The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-14

CHICAGo, July 6.-Events to-day
have transformed the strike into an
instruction. Bloodshed, violence and
the torch, the massing of troops, bo.h
Federal and State, an unbridled spirit
on the part of the strikers, have been
the browning acts of the day.
Six men killed two strikers wounded
with bullets, three to four hundred
freight cars burned, and lot of heads
broken, was the record made.
THE MOB ACTS.
Shortly after sunrise a riotous and
bowling mob of strikers commenced to
ga ler about the depot at Kensington.
By > o'clock the crowd numbered any
w IRE from 1000 to 5000 people. Women
TO. ned a good portion of it, and they
VT more demonstratiye than the men.
A undred or more noisy chaps wearing
vi Ce ribbons went up the tracks and a
lit way north turned two freight
ca over on their sides.
veral deputy marshals and eight or
tel policemen got after them, but did
no appear to be able to stop the rioters
fro carrying out their purposes.
Nothing but small acts of cOwardice
ma ked the movements of the rioters
during the forenoon They continued
to set small fires at numerous out-of-
the-way places where escape was easy
The entire force of Armour & Co.'S
teamsters quit work during the morn
ing. A few had quit the day before.
Those who went to work to-day We're
assaulted by strikers.
THE POLICE TRY THEIR HAND.
The police made their first actual
stand against the rioters along the Fort
WAYNE tracks at Fortieth street. Cap
tain O'Neill and Lieutenant Fitzpatrick
fired on a mob that was storming a
passenger train there and dove the
hoodlums off.
About 10 o'clock Fort Wayne milk
train came slowly along. There were
two passenger coaches attached to the
rear of the train, and these were full OF
women and children. The rioters
caught sight of the train and with wild
yels charged upon it.
The police made rally and went al
the mob, which had chased the train AZ
for as Thirty ninth street. Later in the
afternoon Captain O'Neill and his mer
had lively brush with rioters at Thirty
ninth utraat and Gtawart avapua Thor.
was great mob there. and when the
police tried to drive it off the hoodlums
showed fight There was an actual
pitched battle for few minutes and
the police lost ground before the mob.
They rallied, though, and soon had
everybody on the run. Heads were
cracked by the score.
All day long there were fires started
in every direction about the stock yards.
They came too fast to count Engines
and hose wagons were chasing up and
down all day. The tiremen had answered
thirty-one fire alarms the night before,
and they and their horses were COM
pl' tely jaded Towards the evening the
apparatus could not get along faster
than jaded walk. The firemen went
about their duties hardly awake.
The Big -Four and Illinois Central pas
Sc. ger trains south bound arrived and
Were stalled, the track occupied by them
be lg blocked. They had not been long
OF the scene when the mob formed again
an started to pull the engineers and
fiji men of both trains out Of their cabs
al "kIll' the engines. But the en-
ri aers were too swift for them. Before
tn Infatuated men could reach the spot
WI ere they stood they pulled the throt-
tie open and ran back to Grand Cross
in.
TROOPS CALLED OUT.
During all this turmoil and reign of
ten ror the authorities of Pullman and
kensiugton were telephoning and tele-
graphing the city for police and mill.
tary. A small detachment of United
States troops was rushed down there
and at p. m. the entire First Regiment
Of militia arrived on the scene. Then
everybody breathed sigh of relief
ALONG THE PANHANDLE.
The police met and routed mobs of