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STRIKERSJILLED.
Voluntary Military Eire On
An Advancing Mob.
TWO WOMEN AMONG THE VICTIMS
Stock Yards Are Fired and Meat
Packing Houses Threatened.
r'ACTORIES LOCK OUT THEIR FORCES
Thin Th rows 100.000 Men Out of Work Be
csnse There I* No Sale for Good*.
Gen. Mile* Issues a l.ast W»rul , '<r-
Chicago. TH., July 7.—The army depart
ment has taken control of the railroads.
At 12 o’clock General Miles issued orders
to Colonel Crofton to send regulars as fol
lows: Two companies to the union depot;
two companies to Dearborn station; one
c<n pany to the Northwestern; one company
to the Grand Central; one company to the
JtceK island; one company to the Illinois
(Central.
The general instructions to the troops
Eie to accompany, support and assist United
Flutes marshals in aiding the dispatch of
mail trains under the interstate commerce
act; in removing tresspassers and men ob
structing or destroying the lines of rail
road engaged in interstate business.
Should the crowds engage in any act of
hr ttility, such as throwing rocks or other
v.i. attacking the troops the latter are
©rue-red to resist with the use of arms if
necessary.
The First Buttle.
A. fight occurred at Forty-ninth and
Loomis streets at 4 o'clock this afternoon,
caused by an attack on a wrecking train,
m. de by the mob. The Western Indiana
workmen ha 1 partially succeeded in clear
ing away an obstruction when the mob
drove them away. The firing on the mob
was done by Company C, of the Second in
fantry, state troops, 380 men strong, com
manded by Captain Maher. The mob had
been growing ugly for some time, ami Cap
tain Maher concluded it was about time to
beat a retreat. His company, accompanied
by six policemen and twentj deputy sher
iffs began to move slowly off, guarding the
Vain.
Lieutenant Reed was struck down and
suudeniy Yardmaster McKee, of the Grand
Trunk, was compelled to lire at several men
who made a ruMi tor him. This opened hos
tilities and the militia, deputies and
police pourv-l lead into the mob as fast as
they could pull triggers.
The soldiers fired anywhere from two
to six rounds apiece, and the others empt
ici their revolvers.
No tiring was done until Second Lieuten
ant Reed had been struck twice on the
ale with stones. He is believed to be
du r.erously wounded. The troops, after
the light, were unable to cope with the mob
nv, i took the train back to the city. They
have arrived in a badly demoralized con
dition, many of the men being badly bat
tered and bruised.
List of Rioters Shot.
The latest advices from the scene of the
Ehooting are that the following rioters were
shot:
THOMAS JACKMAN, shot In the back.
ill die.
HENRY WILLIAMS, shot in the left arm.
tony GAJEV.'SKi. shot in the right
a rm.
JOHN KORNDERG, stabbed with bayo
net. Will die.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, shot In the right
hip.
UNKNOWN MAN, shot through the liv
er. Will die.
: NKNOWN BOY, seventeen years old,
■hot through thstomach. Will die.
General Miles's Plain Worils.
"Au 1 it is further ordered that an act of
ho 'iiity, such as firing upon railroad trains
or a--. tilting train men, marshals or sol
d’ers, by throwing at them rocks, pieces of
-her n issiles, those assaults shall
b< repelled by the use of firearms.”
> wrote General Nelson A. Miles in his
o: • ■ .-sued this afternoon detailing fed
eral tru-ps to assist United States rnar
t; .;!< in ■•venting obstruction to the move
r.i< .;t cf mail and interstate commerce
t-, is. it was, in .short, notice to all rl
oi(s-s that temporizing with them had
ceased and hereafter the policy of the gov
ermu.ent would be to put an end to their
rioting, arson and pillage by shooting to
kill whenever and Wherever necessary.
Tile Militiamen find First Shot.
As i nane:- w >lll'l have it, however, it did
n. faii to the lot of the national troops to
b- ; lie first to carry out the spirit of this
order. Company C, Second regiment, Illi
nois national guard, had that distinction.
The story of the encounter between the
thirty-seven young militiamen of this com
piiiy and a vicious mob at Forty-seventh
au.l Loom!" streets is told elsewhere in
Up to 4 o’clock in the afternoon the day
h.d teen a comparatively quiet one. To
be sure, small mobs had been going about
all through the district west of State street
e d south of Thirty-ninth, burning a few
cars here and there, and threatening the
firing of railroad shops and the
like, but it was more in rhe nature of
bushwhacking than anything else, and
not at ait like the massed bands
cf strikers who gathered along the rail
road tracks yesterday and the day before,
absolutely blocking all movement by sheer
force of numbers.
The disturbed section today embraced a
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not to mention the bit of incendiarism on
the Burlington road at Crawford and at
Western Ives, the latter having tiie dis
tinction of being the work of women and
children.
A Graveetone to the President.
