| Show THE LEHIGH VALLEY STRIKE BUFFALO N Y aug 14 there is no BO further dh the fact that the strike of eris erie lehigh valley switchmen la Is a serious matter there had been more or less legs trouble saturday between the strikers and their sympathizers and the men who are doing tb the e strikers work and a few desultory assaults haid had occurred things began to put on a more serious aspect at 2 this morning when a series of incendiary fires broke out simultaneously in the lehigh valley yards eighteen or twenty freight oars cars filled with fuel cotton hay aud various other merchandise two passenger coaches and two watchmen watch mens s houses burned the water tank adjacent to th coal trestles was smashed and an engine taking water there wrecked by a string of ton ten runaway coal cars care that had bad been turned loose from the trestle A little office building and two or three freight care can were first destroyed in the south yards the flames were next discovered in the pau coaches used for the conveyance of workmen Inthe in the yards east in dingen street THE RAGED AMONG THE CAJU CABS OF merchandise the firemen however opre prevented vented the destruction of it a 9 great number of cars care the cf ficere are unable to find and any suspicious auspicious characters the era a ra and their sympathizers have pulled the pi pine turned the switches and driven off the crown crews three men are at the hospital and were badly hurt one of the most moat cowardly things thing done was throwing the switches under passenger train no 17 at williams street at tonight two passenger coaches were thrown from the track but the conductor thinks that none were hurt though many were badly frightened fifty men boarded passenger train no 3 at 11 and THE EMPLOY driving them off the crew finally succeeded in getting tire the train to the tn station tion the mob took possession of the Seneca street switches three or four times during the day and drove off the signal ignal mon men in the lehigh yards at tonight the scones scenes of last night were repeated it was plainly intimated by erie officials that workmen from the fast east were engaged to take the places of the strikers the strikers assert that the road to is losing heavily by not having mon men to perform the work of the strikers two trains of freight oars care standing on the siding in a railroad suburb of buffalo were burned tonight the lehigh valley has called on the sheriff for protection he sent six d deputies I 1 aties to the wane scene and will swear in fifty more tomorrow later at 1 fire broke out in three places in the lehigh yards again simultaneously the fire department has been unable to quench it new york express no 1 the erie was held two miles out because it cannot pass pan new york express no 4 has not been bent out for the same mama reason at the same time switch lighta on the erie between south street and western now new york and the pennsylvania target were stolen at am the the passengers on tiie the two trains train sou on the lehigh and erie which were ditched at william street were brought into the station nobody was injured superintendent brunn reports that the fire la is still raging among the cars of merchandise in the yards at cheato wagland waga and says the sheriff seems power low lew to interfere though called on to protect the railroad property aug a m word has ban just been received that a train of forty two care on the erie road filled with fine merchandise a mile east of william street to ie now burning fiercely with no protection BUFFALO aug 15 the police commissioners today are busy swearing special in policemen on account of the railroad strike the sheriff Is ie also swearing in deputies outside the city limits at the yards the sheriff will wili call on the military only as an a last re sort in the ruins of one of tn the earn cars burned lost last night the police have found the remains of an empty kerosene can showing the manner in which the fire was started by the incendiaries the car department claims that the work of the men at the freight car department was much impeded by the cutting of the hose by unknown parties twelve lengths of hose were cut and rendered useless during the night it is in estimated that from to oars cars were destroyed by incendiary fire everything was quiet in the yards up to noon the reported strike will be likely to spread to the erie yards ards at grand master sweeney sweeney emphatically condemns the acts of lawlessness and states it was the work of irresponsible individuals who could not be controlled and not of the strikers BUFFALO N Y aug 16 15 this af aft ernon twania or thirty striking switchmen boarded a freight train pull ing into the city to set the brakes and stall the train they pulled the coupling pins throwing the he pins and links into a stagnant pool and disappeared A new supply of pins and links were procured and the train proceeded amid considerable excitement the only lehigh valley train that moved today was a coal train which went out at guarded carded by eight policemen the al nickel ckel plate succeeded in moving thirty five oars barsoi ot live stock from the lehigh to the lake shore tracks but when the men learned of it this morning they refused to make the cars can up in the ibe trains bound for new york one hundred and seventy three oars of live stock belonging to the erie are standing on OB the west shore tracks which the men refused to handle they were discharged in turn as they do