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LABOR’S BIG FIGHT:
Business is Paralyzed in the
Western States.
ALL THE CHICAGO RAILROADS TIED UP
Thousands of Men Are Idle on Ac-
count of the Strike.
STRIKERS ARE USING THE TORCH
World’s Fair Buildings and Hany Fraight
Cars Are Fired —The West Is Suffering
to the Extent of 52,0D.1,09'J.
Chicago, July 2.—The striking railroad
men ar.d sympathizing citizens at Blue Is
land derided and defied an injunction is
sued by the United States court today and
treated 399 la w officers of the state and fed
eral gov. rnment in the same way.
i.trees of special deputy marshals and
sl’ci.fis sent here are pronounced by their
Ci-mni niil-r s practically useless, and by
the strikers as arrant cowards, hiding be
hind cars nd in them, for fear of being
hurt. The police officers of the town and
the author ties have conspired not only to
reno«r ali the aid in their power to the
strike rs, w.thcut getting in the meshes of
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GEORGE M. PULLMAN.
the law. but also to starve the civil officers
by refusing them food and threatening to
ooycott any one who supplies it.
Early in the day the mob became riotous,
and only the discretion displayed by Unit
ed States Marshal Arnold and Chief Deputy
Llebrandt prevented a bloody conflict be
tween the forces of law and order and
those massed here for the purpose of keep
ing the Rock Island tracks blockaded to
traffic as iong as Pullman cars are run
for the railroad company
Military si Necessity.
The presence of militia or of United States
Soldiers from Fort Sheridan is requisite to
open the Rock Island line and keep it open.
The strikers have no more respect for the
authority of the deputy sheriffs and mar
shals than they have for the railroad prop
erty or the officials of the company who
have been here all day trying to get trains
moved.
Packing Houses Shut Down.
As a result of the general tie-up of the
Btockyards-railroads, 6,000 men and 400 girls
employed in the big packing houses were
laid off this morning. During the early
morning the Burlington road succeeded in
bringing ii> five trains of live stock, each
train , »ntaining thirty cars. The receipts for
live stock at 9 o'clock were 8,000 cattle,
9.000 hogs and about 2,000 sheep, and these
were killed today for local consumption.
No coal has been received at the stock yards
since last Thursday, and orders were issued
this morning for a general clean up prepara
tory to shutting down the packing houses
tonight.
At noon 7,000 more employes of the pack
ing houses were laid off, making fully 80
per cent of the employes now out. Therc
is nothing for them to do, and the houses
have shut down indefinitely.
A Strike on the “L.”
The three night crews of firemen on the
Lake Street “L” went out at midnight.
This means practically a tie up for the
road, as the firemen are members of the
American Hail way Union and the engineers
are brotherhood men. The reason of the
strike is that the “L” Company is using
coal hauled in by the Pan Handle railroad,
which is now under th- ban of the boycott.
Employes of the Lake Street “L” are
holding a meeting tonight for the purpose
of organizing, and if necessary joining in
the strike. It was announced at head
quarters tonight that the men would
probably strike tomorrow if requested to
do so by the union officials.
Tl»e Strikers Enjoined.
United States District Attorney Milchrist
has completed an omnibus bill for an in
junction against the strikers. It is-of the
most sweeping character ever drawn and
covers thirty-seven pages of legal cap.
Judges Woods and Grosscup, who re
spectively arrived from Indiana and Ohio
this morning, in chambers examined the
documents and after a two hours’ confer
ence referred it back to the United Stales
attorney for some material amendment.
Attorney General Olney wires that the
bill is to be drawn under the provisions
of the interstate commerce act, which
will make it sweeping in the extreme.
Judge Woods said after the conference at
noon: “The bill will he as broad as ‘he
continent and the order of the court '<rill
correspond.’’
The United States court has granted the
omnibus injunction prayed for by the rail
roads. It is a double-header and applies
to the interference of all trains crossing
state lines that come under the operations
of * the interstate commerce act. Under
the jurisdiction of Judge Woods it can be
put into operation throughout Illinois, In
diana and Wisconsin. Five hundred copies
of the injunction have been made and will
be served on Debs, Howard and the direc
tors of the American Railway Union at
one*. „
What President Debs says.
“The National Association of Street Rail
way Employes wired us that it will do
everything possible to help us,” said Presi
dent Debs today. “The president of the
Seamen’s Union came here today and re
ported that his organization was perfectly
willing to obey an order for a wali-out.
A committee of the Standard Oil emploj cs
in this city alsfi came to us. They stand
ready to quit work. The Trade and Labor
Assembly of Chicago has given us assur
ance that it will order a general strike at
our request. This would paralyze the mdus
tries of the town, but we have no intention
of doing such a thing. Just as long as “
can we shall coniine this fight to the rail
roads. This forenoon I issued an order
kin- UP 'he remainder of the Denver and
Rio Grande system. This was in response
to urgent entrea t les from Colorado. IU
Rio Grande is now crippled from A to Z.
