Buffalo Strike Grips City as Guards Sought
Buffalo faces grave labor disruption as Lake Shore and other switchmen quit. Reports say Lackawanna and Big Four crews may follow. A plan to arm gondola cars with sharpshooters is set to begin, while local officials petition Governor Flower to call out the National Guard to protect lives and property.
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Berrano
Lake Shore
Lackawanna
South Buffalo
Eleventh Precinct
East Buffalo Lake Shore
Fiat
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Grave Buffalo unrest as militia called to quell strike
Report from Borrao Aug 17 describes a tense situation in Buffalo with strikers harassing troops while avoiding full violence. Local leaders meet at the sheriff's office and urge Governor Flower to deploy the entire state National Guard to deter disorder and protect property as the strike spreads from East Buffalo to Niagara Falls affecting West Shore and major lines.
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Borrato
X. Y
P. Flower
Albany
Buffalo
National Guard
Avorst Beox
Cuantus F. Bisner
Borrao
Flower
Webb
McMillan
Central
Knibbe
Buffalo Creek
E . Sprague
Erie
Bisset
Brimdage
Reading
East Buffalo
Niagara Falls
West Shore
New York Central
Reading Roads
Striking Rail Guards Hold Buffalo as Troops Patrol
In Buffalo strong guard extends along Lehigh Valley and Erie tracks as 2,000 soldiers oversee operations amid a strike. Trains face sabotage attempts with switches, pins, and wires tampered. one youth injured from a broken pin. Authorities press for swift state protection to safeguard workers, property, and freight.
Soldiers Busy After Tragic Lehigh Trestle Accident
Burrslo Aug 17 Soldiers of the Sixty-fifth Regiment guarded the Lehigh Valley trestle when a guardhouse mishap led to a fatal gun discharge. Sergeant Frederick W. Elseasser was struck by a loaded cartridge and died at Fitch Hospital. Private Luther Holmes, believed unaware of a loaded weapon, was not charged. An official inquiry will follow. Separate incident reports a derailment attempt at Black Rock by suspected strikers, with three men jailed and held for examination.
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Lehigh Valley
BurrsLo
Sixty-fifth Regiment
Chektouaso
Queen Street
Seventy-fourth
Meath
Frederick W. Elseasser
Elseasser
Luther Holmes
Elscasser
Holmes
Doyle
William Street
Fitch Hospital
Ellscasser
Oak Street
Federal Troops Handy for Buffalo or Tennessee
General Grant, acting as Secretary of War, said no call for Federal interference was anticipated in New York or Tennessee. He noted strong New York military readiness and listed available troops in Buffalo, Fort Niagara, and Seckett's Harbor, with Tennessee troops from Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Newport barracks as backups. He stressed mail service would not be seriously affected and that federal troops only arrive after state resources are exhausted.
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Buffalo
Tennessee
War Department
Grant
Wasnisatox
War Cement
New York
Fort Niagara
Seckett's Harbor
Lake Ontario
Oliver Springs
Atlanta
Cincinnati
Newport Barracks
President Declines Aid in Labor Troubles
The President declined to send federal aid to Governor Buchanan last spring amid labor unrest, saying he had not exhausted all resources and that federal interference was unwarranted until that step was taken. Subsequent state actions suppressed the disorder, validating the President's stance.
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Buchanan
Sweeney Blames Bosses for Buffalo Railroad Fires
In Buffalo area news Master Workman Sweeny of the switchmen asserts workers are not to blame for recent arson amid a strike. He accuses Readings and Erie lines of mistreating crews, claims cars burned Sunday were condemned, abandoned, and used as fuel, and suggests evidence will prove the cars were valueless prior to the fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boffalo
Burrao
Sweeny
sSwitchmen
Reading
Erie
McLeod
Road
Mr. Sweeny
Isis
A Tie on the Track Causes Near-Disaster on Central Line
New York August 17. Station agent Edward B Hayes returned home for supper and on the way back spotted a pile of new pine ties placed across the northbound track near the curve at One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Street. A Yonkers pusher train halted just in time, saving seven crew members from possible death. A red flannel flag marked the obstruction and a stranger swimming in the river offered no help. Police aid is asked as Captain Killi ea investigates who placed the tie on the track.
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New York
Edward B. Hayes
One Hundred and Fifty-second Street
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
Inwood
Hayes
Killilea
Out for Good as Strikes End at Buffalo Rail Yards
Philadelphia August 17. E I Sweigard announces yard operations at Buffalo Waverly and Sayre will resume Thursday the 18th. Paid off and discharged all who quit unless proven coerced, with ringleaders barred from returning. A A McLeop, President.
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Philadelphia
E. I. Sweigard
Buffalo
Waverly
Sayre
A. A. McLeop
Prompt Prosecutions Authorized by Reading Counsel
President McLeod of the Heading Railroad ordered counsel at points along the line to file immediate legal actions against men found destroying company property, promising punishment without fear or favor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Philadelphia
McLeod
Heading Railroad
No Sympathy Strike in Jersey City Rail Yards
Jersey City workers at Lehigh, Jersey Central, Erie and Pennsylvania railroads express no wish to join the Buffalo strike. Some dissatisfaction exists in the yards, but a general opinion holds that a sympathy strike would be ill advised.
