THE ADLETS .
Increased in 11 months to Ang. J,
33,923, or an average gain oriOO a
day.
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THE ADLETS
Jtaereased in 11 months to Aag. 1,
33,923, or an average gate oriOO a
day.
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FORTY SEVENTH TEAS.
PITTSBURG FRIDAY. AUGUST 19. 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
THREE CENT a
LAI ID IB If BUFFALO
r tiis Protecting lump of TJionsaDfls of i state
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FREIGHT TRAINS RUNNING ONCE MORE,
'Though .the Strike Spreads to the Nickel Plate
and May Go Further.
THE SOLDIERS IN SORE STRAITS FOR RATIONS.
Increasing Complications Appear at the Close of the Sixth Day of the Strike
The Trouble May Extend From New York to Chicago in a Few
Days Firemen and Engineers May Be Forced Out The Vanderbilt
Roads in the "Worst Shape President McLeod Refuses Positively to
Arbitrate A Buffalo Paper to Print a Sensatibnal Editorial This After
noon Louisville Switchmen Take Advantage of the Opportunity to
Demand Higher Wages Pinkertons on Guard at Sayre Depew Won't
Talk on the Situation Coal and Iron Police Sworn in at Pottsville
The Lake Shore Strike Merely One for Sympathy.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE PISFATCH.2
Buffalo, Aug. 18. The strike is broken
that is what the railroad men say. The
strikers assert with more confidence than
ever that it has only just began, and that
it will extend to all the roads that touch
Buffalo before the week is out, unless the
roads which they are pleased to say are cow
"tied up" Rive in.
The Central to-day transacted all the
business that came to it in the city. Vice
President "Webb said: "We hare two men
in the yards to take the place of every one
man who is out. "We have had them ever
since a few hours after our old men quit.
Protection Wanted for AH.
"The only reason that we did not put
them out to work was that we did not think
there was sufficient protection for them. All
the freight that comes to us, from whatever
lource, will be handled without delay."
The General Superintendent of the Bead
ing, when seen to-night at his hotel, said:
"We have men to take the places of all the
strikers, and we are ready to put them to
work just the moment the military arrive
in sufficient numbws to assure them pnp
tion. "We experienced no difficulty what
ever; with the exception of an assault here
and there we got along all right"
"Very little was done by the "West Shore
people to-day. The tie-up there more
nearly resembles a tie-up than did the one
on the Central. Only a few trains were
moved, and they with difficulty.
"West Shore In the Worst Shape.
Notwithstanding statements to the con
trary, the "West Shore has not at present
men to take the places of all the strikers
but it can get them the moment it
can assure the workmen they will have pro
tection, and if the road is properly
guarded to-morrow morning, there is little
doubt that the business will be resumed in
short order. The Erie appears to be holding
back and letting the other roads do the
fighting. Officials seem to hope that the
backbone of the strike will be broken
before it is really necessarr
tor them to resume operations.
There was some freight moved by the Erie
to-day, nevertheless, and the officials said
to-night that they expected to have every
thing in operation some time to-morrow.
STRIKERS DRINKING AGAIN
And at Some Folnta Serious Trouble la An
ticipatedHot Wat Thrown on Sen
tinels From Railroad Locomotives
Some Encroachments on So'dlers' Ter
ritory. Buffalo, Aug. 18. Special The
strikers have been congregating all the
evening, just beyond where the soldiers are
encamped, and several times the sentinels
have been obliged to call help to drive
them back.
The sentinels who are stationed under the
Delaware, Lackawanna and "Western bridge,
which goes over the Erie and Lehigh tracks
at Queen street, complain that the engineers
and firemen of the D. L. and "W. squirt hot
water on them from the boilers of the
locomotives when crossing the bridge, and
at the lower end of Queen street sen
tinels have been having some trouble
with the strikers. The Lackawanna Hotel
stands there, and a number of strikers have
been there all the evening. Having tried
unsuccessfully to pass the guard under var
ious pretexts, they settled themselves on the
sidewalk in front of the hotel and spend
their time in gnying the sentinels.
They have also established sentinels of
their own, and stop everyone going by on
the sidewalk. The strikers are drinking
heavily, and it is thought that there may
be some trouble there before Ion;;.
SIX DAYS ON STRIKE
field here to watch and control about 800
strikers. The presence of so large a num
ber of soldiers is relied upon by the railway
officials as a cover under which they may
put to work non-union men already en
gaged to break the freight blockade.