It is estimated that in this district men
tioned not less than 50,000 rioters were out
at one time and another during the day,
but the ground was so thoroughly’ patrolled
bv the police, the marshals and the military
that they found little opportunity for get
ting together In large numbers, as they
have been doing heretofore. Still some of
them at the stock yards found time for
indulging In making a graveyard in due
order and erecting headstones at the
graves therein bearing the names of their
pet aversions, including that of the presi
dent. of the United States.
Er-Kniployes Want s. Conference. »»
One feature sf the day was the showing
of Rs teeth by the Building Trades' Coun
cil of the city in calling out the steam
fitters in the big packing houses at the
stock yards, with the threat that I', v. as
merely a preliminary to falling out its 25,000
members and the tying up of all building
in the city.
Another feature was the patrolling of
sentries before the federal subtreasury, in
whose vaults lie some $15,000,000 of Uncle
Sam's money, which General Miles thought
might prove a temptation to some of Debs’s
followers not to be resisted, especially in
view of the fact that they are not very
flush just now.
Signs of Improvement.
For the first time since the strike opened
there were several distinct notes of im
provement in the situation, and these were
not confined to Chicago. Here the postal
authorities reported a notable improvement
in the handling of the mails. Outside of
Chicago it was noticed that the strike,
while it made no progress worthy of men
tion, gave many evidences of having
reached its culmination and of failing influ
ence, To begin with, the promise that the
seaboard trunk lines would be tied up at
Buffalo was not fulfilled. The strike was
extended to Pittsburg, as predicted, and at
a number of points in the tied-up territory
the strain was lightened. At one or two
points men who had agreed to go out failed
to do so. But the most significant of all,
perhaps, was the refusal of the American
Railway linion men at Louisville, Colorado
Springs and Denver to obey Debs’s erdcr
to strike. Joliet also reported a defection
In the ranks—the employes of the Elgin,
Joliet and Eastern.
On the other hand the friends of law and
order had occasion to be pleased on ac
count of the massing of troops here and at
the ordering of a decided movement of
troops by the president, with a view to
lifting the embargo on the Pacific coast
business, both by the northern and central
routes. To this end he ordered General
Merritt, at St. Paul, and General Otis, at
Vancouver barracks, to see to the opening
of the Northern Pacific line, while General
Huger, at San Francisco, and General
Brooke, at Omaha, were similarly in
structed to set things to moving on the
Central road, near the Northern Pacific
system.
Stopping Their Machinery.
An exhaustive canvass of the industrial
concerns o* the city yesterday reveals an
appalling state of affairs and warrants the
statement that by night 75 per cent of them
will step their machinery and keep it so
until the embargo of traffic is raised, the
effect of which will throw out of employ
ment upward of 100,000 workers.
The Deering Harvester companies’ work
ers will stop tonight, throwing out 3,000 peo
ple. The Illinois Malleable Iron Company’s
furnaces were allowed to die last night for
lack of fuel and pig iron, shutting out 400
men.
The nineteen furnaces of th* Illinois Steel
Company's plant are baked for the need of
coke and all the company’s mills at South
Chicago, North Chicago, Joliet and Mil
waukee are closed, throwing into idleness
3,000 at South Chicage, 1,500 at Joliet, 1,000
at Milwaukee and 250 at North Chicago, a
total of 5,750.
The Union Foundry Company and the
Kimball Bridge Company, and all its allied
concerns cannot get iron and these plants
are idle, adding 250 mors te the army of
unemployed.
The Great Western Refining Company ha*
fuel for but two days and will then close.
The Chicago Wire and Spring Company
shut down Inst Tuesday for lack of fuel,
throwing cut 150 men.
Cook county hospital has been burning
hard coal for two days because of Contrac
tor Kelley’s inability to secure soft coni.
The Chicago Packing Box Company clos
ed, throwing out 300 men, because nobody
wants boxes when goods cannot he shipped.
Cliirngo’s Military Volnnleern.
Mayor Hopkins received a letter today
from Chief of Police Seavey, of Omaha,
president of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police, offering to send 1,000 train
ed and experienced policemen to Chicago
from different points in the west If Chicago
desired their services and would pay them.
The offer will net be accepted, as ail the
men necessary can be found in Chicago.
Their Order \nt in It.
E. E. Clarke, grand chief of the Order of
Railway Conductor*, was in the city today.
Mr. Clarite said his order would not ident
ify itself with the strikers. He said:
“When the strike began It was requested
by Mr. Delis to join in it. I said that our
Oder had laws which prevented a tv partic
ipation in sympathetic strikes, and it had
no persoanl desire to join in movements of
.he kind. The companies with which we
have agreements have lived up to their
contracts and we hive n- desire to break
them. There are cases where individual
member# of our order have joined in the
strike. We cannot help that. A conduc
tor xvho does not want to w.-rk can quit
after giving th* con pen;. notice. If, how
ever, he goes to th* extent of attempting
to get other conductors to go out with, him
he will be disciplined, which, in such cases,
usually means suspension.”