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Dasterday
Lyons
Jersey City
Shyre
East Buffalo
N. J
City
Buffalo
Lehigh
Jersey Central
Erie
Pennsylvania
Syme
Boston avails new switchmen amid rail strike
An advertisement appeared in Boston newspapers yesterday seeking switchmen and an office was opened to receive applications for location. The men will fill roles left by strikers on the Lehigh Valley and Erie Railroads.
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Bostons
Mass
Boston Papera
Lehigh Valley
Erie
Coal Creek siege looms as miners seize stockade
Nasaville Aug 17 miners victors after Oliver Springs stockade burns. National Guard and volunteers rush to Coal Creek to defend convicts as hundreds of miners seize trains and threaten a major clash. Rail lines cut and battles expected with Captain Anderson's 180 troops and 2,000 miners rallied at Coal Creek.
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Nasaviltee
Oliver Springs
National Guard
Coal Creek
Anderson
Tennessee
Commonwealth
Clinton
Faris
Buchanan
Major Chandler
Steeter
Creek
Brant
Harriman
Chandler
Knoxville
Inman
Harriman’s
Knotville
Stone Creek
Ecan Bs
Bue
Prominent South Carolinian Confesses to Counterfeiting Ring
In Walhalla an arrest reveals G T Baughman linked to a 190 pound chest from McCormick, containing coin molds and tooling for counterfeiting. Forsyth and Marshal Ley tracked him via undercover work. Baughman admits he made the coin molds and the counterfeit coins, despite initial denials.
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Counter Fitera
Walhalla
D.C
G. T. Baughman
Secret Service
Forsyth
Anderson
3.C
Valhalla
8.C
J. H
McCormick
Baughman
United States
W. Eley
Sanders
Consignee
Expensive eight hour law to raise building costs
Supervising Architect Edbrooke says the eight hour law will cost the government about 3 million dollars more a year on building contracts and may change the type of public buildings in Washington Omaha St Paul Milwaukee and San Francisco. He estimates an average 12 percent rise, totaling about 4 million dollars more annually. The law affects new contracts and shifts workforce timing, altering contractor practices and potentially widening moral impact across projects.
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Washington
Edbrooke
Omaha
St. Paul
Milwaukee
San Francisco
United Typothets of America Hold Annual Convention
Toronto Ont August 17 The sixth annual convention opens with reports five new organizations formed this year The Pittsburg printers strike now in its twelfth month runs ten hours for non union men while strikers press for nine hours Employers survey shows only sixty of a thousand favor nine hours The convention votes to take a test case to court to decide if employers or labor bodies may intimidate non union workers, potentially to be brought before the US Supreme Court.
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Toronto
Ont
United Typothets of America
Wadder
Pittsburg
Executive Committee
Supreme Court of the United States
Fire destroys Ashes residence near Sewickley
Aug 17 at 645 a fire consumed the J B Haines house on Beaver road near Sewickley. The half brick frame building burned for three hours with no water to fight it. Insurance covers most of the lot. Owner J B Haines, Wood Street merchant. Criticism centering on delayed volunteer effort and a late fire bell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewickley
J. B. Haines
Beaver Road
Osborne
Arrott
Wheeling Mills Sign After overnight steel price dispute
After an all day conference, workmen and officials of the Top Mill and the Standard mills across the river agreed to split the difference on prices for rolling double steel. The scale was signed and the mills will start work on Friday in Wheeling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
Standard
Soldiers to the Rescue at Homestead Clash
Armed guards and provost troops quell a violent disturbance at Homestead after a freight train fired on the Little Bill. John Lordon is arrested for inciting resistance while mill workers and locked-out men clash. Major Crawford disperses the mob as a death from a gas explosion at BraddockMill is reported.
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National Guards
Lovejoy
Homestead
Pilot House
Major Crawford
Pembckey
Crawford
City Farm Lane
Permickey
John Lorden
Captain Doak
General Wiley
Sixteenth Regiment
Burns
Eighth Avenue
Ee Pee
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Sheriff Beck
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Walter Webb
Daniel BH. McMillan
W. S. Bissell
E C Sprague
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Ae Roswell P. Frower
Executive Chamber
Ion NeVe
Bec
Beck
Cheektowaga
General Doyle
Central Railroad
Mayor Bishop
Doysle
Jamestown
Tonawanda
Olean
Kirby
Auburn
Signal Corps
Tifft
Michigan Street
Union
New York Cen
Lehigh Line
Seventy-fourth Regiment
Otto
Neeee
Farrar Ceasus Watt
Kilroy
Broadway
Prince Streets
East Side
Gammel
Afa
Stock Varda
Black Rock
Sergeant Meteger
William Coon
Samuel Leary
Henry Albach
William Sanders
Sammon
Elhem
Snes
Justin Time
Seven Man
State Board of Prison
Tennessee Railroad Coal and Iron Company
Secordon
Dghe
Coss Creek
Mr. Haines
Wood Street
Wheeling Mills
John Lordon
Arthur Cooper
Braddock
Bessemer
Cooper
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