"What the counter.stroke of the strike
leaders may be to this situation was at
nightfall to-night problematic, but it is not
beyond the range of near possibilities that
the firemen and the trainmen on all the
lines where strikes now prevail may be
called out
The situation may be broadly stated thus:
The latest addition of strength to the strik
ing switchmen was 90 men in the Nickel
Plate yards, who struck because asked to
handle boycotted freight. So now the
switchmen upon the entire Vanderbilt
system in this vicinity are out. The Lake
Shore men, to be sure, were working on the
"Western schedule at the same rates for
which their colleagues in Buffalo went on
strike last Saturday. They went out solely
to add strength to the movement of their
fellows.
Nickel rlate Men Oat on Sympathy.
The Nickel Plate men, who went out to
day, struck only out of sympathy, for they
are receiving at least 10 per cent higher
rates than the men who originated' the
strike. The Michigan Central, which is part
of the Vanderbilt system, practically has no
yards in Buffalo, its switching being done
on the Central's tracks. So stands the Van
derbilt system, so far as the strike in this
city is concerned.
The leaders of the striking men held to
night that the Vanderbilt roads are tied up
and inactive at this point Ther urge, in
addition, that the Erie, the Lehigh Valley
and the Buffalo Creek roads are likewise
paralyzed by the strike. They feel that the
movement against !he roads by the men has
now reached such magnitude and complete
ness in this locality that it may not be neo
essary for any men in allied trades to be
called out at this point The reserve ground
for operations is a possible calling out of
the switchmen on the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western, Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg, and the "Western New York and
Pennsylvania roads. The relations of these
roads with the strike leaden,are extremely
amicable, and they will not be called out
except to make the strike absolutely com
plete in this vicinity. Indeed, it is more
probable that the firemen and the trainmen
will be called out on the lines already af
fected by the switchmen's strike.
Possible Spread of the Strike.
The writing of this digest of the situa
tion, at the hour of 9 o'clock, is embarrassed
by the fact that even before dawn of to
morrow switchmen of the various roads af
fected here may be called out at the Suspen
sion Bridge, Hornellsville, Jersey City,
and possibly Rochester and Albany.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
which has already conceded the rate de
mands of the men, went even further, to
day, and formally ,notified its employes
that they would not be asked to handle a
pound of boycotted freight The result is
that the men of this road are extremely
loyal to it One of them in the yards to
day remarked that he and his colleagues
would be ready even to fight for their em
ployers. The strikers regard the "Western
New York and Pennsylvania officials and
the Bochester and Pittsburg officials as a
"gentlemanlv lot"
Although:he is keeping his whereabouts
profoundly secret, there .can be little doubt
that Master "Workman Sergeant, of the
locomotive firemen's organization. ! in
the city. The strikers claim full sympathy
on the part of the firemen, and thev state
that if they are called out they will quit
their engines wherever the order may reach
them.
Master "Workman "Wilkinson, of the
trainmen's order, is here to-night, and it is
said that his men are ready to join the
Bimcumca wnenerer oraereQ, but that the
1 m.-.. U- 1L. J- A. 11.-!- t 1-t.i
jueu hub mo ruaus, as to wieir ircigiu
traffic, are paralyzed. So far as the New
York Central is concerned the strikers are
in error. That road is moving freight not
in a desultory way, a few cars at a time, but
in trains. Thus, to-day the Central, be
tween 7 a.m. and 4:15 p. M., delivered to
the Lake Shore 183 cars. It took from the
delivery tracks of the Lake Shore all that
road had to offer, and to-night there are
seven clear Central tracks waiting for Lake
Shore freight
Work Done Yesterday by the Central.
At the Ohio street elevator and freight
house, where lake freight is handled, the
Ceutral to-day loaded' out 70 cars of mer
chandise and 75 cars of grain, These cars
were then moved from Ojiio street, through
the city to the yards at East Buffalo. It is
to-night claimed by Central officials that
their freight traffic, in and out of the East
Buffalo yards, is progressing without inter
ruption. Beginning to-morrow morning
the Central will resume work at the Black
Bock and Erie street yards. The officials
feel that they reckon conservatively that by
Monday the freight business in their vards
will be moving normally. It should be
borne in mind that no night work in the
yards has yet been done, and the company
does not expect to resume night work until
4he incoming troops have been so placed as
to afford protection to the new men who are
waiting in the yards to begin work. This,
it is believed, will not be later than Satur
day evening.
Four hundred and ninety-five men. com
prising the Albany batallion, and separate
companies from Troy, Amsterdam and
Utica, arrived this evening. It is known
here that the Tweftb, Thirteenth and
Twenty-second reeiments, and separate
companies from Yonkers, Hudson and
Poughkeepsie, are now on the way here,
being due to arrive at 4 o'clock to-morrow
morning. The Twenty-third Regiment Is
expected to-night, and advices have been
received here that the Ninth and Seventy
fifth regiments leave New York to-night
Among the arrivals this afternoon was
Inspector General McGratb, of the State
militia, and Major Roselle. They have es
tablished headquarters and the food and
shelter.of the men will now have direct
official attention.