We feel encouraged at the outlook today,
and shall fight on with renewed hope and
confidence in our ultimate victory.”
Mr. Debs’s attention was called to the
rumors that have been in circulation for
the past two days to the effect that nego
tiations looking to a settlement of the
strike were being conducted between him
self and Mr. Studebaker, for the Pullman
company, he declined to answer the direct
question, but consented to outline the terms
upon which the officers of the union would
settle the strike.
“First,” he said, "we will settle with the
Pullman company upon any terms that the
employes of the company may desire. We
will settle with the railroads on the condi
tion that they restore their striking em
ployes to their former places. We want the
settlement to take place with all the Corpor
ations at once, however. This is a general
fight between employes and corporations.
The middle people and the working people
are with us. I have telegrams from the
master workmen of the Knights of Labor
and the president of the Street Railway
Employers’ Association, in which they offer
to strike. The labor organizations of the
city are practically all with us. 1 may say,
however, that for the present I do not in
tend to strike beyond the railroads. But,
in time, we will tie up the industries of
the city if the corporations we are figbling
do not settle with us on a proper basis.”
Breweries Shut I p Shop.
Chicago, July 3.—Almost every brewery
in Chicago will stop making beer today
cn account of the big strike. The scarcity
of coal has made such action necessary.
Yesterday a number of officials of brew
ing companies got together and decided
that unless their coal was saved for the
ice machines they would not only be com
pelled to stop their machinery, but it
would be impossible for them to save the
beer in their refrigerators. It was finally
decided to stop brewing and use fuel fur
nothing but the ice machines. None of
the employes will suffer by the move, as
they will be kept on 'the pay rolls. It is
also said that the supply of the beverage
will be seriously affected. There are about
fifty large breweries in Chicago and it was
understood that the men will enjoy vaca
tions for the next few days. They say
that if the strike should continue for any
considerable time they will have to shut
down their breweries altogether.
C’oilsidered liy the Cabinet.
Washington, July 3. —All the members of
the cabinet, except Secretaries Carlisle and
Morton, were present today at the cabinet
meeting.
The strike situation in the west occupied
most ali of the time, and the members of
the cabinet as a whole are understood to be
in thorough accord in sustaining the presi
dent and the attorney general in the
steps which they have taken to suppress the
disorder anta bring about a resumption of
interstate traffic. The consensus of opinion
was to delay, if possible, the use of the
United States troops until the term.-; of the
injunction obtained in Chicago were made
known to the various ariking organiza
tions. If, after that bus been done, the dis
order and violence continue, then the Uni
ted States troops will be undoubtedly used
promptly and with firmness.
“The law will be upheld,” said a member
of the cabinet this morning, “if the entire
United States land force has to be used in
accomplishing it.”
Troops Ordered to Chicago.
Washington, July 3.—Secretary Lamont
went to the war department after the cabi
net meeting and made public the following
statement:
“The United States marshal, she United
States district attorney and United States
judge having certified to their judgment
that it is impracticable to otherwise exe
cute the orders of the court, the troops un
der command of Colonel Crofton, at Fort
Sheridan, consisting of eight companies of
infantry, two troops of cavalry and a bat
tery of light artillery, have been ordered to
Chicago to enforce the observance of the
laws of the United States.”
These orders were telegraphed at 3:30
o’clock p. m. to Colonel Martin, the adju
tant general at General Miles’s headquar
ters in Chicago.
A FEW LINES OPEN.
The Northwestern and Lake Shore Are Run
ning Local Trains.
Chicago, July 4.—General Manager Egan
p‘.i)l remains steadfast in his purpose to
fight it out to a finish with the American
Railway Union. When asked this morning
concerning the overtures made to Presi
dent Debs for a settlement. Mr. Egan re
plied: ‘‘We have made no overtures to the
America - ® Railway Union and have held no
confei tnces with its offii srs. Mon than
that we shall hold no conferences with him.
So far as the railroads are concerned with
this fight, they are out of it. It has now
become a fight between the United States
government and the American Railway
Union, and we shall leave them to fig-at it
out.” ...
"The railroad companies do not recognize
in this strike the element of I’ulimanism,
and will not have it interjected into the
question at any stage of any proposition.
We have no compromise to offer, and there
is none that we will accept, as the railroads
are standing together and there is no back
down from our previously announced posi
tion. We are tilling the places of the
strikers, whom we consider no longer in
our service."
This is the most important declaration
made yet, because it puts the strikers be
yond all hope of ever getting back to their
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EUGENE DEBS.
old places, and will make them more
desperate than ever. It is a fight to the
death, and the strikers now realize it. This
is the reason why the railroads are so anx
ious for state and federal protection.