“The triumph of this railroad strike
would be the triumph of anarchy,” said
Grand Matter Wilkinson, of the Brother
hood of Trainmen, today. “The time has
arrived when things must be called by
their right names without any foolish deli
cacy. It is a foregone conclusion, though,
that the movement must fall. That is my
conviction. Any other termination would
be a concession that the government can
not control the nation and that the lawless
element can have the upper hand. The
termination of thi* strike will demonstrate
the fallacy and inefficiency of the sympa
thetic strike.*. They are wrong, miscon
ceived and cannot win. Our union has or
dered no strike and the member who joins
the sympathy demonstration violates his
oath. His action is but that of an indi
-5 .dual.
“if I we*e the owner of a railroad and If
an engineer should refuse to work with a
non-union fireman put on in the place of
such an individual, I would not let such
an engineer ever work on my road. Should
an engineer refuse to work with a non
union fireman when the firemen have been
ordered out by their union for a grievance,
that is entirely a different matter.
■'lnstead of being a struggle tor the su
premney of organized labor, this strike is
a t'-rrNle blow at working men's unions.
Unions have made some of these men in
this movement and before I would aim
the dastardly blow they are aiming at the
life of the unions. 1 would lie hung on a
rack and torn limb from limb.”
Manned by Troops.
Twenty-five ears loaded with coal and
meat were brought into the city today over
th* Pittsburg and Fort Wayne railroad.
The engine arid the roofs of the cars were
manned by United States troops. The
progress of the train, which was the first
moved by the Fort. Wayne tn nearly a
w«ek, was slow and difficult. Mobs assem
bled at every crossing and when the cross-
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JULY 9. 1894.
Ings were reached the train stopped, the
troops tumbled down to the ground 'and
with their bayonets forced the people to get
off the track. The mobs were surly but
made no resistance.
Eatlniate of tlie Lose.
An afternoon paper prints the following:
“Competent authority estimates the prop
erty loss in this city at alone by fire and
waste during the last ten days* at $2,000,000
—a. loss traceable directly to the strike.
But that vast amount is insignificant in
comparison to the loss due to the sacrifice
of wages and paralysis of business. The
railroad tie-up has thrown not less than
200,000 railroad employes out of work,- and
now it is announced as the result of a
careful canvass, that industrial establish
ments in Chicago and its environs, em
ploying 100,000 men, will shut down until
the strike is settled. Other manufacturing
communities throughout the west ar? doing
the same thing and it is not an exaggera
tion to state that the ranas of idlers in the
west will be increased 1,000,000 men by rea
son of the strike. The western country,
therefore, is losing $2,000,000 a day in wages,
estimating the pay of the men at the low
average of $2 a day. In the basis of the
estimate of the men out of work in
Chicago by reason of the strike, the work
ing men are contributing SBOO,OOO a day in
lost wages and $300,000 more in drafts upon
their resources for the cost of living, or a
daily total of $600,000.”
A liikiik Lady Killed.
Police officers guarding the Northwestern
freight y*rds at Sixteenth street ami Ash
land avenue, adjoining the Burlington
tracks, engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict
with rioters at 8 o’clock this evening.
A few minutes before this the crowd set
fire to the freight cars; standing in the
yard. The police officers attempted Lo drive
them away by shooting over their heads.
A young lady, named Miss Martha Bach,
wiio was standing on the roof of a house
nearby, watching the conflict, was shot and
instantly killed by a bullet from the revol
ver of a policeman. This fact becoming
known, the mob became frenzied and the
crowd made a dash for the little band of
policemen.
not be learned, was seriously hurt by a
In the melee an officer, whose name could
flying rock and was taken away in the
patrol wagon.
Firing the Stock Yards.
Union Stock Yards, 111., July 8, 2 a. m.—
The firebug.! continued their destructive
work in this district until long after mid
night. At 9 o'clock they fired an
empty box car on the Grand
Trunk tracks, at Loomis street,
close to the spot where a ear was destroyed
an hour previous Cars were lighted in a
dozen different places and the firemen are
completely exhausted from responding to
the alarms that have been sent in at the
rate of five or six every hour.
Not less than twenty-three alarms have
been received in the stock yards district
since 7 o’clock tonight.
Although the /lacking houses are sur
rounded by pickets cf state troops, firebugs
got into the yards shortly before 10 o’clock
tonight and set fire to the big hay and
feed barn of Nelson Morris & Co. A gen
eral alarm of fire was sent out and the
firemen had a hard struggle to succeed in
quenching the flames. There was no wind
blowing at the time, otherwise nothin;;
could have prevented the destruction of the
immense packing houses which stood close
to the fire. The loss will probably amount
to $6,000.
The Situation at Joliet.
Joliet, ill.. July 7. —The backbone of the
strike in Joliet is broken. After staying
out nearly two days the employes of the
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern road went to
work this morning. When Chicago
trains arrived they bore a committee from
the American Railway Union which urged
the men to quit work, and finally threat
ened, but were not successful. Shortly
after noon United States Deputy Marshal
Hamilton and seventeen men reached Jo
liet and will guard the Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern’s property against the strikers.