Brigadier General Doyle removed his
headquarters to-day from the yards to the
city proper, in order that the assignment of
incoming men and the direction of affairs
may be closely attended to.
have been able to preserve order. General
Doyle, an official of one of the railroads, has
accomplishing his purpose.
I3,uuu men nere to ao patrol
succeeded in
He will have
duty. The State or New Tork Is bound to
put down liots and to disperse mobs, bnt
the militia ate not patrolmen, and were not
organized for bucIi wort.
It will cost about $40,0C0 a day to keep the
army In the field. This is an unnecessary
expense. The two Buffalo regiments were
abundantly able to cone with the rioters.
All of the disturbances which occurred after
thoy were ordered ont were put down by
the police. Newspapers in other cities have
the Idea that the population of Buffalo is up
in arms against law and order; yet not one
man has been taken with arms In his hands.
The only fatalities Which havo occurred
were through accidents.
It is time to call a halt on this scare. Has
the Mayor, has the Sheriff, any grudge
against Buffalo? Do they wish to proolalm
to the country that this is a hotbed or an
archism? Do they wish outsiders to believe
that this Is an unsafe place ot residence? Do
they wish to deter people and capital from
coming here? Piobably not. If they did,
however, tliev could not have adopted a
more effective method to accomplish their
would be ridiculous. If it were not so
serious a matter for Buffalo. Three hun
dred inen on strike. A few dozen, more or
less, freight cars have been burned by some
onewhether by strikers or not Is unknown.
Then 13,000 men are oidered out, three days
auer mo oucraKe nas ceasea. sucn wort
eavors of Imbecility. If the police would
"van" 600 of the men loitering about the
yards there would be no further occasion
for the troops to starve at East Buffalo. It
is nonsense to ask Sweeny to call these men
from the yards. Let the police call them
out by arresting them.
move would be made, if at all, as there are
a large number of men employed there.
TWO STRIKERS LOCKED DP.
THE TROOPS STARVING.
Meager BUI or Fare for the Soldiers A
Cnp or Coffee, a Sandwich and Half a
Pickle for a Meal Afternoon Move
ments of Freight Trains.
BY ASSOCIATED FRKSS. J
Buffalo, Aug.- 18. The Associated
Press correspondent drove out to the mili
tary camp at Cheektowaga to-day. Scarcely
had he reached there when a soldier said:
"I wish you would call attention to the
food we are getting. Here is our meal: A
cup of coffee, one sandwich, one hardtack,
half a pickle, and we don't get that three
times a day. If our friends at home did not
send us something we would starve. This
morning we each had a slice of bread, one
banana, one cup of coffee, and no meat at
all. "We want blankets, too. In one tent
this morning there were five of us and one
blanket"
Colonel "Welch, of the Sixty-fifth, was in
command at the camp. "Nothing of conse
quence has occurred here so far to-day,"
ssid he, in response to questions. "Two de
tachments of the Sixty-fifth have been sent
from here to Scott street to protect trains
moving out from there, and we hold our
selves In readiness to send more it needed.
The Seventv-fourth is tmardlnir thn Ttr!
far as possible, and the. Sixty-fifth the Le
high. Trains have been .made, -up in the
yard all morning, and there har been no in
terference with the men at work. "We
have had a few little skirmishes with gath
ering crowds who have been bothering the
troops a good deal, taunting and annoying
them. When these incidents were serious
enough to warrant a report we have been in
formed at headquarters and sent out detach
ments and dispersed the crowds. I have not
heard of any stones being thrown, nor of
any bodily injnries being inflicted on either
side."
Copies of President MeLeod's "Neither
Now Nor JEver" pronunciamiento were be
ing posted up on cars and buildings in the
vicinity.
At 1:15 o'clock General Welch gave an
order to move 100 men from his camp to the
Babcock and Bailey avenue crossings of the
Erie to protect men in making up trains.
Fifty were sent to each crossing.
A large force of soldiers was found en
camped on Dlngens street, guarding the
Lehigh Valley round house, yards and
crossing. Tents were pitched in a field
near by, and the men were stationed near
the round home and through the yard.
Some effort was being made to move
trains at the Babcock street crossing of the
Erie, but no non-union men were at work.
Ten non-union men from New York had
been brought there a few hours before, but
they refused to work, and decamped. Very
lew trains were moving at this point One
was made up and sent out, but It returned,
as it could not get through the blockade.
