The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-09
WHEELING DAILY INTELLIGENCER, MONDAY, JULY g. 1881

wild fury Of the rioters vas principally
directed. though their insensate rage
was continually turning againit any
thing and everything that may for the
moment engage their attention. Within
the limits Of the district under mob
rules arc the mighty interests collected
about the stock yards, hundreds Of
miles Of freight yards, scores Of ware
houses, grain elevators, countless manu-
facturies and work houses and twenty
or more thriving suburbs including
Pullman, Remington, South Chicago
aud enyirons, Burnside and Rugle-
wood.
Tho federal and state troops Joined
bands with the police In Buppressing
tho rebellion, for 70 that magnitude has
tho demonstration OF laRlessness grown
Into. Last night mob gluGted their
appetites on 5000 900 worth OF prop.
erty and tho sacrifice Of Ia few lives
THE RIOTERS SCATTERED.
Collisions between officers Of tho law
and tho military on the one hand and
tho strikers aud their sympathizers on
the other are Of constant occurrence.
Tho whole twenty-five miles 10 virtually
o baltic ground. At tho intersection OF
Fifty.firSt street and tho Panhandle
tracks, q mob Of coo strikers assaulted
squad Of thirty poice under Captain
Duffy, firing twenty or thirty shots into
tho detachment and bombartling the
officers with tho stones. By tho exer-
cile Of sublime patience, tho police 70.
strained themselves from returning
tho fro but instead they charged the
mob and beat them back with clubs.
The rioters were dispersed after deS.
perate fight, in which many heads woro
broken and severe injuries inflicted, but
no liyes were sacrificed. Later in the
day Captain Chaplin, with company Of
regulars, sixty mon from the Second
regiment, was dispatched to preserve
order. This Is the locality where 81.
00O, 900 worth Of Pan. Handle property
was destroyed by mob violence last
night
A STORM CENTRE OF RIOT.
This particular district was storm
centre of riot up to about 7 p. m. to-day.
About 1880 a final encounter took place
between tho soIdiery and mob, result.
Ing in rafting exchange Of shots and
the complete route OF the strikers, who
we're chased over the prairie like rab-
bits. At Burnside, Elsdon, Remington
and other places vicious skirmishoa took
place.
In nearly eyory instance where tho
officers made determined stand they
came OF victorious.
PITY THOUSAND RIOTERS.
II ia estimated that in the district
mentioned not less than $4,000 rioters
woro out at one time or another during
the day, but tho ground was so thor
ouRhly patrolled by the police, the
marahals and the military, that they
found little opportunity for getting to-
eether Ia large numbers, as they have
been doing heretofore.
Still come Of them at the stockyards
found time for INDUCING in tho grim
humer Of laying out graveyard Ia due
order, and erecting headstones at tho
graves therein, bearing tho names Of
their pot aversions, including that Of
the President Of the United States.
One feature OF tho day was the show.
ing OF Its teoth by the Building Trades
Council OF this city, in calling out tho
steamfitters in the big packing houses
at the stock yards, with the threat that
It was merely preliminary TO calling
out It's 25000 members and tho tieing
no OF all building in tho city. Another
feature was tho patrollinR OF sentries
before the federal sub.trcasury, in the
vaults Of which lie como Sl5. 0O0,0 600 OF
United States money, which General
Miles thought might provo tempta-
ton to some Of Debs' followers not to
DO resisted, especially In view OF tho
fact that they arc not very flush Just
now.
For tho first limo sinco the strike
opened there we're several Distinct
notes Of improvement In the situation,
and these were not confined 10 Chicago.
General Miles had long conference
with Mayor Hopkins, after which tho
mayor said:
General Miles informed mo he'd Just
been In conference with the President
over tue telephone. He said his In.
structions were to protect government
buildings in Chicago, toprotect the sub
treasury, the postoffice and other govern:
ment edffices; to 500 to the moving Of
mail trains and to the moving OF trains
under tho interstate commerce law.
He said he would not charge upon mobs
or rioters unless requested TO do go BY
the MAYOR. He said no would do so II
renuested by tho mayor. This makes
sort OF unity OF action between tho state
and government troops possible. He
expressed a willingness TO do all he
possibly can under his instructions
t,nra tha Presldent,n