A STATEMENT FROM DEBS,
Giving a History of the Trouble xviG.*
Pullman and the Employes.
Chicago, July 6.—Eugene V. Debs, presi
dent of the American Railway Union, has
issued a long statement in justification of
the great strike of which he is the central
figure. The article is addressed "To the
Public,” and reads in part as follows:
“Th* Pullman employes who struck on
May nth, last, did so entirely of their own
accord. The officers of the American Rail
way Union used all their influence to pacify
the employes and advised them repeatedly
not to strike, but to bear patiently their
grievances until a peaceable settlement
could be effected. To the truth of this
statement the employes themselves will
bear me up. But the grievances of these
employes—men and women—had become :::’
aggravated, so galling, that they abandoned
their employment rather than submit longer
to conditions against which their very souls
rebelled. The Pullman company, be it un
derstood, owns the town of Pullman—owns
tii* houses, the home of the employes; con
trols the light and water and othet r<-.■•?.<-
saries of life, and wages are so adjusted to
the living expenses that in a large majority
of cases the employes are barely able to
support their families. At the time they
struck the employes were in arrears to the
Pullman company $70,090 for rent alone.
Wages had been reduced, but rent and other
expenses remained the same.
“The employes from the beginning have
been willing to arbitrate their differences
with the company, but the company arro
gantly declares that there is nothing to
arbitrate. If this be true, why not allow a
board of fair and impartial arbitrators to
determine the fact. Committee after com
mittee waited upon the officials of the Pull
man company, but all of them were re
plied. Finally, on June 12th, the deh-gat ■-s
of the American Railway Union, repre
senting 425 local unions of railway employes,
discussed the Fullman trouble at Chicago,
and as a last resort the delegates deter
mined that unless the Pullman company
could agree to do justice to their employes
within five days the members of the order
would decline to haul Pullman cars. This
action, be it remembered, was not taken
until the strike had been on six weeks.
“Up to this point the trouble was con
fined to the Pullman company and its em
ployes. How then did the strike extend to
the railways? Let the answer be given in
accordance with the fact; The day before
the order of the delegates declining to haul
Pullman cars went into effect the General
Managers’ Association, representing the
principal western railways, met and passed
a series of resolutions, declaring in sub
stance that they would uphold the Pull
man company in its fight upon the em
ployes; that they would haul Pullman cars,
ami that they would stand the ground in
crushing out the American Railway Un
ion. It will thus be seen that the railway
companies virtually joined forces witu the
Pullman company —went into partnership
with them, so to speak, vo reduce and de
feat their half-starved employes. In this
way the trouble was extended from sys
tem to system, until the crisis has been
reached. The business of the country is
demoralized to an extent that defies ex
aggeration. To say that the situation is
Harming is entirely within the bounds cf
prudent*’statement. Every good . citizen
must view the outlook with grave concern.
Something should, something must be done.
The American people arc a peace-loving
people; they want neither anarchy nor
revolution. They have faith in their in
stitutions; they believe in law and order;
they believe in good government, but they
believe in fair play. What can be done to
dispel th* apprehension that now prevails
and restore peace and confidence? The
American Railway Union, by whose, au
thority and In whose behalf this statement
is made, stands ready—has from the begin
ning stood ready—to do anything in its
power, provided it is honorable, to end this
trouble.
“This, briefly stated, is the position the
organization occupies. It simply insists
that the Pullman company shall meet its
employes and do them justice. We guar
antee that, the latter will accept any rea
sonable proposition. Let them agree, as
far as they can. and where they fail to
agree let the points in dispute be submitted
to arbitration. The question of the recog
nition of the American Railway Union, or
any other organization, is waived. Let the
spirit of conciliation, mutual concession and
compromise, animate and govern both
sides, and there will be no trouble in reach
ing a settlement that will be satisfactory
to all concerned. This done, let the railway
companies agree to restore all their em
ployes to their situations without prejudice
aad the'trouble will be ended. I have now
clearly and briefly as possible stated the
position of the American Railway Uftton
at the beginning of the trouble.”
“As it is now, we have been deliberately
and maliciously misrepresented, but we
have borne it all with the unwavering
faith tiiat the truth will finally and power
fully prevail. We firmly believe our cause
is just, and, while we hold that belief, we
will not recede. It has been asked, what
sense is there in sympathetic strikes? Let
the corporations answer. When one is as
sailed, all go to the rescue. They stand
together, they supply each other with men,
inoney„and equipments. Labor, in unifying
its forces, simply follows their example.
If the proceeding is vicious and indefensi
ble, let them first abolish it.
“In this contest, labor will stand by
labor. Other organizations will not be
called out; but they will go out, and the
spectacle of Mr. Pullman, fanned by the
breezes of the Atlantic, while his employes
arc starving, is not calculated to prevent
their fellow wageworkers from going to
their rescue by the only means at their
command. Let me repeat that we stand
ready to do our part toward averting the
impending crisis.”
The statement closed with these words:
"If the corporations refuse to yield, and
stubbornly maintain that there is ‘nothing
to aibitrate,’ the responsibility for what
may ensue will be upon their own heads,
and they cannot escape its penalties.”