Superintendent Bruno and Yardmaster Bar
rett were up the line beyond Babcock
street, trying to straighten out the tangle.
SWEENY SAYS IT'S FOOLISH.
They Are Charged With Attempting; to
Wreck a Train They Claim They Were
Preventing; a Wreck How They Were
Arrested and What They Say.
rSFICTAL TBLXOBAlt TO THS DISPATCH 1
Buffalo, Aug. 18. Two strikers are
locked up at police headquarters, charged
with violating section 14, chapter 1, of the
penal code. Last night they laid a deep
scheme for ditching the fast mail which
leaves Buffalo over the Central at 11:40 a.
M., but it was nipped in the bud by Ser
geant Burkhardt and two policemen from
the Eighth precinct, who caught them in
the very act of throwing the switch on the
main track near Fillmore avenue, just be
fore the train was due to pass. Had it not
been for Sergeant Burkhardt's keen per
ception the loss of many lives would have
been the result
The men gave their names as John Ball
and Martin Bayer. They claim to be
laborers and not switchmen. When Ser
geant Burkhardt first saw the men they
were throwing the switch, and before he
could get to them with his men they had
begun to tamper with the switch light, so
that it would burn "clear" and give no
warning to the engineer. When the men
saw the three officers they started to run,
bat were captured before they had cone 100
yards by Sergeant Burkhardt and Police
man Slavin, while Policeman McNamara
stopped to throw the switch back to the
firoper position and readjnst the colored
tents. He had hardly accomplished this'
before the mail train went whizzing past at
a rate of 18 miles an hour.
The men told Captain Seacher they
thought the switch had been tampered with,
and were under the impression that they
were putting it back into its correct posi
tion. The Captain has learned that the
men were discharged employes of the Cen
tral "
ENGINEERS AGITATING.
They Ask Chler Arthur How to Act
The Firemen Still at Work Other
Switchmen Are Oat The Situation Early
This Mornlne;.
Buffalo, Aug. 19. 2 a. m. The engi
neers at their meeting to-night after talking
over the strike appointed a committee
to visit Chief Arthur at Toronto
and lay all the circumstances before
him and ask him for advice as to whether
they should have any part in the trouble.
The firemen at their meeting spent several
hours in discussion, and then adjourned
without taking any action whatever.
The trainmen held a meeting and
also spent their time in discussion
but did not take any action whatever. The
sympathies of the train men are with the
strikers, and they want to go out, but are
undecided as to whether it wonld accomplish
anything for the benefit of the switchman.
The D. L. & W. switchmen held a meet
ing to-night and decided not to go out ex
cept as a last resort While their sympa
thies are all with the strikers, they have no
grievance at all, and they think, so it
was stated at the meeting, that it would be
dishonorable for them to leave their places
after the fine way the Superintendent
treated them in the matter of handling
freight from any of the roads on which
there is a strike. They will go oat, how
ever, if Sweeny orders them to.
A report has just been received here that
the switchmen on the Grand Trunk and be
tween Toronto and Montreal had struck.
The Grand Trunk's switchmen here
still at work.
iood flows i mm
at
Coal M, Ait AM carnage.
GENERAL ANDERSON IS MADE PRISONER,
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While His Men Still Figlifef M the Fury of Those
Who Expect Yiaxter"
wi
THE RESULT OF THE BATTLEis" STILL IN DOUBT.
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ARBITRATION COMPULSORY-
A Discovery In the Federal Statutes Made
by a lawyer In Chicago.
Chicago. Ang. 18. ISpfeSa. While
looking over1 the Federal statutes to-day As
sistant District Attorney Pagan ran across a
Federal law which provides for Government
interference for settlement by arbitration of
railroad strikes such as now affect the rail
roads at Buffalo. Few know of the
existence of such a law, but it can
be appealed to by either side,
and its provisions are mandatory
when such an appeal is made. This law is
contained in chapter 10(53 of the revised
statutes of the United States, and is en
titled "An act to create boards of arbitra
tion or commission for settling controver
sies and differences between railroad corpor
ations and other sommon carriers engaged in
inter-State and Territorial transportation of
property or passengers and their employes."
The act provides that each side may se
lect a representative to act on the arbitra
tion board, and the third arbitrator may be
a commissioner of labor or anv disinterested
person the two may select Their decision
shall be binding, absolute and final.
UNCLE SAM'S HANDS OFF
Until United States Troops Are Called for
by State Authorities Such a Contin
gency Mot Likely The Law on the Sub
jectOther Case.
WAsrmrGTO!r, Aug. 18. No official com
munications of any kind have been received
by authorities at Washington in regard to
the labor troubles in New York and Tennes
see, and the impression is general in official
circles that the civil authorities in both
States are fully competent to deal with the
situation without the aid of the general
Government.