Lake Shore t rains are running, with slight
delays, as usual. It required something of an
effort to transport the troops from Fort
Sheridan, but eany in the morning tho*in
fantry was taken south and divided up be
tween Blue Island, Grand Crossing and the
stock yards.
Deserted Their Engine.
The scene was noteworthy when Engineer
Wrenn and Fireman Culp, both employes of
the Lake Shore road, who had been run
ning the engine pulling the military train
all day, concluded to quit. With wild cheers,
the crowd rushed at the two men, and,
despite their resistance, picked them up and
bore them aloft for a distance of three or
four blocks. Ot course this settled the ques
tion of moving for the night. The soldiers
walked the remaining distance to Dexter
park, where they had » bite to eat and a
well earned rest. They carried their baggage
with them. The horses were put up in the
stock yards.
Ready t*» Do Murder.
Some trouble occurred at Root and Thir
tieth streets. A Lake Shore passenger
train, which left the Rock Island depot
at 3:04 o’clock, was detained by the
strikers, who clambered upon the engine
and tried to induce Engineer Weber to
quit. J. C. Harris, an employe of the rail
road, started to pull a. revolver. American
Railway I nion delegates demanded that
they disarm the man, but the officers re
fused to do so and the men took it in
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA. MONDAY. JULY 9,189 4.
their own hands and threw him beneath
a freight car and would have killed him
had not the police interfered. A young man
named Miller, a reporter for u morning
paper, would have suffered a similar fate
but for a similar interference. The young
man did not choose his criticism of the
jb, and this, added to the fact that the
paper in question Jias taken a partisan
view of the strike, siding with the rail
roads, was more than the crowd could bear.
They seized him and struck him several
times and lie was rescued with difficulty.
There were about 5,000 persons in the mob.
While the military train was moving it
was guarded part of the time on both sides
by squads of armed men, in. addition to
those who rode on top. Nothing was done
at the stock yards except the moving of
Swift & Co.’s train of meat. After the
troops had abandoned their train and gone
into camp the crowd derailed the two rear
cars of the train, and then, satisfied with
their day’s work, and finding no more
soldiers or policemen to harass, they quiet
ly disappeared.
MDBS PARADE THE STREETS
And Chicago’s Authorities are Unable to
Quell the Rioters.
Chicago, July 5. —The sun went down on
by far the most turbulent and critical day
thus far in the unparalleled railroad strike
and boycott.
When it opened there was a general feel
ing that its passage would go far toward
clearing the atmosphere, if, indeed, it did
not practically lift the embargo on com
merce which has held this city in its grip for
the past week. That expectation was chiefly
based on the presence of federal troops in
the most dangerous districts.
Looking at the situation at the close of
the day, however, it must be confessed
that the hope indulged at the opening in
this regard has not been justified. The
troops were few in numbers at best, and
when they were divided into squads and
distributed at points separated by very con
siderable distances, it soon became evident,
that their prestige as overawing bodies had
been dissipated at the same time.
Instead of fleeing in fear before the faces
of the veterans!, as was expected they would,
the turbulent thousands surged about the
little band of soldiers, jeering and hooting
at them, easting vile epithets at them and
literally played hide and seek with them,
stopping trains at will, and generally ren
dering rhe embargo in the military district
more effective, if possible, than before.
The throngs of strikers did not resist (In-i
cle Sam’s police again and again when theraß
were thousands of them about a train whilttK
it sought to move, and on the track in fron®
of it they gave way like water before thel
leveled bayonets of a single company of '"‘J’
fantry or trampling of a single squad of| |
cavalry. ....
A Little Blood Sited.
Tn two instances there was bloodshed,g
fin the Western Indiana tracks a. hard
pressed special polio .man fired at. his pur
suers, wounding a striker in the leg, On<
the Lake Shore road an official of that
company in charge of a train which he was
endeavoring to force through, emptied his
revolver point blank into the massed
strikers about him. He was saved from t
the fury of the mob by his engineer, who
put on steam and ran back to the point
of starting.
Shortly after noon a mob numbering 200
started north on the Lake Shore traces
at Thirty-seventh street, overturning cars
and obstructing the line in every possible
way. They were not checked until they
reached Twenty-second street, where a
heavy force of police was massed, and suc
ceeded in turning them back.
AH to Be Called Ont.
A. meeting of the chiefs of all the leading
labor organizations, including the Interna
tional Machinists, Knights of Labor, the
National Street Car Men’s Association and
the American Federation of Labor, who
have placed themselves at the disposal of
the American Railway Union, subject to
call, has been called for tomorrow in this
city, when it is expected an attempt will
be made to call out every in mber of the
labor organizations in the country. V
Mayor Hopkins, In the name of the city
of Chicago, tin's afternoon sent a telegram
to George M. Pullman, urging upon, him
the necessity of arbitration, a id requesting
him to return to this city to do all in his
power to settle the great strike.
General Miles’s Advice.