Fired Blank C art rid - <
Chicago, July 8, 3 a. m.—(Special.s—The
soldiers planted a Gatling gun at Forty
ninth street and the Grand Trunk tracks
late tonight to disperse the mob. The gun
was loaded with blank cartridges and fired
forty rounds of ammunition. This had the
effect of setting the crowd in a panic and
it. tied in every direction. The strikers have
not appeared at 2 o'clock. Everything is
reported quiet at the stock yards and the
mobs are well dispersed, it is thought, for
the night. No more trouble is expected be
fore daylight.
( To'l ake Ibe Plnees of ■trike.r*.
./(Chicago, July 7.—The Illinois Central rail-
officials ijave engaged several hundred
n , w men lo take the place of the strikers.
>ne men have been imported from various
Ipoints outside and lodged in the big bag-
Vage building at the terminal station at
j'welfth street, which has been converted
into a regular railroad men’s boarding house,
With a kitchen, dining rooms, washrooms
| nd sleeping compartments.
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'I HF. CORPORATION’S SIDE.
■l'residcnt Upui Says That the Govern
ment Must I we a Strong Hand.
Chicago, 111., July 7.—2 o’clock a. m.—(Spe
cial.)—Editor Constitution: We have now
got to the point in this desperate and law
less fight against the United Stales govern-
J merit where no train can go in or out of
Chicago unless under the protection of the
armed authority.
Only two roads are making any pretense
of operating. They are the Northwestern
and Ch I '.-: go, Milwaukee and St. Paul roads.
Troops are not guarding- trains on these
lines, but hundreds of special officers and
United States deputies are trying to pro
tect the trains.
It is bad to use force in the settlement
of such troubles, but we have reached the
point where none but violent measures can
produce a better condition of affairs. This
thing must come to an end. The govern
ment is being openly defled, the commerce
of th* country ruined, and the temporizing
i that has been indulged in has began to
! make thousands of lawless men believe that
I the powers of the city, county, state and
I government are, more or less, in sympathy
| with ti. -lr cause.
A The warnings of the public press are ut
dis/r-ga r le<l. The strikers will net ac
! cr.pt the statements an true that they are
' lighting the government, and while the
I leaders of this movement profess that they
i are not in favor of violence, the*stror-g un
i iler current of sympathy with the lawiess
i methods now being employed, gaes out
from tile strikers’ headquarters.
The rioters art? given to understand H at
all the influences of labor will b'- V ought
to bear to protect them if they rii ar
rested for disobeying the injunctions of the
United States, or for the destcuctio.i of ia>l
road property. In this vay thousands of
men have become leagued together in this
assault on the industries of the country.
The railroads can do no more them they
! have done, if the United Stages can affoid
i to see the entire business of the country
i prostrated by the orders of such an <go
! tistical ass as Debs, 1 presume the inil
i roads will have to put up with
it. Debs is a sample of egotism
run mad. This thing can be squelched by
a strong hand, but quibbling over legal
technicalities and hairbreadth definitions of
the constitutional rights of the citizens will
not ease up matters in the slightest.
I must say that the action of the troops
in firing upon the strikers at Forty-seventh
street is a move in the right direction,
though I deplore its necessity. I do not
know the result of the volley, as there
' have been conflicting reports about the
i number of dead and wounded; but the mere
I act of resenting the desperate assault will
I have a salutary effect on the mobs, which
; are bent upon destroying all the railroad
I property in Chicago. If these fellows once
b in that their acts of violence will be
met with bullets, the end of the strike will
then not be very far off.
JOHN. M. EGAN.
President of Managers’ Association.
Orders from General Schofield.
I 'Washington, July 7.—-General Schofield
• hi>s just sent telegraphic orders to General
■ liiig- r .”.t S in i'rnneisco and General Brooke
< i Omaha, similar in terms to those direct
ed to Generals Miles -and Merritt, which
places in their charge the entire Union and
Central I’at ilie railroad systems with in
structions to open up a line of communica
tion from San Francisco to Omaha.
YUnrraats for Debs’s Arrest.
Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest ol Debs, Kelher and possibly Howard
on a charge of conspiracy and obstructing
the mall. J.t'torney Milchrist has charge
of the matter and warrant”, will be sworn
to before Commisssioner Hoyne. Marshal
Arnold has been asked to detail deputies to
serve The papers.
IN OTHER STATES.
[Continued from 6th Column 7th Page.]
and those of the railroad. At its meeting
last night the American Hallway Union,
which claims a membership in Topeka of
neatly l.lOt) in a set of resolutions ordered
its members to quit work at noon today.
The order was generally given out and
the strike was expected. Shortly after 10
o’clock, however, the following order ap
peared on the wails of the "Block House:”
“These shops will be closed at noon today,
July 2d, for an indefinite period.
"JOHN FLAYER,
"Superintendent of Machinery.”
Arrest of »s, Strike Leader.