It is explained at the department that
United States troops cannot be employed in
cases of domestic violence, such as the
present, except by an order direct from the
President, and that the Executive can act
only on the application of the Legislature
of the State in which the trouble exists, or
of the Governor of the State in a case where
the Legislature cannot be convened in time
to meet the emergency. Moreover, the ap
plication must recite tne tacts in the case
and must show to the satisfaction of the
President that the State authorities have
exhausted all the resources at their com
mand, and that they are no longer able to
cope with the situation.
In the event of the receipt at any of the
departments at Washington of such an ap
plication at the present time, it would be
immediately telegraphed to the President
at LoonXake, ana if, in the exercise of his
discretion, he considered it a case for
Federal interference, an order for the use of
troops would be sent at once to General
Schofield through the Secretary of War.
Excited Citizens of Chattanooga and Knoxville Rush to the Rescue of the
Beleaguered Band of Soldiers Arms Scarce The Noise of Battle
Heard at Clinton The Two First Attacks Repulsed Miners Use
Dynamite in the Work of Destruction They Turn Back Trains and
Use Railroad Property for Their Own Purposes Two Brave Com
manders Head the Defenders of Coal Creek Newspaper Correspond
ents Imprisoned by the Mob One Escapes and Tells the Story of the
Fight Fears That the Captured Leader Will Be Lynched.
Inereaslnc Complications Mark the Begin
ning; of the Ijut Day of the First Week
The Man Still Conddent Possible Spread
or the Strike The Military Arrange
ments. tBT associatid rsxss.
Buffalo, Aug. 18. The sixth day of
he switchmen's strike in this city
closes with increasing complications. The
leaders of this strike have witnessed the
movement and massing of troops with grow
ing determination to meet every advance of
tbelr opponents with a counter-stroke. Be
fore to-morrow shall hare dawned 8,000
troops in the State service will be upon the
firemen, if ordered out, will probably be
first called. It is, well to remember, in
weighing the claims and statements of the
strikers, that this movement, unlike that of
two years ago upon the Central, bears the
stamp of official regularity. It has been
handled and directed with deHhemtlnn .ni
the strikers to-night say that, if deemed
necessary within the next three days, the
movement will be extended from New York
to Chicago.
Feeling so sure of this reserve ground in
Buffalo, the presumption is that the strik
ers preier tne open conntenance by the
roads to the loss of moral support that
might arise from the going out of the men
on these roads in response to a call. Hence,
the counter-strokes in future to be dealt the
contesting roads must fall upon their inter
ests at other points.
There can be no doubt to-night but that,
before yielding this fight, the leaders will
extend their strike west even to Chicago
and eastward to New York, ultimately call
ing ont, perhaps, not only switchmen, but
firemen and trainmen. The strikers look
for most important developments within
the next three days.
As to the condition of the tted-up roads
in this city, their officials make statements
strongly contradicting the claims ot the
He Insists There Is No Keel of 10,000 Sol
diers at Buffalo.
Buffalo, Aug. 18. In an interview
with Grand Master Sweeny, of the Switch
mans' Aid Association to-day. he said:
"The idea of bringing in 10,000 troops is the
rankest kind of nonsense. There are just
300 switchmen out, and they are a law
abiding lot of men, who would cheerfully
protect the companies' property if the
companies would pay them for it. They do
not want the taxpayers to pay for watch
men for any corporation or company. It
will cost Frie county fully $50,000 a day if
10,000 troops are brought in the field.
They are doing what thev can, and will
continue to do everything to prevent the
non-union men from taking their places.
"I can tell you one thing that the rail
road companies are doing, which, if -they
continue, it will take 10,000 troops to
handle the mob. The roads are picking up
all the tramps and bums in other cities
and are dumping them in here at the rate
of 700 aday. Yesterday the Lehigh Val
ley brought in CO of the toughest char
acters that have arrived. I would suggest
that the police do their duty in arresting
these vagi A committee of 100 citizens,
with 100 deputy sheriffs and with the as
sistance of the striking men, could keep
order. If there is bloodshed during this
etnas mere win do no swiicnmen Killed.
They are at their homes, most of them, and
tlir thpv will remain '
SENSATIONAL EDITORIAL
To Be Printed by a Buffalo Paper This
Afternoon General Boyle Accused or
Uslnc Bis Office to Aid the Railroads
With YFhlch He I Connected.