General Nelson A. Miles arrived in the
city la. t night. Alluding to the strike in a
conversation he said:
“I would suggest that the newspapers
warn all law-abiding citizens, as well as
law breakers, to keep as far away from
those commands a- possible. The rapidity
of fire and the range of their weapons is
such that great loss of life must follow if
tin troops fire. The military is not perform
ing its present duties for display or for pic
nic purposes, but are under ord rs of the
president. They do not propuse to allow
tin mselves to be beseiged or to stand too
much nonsense.”
General Miles, in speaking of the obstruct
ing tal lies of the strikers and their sym
pathy era •at the stock yards and adjacent
railroads, said:
“These men do not seem to realize how
close to death they .are every time they at
tempt.to stop a train and harras-s the troops.
That bloodshed has not yet taken place is j
du 1 extraordinary <odm ss of the |
mon and their wonderful self-control. They
have taken the sneers ot the crowds with
great forbearance and have submitted to
indignities and insults in a remarkable
niamier. If a shot is fired and an assault is
made upon them while in the discharge of
th.'ir G’.ity they will meet it, and when
the." contemplate that result 1 cannot help
repeating that these people know not what
they are doing. They do not seem to real
ize what a terrible engine of destruction
they are going against wnen they meet with
the soldifis. Fifty of those soldiers could
mow down 2,000 people in a f< w minutes. I
believe that if this- was fully realized there
would not be so much interference witli the
troops and a wide berth would be given to
the roil' tj tracks. The president is in
earnest in this matter of suppressing in
ti i ference with the operation of. the laws.
The orders of the federal court .'ire being
treated v ith contempt. Conditions like
those existing today cannot last many
h without ending in i declaration of
martial law. Then the military will be su
preme.”
The general at once assumed command of
the troops.
Delis Will Be Tried
“If the strike was settled tomorrow it
would not make any difference,” said Ld
w.irl Walker, special counsel for the gov
ei nt, vcsti rday. Every man who has
trampl d on the la . will b • ppnishe I. I
noi care anything' ?:bout the few mlsguiti'-tx
men who have been arrested. It is the in
stigator of the lawlessness that the govern
ment wants to punish. That is Debs. We
shall have Debs. We have the evidence
against him now and he w.H be punished.
A special grand jury to sit next Tuesday
was summoned lhis morning.
THE WHITE CITY' ABLAZE.
Six of the Beautiful Buildings FL®-
duced to Ashes.
Chicago, July 5. —Fire broke out at 6:o0
o’clock this afternoon on the roof of the
T rininal station at the world’s fair
Is. A strong breeze was blowing and
the flames spread quickly to (the admims
trati. a building, thence to the electricity
ai-4 mining buildings and machinery hall.
The fire gained great headway before the
department arrived.
'The six large structures, which formed
the boundaries of the court of honor,
perished. The buildings destroyed were the
Terminal station, adininistpation, manu
facturers, electricity and mining buildings,
i ach n ry hall and the agricultural build
ing. The art gallery, which has been re
christened the Field Columbian museum,
and the government building were saved,
together with the minor buildings south of
machinery hall and the agricultural build
ings.
The fire started almost simultaneous at
three points, so selected as to afford the
best possible spread of the flames. In each
place—on the second floor of the Terminal
station, the southwest corner of the me
chanical arts building and on the southeast
corner of the manufacturers’ building, a
mar* was seen running away from the
grounds by passers-by or members of the
gangs of wreckers at work tearing down
the buildings just before the fire broke out.
One man was killed and one injured during
the progress of the fire.
Howling Like Madmen.
Chicago, July s.—At 3 o’clock this after
noon a special train consisting of an en
gine and one passenger car, was sent out
on the Lake Shore road from the Van Bu
ren station, laden with a detail of special
police. Officers of the road were also on
board. The police had been dispatched to
aid in the moving of trains in the vicinity
of the stock yards.
At Fortieth street the mob grew so
demonstrative that the train was compelled
to halt. The engineer believed himself the
object of attack and drew his revolver.
Before he could shoot a policeman dis
armed him. The crowd saw the movement
and became wild with frenzy. They rushed
upon the train, literally swarming around
It, pelted it with stones and sticks, break
ing many windows anu howling like mad
men. J
The police then drew their own revolvers
and fired into the crowd. One or two men
are said to have been hit, but it is not yet
known how serious. A dozen shots or so
were fired. In the meantime the engineer
had reversed his, engine and the train was
soon forced backward out of reach of the
mob and returned to the city. This is the
first shooting in the present strike. It
occurred in a locality where the men were
already furious and it is believed will be
the signal for desperate encounters very
soon.
Clioketl tlie Engineer.
The special train from Blue Island, carry
ing two companies of the Fifteenth regi
ment to the scene of the trouble between
Forty-third and Fifty-first streets, on the
Kock Island tracks, arrived here at noon.
A corporal’s guard of soldiers was sation
ed inside and outside the tracks and on
the tender of the engine. It was found
that the Lake Shore through train had been
held, there for an hour.