Cincinnati, 0., Joly 3.—Edward F. Phe
lan, leader of the strike here, was arrested
in bed at 6 o’clock today bj’ a deputy United
States marshal upon a warrant issued by
the United States court upon the complaint
of the Cincinnati Southern railway receiver,
Samuel Felton. It charged him with inter
fering with the management of the railway
by ordering, persuading and inducing its
employes to leave its service with the intent
to injure traffic. He whs taken to the
office of the United Stites court and held
uniil Judge Taft, of the circuit court, came
upon the bench, when the hearing was set
for 2 o’clock Thursday and his bond was
fixed at $2,500.
In the meantime an injunction was served
upon him restraining him iiulividually. pend
ing this hearing, or in any combination with
others, from encouraging or ordering or in
any other manner causing the employes of
the receiver of the Cincinnati Southern
road to leave his employ with the Intent to
interefere or obstruct the operation of the
I road in hla charge, for the purpose of com-
I pelling the said receiver to break his con-
I tracts with the Pullman Car Company and
not to carry said cars on his train.
Mr. Phelan did not appear to be disturbed.
He said he would obey the injunction, and
added:
“The boys know al! about how to treat
them. They need no instructions.”
Cotton Belt Employes Ont.
Pine Bluff, Ark., July 3.—ln obedience
to orders from Debs, the Cotton Belt rail
road employes struck this morning. Three
hundred men are affected by the order.
The Fruit Growers Anury.
Humboldt, Tenn., July 3.—The Louisville
and aNshvllie and the Mobile and Ohio
platforms and yards are crowded with
tomatoes, apples and other fruits. The
vegetable and fruit growers had a special
called meeting and notified the Louisville
and Nashville agjnt that, unless the rood
arranged to move the fruit by today, they
would take possession of the Pullman cars
when the noon train arrived at Humboldt.
Great indignation prevails among the fruit
growers, owing to the action the roads
have taken.
On the SonthcriL Pacific.
El Paso, Tex., July 3.—The switchmen and
engineers in the yards of the Atlantic
system of the Southern Pacific railroad re
fused to attach the Pullman sleepers to
the eastbound passenger train. The car
was attached by the superintendent and
yardmaster, and the train started, being
delayed one hour. No trains left over the
Pacific system today for the west.
A Strike nt Memphis.
Memphis, July 3.—The order was given
out at midnight for a. general strike on
all railroads entering the city.
Meat Spoiling in the Cars.
Swift & Co. were the only meat packers
who tried to move <my cars today. They
failed dismally, meeting with obstructions
at everj r point. At Halstead street and
Emerald avenue, a freight car was pushed
over on the main track by members of a
crowd of 400 strong, which congregated at
this point. One hundred and fifty police
men were detailed to keep order, and they
had little trouble in doing so. Thirty-nine
cars of dressed beef, belonging to Swift &
Co., have been standing’ on a siding
for twenty-four hours, and are in imminent
danger of being spoiled. At Root street
another freight car was pushed over. This
obstru-. ted the pathway of twitch engines
both north and south, and the company has
little chance to move its meat. Tomorrow
is a holiday, and trouble is looked for by
the local authorities.
Nothing was going at the stock yards
today. Armour Co. have abandoned all
attempts to do business, and the outlook
is bad.
Strike on the Waliaah.
Springfield, 111., July 3.—About 900 em
ployes of the Wabash railway. Including
switchmen, brakemen, fireme*', engineers
and shopmen, struck this morning in obedi
ence to an order received from Chicago
last night. The shops are closed and the
road is completely - tied up. The American
Railway Union here has ordered a boycott
against every Chicago newspaper except
The Times. The Wabash shops at To
ledo were closed today by the company, not
by r’; - strikers. Also the Wabash shops at
Moberly, Mo.
Refuse 1»» Join the Strikers.
New Orleans, June 3. —At a meeting of the
employes of the Illinois Central railroad
in this city this evening, embracing en
gineers, coinductors, firemen, brakemen,
switchmen, operators, clerks and freight
handlers, resolution* were unanimously
adopt®! disapproving of the action of
railroad employes in striking on account of
any disagreement between the I’uilman
company and its employes, none of whom
are trainmen or connected with the rail
way train .service.
"While in sympathy with workingmen en
gaged in a strike for a. just cause, we have
no grievance against our employers requir
ing such a remedy and we hereby pledge
to them our loyalty and hearty support
in their efforts to maintain unimpaired
the train service in all its departments.
Troops for Sncrariento.
San Francisco, July s.—lt is reported this
morning- that federal troops will be sent up
from Presidio barracks to Sacramento and
General Huger will proceed to the capital to
take command.
The L. and N. Discontinues FreljfhtH.
Nashville, Tenn., July s.—The Louisville
and Nashville railroad has discontinued
through freight trains. Local freights on
the Louisville and Nashville, Nashville,
Chattanooga and St Louis are running as
usual. Sleepers to Chicago ace still discon
tinued.
Will Stay nt Their Places.
