The record-union., 1894-07-04
sneoial tothe REcoRn-rrN1oS.

and Protect Property.
Special to the RFCoRD-UNIoN.
| CHICAGO, July 3.-Not until the small
! hours of this morning were yesterdays s
hostilities suspended, and then for an
hour or two, only TO wait daylight that
they might be renewed with redoubled
vigor.
All night long from every section West
of Pittsburg came reports of strikes-tie-
ups; OF efforts by the rOads, aided by
municipal, State and Federal officers, to
start moving the clogged wheels of COM
merce. and OF the determined resistance
of such action on the part of the strikers
and their sympathizers.
Interest centers principally on Blue Is
land. This town is eighteen miles out of
| Chicago, where traffic on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific is effectually tied
| up despite the fact that several United
States Deputy Marshals are on hand, they
! being outnumbered ten to one by the
| strikers, VINO are in anything but an
| amiable frame of mind. Every legal re-
! source has been tried in vain, and the
| United States MarShalS are openly detied.
Nothing seems to remain but TO invoke
| aid To get trains moving, and TO this end
/ troops are held in readiness at Fort
| Sheridan.
Even the marine engineers have caught
the infection, and stand ready, together
| with the elevated railway men, to add
! their quota TO the great army of self
made Idlers. What they expect to
accomplish, or what assistance they
can expect to be, in compelling Pull
man to submit the differences be-
tween himself and his late employees to
arbitration, is not clear. The shipment of
| fuel to this city is seriously embarrassed.
as is the movement OF every other COM
! modify for that matter. There is, it is
said. scarcely ton of soft coal i'll the
city, although $4,000 tons are consumed
daily.
The Pullman boycott is gradually
spreading. The Burlington, which en-
! ploys non-union men, is about the only
! Chicago road not affected. The Chicago
and Northwestern, which up to last
night had escaped, is completely tied up
! to-day Its suburban traffic is very
heavy and great Inconvenience results
from the stopping of this branch OF busi-
ness.
The Illinois Central, Erie, Milwauke ee
and st. Paul and Great Western ali re-
! port like condition.
! The strike has practically killed all
action III the railroad offices, and every
| road running into Chicago is making
| large reductions III it's office force. Nearly
all the employees in the freight depart
nents have been laid off, and more dis
! charging will follow if the trouble is not
over by Thursday.
| The earnings Of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul for the fourth week of
| June were $724, 106, a decrease of Sl04,S
! from the corresponding week of last
! year.
| There is but one days supply of ice in
! Chicago. An ice famine is imminent,
and is the most serious result of the tie
up of the railroads, more serious than the
threatened famine in fruits, vegetables,
! butter, eggs and similar goods. Unless
| there is let-up, tomorrow night will
find no ice for any purpose In this city.
Great anxiety was caused to-day among
| the railroad officials by the theft OF pow
| der at Lansing. The fact that tomorrow
| is holiday allowing the ranks of the
strikers to be reinforced by thousands of
workingmen who are at work to-day,
gives the situation serious aspect, and
! the mystery which surrounds the dis
position of the stolen powder adds gravity
to the theft.
Deputy Sheriff Spears at Roseland tele-
phones to the Sheriffs that in his opinion
the stealing of the powder at Lansing was
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those points TO prevent the arrival of the
deputies.
Chief United States Deputy Marshal
Donnelly said that most Of the men who
appeared at his coffee to be made into
Deputy MarshalS were sent there by the
strikers. ''There were two hundred men
sent here this morning by the managers
of the strike,v he ssaid. 1T was useless
| for us to keep on with the business of
swearing deputies, for nearly the Whole
supply was coming from the ranks of the
strikers MANY of the deputies we had
Yesterday at Blue Island and other places
were in sympathy with the strikers, and
were not to be depended on by the Gov
ernment."
A most sweeping order was telegraphed
over the entire Northwestern Railway
system to-day. 1t will throw out of en-
ployment 10000 men. 1t is intended to
strike from the payroll during the con-
tinuance of tho strike every man who is
not absolutely necessary for the dispatch
of what business the company may be
able to handle.
Tonight a portion of the Seventh Cav
airy and Fifteenth United States Imam
try from Fort Sheridan, divided into de-
tachinents of from leo to $50 men, and
having number of Calling and Hotch-
kiss guns, are deployed atdifferent points
throughout the city.
JJ2Lc IO-1l2nJ officials OF CD9 chicago
and Northwestern announce they have
come to an understanding with their men
in every department OF the service,
whereby all through and suburban pas
senger train service Will be resumed as
usual tomorrow.
IN COLORADO.
DENVER, July 3.-The Rio Grande en-
ployes here have not struck yet The
road is badly crippled by the strikers at
Pueblo, Salida and Grand Junction.
Trains are run between Denver and
Pueblo. No union fremen can be found
TO run out of Pueblo. The Santa Fe is
sending trains East but not West. The
/ Union Pacific and Gulf Roads are tied up.
President Jeffrey is circulating con-
stantly among the employees of the Dem
yer Il Rio Grande Road, and striving in
every possible manner to induce them co
remain loyal to the company. The fact is
hot battle is in progress between Presi
dent Debs and President Jeffrey, the one
trying to break the Rio Grande's trans
continental connections, and the other
endeavoring to keep the system open and
the trains in operation. The American
Railway Union has succeeded in shut
ting OF transcontinental traffic. but the
Rio Grande is distributing channel for
the Burlington, Alton, kansas Pacific
and Northwestern Railways, and cover
ing a large territory. The Rio Grande
has no men in line at Pueblo except vol
unteers. and there is tie-up at Salida.
Between Denver and Pueblo the train
men are taking out their runs regularly.
The Gulf road is operating north Of
Denver, and is preparing. with the pro-
! lection of the United States troops and
Deputy Marshals, to open up the south
sern line. Seventy-fiye more deputies
were sent to-day, by which it is intended
to make wholesale arrests of strikers.
Santa Fe trains are running to and from