Buffalo, Aug. 18. Specta!. The Even
Ing Etupivrtr to-morrow will print the follow
ing sensational editorial:
Imbecility, not anarchy, Is the order of
the day. By to-morrow noon 10,000 troops
will be massed at Bast Buffalo. What fort
To guard against strikers not numbering all
told more than 800 men. The Sheriff of Erie
county and the Mayor of Buffalo have taken
their orders from the railroad officials, and
have induced Governor Flower to send this
Immense body of men to Buffalo.
This has been done in the face of the faot
that no property has been destroyed slnoo
the militia was ordered.put.and in the face of
the fact that the two Buffalo regiments
8,000 S0LDIEKS AT BUFFALO,
The 5,000 Remaining Troops to Be Held In
Kradlnento Move Any Moment.
Albany, Aug. 18. Shortly after noon
Adjutant General Porter told the Governor
that the Sheriff of Erie county wanted the
whole National Gunrd up there, but ad
vised the Governor to hold a reserve along
the railroad centers in case of the strike
extending. The Governor discussed the
matter for awhile, and finally authorized
General Porter to order out 3,000 additional
militia to reach the scene of the trouble by
noon to-morrow. This will result in the
mobilization of 8,000 troops about Buffalo
beforeo-morrow night.
The commanders ot the other regiments
and companies have been notified to have
their commands in all numbering 5,000
ready to move on short notice. Governor
Flower said this afternoon that his sole
purpose was to prevent any disturbances,
and to that end thought that a large force
of militia wonld do more toward preserving
the peace than anything else. General
Porter expects to go to Buffalo after he is
satisfied that all the troops that are neces
sary are on the ground.
PINKERTONS AT SAYRE.
CONVICT LABOR MUST GO.
The Coal ana Iron Company Anxious to
Surrender Its Contract.
New York, Aug. 18. SpeciaL The
action of the free miners of East Tennessee
in capturing the several convict stockades
and sending the leased prisoner-miners
there confined to Nashville, has been under
stood in some quarters to be due to trouble
between the miners and the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Bailroad Company, which employs
them. On the subject Thomas C. Piatt,
President of the company, said yesterdav:
There is no friction between the company
and its miners, and no attempt to reduce
wages has been made. On the contrary
the wages of the miners are main
tained in the face of these depressions. No
difficulty between the company and its em
ployes was the cause of the affair at Tracy
City, and at Inman no free miners were em
ployed. As to the contract of lease with tne
State, that nas a legacy to my administra
tion, and one which the company has tried
torlditselrof. We offered to surrender It
to the last Geneial Assembly, but the offer
was not accepted. We are willing to sur
render It now. The State will not relieve us
and compels us to pay $100,000 annually for
the labor of 1,000 conviots. If It win not
take them off our hands, all we nsk Is that
we be protected in their use so long as we
must pay for their labor. This protection
the State of Tennessee does not seem able
to afford us.
FUEL FOR THE FIRE.
Through Police Protection the Company
Manages to Move a Few Trains.
ElmSba, N. Y., Aug. 18. The Beading
Company brought 300 men to Sayre to-day,
the majority of them being coal and iron
police and Plnkerton men. A number of
freight handlers and other men were also
brought, but only a small number of them
consented to do any switching, and they
very soon quit. The company has succeeded
in "moving several coal trains and two
freights. They were guarded by armed
police, and were not molested by the
strikers.
A dispateh from Pottsville says: The
Beading Bailroad Company to-day swore in
about 15 men from this place to act as
policemen at Sayre, on their Lehigh Valley
division, and sent them down the railroad
this afternoon to Philadelphia, where a
large body of their police has been gathered
from different points along their line. ,
WILL HABDLY SISISE.
A Reported Strike f Switchmen In This
City round to Be tlthont Truth.
It was reported last evening that the
switchmen and employes of the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie Bailroad in this city inter
ested in the present railroad strike wonld
come out and lock up the trains in the yard.
It was stated that preliminary orders had
been issned and final orders were expected
at any time.
Inquiry at the yards and among the men
themselves failed to reveal any suoh move,
and it was stated that such a thing was not
likely to take place, as the number of union
-mm were in the minority. The yards at
President McLeod Curtly Refuses to Con
sider Arbitration at Thl Period.
Philadelphia, Aug. 18. The follow
ing telegram was sent by President McLeod,
of the Beading Bailroad, this afternoon, to
General Superintendent Bonzano at
Buffalo:
Gexeeal Office, 1
PHILADELPHIA ASP UeaDIHQ RAILROAD Co.
Philadelphia, Aug. 18. )
IT. 7. Bonzaoo, General Superintendent, Buffalo,
N. Y.:
I am in recelnt of vour message Informing
me that the New Tork State Board of Media
tion and Arbitration has written to you that
one Sweenv Is willing to arbitrate, and has
asked whether this company Is willing to
consent to arbitration.