Denver, Col., July u. -The engineers of
the Rio Grande have unanimously decided
thatttheir duty to both their order and the
railway requires th< rn to perform ev- ry ser
vice required of them as engineers by the
road. A majority of the fireme.i are of the
same opinion as regards themselves.
Cotser D’Alene Again.
Spokane, Wash., July 7. —All the pentup
fury of the Couer D’Alene has broken forth
again. Tonight Warden is In a state of ter
ror and helplessness, and the hills sur
rounding the town are filled with armed
rioters. Before morning the town may be
a heap of ruins.
At 2:30 o'clock this morning with a
tremendous roar the power house of Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mines was blown into the
air by n heavy charge of dynamite. The
roar was answered by a chorus of wild yells
aid pistol shots from the mountain sloe.
The village people were heavily armed and
wafting for an attack, but it did not come.
Tonight the citizens are patrolling the
town, fearing an attack. The sheriff seems
powerless.
Governor McKinnell has been urged to
call out the militia and state troops are ex
pected to arrive tomorrow. It is believed the
town will be attacked before morning.
Lew Mr.llr.ee Org'unlzing- Companies.
Crawfordsville, Ind., July 7.—This evening,
in Crawfordsville, several large military
companies were organized by General Lew
Wallace, in view of the threatened trouble
by strikers. General Wallace believes that
unless the strike is put down at once, civil
war will ensue. He organized his compa
nies to offer them to the service of the state
should there be any call for them. Central
Indiana, especially in the rural districts and
towns, is bitter against the strikers.
Ornjnuizrr.s In JnH.
New Orleans, July 7.—The American Rail
way Union organizers, Sperry. Hurley and
Harriaon, who were arrested yesterday,
charged with conspiracy to obstruct inter
state commerce, were arraigned before
Commissioner Wright today awl held under
bonds of SIS,(KK) each. They were sent to
the parish prison, where they are awaiting
the appearance co" solvent bondsmen. They
al! pleaded not guilty and requested an im
mediate hearing. The commissioner an
nounced that a prelbninary hearing would
be had next Thursday.
LOSING S?25O,OOO A DAY.
General Manaaer.* Say They lulent to
Fisht It Out.
Chicago, July 7.—The General Managers’
Association held its regular daily nu- tiiig
at 11 o’clock yesterday morning. Reports
from all the lines affected by the strike
were read and then the managers voted to
light it out. Reports of daily losses to the
different roads were submitted. The sum
total is appalling, but the managers say if
it were ten times greater they stiil would
stay in the light to the end. Here is a
table showing what the railroad companies
are losing each day:
Chicago and Alton $16,000
Baltimore and Ohio B,<X>o
Chicago and Northwestern 1-1,000
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe a),000
Wisconsin Central 9,000
Chicago a.)i<i Calumet Terminal 18,000
Chicago and Northern Pacific 20,000
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 29,000
Chicago and Eastern Illinois 15,900
Illinois Central 30,000
Nickel Plate 4,000
Michigan Central 2,000
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul.. .. S.ooo
Fort Wayne (and Pan Handle) 15,0 w
Wabash 15,090
Grand Trunk ’. 5,000
Rock Island 11.000
Maple Leaf 8,009
Monon 2,000
Total $250,000
DESIST OR DIE!
I
PRBBIDENT CLEVELAND TSWEB 4
EROCLAMATIOX IO THE JiIOTXRB
T» Dlaperne to Their Homes by Noqn Tod»j
or the United States Troops Will be Or
dered to Fire on Them—The Latest.
Washington, July B.—At a late hour to
night President Cleveland issued the fohow-
Ing proclamation:-
"Whereas, by reason of unlawful obstruc
tions, combinations and assemblages of per
sons, it has become impracticble in th«
judgment of the president, to enforce, by
the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,
tiie laws of the United States within th<
state of Illinois, and especially withm thf
city of Chicago, within said state; and,
“Whereas, for the purpose of enforcing tho
faithful execution of the laws of the United
Stats and protecting its property and re
moving obsructions to the United States
mail in the state and city aforesaid, the
president has employed a part of the mil
itary of the United States.
"Now, therefore, I Grover Cleveland, pres
ident of the United States, do hereby ad
monish all good citizens and all persons
who may be within the city and state afore
said against aiding, countenancing, encour
aging or taking any part in such unlawful
obstructions, combinations and assemblages;
and I hereby warn all such persons engaged
or in any way connected with such unlaw
ful obstructions, combinations and assem
blages to disperse and retire peaceably ti
their respective abodes on or before 11
o’clock noon on the 9th day of July instant.
Those who disregard this warning and per
sist in taking part with a riotous mob in
forcibly resisting and obstructing the execu
tion of the laws of the United States, or
interfering with the functions of tiie govern
ment, or destroying or attempting- to destroy
the property belonging to he United States
or under its protection, cannot be regard
ed otherwise than as public enemies. Troops
employed against such a riotous mob will
act with all the moderation and forbear
ance consistent with the accomplishment of.,
the desired ends, but the stern necessities
that confront them will not with certainty
permit the discrimination between guilty
participants and those who are mingled
with them from curiosity and with criminal
intent. The only safe course, therefore, for
those not actually participating is to abide
at their homes, or least not to be found
in the neighborhood of riotous assemblies.
