The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-05

horses, ammunition, four Hotchkiss
rifles, cannon and supplies and go into
camp wearled and jaded lot of men,
not having slept for twenty-fOur hours
ana having been without food with the
exception of a single hastily snatched
meal during that time.
Ihe day was a trying one for the troops
and the police, and one of intense excite
ment from daybreak till night. Besides
the l5O men composing companies c and
d Of the Fifteenth infantry there were
company of cavalry and battery
OF artillery and a squad of seventy
hVe policemen. On the latter fell the
brunt OF keeping in control a crowd wild
with excitement inflamed by passion and
frequent draughts from the neighboring
SALOONS, which did the most phenomenal
business they ever knew, and ready to do
almost anything.
AN EXAsPERATING EXPERIENCE.
The military train pulled into the yards
at Fortieth and Halsted streets at ,
o'clock There it continued to switch I'D
and down until twilight, when the at
tempt to move it further was abandoned.
Six times the train was uncoupled by
the strikers or their sympathizers, in
spite OF the fact that on every car sat the
bronzed and seasoned army men, who had
seen service and knew how to shoot, and
who declared they would do so if any
man attempted to interfere with the
train. This they would have done, but
the strikers were too agile for them.
Before the rifles could be aimed
the offenders would be back in
the midst of the crowd, where it would
have been worse than folly to shoot, jeer-
ing and hOOting at the discomfted mill
tlamen. Only once did the soldiers look
calmly on at two persons unCOuple the
trains, and although they had plenty of
time TO shoot, failed to do so. In this
case the persons were women.
THE ENGINE DESERTED.
The scene was noteworthy when Engi-
neer Wrenn and Fireman Culp, both en-
ployes of the Lake Shore road. who had
been running the engine pulling the mill
tary 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. OF
course this settled the question 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. carrying their baggage
with them. The horses were put up in
the stock yards.
AN EXCITING INCIDENT.
Some trouble occurred at Root and
Thirtieth street, where a Lake Shore
passenger, which left the Rock Island de-
pot at :04 o'clock, was detained by the
strikers, who clambered upon the engine
and tried to induce Engineer Weber TO
quit. j. G. Harris, an EN-
ploye Of the railroad started to pull
revolver American Railway Union
delegates demanded of the police that
they disarm the man, which the officers
refused to do, aud at this the mob took
matters into its own hands, and threw
the man beneath a freight train, and
would have killed him had not the police
interfered. A young man named Miller =
reporter for a morning paper, would have
suffered a similar fate but for a similar
interference. The Young man did
not choose his criticism of the mob and
this, added to the fact that the paper in
question has taken a partisan view of the
strike, siding with the railroads, was
more than the crowd could bear. They
seized him and struck him several times
and he was rescued with difficulty. There
were about 5000 persons in the mob.
CARS OF THE TROOPS DERAILED.
While the military train was moving it
sides by squads of armed men, in addition
to those who rode on top. Nothing was
done at the stock yards except the NOV
ing of the Swift & Co. train of meat
After the troops had abandoned their
train and gone into camp the crowd de-
rallied the two rear cars of the train, and
then, satisfied with their days work and
finding no more soldiers or policemen to
harass, they quietly disappeared.
A MOB STOPS A TRAIN.
A Lake Shore train was delayed by a
mob at Forty-third street and the Rock
Island yards tonight. 1t was passen-
ger train bound for Elkhart, Ind. The
engineer and tiremen were forced to leave
the tram, the engineer being hit by
a bottle thrown from the crowd, and the
train was sidetracked. The passengers
came downtown on street car Train
No. :, due at 9 p. m, was held up at the
same place.
Fifteen Pan Handle freight cars were
burned at F'Orty-seventh street by a
crowd of strikers and their friends to-
night,
TROOPS IN THE STOCK YARDS.
Union Stock Yards, H., July 4.-Half
of the Second battalion of United States
troops from Fort Sheridan arrived here
this morning at o'clock and are now en-
CampeQ IN Dexter park, JuSI lnSlue Jne
wards. The battalion includes Companies
B and d, in all about 100 men, under com
mand of Capt. Hates.
AT S o'clock Swift & Co. succeeded in
getting out one train of beef, which had
been on the track at Halsted and For
tieth streets since Monday afternoon.
Thirty men from Company B, under com
mand of Capt. Chapin, together with 100
police, took up a position alongside of the
train and marched with it to.
the Michigan Central tracks. The
crowd of hangers-on did not number
more than 500 and they remained at a
distance The train went east at $40
o'clock a. m. The train carries Sl50,000
worth of meat.
When the soldiers marched back TO
camp they were followed by "a crowd Of
about 500 men and boys, who cursed and
yelled at the men till Capt. Chaplin Or
dered a charge with bayonets on Halsted
street, which had the effect Of scattering
the crowd.
DEBS TALKS OF CIVIL WAR.