?. lawleeu-ness?. WEST VIRGINIA. A train which left Martinsburg fur Baltimore on Thursday, guarded by a squad of trcops, got through safely to Cumberland, wiiere a mob awaited the tram, bot it was pP6tecteU"by the troops. At lUartinBburg on Thursday evening the arrest of one ot the strikers ld all the rest to retire to their homes. A number of them would return to work were they not afraid. Their wives and daughters are unwilling un-willing that they should ttake the risk ot going to work. On Friday mom-iDg mom-iDg (General French, commanding the United States troops at Martinsburg, warned all persons againBt interrupting interrupt-ing travel on the Baltimore and Obio rmlroad at their peril. An additional detachment of troops were forwarded to Keyeer, where the strikers hold possession of the trains, and the strikers at Uraiton also Bent reinforcements rein-forcements to their compatriots. Trains continued te be forwarded from Martiueburg under the protection protec-tion of tbe military. The strikers were not permitted to get near enough to the track to obstruct the trains. A striker named Davis has been arrested at Martinsburg. The ofli-cers ofli-cers are looking for other conspicuous obstructors of tbe Irains. Lieutenant Curtis, of the army, reports that upon arriving at Keyser the firemen and engineer were taken from a tram and it was run on a Biding, his detachment de-tachment being too Btnall for eifective operations. General French has forwarded for-warded another company. l'ENNSVLVASIA. The Btrike on the Pennsylvania Central railroad had generally extended ex-tended to all westerly points of the road. At Pittsburg a large meeting of the strikers was held Thursday night, and it wai determined to continue con-tinue tbe strike until the wages ruling prior to June 1st were restored and all employes dismissed for taking part in the strike were restored to their positions. During tbe forenoon of Thursday the strikers kept possession of the main track, allowing no freight traina to be moved. Up to 1 o'clock p.m. the ranks of the strikers were increasing from every train coming into Pittsburg. At least 500 loaded freight cars lined the track. Sherifi Fife of Alleghany county, on Thursday night, having ordered , the mob to disperse to no effect, the strikers Baying that they would not permit trains to go out and that they did not care for any force the sheriff could muster, that officer Bent a dispatch dis-patch to the governor of Pennsylvania requesting him to call out a military force to suppress the riot. The governor gov-ernor ordered General Pearson to authorities, and he at once ordered the 18th regiment of national guards to be ready for duty at the Union depot at 7 o'clock on Friday morning. morn-ing. Gov. Hart ran ft also issued a proclamation admonishing all engaged en-gaged in riotous proceedings to disperse, dis-perse, otherwise the militia would be used to enforce obedience to the law. It was believed on Thursday that if the Pennsylvania railroad men could hold out till noon, the Pan Handle and Fort Wayne roads would join in the Btrike. Tbe strikers cay in case these roads join, the Michigan and Lake Shore roads will also go in ai d thus a strong eflort will be made to stop all freights between the east and west. Pittsburg, 20. Sixty-eight cars of stock horn the weal, which had collected col-lected on the Pennsylvania tracks, were permitted by the strikers to proceed to East Liberty and discharge their loads. Thirty-eight cars more arrived over the Fort Wayne road and were u .loaded also, but a committee com-mittee of strikers accompanied each engine to ee that the crews did not oppose the etrike. An immense crowd assembled at the outer depot of 28 ih street, but nothing had occurred up to noon, when at a meeting of the Btrikers, one of lliem read a dispatch from HornellBville, signed P. J. Dana, which created the wildest excitement. It announced that the firemen and brakcBmen on tho New York and Erie railroad bad quit work that morning. The BherifTappeared at the meeting meet-ing and read the governor's proclamation, procla-mation, which whs greeted with hisses and hoots. Ho assured the strikers that the law would be enforced at any c( at. He counseled quiet. General Pearson then said that there seemed to be a disposition to treat the matter lightly. He warned them that it was g.'riuus. He had tho warmest sym-pithy sym-pithy for tiient, but those who know him knew be would obey his orders horn the governor. He whs frequently fre-quently and roughly interrupted by elmracteristifi uufi-tioiia. The mi lit .-try now here are in-snfb::ient in-snfb::ient lit supprivs any possible riot. Serioui trouble is expected from the determined Btrikers nhould the military attempt to open the blockade. About 140 membcrB of the ltith regiment, under Cotouel Guthrie, arc at East Liberty. At Torrens station this afternoon tho strikers gathered in force and loudly denounced General Pearson and the military, and threatened to shoot Pearson should ho attempt, as he promised, to briny tho first train through himself. The Block yards men seem determined to pre servo the blockade, even by resisting the military. Up to 3 o'clock p.m. no attempt had been made to move tho cars. NEW YOBK. East Buffalo, 20. Orders have been received at the Erie railway shipping 'ollice to take no Block lor shipment east to day on account of a strike on trains reaching Hornellsville. The men quietly quit their cars. A dispatch from Hornellsville says that the strike thero is led by a discharged brake-man. brake-man. TrainB east on the Erie road are running regularly. NEBRASKA. Omaha, 20. The Union Pacific employes met here in large numbers last night to consider the reduction in their waes. A com mitten was appointed to express to General SuDer-intendent SuDer-intendent Clark the wisheB of the employed. The speakers strongly deprecated de-precated a strike except as a laet resort. |