“While there will be no hesitation or
vacillation in the decisive treatment of
the guilty, this warning is especially in
tended to protect the innocent.
“In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be hereto affixed, in the
city of Washington, this Bth day of July,
in the year of our Lord one thousand,
eight hundred and ninety-four, and of the
independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and eighteenth.
"GROVER CLEVELAND.
"By the president:
"\» . Q. GRESHAM,” Secretary of State.”
THE DAY IN CHICAGO.
silo Hows of Any Consequence, bnt
Numerous Fire Alarms.
Chicago, 111., July B.—Comparative quiet
prevailed as a rule within the city today,
although there were, as might have been
expected, a number cf sporadic instances
where little knots of malcontents gathered,
became boisterous and were finally scatter*
ed by a charge from the police.
A numbei- of small mobs formed, went
rioting, firing and overturning cars, heads
were cracked and smaller brawls, mostly
the result of too much bad whisky, vvera
frequently reported at police headquarters.
There were, however, no concerted efforts
at violence although at a number of places
ndividual cars were fired, several of which
v. ere destroyed.
I believe the worst has been passed
there will be no more serious trouble,” sail
Mayor Hopkins tonight. "The shooting inti
the mob by the state troops Saturday after
noon has shown the lawless element whal
it may expect if ft persists in its outbreaks
against law and order. The thugs and
criminals who have been masquerading as
strikers, evidently believing the soldiers
would not tire on them, now know better,
and they will, if I am not greatly mistaken,
be more careful in the future.”
A Riot, at Hammond.
Chicago, July 8. —The storm center today
was at Hammond, an eastern suburb of
the city. Here a mob of nearly 3,900 were
in possession and no troops were in si-Bit.
Th- y had racked the Western Union Tel
egraph office, overturned freight cars ami
committee all sorts of depredations.
h he outbound Sunday passenger tor Chi
cago, on the .Monon railway, was brought
to a halt by the mob. The engineer and
m-rmi'n were made to dismount and ths
locomotive was quickly "killed” by opening
vC . ;l '.'i i Minwing the water to run out
of the boiler. The active leaders of the
1..00 wer<- not local strikers or known to
the Hamffiond people. Under their leader
ship. hov.ever. the town was terrorized
tu-oughout the night auid railway traffic
paralyzed.
Two Men Killed—Several Wounded.
Two men were killed and eight or nirq
men were wounded in a collision between
Company B, of the Fifteenth infantry.
United States army, which was sent to
Hammond from Chicago.
The mob became so violent shortly after
noon tiiat a battalion of the Illinois militia
v aS sent down from Fullman. It drove
the rioters over the state line, which rurjs
just west of Hammond, but was not able
to do anything. Word was sent to Chicago
for a company of regulars who could
operate irrespective of the state. Captain
Hart, with Company B, of the Fifteenth
intantry, was dispatched to the scene.
The regulars were patrolling the tracks
in a passenger coach when they were at
tacked by the mob with stones, some short
being fired.
About three hundrd shots were fired ii
the first volley and Charles Freischmat
led dead, shot through the abdomen.
There were hundreds who fell either- from
fright or wounds.
Another volley was fired and a man
n; med Campbell was killed. A big, brawny
ieliow then shouted to the mob:
“Get your guns, boys, and slay th«
hounds.
Ti.-i mob needed no second urging and
went home to get guns. They returned at
6 o'clock and Captain Hart had his men in
a passenger coach, tiring from the win
dows.
I'lie United States marshal and most of
his deputies refused to stand the fire with
the soldters and left the scene.
Three additional companies of regulars
were sent from Chicago on a special train,
arriviu.fi; at 6 u clock.
I tn mob had driven out all the telegrapl
operators and had cut the telephone v.-Iti'A
making it very difficult i« obtain infor
mation from the place, but it is certaii
that up to 9 o'clock tonight there were r. 4
further disturbances.
Raided the Telegraph Office.
An unprecedented proceeding in strike
to-ctms was the attack on the telegraph
office. Ine mob became possessed witn the
idea that telegrams were about to be sent
Governor Matthews, at Indianapolis, asking
for troops,and the strike leaders determines
to forestall such action if possible. Entrant
to the telegraph office was effected with
scant courtesy, and in the expressive lan
guage of an eyewitness, the place wat
“cleaned out completely.”
Dcb> (nllf on Bnffttlo Men.
Buffalo, N. Y„ July B.—The following dis
patch from President Debs, to his repre- j
sentatlve here has just been received:
‘We ask your co-operation in Buffalo. Wa
are making a. great tight for labor and de- ? -
serve the support of all railway employes-
Capital has combined to enslave labor. i®;
must all stand together or go down in
hopeless defeat, it is Impossible for con
panics to fill the vacancies. We <an_g»y
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