The train was stopped at Forty-fourth
street by a mob of sympathizers. Two of
them got into the cabin and choked the
engineer by tying a handkerchief around
his neck. The other man started the en
gine ahead. The engine and baggage car
had been cut from the rest of the train
and moved a block away.
A call for police was responded to by a
force of sixty officers. The train was
coupled together again and moved under
police protection to West street, where it
was held until the arrival of the" soldiers’
train. Then it was started without further
trouble.
At the Point of the Bayonet.
As soon as the soldiers had been ordered
! out of the car a mob of several hundred
came towards (them. Some of the crowd
got under a line of box ears standing next
to the fence and Lieutenant Jamieson, of
Company C, led a squad of soldiers, who
quickly drove them off.
The rest of the crowd was driven back
along the tracks by a platoon of soldiers
at the point of bayonets. A few of the
crowd were too slow in moving and were
started by the bayonets. Some stones were
thrown out of the backyards of houses
along the tracks, but no one was hit.
The baggage of the soldiers was unloaded
at Forty-fourth street and the soldiers will
remain in camp at that point if necessary.
One of the crowd was arrested by deputy
marshals.
Blockaded by the Strikers.
A Rock Island express from the west at
tempted to follow the train bearing the
regulars from Blue Island into the city,
but was blockaded by the strikers, who
had thrown cars off the track. The mob
induced the fireman to get off of the cab.
Chief Clerk Hubbell, es ithe superinten
dent’s office of the Rock Island, was severe
ly stoned while attempting to switch the
’Blue Island special bearing the soldiers,
and the inch burned a Hock Island freight
car at Fortieth street and would have de
no- lished the tower at that point, but were
I ('evented by the police and fire depart
ment.
OTcrtarning Freight Cars.
At G o’clock tonight a mob .numbering
2,000 men started north on the Lake Shore
tracks, inarching toward the heart of the
city. At Twenty-eighth street they over
t irned two freight cars on the tr ick; at
Twenty-sixth street three and at Twenty
fifth street two. They were met at Twen
ty-second street by a small detachment
of police and before the officers could make
any arrests the mob had dispersed. The
. trackmen repaired the damages within two
hours.
MOBS RUN WILD.
The Rioters Burn Hundreds of Freight Cara
and D«ify tile Police.
Chicago, 111., July 6.—Six dead and an in
definite number ot' injured is the record of
casualties in the strike conflicts in Chicago
today. Yesterday one man was shot in the
leg. It the blood-letting tomorrow shall
show a like increase the coroner will have a
Min.imty’s work before him.
The developments of yesterday went far
to convince all thinking people that the
yavity of the situation had not been ap
preciated by the authorities or the people
at large. Persons who were nere during the
raifroad strike of 1877, who saw the atmos
phere clear perceptibly When no more than
eighty bronzed and husky regulars from
the plains marched down Madison street and
went into, camp on the lake front, wagged
their heads knowingly when three times
that num' er were ordered from Fort Sher
idan, comprising the three arms of the ser
vice, and said they would make short work
of Mr. Debs’s followers. But after twelve
hours of as patient and persistent coolness
and bravery, under as trying circumstances
as was ever seen, these same citizens and
officers in command were forced to admit
that things were not as they were in 1877,
and that it was still a. long march to peace
and the resumption of unimpeded traflic on
any o. the railroads running out of Chicago.
Sirs Become n Cmapiiign.
The developments of the night and those
of today have confirmed the conviction that
nothing short of an overwhelming armed
force, with instructions to shoot to kill, can
settle the trouble, or, as Colonel Crofton
puts it, “It has ceased to be a. mere move
ment of troops and has become a cam-,
paign.”
The local and state authorities have awak
ened to the critically grave nature of the
strike malady which is afflicting the nation
generally, but Chicago in particular, and
are taking measures to apply adequate rem
edies. The city police force has already
been recruited un to over 3,009 men, and by
request of Mayor Hopkins, a.nd by order of
Governor Altgeld, two brigades of state mi
litia have been ordered here to aid in quell
ing the disturbances.
At the nation’s capitol, also, the fact is
recognized tha.t the conditions are entirely
out of the ordinary and that provisions must
be made for more fighting men as has never
been seen together in the history of the
nation in time of peace, if the authority and
dignity of the federal government and pro
cesses of its courts are not to be laughed to
scorn for an indefinite time.
Applying Hie Torch.
Riot has been running rampant through
out the day. Cars have been overturned,
switches broken and tracks obstructed in
numerous ways. The torch was applied in
many instances to cars, switch towers and
the like, and an attempt was made to lire a
part of the great Armour packing plant.
In fac 1 , at one time the incendiary blazes
followed each other in such quick succes
sion that the fire department was put to
straits to care for all of them.