You are instructed to reply to the Board
that In the opinion of the management of
this oompany the time to ask for or consider
the question of arbitration had passed when
the men abandoned the service of the com
pany, destroyed its property, and threat
ened to murder Its employes, 'i hey are now,
therefore. In my Judgment, not entitled to
consideration, other than outlaw.
A. A. McLeod, President.
Vice President Webb, of the Central,
also refused to arbitrate this evening in a
letter sent to the State Board.
HOSPITALS MAKING READY.
SPECIAL TELIQBAK TO TBS DISPATCH. 1
Chattanooga, Aug. 18. The mob
of free miners made three assaults
to-day upon Fort Anderson, which guards
the stockade at Coal Creek. Two of them
were repulsed. Tne result of the last and
bloodiest is still in doubt.
The first attack was only a feeler. The
mob made a movement upon the stockade,
but fell back out of range of the soldiers'
guns. They finally captured a train and
went to Briceville for a supply of dyna
mite, whence tbey returned later to renew
the attack.
The second repulse was bloody, but not to
be compared to the third struggle, when
gatling guns were trained upon the rioters
with terrible effect. The number of
casualties of the various fights is not
obtainable at this writing. General
Anderson has been captured, but his men
are still fiehting with the, desperation of
demons. Five newspaper correspondents
who went to Coal Creek have been captured
and held prisoners by the mob.
Anderson Captured By a Trick.
The assault on Fort Anderson began in
the forenoon, the miners firing on the fort
from the' surrounding hilltops. Then they
attempted to release the prisoners from the
stockade of the Knoxville Iron Company.
The soldiers in Fort Anderson captured
three miners and drove a hundred more
down the hill at the point of the bayonet.
Some time afterward the miners sent a
flag of truce to Captain Kellar Anderson,
officer in charge, asking for the release of
the prisoners. Unthinkingly he stepped
ontside of the lines, and in an instant was
covered by a half dozen miners and marched
away to a hotel in the village of Coal
Creek, where he was guarded by a large
crowd of his captors.
Bate to-night word was received that he
had been lynched. Fifty soldiers and 115
volunteers, composed of the best men in
the city, left by special train for the seat of
war at 4 o'clock. The last heard of them
they had abandoned the train between
Clinton and Coal Creek, and were marching
afoot across the country.
The wires to Coal Creek are down and
the railway track torn up. Seven hundred
soldiers and volunteers from Memphis and
Chattanooga have arrived at Clinton and
will march across the country. Additional
volunteers from this city will soon leave
for Coal Creefc.
Soldlers Fight "Without Their Leader.
"While Colonel Anderson was in the cus
tody of the miners the mob made another
attack and were again repulsed. The miners
rallied, and for the third time charged upon
the fort, but met with a similar reception
and retired for a time to discuss the situa
tion and decide upon some new plan of at-
taok. They found that the soldiers could
fight even without having the brave Colonel
Anderson to lead them.
At 5 o'clock 50 soldiers and 200 well
known men left Knoxville for Coal Creefc
Tbey were warned that hundreds of miners
would be encountered en route. However,
they started, determined to try and reach
the fort. They expected to stop at Clinton,
and go on foot to Coal Creek if the railroad
track beyond Clinton had been obstructed.
Soon after reaching Clinton they were
joined by mill men under command of Gen-
Cots, Bedding;, Surgeons and Ambulances
Prepared for Any Bloodshed.
BT ASSOCIATED PBESS.l
Buffalo, Aug. 18. Preparations of a
suggestive character were being made to-day
at the Fitoh Hospital. Over 20 cots with
bedding have been furnished, together with
several field stretchers. These arrange
ments have been made in view of the danger
of riot and bloodshed in the city. There is
to-night accommodation at the Fitch for 40
wounded men and even more if necessary.
Several doctors have signified their inten
tion of assisting the Fitch surgeons should
the necessity arise.-
An ambulance from the Fitch will report
at headquarters for service, and will remain
at the William street crossing all night. t
Another ambulance and two wagons pre
pared for the reception of the, wounded,
will be held in reserve at the hospital.
Drpew Befuaea to Talk. ,
Hamburg, Aug. ia Chauncey M. De
pew is taking the waters here. All efforts
to Induce him to disensa the railroad trou'
Chartlersorelikelxtobe the place such ablei at Buffalo have so far proved fruitless, I
eral Carnes, and all started for Coal Creek,
at which place they arrived all right.
A message from Clinton says that four
soldiers were killed; that the gatling gun
was dismantled, and that the tracks were
underlaid with dynamite. It is thought
that this message was sent out by miners to
deter the people from going to the scene of
trouble.
