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Show DESPERATE STRIKERS. ! At Fort Worth, Texas, There is a Narrow Escape from a Sloody Conflict. Usual Freight Shipments Resumed on Gould's Southwest System. The Strike of the Transfer Men Stops All Traffic in St. Lonis. Status of the Great Strike. Sx. Louis, April 1. About noon to-day several representative members of the Merchants' . Exchange, headed by D. R. Francis, Mayor of the city, called upon Governor Oglesby of Illinois in East St.' Louis. Speeches were, made, setting forth the situation and urging 'upon himthe necessity of calling out the militia at once to restore order and effect a resumption of freight traffic. The Governor replied that while he knew the authorities of East St. Louis were unable to cope with the situation, the county of St. Clair was large and populous pop-ulous and the powers of the sheriff great. These had not been exhausted, and until they were he COULD NOT CALL ON THE MELITABT FOB AID. If, however, he should be actually obliged to bring soldiers here they would come for aotive service and resolute work. There would be no nonsense nor child's play about it. Kansas Cm, April 1. The Journal's Topeka To-peka special says: Governor Martin received a dispatch to-night from State Adjutant-General Adjutant-General Campbell at Parsons, Kansas, saying say-ing tiie mob was seemingly in the ascendency ascend-ency there, and he could not start the trains without aid. The Governor thereupon authorized au-thorized the CALLING OUT THE FIRST EEGIMENT OF STATE MILITIA To-morrow morning, and telegraphed General Gen-eral Carroll at Paola, to go to Parsons and take command. Pabsons, Kansas, April 1. Fifteen hundred hun-dred people gathered this morning to witness wit-ness what was expected to be the last attempt at-tempt to start trains before resorting to military mil-itary assistance. A wrecking train was started to clear the track of the wreck caused by the strikers, and it was allowed to go. When the freight had been made up, however, the STBIKEBS PBOMPTLY "KILLED" THE ENGINE. No further movement was made, and Adjutant Ad-jutant General Campbell requested the Governor Gov-ernor to order out the militia. ' Dallas, Texas, April 1. Receiver Sheldon last night received a telegram from Martin Irons asking if he would set all the strikers to work in their former places and arbitrate. Sheldon has replied he cannot set all to work, as it would necessitate discharging the men who came to the company in their need. -He adds that the discharge of Hall is the only grievance he knows of; says the facts in Hall's case had been denied by the newspapers since the strike commenced, and goes on to say that the proper thing for Hall to do is to appeal to the court for redress. It is the proper arbitrator in such cases, and will give speedy justice to all. THE KNIGHTS' APPEAL. To the Public : As showing the sincerity of the railroad managers in their treatment of the Knights of Labor, we respectfully state that pursuant to an order of our General Executive Ex-ecutive Board we this day sent a committee tothe""riianagers of the several railroads offering to return the men to work, and in no instance would they be received or treated with, each official in turn refusing them employment. em-ployment. Hoxie has agreed to receive the committee of employes to adjust any grievances griev-ances which may exist. He refuses personally person-ally and through his subordinates to recognize recog-nize any of us as employes, and refuses to receive any but such as he calls employes. In short, after himseif and Gould have con veyed the impression to the world that they are willing to settle, they refuse to settle. Now, we appeal to a candid and suffering public on whom is falling all the weight of this great conflict, if we have not been deceived enough. How much is long-suffering labor to bear? This great strike never would have been, had Hoxie condescended months ago to hear our complaints. We do not claim to be more than human. It should not be expected of us to be more than human. In this country position makes no man king or slave, and an imperious refusal on the part of one citizen to confer with ; other citizens with whom he may have business busi-ness connections, when such refusal begets great business and social revolution, is not only a mistake, but a crime against the public. pub-lic. Gould is invoking the law against little criminals who are made desperate by his policy of duplicity and oppression, and yet the terrorized publio does not invoke the law against the arch-criminal of the land. If we cannot be allowed to go to work the strike must go on. By order of Executive Board, District Assembly No. 1. SOME SIGNIFICANT TALK. Chairman Martin Irons, A. C. Coughlan and other members of the Executive Committee, Com-mittee, when asked for further information regarding the effect of the appeal upon the situation, refused positively to discuss the subject. One of the committeemen said: "We have a large army at our command and a desperate fight ahead of us, therefore we do not propose to expose our plans until they have been perfected." FOBT WOBTH CAPTUBED BY STBIKEBS. Fobt Wobth, Texas, April 2. Fort Worth is in the hands of a mob. A citizens' posse, summoned by the Sheriff, assembled this morning at the Missouri Pacific yards. They met some 303 strong, according to orders. About 400 strikers, armed, desperate and ready for bloodshed, were on the scene. Fifty well-armed officers were also on hand. A freight train was made up and a Missouri Pacifio engine came along to pull out the train, and a grand rush was made by the strikers for the engine. Arms were presented pre-sented on both sides. The engine was not molested, but ' ;-. ALL CABS WEBE UNCOUPLED. And even the nuts were taken out of the draw-heads. Some of the Knights were arrested, ar-rested, and the engine sent back to the round-house. All attempts to move trains were abandoned. The citizens lacked organization. organ-ization. They had no leader, while every man in the ranks of the strikers was a leader. Mayor Smith ordered the strikers to disperse, but they oried "Rats ! No more Peter Smith for Mayor again." The sheriff is summoning citizens to go armed to the Missouri Pacifio yards. The strikers' places are all filled here. They are HUNGBX AND BLOODTHIRSTY. The most conservative citizens are anticipating antici-pating grave trouble in the restoration of law and order. NO CHANGE AT ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, April 2. The situationjs unaffected. un-affected. The strike on Gould's Southwestern South-western system has developed no change this morning. No hope is entertained of the Knights returning, at least until the Executive Ex-ecutive Board shall have arrived m East St. Trfmis The same large crowd collected this morning about the freight yards to prevent the removal of freight. TOTOVr BESUMED ON THE SOUTHWEST SYSTEM. St. Louis, April 2.TMissouri Pacifio freSht agents are receiving freight this mornhU 1 or all points on the Gould South-we-TaSd the business of those roads is S conducted as it was before the S. More of the Knights have gone back ?o work, but the officials say they have employed em-ployed a sufficient number of men since the Khtslrft their employ to resume freight trE?erythingup.to now in East St. Louis has remained quiet. h 8 stbmofthstbansfebmen Renders receiving freight at the depots nn- 1 1 possible, and no freight trains have been started out this morning. Switch engineers have been running back and forth on the yards without interference from the strikers, i tbouble at fobt wobth. St. Louis, April 2. Special from Fort Worth says: Reports just reached this city from Missouri Pacifio yards that part of the track has been torn up and officers have been sent to look into the matter. Strikers and the mob element have their way in the Missouri Pacific yards. |