Late in the afternoon it was found to be
interfering with the police, railroad and fire
alarm telegraph systems, and in two in
stances policemen who were using the po
lice telephone calls were stunned.
In general, the order of tilings, compared
with that of yesterday, was reversed. Then
the railroads were trying to break the block
ade by sending the trains out. Today they
recognized the futility of that method of
procedure and practically gave up any at
tempt at outward movement. But there
were some incoming passenger trains on
sever?.! of the roads, together with a few
o'- the regular milk trains. Between these
two classes of traffic the strikers managed
to make trouble for nearly every road run
ning in a southerly direction. The Fort
Wayne, Lake Shore, Michigan Central, Bal
timore-and Ohio, the Illinois Central, the
Alton, the Pan Handle, the Western Indi
ana, the Rock Island, the Monon, all expe
rienced difficulty, in greater or less degree
at some time, or all of the time during the
day.
Two Killed at Kensington.
The assaults of the mobs, however, were
not met with the passive resistance which
characterized the course pursued yesterday.
On two occasions, at least, their attacks
were met with accurately aimed lead. Dur
ing a riot in the forenoon over an incoming
milk train at Kensington a deputy I nited
States marshal shot and killed two strikers,
and during the afternoon the deputies guard
ing an incoming Baltimore and Ohio pas
senger train replied to the volley of shots
and stones which the strikers showered
upon them by turning their revolvers loose,
killing four of their assailants and wound
ing a number of others.
Late this afternoon the Second regiment,
state militia, was ordered to the stuck
yards.
Extending Eastward.
Os the situation in general, the strike
may be said to have strengthened its grip.
Its most significant feature is the carrying
of the strike east to Cleveland, tying up
all the connections of the seaboard trunk
lines there, with the promise tha.t by to
morrow it will reach the trunk lines them
selves, and so practically reach the Atlantic
seaboard by tying up the roads at Buffalo.
Thus the strike would be extended from
ocean to ocean.
Federal Troops on the Lake Front.
Two companies of regular infantry from
Fort Brady, Mich., arrived in Chicago this
morning, and at 8 o’clock marched from the
Northwestern depot to the lake front to
join the troops mobilized there under Gen
eral Miles’s command.
Four companies of infantry from Leaven
worth, ordered here yesterday, arrived
about 9 o'clock this morning on the Burling
ton road, were switched on to the tracks
of the Illinois Central a«d unloaded at
the Central station of that road at lai k
Row. They immediately went into camp
at the lake front, and, with their tents and
stacked arms, added much to the warlike
appearance of the grounds.
The complete roster of troops now mobil
ized on the lake front is as follows:
Troop K, Seventh cavalry, and Battery E,
First artillery, from Fort Sheridan.
Two companies, infantry, Nineteenth regi
ment, from Fort Brady, Mich.
Two companies of infantry, Fifteenth
regiment.
Five companies of infantry of various
regiments from Fort Leavenworth.
Company C and Company E, Thirteenth
infantry, and Company K, Seventh cavalry,
are under arms and awaiting orders at
Camp Dexter, about one mile from the
yards.
tunorlng Hie Federal Troops.
Mayor Hopkins announced today that, he
had called for the troops in order to dis
perse the mobs which are Becoming a men
ace io public safety. When asked if he
would act in concert with the federal troops
or ignore them entirely in sending out the
milita, he replied significantly:
“We know nothing about the federal
troops. They were brought here lor a
purpose. They sit cn top of cars. We
want men who will get down upon the
ground and do their duty.”
General Miles, therefore, considers that
the federal and state troops will work in
a co-operative way without interference
with each other. He regards it as probable
that General Wheeler will call upon him
in conference before issuing any specific
orders for the employment of the militia.
Stoned Hlin to Death.
S. R. Ritchie, a special policeman em
ployed by the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and
Chicago road, was stoned to death by a mob
this afternoon at the Fifty-seventh street
crossing of that road. Ritchie, who was
also a deputy .sheriff, caught some boys
overturning a switch shanty and compelled
them to set it upright again.
While he was talking to the boys a mob
approached and attempted to burn the
shanty. Ritchie drew his revolver and
threatened to kill the first man who ap
proaehffd the shanty. The mob kept surg
ing around him, but he held it off until his
revolver was accidentally discharged, the
bullet striking him in the foot. He was an
easy prey for the mob then, and they quick
ly had him down. They stood around his
body and literally stoned him to death. His
head was pounded almost to pieces. The
mob finally went away leaving him for
dead, but be was still alive when the police
arrived. Ije was taken to the hospital, but
died in a short time. No arrests were made.
Firing the Cars.
Chicago, 111., July 6. —Two hundred and
twenty-five freight cars on the Pan Handle
tracks between Forty-fifth and Fifty-ninth
streets —a distance of about one mile —
were totally destroyed by lite between the
hours of G and 8 o'clock tonight.