FIGHTING ALL DAY.
A Bay of Intense Excitement at Nashville
Bow the Bulletins Were Beeelved Two
Brave Commanders High-Banded Acta
of the Rioter.
Nashville, Aug. ia pidat "I
will never surrender without positive or
ders to that effect."
This was the message that came from the
gallant commander of the Coal Creek forces,
Colonel Kellar Anderson, to Adjutant Gen
eral Norman at the Capitol to-day. It was
a message characteristic of the author, who
was a brave soldier in the Confederate
army, and has always proved true to the
trust reposed in him. These few words
meant that the stockade, which for two days
had been surrounded by aagry and desper-
1 ate men, would not be surrendered as others
had been, even though the force defending
it was small and the enemy was well armed
and numbered thousands.
The reply that was quickly sent on its
way over the mountains and valleys that lie
between Nashville and Coal Creek was,
"You are right"
A Lone; Da? of Battle.
General Carnes is en route with the First
and Second Regiments. These were wel
come tidings to the little garrison, and ,
while they were confident of their ability
to hold their position until reinforcements
arrived, they were, nevertheless, anxious to
be supported in the unequal battle that was
believed to be just ahead.
The battle was fought all day long. The
people of Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga
and Memphis and smaller towns where the
telegraph wires reached watched and waited
for news from Coal Creek. The knowledge
that the situation was hourly growing mora
desperate, owing to the report that the
miners had said that unless Governor Bu
chanan arrived to-day to remove the troops
and convicts they would storm the camp at
once.
At last, along in the afternoon, after a
wild rumor that Colonel Anderson had sur
rendered was circulated everywhere, there
came a bulletin announcing that a battle
was raging; that several thousand miners
had attacked the stockade; that they had
captured the convicts, who were subse- '
qnently retaken by the soldiers, and that
the firing of guns could be heard at Clinton,
several miles away.
A Time of Terrible Suspense.
The greatest excitement followed the re
ceipt of the news. The streets were quickly
filled with people, and business was practi
cally suspended for the remainder of the
day. Then came another message that the
miners had made a second attack and had
been repuUed. No later information of
consequence came for two or three hours,
and the suspense was terrible. Hundreds
of people expressed their willingness to go
to the front at once and aid the troops, and
meetings were called to discuss the situation
and decide what was best to be done.
The evening wore on and night came,
still there was no news. The crowds on the
streets increased in size. Finally a tele
gram was received stating that, since last
reported, the battle was still going on at
Coal Creek, and that a miner who presented
a revolver at Colonel Anderson's breast,
and told him that if he did not surrender
he would blow his brains out, received the
ansnert "D you, shoot"
The Brave Commander Captured.
The reply was characteristic of the man.
He had said he would never surrender, and
he intended to keep his word. The telegram
also said that Ft Anderson was still safe.
At 9 o'clock the report from the scene of
the trouble was that Colonel Anderson had
been captured by the miners while taking
some prisoners down the valley, under an
agreement that if he brought them down
there he would be allowed to return ia
safety.
It is reported that the miners obtained
from somewhere two field pieces, and that
they placed tbem on the mountains sur
rounding the hill on which Fort Anderson
stands. The miners who attacked Oliver
Springs yesterday .had with them a sup
ply of dynamite, and none of it was
used.
General Norman to-day telegraphed addi
tional instructions to the Sheriff of Knox
county, ordering him to arm his force at all
hazards and to take any State arms that he
could find in the city, or, if necessary, to
press private arms into the service, and as
Soon as he secured arms to report at once
to Colonel Woolford. who would be in
charge until General Carnes arrived from
Chattanooga.
All Arms Furnished by Uncle Sam.
Great trouble has been experienced in se
curing arms for citizens. Adjutant General
Norman said to-day in an interview:
The State has no appropriation for the
purchase of arms. The only arms owned by j
the State are furnished by the United State
Government The law directs the Sheriff to
arm tbelr posses aa best tbey can, but doe
not compel the State to furnish arms.
"Warden Farris said to-day that he had
often asked for reinforcements for the stock-
ade guards at Oliver Springs, which fell
yesterday. In July he visited Nashville ,
and had a conference with the Governor
and Adjutant General Norman, in which ha !
laid the situation before them and asked
for reinforcements, but they onlv laughed
at him and told him he was getting scared
without a cause.
"Within the last month," said Mr. Far
ris, "I have wired the Governor twice to ..
send me a gatling gun, but he ignored my l
requests by not answering my telegrams. If
I had had a gatling gun the surrender ot
the stockade, would not hare occurred yea
terday morning." ,
GeneralNormansaid, in regard toWardeft .
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