Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-28
CHICAGO STRIKERS.
Encounter with the Police on the Lake
| Shore Road.

] by Telegraph.
CHICAGO, June 27th.-About 4:30 P. NJ.
| another train was made up, and number
of the Lake police and Pinkerton's men,
as well as railroad officials, mounted it.
1t steamed slowly down to Englewood, fol-
lowed by about 900 strikers. At Engle-
wood the train pulled out fast, and it had
not gone beyond Grand Crossing when an
engine filled with strikers was seen in the
| distance. The train pulled cut faster and
faster, but the strikers were gaining on 1t,
! but, when they had just caught up their
steam gave out, and they fell back to the
depot at Chicago, while the train of four
| freight cars proceeded to its destination.
! As the cars were passing South Chicago
the large crowd of strikers there began
throwing stones at the police, who were
seated on the car-tops. The police fired at
the crowd, and it is reported that several
men were wounded.
! The steam of the strikers engine did
not, as at first reported, give out at criti-
cal moment. Two engines, one in front
and one in the rear, were propelling four
| freight cars sandwiched in between, which
/ the strikers were trying to overhaul. The
strikers engine was on the track used for
| incoming trains, and was black with men
on the tender, in the cab. on the foot
| boards, on the top of the horizontal and on
the roof of the cab they hung in all posi-
| tons. When the four cars were reached
the strikers whooped and shouted like
mad men. On the two engines rode, al
most abreast. Soon the engine in the rear
of the four cars, hitherto of little use, was
given full head of steam, and the cumber-
som cars groaned under the pres
sure put upon them from both
extremes. In a short time the freight had
left the wild locomotive a mile behind.
| When sufficiently in advance the police de-
posted detachment of their number I'M
observed at the Grand Crossing to await the
pursuing engine. Every inch of steam was
crowded on by the strikers, but they had
two powerful road locomotives pitted
against them Grand Crossing was finally
reached and then long line of city bound
freight cars were discovered on the same
track on which the pursuing engine was
coming at breakneck speed. Hurriedly
the men were gotten off and all hands
ordered off the train that was standing
waiting upon the track down which the
strikers We're tearing Ii they persisted a
collision would inevitably follow, which
meant certain death TO all on board. Sud-
denly the strikers engine was brought to
standstill Just where a detachment of
police had been left concealed. Down
bounced the officers on the engine like so
many wolves The men saw them coming
and Jumped and fell off the engine, land
ing in heaps ON Toad-bed. Of they ran
down the road, over fences and through
marshes. but the cab had been so packed
that the driving crew were held until the
police had boarded the engine Jumping
into the cab Captain Hunt covered the en-
gineer with his revolver. He and five
others were thus caught IN the cab. The
engine was sidetracked and killed. An
other engine attached to the Chicago
freight train was boarded by the police and
started after the strikers, who were fleeing
down the road to Chicago.
Down South Chicago avenue a group of
twenty were seen to capture wagon, tear
the reins out of the hands of the driver
and lash the horses along the road. At
this point South Chicago avenue runs
parallel with the railroad tracks, and here
another novel race begun. This time it
was between the engine and the wagon.
The horses had long start and held out
until mile and a half was covered. Dur
ing the race the officers fired at the fugi
tiyes, and one of the horses received
wound in the neck and dropped. The
men were given chase on foot, but only
four of them were captured. Besides this
group, many small parties of strikers
scattered through the swamps and were
followed by separate squads of the police,
who used their revolvers freely 1t was
this shooting that probably gave rise to
the report of the firing at South Chicago.
If any of the strikers received bullets they
had not been unea-thed by the police up
to late hour. The net result Of the
struggle was one train of freight forwarded
to Elkhart and another train brought into
the city. About twenty-five of the strikers
and their friends, who gave chase to out
going freight, are spending the night in
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