Shortly after 5 o’clock this afternoon im
mense crowds of men, women and boys
were seen coming from the stock yards
towards the network of tracks at the cross
ing of Forty-seventh straet. The mob v.'as
augmented every minute by a. seemingly
never ending string of the strikeis end
their sympathizers, and about 6 o clock
fully four thousand people were massed
along the tracks from Forty-fifth stieet
south.
The Police Powerless.
They were the stock yard crowd, and in
tent on a repetition of lust nights destruc
tion, and the police who remained on duty
were utterly powerless. They were not
even noticed by the strikers, who went to
work at once.
“Down the tracks!” was the cry, and with
a rush the mob started southv/ard. Bunches
of waste were stolen from the switchmen’s
shanties, and, soaked with the “dope” used
in oiling cars, made an excellent torch.
At Forty-seventh street, five cars stand
ing on the Grund Trunk track, were first to
meet destruction. Some of them were load
ed. The seals were broken and the doors
slid back. A bunch of the burning waste
thrown inside quickly ignited the contents,
and in less than three minutes tiie five
cars were bl izing fiercely-
And Hie Crowd Bushed On.
Without waiting to see that their work
was complete, the crowd surged on. They
kept to the Pan Handle tracks, and at
Forty-ninth street came upon six more
cars. These were tired in a twinkling, and
on went the crowd.
In the Garfield boulevard yards of the
Pan Handle four tracks were full of freight
cars, more then half of which were loaded.
At this crossing i.s located a switchman's
tower and this was first to be fired.
The mob turned its attention to the cars
on the sidings, but, for some reason, fired
but one of them—a car of dressed beef,
which had been started eastward a few days
ago.
Tearing; Up Switches.
They suddenly stopped their incendiarism
and turned their attention to tearing up
switches. After a number had been render
ed useless, the mob continued on its way
southward. At Fifty-eigi’th street is situat
ed the station house of the coinbined roads.
This was fireu and quickly destroyed. A
strong wind was blowing and the flames
were quickly spread across three or four
tracks which were filled with. cars. Ihe
railroad people say that there viere fifty
curs there, forty of which were loaded.
All were soon a mass of flames.
About thirty of the cars were filled with
coal, and the heat was intense. Fifteen of
the cars contained meat from the big pack
ing houses of Armour, Swift and Nelson Mor
ris. By this time the fire department had
been advised of the fires further north on
the tracks and had sent their forces there.
But on learning the seriousness of'the sit
uation at Fifty-eighth street they abandon
ed their fight further northward and came
to the scene of the conflagration, which
promised to be serious.
Started for the City.
Upon the approach of the fire and
police departments the mob turned about
and started for the city. On their way to
Forty-seventh street they set fire to all
the cars that they had missed in their
-rip southward.
No water could be obtained near the Gar
field boulevard yards, and the cars were
slowly burned up.
It was noticed that the leaders of th*
mob were mostly foreign, and as they re
traced their steps, a few of the leaders,
accompanied by hundreds, started off in
the direction of the stock yards. Thera
are three hundred and fitly cars in the dis
trict now in possession of the mob, and
it is probable that all will be destroyed by
midnight.
A number of hoodlums were in the gang t
and they seemed especially proficient in
the use of the torch.
Burning Every Car in the Yard.
The mob continued its work of destruij
tiun on its march to the stock yards. Both
gangs again met at Forty-ninth and Hal
stead streets and continued their inarch
to the yards. The 350 cars in the yards
were completely destroyed, and when the
mob reached the stock yards they divided
up into small gangs arid separated among
the big packing houses. It is feared that
the worst is to come and that the crazed
mob will destroy the big packing houses
during the night.
On its return march the rioters set firs
to four curs standing on the Grand TrunJ
tracks, just west of Ashland avenue. Ths
cars were loaded with baled twine.
Im West Pnilman.
Conductors and gripmen were driven from
their places and the complete tie-up of the
system was effected. The strikers from
I'ullman proper took no part in the work ol
the mob.
A mob of 300 or 400 is burning cars in the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy yards at
Hawthorne, seven miles out. Four have
been destroyed up to this hour and it is
reported that there are many other fires
.springing up in different parts of the
yards. There is absolutely no police pro
tection there beyond one or two officers
and the militia is several miles away.
A Peace Meeting, - Culled.
The ministers of the city have called a
meeting of citizens in favor of peaceful ar
bitration as a settlement of the great strike,
It will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock
at Battery D armory. Bishop Fallows and
Dr. P. S. Henson have the matter in charge
as a committee and have invited Mayoi
Hopkins and other city officials to be pres
ent. They also invite every one in favor ot
arbitration of the boycott and strike to at
tend the meeting. Addresses will be deliv
ered by Bishop Fallows, Dr. Henson and
others,' and the Thomas orchestra will fur
nish music.
The Inter Ocean Printers.
