The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-08

| o'iEe lIl' pidtH' hiiN INC -hdS W.
and Col. Colby did so.
| The Rock Island Railroad peop.e sue
ceedel In getting a through train out
| his morning. 1t was made up Of pas
scnger coaches and one Pullman II car
riei large number OF passengers and
special guard Of deputy msrshals.
1t was reported at the General Man.
ayers Association at 1885 L. NJ. that
mob was burning cars and committing
o.her depredaticns on the Panhandle
tracks at Twenty-tirst street.
| The police were at once notified.
The Twenty first street crossing is
nearer to the business centre OF the city
than any point at which trouble has
heretofore occurred.
| At 3 O'Clock this afternoon It was
| represented that a mob OF rioters hal
resumed work along. the Panhandle
racks in the vicinity of Thlrty-first
street. and that a body OF militia had
been sent to dispense the mob. The
| report stated that the law;css element
among the strikers were upscttlng freight
cars ana intending to apply the torch
About the same hour a report came
from the Burlington yards at Western
avenue that maiefactors were overturnlng
and setting fire to cars, spiking switches
md pulling spikes. 70 that point also
Ia company Of militia was despatched with
haste.
| A mob set fire to number of freight
cars at Rockwell and Sixteenth streets
this forenoon. An alarm was turned in
ana as engine company No. SO and truck
company No. IL were responding they
were met by the fren2led mob. Stones
and bricks were hurled at the iiremen
and they were compelled to come to q
standstill whit their apparatus. The
engine was disabled, but none OF 1t,
crew was hurt.
The truck company halted only for a
moment. and then the driver. flashing
his team into n furious run, dashed
through mob under heavy fire OF
stones and bricks and reached the fire
without further trouble.
Twenty cars standing on the tracks
of half dozen different roads surrounds
ing the packing houses were destroyed
by fire during the early morning hours
,I,rb az T,,it MI Gtnt
cavalry and artillery paraded the street
between Thirty-ccventh and F'iftiet
= streets in this district. Later com
pany Of cavalry paraded along Michigan
avenue, from Thirty nth street. south
to Fifty-ffth street, protecting the resi-
dence houses on the Boulevard.
bulletin from the stock yards say
the rioters have gathered In large fore
aud have wrecked a train. Preparation
are being made to raid the yards to
night and police arc being sent there II
large numbers.
While everything was quiet after mid
night and for an hour or 50 afterwards
still the streets were crowded and 1t wa
generally believed that trouble Nigh
break out ut any hour
3 This expectation was partially realize,
.. when at 3 o clock news came that tin
, inobs were in complete possession Il
Hammond, which place. thoush JUS
over the Indiana line. Is practically
suburb Of Chicago.
The conflict at Hammond was mag
nitied until it was soon spread broadcas
that forty or fifty people had been shot.
j, This seemed to madden the striker
and their sympath!aers here, and whe
word was received OF the gathering o
;, a mob al Thirty-nfth and UlIrnan street
), half OF the city seemed to move in tina
+ direction.
a The police who were ordered to tn
[ scene had instructions to brook no non
e sense. The men have undergone 8
much hardship and suffered so man
It !ndignities at the hands Of the mob tina
II Nlts SNdI AtN tAt lAlls pFNF4 ll444.SL l
e obey their orders to the letter.
Later 1t WIGS reported that the crow
n there had been dispersed by the polio
X without serious trouble.
n AT one time the report came that III
e Hammond mob, flushed with their SC
d called victory over the line. vas &C
Il tualIy marching towards this city to az
ply the torch and stir up anew the fee
10 ings OF the men here. At noon, how
q ever, no sign of this mob was seen,
President Egan. OF the General Mar
. ayers Association, as well as all tn
officers Of the Railway Union, are o
II hand watching events and rrceivin
# bulletins from all quarters as To tn
r. progress OF the strike.
The strike leaders claim that befor
h many .''ys are over the trouble wi
!. have >~s.-, o,h.r sections.
= Their OLE. are on, everywhere
!, and this being Sunday tho lahor union
d generally hold mo iings.