declined and in consequence stood in hourly expectation of being ordered out by the union in the philadelphia reading yards not a car has moved since saturday A large force of moo meo are expected tomorrow and an effort will be made to push the work the sheriffs posse which went to east buffalo this afternoon was greeted with jeers by the assembled strikers specials who had been aa brave as lions on the train and indulged Indal ged in tall talk oll fell their courage oozing away as soon as they landed and finally in response to tw the appeals of the men one after another threw away ther clubs or handed them to the powerless sheriff while at each conversion ft a cheer went up from the strikers and soon boon all that chat remained of the sheriffs brave posse could be counted on the fingers of one hand the sheriff bowed down to the inevitable and came back to buffalo to call out the militia there has baa been no disturbance diat up to 11 p m tonight at the cheektowaga yards except the burning of one empty lehigh freight car at p in the seventh regiment and the sixty ninth regiment assembled aasem bled at armours ready to move at a moments notice though the amateurs ama teura do not much rellah relish the idea ot a repetition of the fight ot of 1877 reliable reports received from east buffalo and ahe show that the lehigh valley road had lost seventy two freight care can by the fire and the erie fourteen railroad men profess to be utterly unable at present to fix the estimate of the loss they are acting very cautiously on this point for the reason that a claim will be made against the city and county for damages and the amount of looses loises loi ses has ban not yet been figured up it ic is known however that many of the cars were destroyed the sixty fifth regiment has baa just been sent to cheektowaga to guard the lehigh valley and erie yards the rest reef of the night the seventy fourth regiment ban bah just been called out to protect the central and west shore share property it being feared that the switch switchmen men on these roads may go out tonight elmima N Y aug 15 great excitement cit ement prevails at waverly N Y on account of the strike of the lehigh switchmen A collision between strikers and switchmen seemed inevitable this morning over an attempt to run an engine and caboose out of erie pa just across the line men surrounded the engine and refused to let jet them go sheriff powell turned the witch switch himself but it was immediately turned back by the strike st riken reThe the switch was finally made but the strikers pulled the coupling pin between the engine and cars care and made another delay dejay the sheriff tried to arrest some men but burthey they were immediately rescued by their comrades superintendent stephenson Stephe naon and the sheriff mounted the pilot and could not 66 t keep the men away from the engine at noon the engine had gone about yards and the STRIKERS WERE WEBB IN COMMAND OF THE f SITUATION the altercations altercation between the sheriff and pone poem had bad been conducted thus thug far without serious cerious result reaul tf sixty men were ordered to report to superintendent stephenson this morning to take the he place of the strikers 8 they reported hut but refused to go to work A union meeting of trainmen W wa held beld this afternoon at sayre bayre and it was waa decided that trainmen would not do switchmen s work tue the turmoil has haa subsided the sheriff admitting his bis powerlessness but more trouble to is threatened when he under make the promised arrests arresto with a larger force one of the strikers tr iken wm jones jonee was waa hurt in one of the melea males with the Sherlf Ps force buffalo N J aug 16 there were no developments development in the switchmen strike during tb bight and the situation has lin improve proved dT with two excellent regiments or of aa dional guards in ia the field and the tha reinforced by specials the fe beelin elina is much more reassuring than fegte day the police claim to be able to ta handle the strike within the city AUBURN N Y aug 16 capt kirby of the second company of ali 6 wheeler rifles has received orders to ho hold his hie company ready to go to buffalo at a moments notice SYRACUSE N Y aug 16 the forty first company of the national 9 guard la Is under orders to be ready at q mo moments ments notice to go to buffalo BUFFALO aug 16 there berena im indications this thia morning of a strike oi ott the central centra it is known that a corn coni cittee of switchmen were sent gent to superintendent burrows of the cen celm aral however yesterday for conference mr burrows was waa out on OB the road but the statement of the men was forward forwarded him A reply was received but bug it ga gave ve the men no satisfaction third vice president walter webb of new york central Is in the city been called here 3 having by the gravier graah of the situation and aad the possibility possibility of the great four track rack road batt ing affected in conversation mr webb said the strike has hag not note OR tended to our road and we aue re nok aware that any of our men are to join in the strike the only we have felt is that our men might hr forced from their posts by the other otha strikers prom from 1 khat I 1 learn I 1 think z the switchmen would have wen been driven from their posts last night had it not been for the callior out of the military all AH wab w ask is protection from outside 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