Chicago, July 6. —The compositors em
ployed by The inter Ocean newspaper held
a. meeting tonight and passed resolutions
denouncing the policy of the paper and de
manding that the resolution be printed in
the paper tomorrow.
W. B. Prescott, president of the Inter
national Typographical Union, was tele
graphed for at Indianapolis and will be
here tomorrow.
• ALTGELD OBJECTS
To the Presence of United States
Troops in His State.
Washington, July s.—The president. Sec
retary Lamont, Attornej- General Olney ;
Postmaster General Bissel and General
Schofield remained at the white house to
night until 12 o’clock. Many telegrams
were received and sent during the course
of the evening. General Ruggles brought
one over to General Schofield from General
Miles.
When the conference broke up Secretary
Lamont, acting as spokesman for the presi
dent, announced that there was nothing to
make public except the telegram from
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, and the presi
dent’s response thereto. Governor Altgeld
protests against the presence of United
States trops in Chicago. The president re
plies as follows:
“Executive Mans'on, Washington, July
s.—Hon. John P. Altgeld, Governor of Illi
nois, Springfield, Ill: Federal troops 1 ere
sent to Chicago in strict accordance v>ith
the constitution and laws of the United
States upon the demand of the postoflice
department that the obstructions of ths
mails should be removed, and upon th«
representations of the judicial officers ol
the United Stat is that process of the f< 1-
eral courts could not be executed through
the ordinary means, and upc-n abundant
proof that conspiracies existed against
commerce between the states. To meet
these conditions, which are clearly within
the province of federal authority, the pres
ence of federal troops in the city of Chi
cag'o was deemed nut only proper, but
necessary, and there has been no intention
of thereby interfering with the plain duty
of the local authorities to preserve the
peace of the city. „ ~
RO .' ER CLEVEI ’■ ND.
What Governor Altgeld Says.
Governor Altgeld says that waiving all
quest ions of courtesy, the state oi II inoil
is nut only able to take care or itself, but
stands ready to furnish the federal gov
ernment any assistance it may need else
where. The state troops have not been or
dered out, because nobody in Cook county,
otlieial or private citizen, has asked for
their assistance or intimated that it wa3
needed. The railroads are paralyzed, hu
says, not by reason of obstruction, but
because they cannot get men to work them;
that such was the case when state troops
hud been recently called out at the requests
of the railroads elsewhere than in Chicago.
Governor A.ltgeld says the conditions do
not exist in Chicago which bring the ease
within the federal status and that he (ths
president) has been imposed upon for po
litical ends. Following are the concluding
paragraphs of Altgeld’s telegram.
“To absolutelji - ignore a local government
in matters of this kind, when the local
government is ready to furnish any as
sistance needed, and is amply able to en
force the law, insults the people of th a
state. The question of federal supremacy
is in no way involved. No one disputed it
for a moment, but under our constitution
federal supremacy and local self-govern
ment must go hand in hand, and to ignore
the latter is to do violence to the consti
tution. As governor of Illinois, I protest
against this, and ask the Immediate with
drawal of the federal troops from active
duty in this state. Should the situation
at any time get so serious that we cannot
control with the state forces, we will
promptly and freely ask for federal as
sistance, but until such time, I protest with
all due deference against this uncalled-for
reflection upon our people, and again ask.
the immediate withdrawal of these troops.
I have the honor to be yours respectfully,
“JOHN P. ALTGELD,
“Governor of Illinois.”-
IN OTHER STATES.
Kffec’S of the Great Pullman Strike from tis.i
Atlantic to tlie Pacific <’oai»ts.
St. Louis, Mo., July 4.—The Southwestern
limited passenger train on the Big Four
road, which Iqt't here at 8 o’clock a. m., is
tied up at. the bridge junction at East St.
Louis and at 1 o’clock p. m. there is no
prospects of its immediate release. The
tie-up was caused by the engineer and fire
man deserting the locomotive and allowing
the train to stand on the main track.
No engineer and fireman can be secured, to
take charge of the train. No reason is
given at the company’s office here for She
desertion of the engineer and the rest of
the crew other than that they have struck
through sympathy with the Pullman em
ployes. The westbound passenger train on
the Big Four, due here at 7:30 o'clock a. m.,
in still tied up at Mattoon, 111., and th*
railroad people are unable to s..y when it
will reach here.
Condeinuing tlie Strike.
New Orleans, July 4.—A large meeting of
the employes of the Queen and Cresent
was held this evening to consider the mat
ter of the strikes now pending in the west,
growing out of differences between the
Pullman Car Company and its employes.
Resolutions were adopted condemning the
strike us unjust, protesting against it and
pledging their loyalty and hearty support
to their company in their efforts to main
tain unimpaired the train service in all its
departments.
Closed at Topeka.
Topeka, Kas., July 2.—At neon today the
Santa Fe shops in this city were closed
for an indefinite period. The responsibility
forthe l r closing rests somesvnat on the
managers of the American Railway Union
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