The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-07-14
BURNING CHICAG0's YARDS
Millions of Dollars Worth of Props.
erty ir Ashes.
Hundreds of Cars Observation-Disclosures
Stoned by the Sons OF satnn-iiories
of Flrebugs mt Work-1hc
Police powcrless.

CHICAGO, July 6.-With flaming torch
lawless hordes of tircbugs are AT work
at a score of points in the southern part
Of the city tonight. Fires are raging
in every direction among the numerous
railroad yards and hundreds of cars and
tens of thousands of dollars worth of
merchandise have already gone up IN
smoke or has been carried away
by rioters. Ineeudiarisln wa rau-
pant all day and tonight the glare
reflected from the heavens showed that
the dastardly pastime continued ma
bated. The Pan Handle yards from
Fifty-ffth to SiXty-third streets are a
mass of fire. Ten tracks, containing
between 1000 and 1000 cars, half of
them loaded, will be a total loss. No
water being Mt hand, the fire must burn
itself ont.
The Pan Handle depot at sixty-third
street is also destroyed. The Grand
Trunk yards at Elston are Il sea of
aames. Five hundred box cars are
supposed to have been burned. All eft
forts to check the flames are futile.
Flag shanties and other railroad prop
erty of n like nature are also burning,
and no water, except II stream from n
plug ut Fifty-tirst street, can he OBJ
tanned.
While directing the movement of Tho
company ut this point Fire Marshal
Fitzpatrick was seized by Il mob and
roughly handled before being rcRcued.
A. IJ-l, ,>n,l, ,,n,,. 3ia ,,,,ll.. Col,
ground, the ashes of forty cars are now
s]mouldering and word has Just come in
that the moi has succeededin firing the
Illinois Central shops at Burnside. At
the stock yards about fifty touyhs, few of
whom are railroad men, Dre smoking
from point to point and setting Il large
number of fires. Loading hand cars
with waste and oil, they would pass up
and down the tracks and lighting wads
of the intlammable stuff throw 1t into
open cars as they passed Fires sprung
up on every hand, and no efforts on
the part of the police seemed to be I'M
derway to intercept the iirebugs.
Troops are being hurried sonth, com
pnny after company, in heavy march
ing order to the turbulent district from
the center of the city.
The aggregate losses to tho railroads
will be enormous. Miles of tracks are
ruined by the fierce heat, and hundreds
of switch and signal towers, with the
expensive mechanism, utterly de-
stroyed. Valuable locomotives,
wrecked and disabled, and endless
tangled wires and ~prostrnted poles lit
ter the ground. Only one residence
has been burned thus far,
and that in tho stock yards
lt.+sk I-k 49, 80
of railway property continues nm
checked. 1t appears that nothing short
of an armed demonstration against the
mob and the sacrifice OF many lives can
deter them. To illustrate the tactics
resorted to by the inccndiaries, besides
interfering with the fire alarm system,
empty cartridges We're forced into the
key holes Of fire alarm boxes, firenen
knocked down with stones and bricks,
and while wording ut the fires the
horses of the department We're stolen.
AT midnight all the cars in the yards
were destroyed. The mob showed
much method IN its lnc~endiaris.n aud
hundreds of ears were ri1ed and their
contents carried away before the torch
was applied. The loss in the Pan
Handle yards alone is estimated at
81, $50. 900.
The First regiment of state troops.
$50 strong, went to Hyde Park and
kensington this evening. The Sec
ond, with about the same number
of men, followed shortly after. be-
ing assigned to the stock yards
district. The Third regiment, 600 men.
will be placed on duty in the district
north of Thirty-ninth street. The
Seventh regiment, 700 men. is held in
reserve, together with Battery ID, at
Michigan avenue urmorv.