Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1894 — THE BIG PULLMAN STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

THE BIG PULLMAN STRIKE.

Thousand! of Men Obey Orders of Mr. Dobs. The railroads centering at Chicago were almost dazed at the situation, Thursday. Some of the roads have ceased using thi Pullman cars on trains leaving that city, and the I'nion has certainly the tippet hand at the present time. A Great Western train left. Friday night, for St. Paul. A Pullman sleeper was attached, but a crowd of num uncoupled it while the train was in motion and the car was left behind. At Hammond, Ind., 1,501 people patrolled the tracks of the Chicago & Erie and the Monon railroads between the Michigan Central crossing and the State line, waiting for the cast-bound trains tc pull in. but up to 11 o'clock neither train had arrived. Crowds congregated around the depots all day determined to prevenl the moving of Pullman cars. The Monor train that, was tied up all night transferred its passengers and the two mail cars do train No, 5, which passed through at 9:30 a. m., and the rest of the train stayed until 4 o’clock, when it pulled back to Chicago, taking the four Pullman sleepers with it. The strikers claim a decided victory in the stopping of the train There was no trouble at Indianapolis, Thursday. At St. Paul, Minn., it was understood that all trains had stopped on the Northern Pacilic. The Association of General Managers reorganized at Chicago and determined to tight the boycott to the end. Superintendent Fillmore, of the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco, stated that if strikers endeavored to enforce the boycott on his road he would stop all trains. The boycott Inaugurated by President Debs assumed alarming proportions, Sunday and Monday at various point! throughout the country. Gov. Altgeld called out six companies ol militia, Sunday, to proceed to Danville at once. At Decatur, 111., only otic Wabash train succeeded In getting away, Sunday. Al! other trains, both freight and passenger, were stopped by the trainmen who joined the strikers. Six hundred men are out at that point. Ten through passenger train! were sidetracked and live hundred passengers were held In suspense. Many had been in the cars thirty-six hours. The passengers petitioned the strikers to pen ;mit the trains to go on to terminal stations but this was refused. ? No. 19 was detached on the Rock Island and Pacilic at Blue Island, Chicago, Saturday night, by a striker as it approached a switch which had been guarded all day. The train was thrown across the track promiscuously and the entire sy stem wot completely blocked. , • ‘ ~ r' ■■ ’ - -