The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-07

eaon other with startling rapidIty, being
confined. however, principally to railroad
rolling stock and the buildings against
which thus far the greater part OF the
mob's fury has been directed.
Early yesterday morning blaze started
among some overturned cars at kensing-
ton. quickly communicated to other
tracks filled with long lines of cars. many
containing valuable merchandise, all of
which were soon blazing furiously
Famed by strong winds, there was at
this point a total OF 80 cars wiped out. At
the stock yards one blaze after another
was reported. and from the outlying dis
tricts came urgent calls for police protec-
tion. increasing in frequency.
Terrible Night.
But with the falling shades of night
came the climax OF the fiery festival. The
Pan Handle yards, from Fifty-fifth to
Sixty-third streets, were a mass OF fire.
Ten tracks containing from 1000 TO 2000
cars half OF them loaded, will be total
loss. No water being at hand, the fire
must burn itself out. The Pan Handle
station at Sixty-third street was also fired
and destroyed
The Grand Trunk yards at Elston was
Q sea of flames. 500 box cars were burned.
and efforts TO check the flames were
futile. The flag shanties and other rail
road property were also burned.
While directing the movement Of the
Eleventh battalion at this point, Marshal
Fitzpatrick was seized by the thoroughly
frenzied mob Of fircbugs and thrown into
a pond, from which he was rescued by the
police. more dead than alive.
Everything at this point Will probably
be total loss. At Hyde Park, near the
fair grounds. the ashes of 40 cars are now
smoldering. and word has just come in
that after numerous efforts the mob has
succeeded In firing the Illinois Central
shop at Burnside.
Fury of the Mobs.
Only one residence has been burned
thus far ss direct result of the incen-
diaries work. and that in one of the stock
yards districts, and business buildings
have escaped altogether, but the wanton
destruction Of railway property continues
unchecked and with increasing destruc-
tiveness
The maddened mobs. worked mp to the
highest pitch of fury, paralleled the
scenes of the com rfune, and it appears as
though nothing short of the miraculous
can prevent an armed demonstration
against them and the sacrifice of many
lives.
To illustrate the tactics resorted to by
the incendisries to hamper the work of
the fire department, empty cartridges
were forced into the keyholes Of the fire
alarm boxes. firemsn were Knocked down
with stones and bricks, and while work
Ing at the fires the horses of the depart
ment were stolen.
AT midnight all the cars In the yards
had been destroyed. The mob showed
much method In its incendisrism aud
hundreds Of cars were rified and their
contents carried away before the torch
was applied. The loss in the Pan Handle
yard is estimated at 81, 100000.
Military on Duty.
The First regiment, $50 strong, went to
Hyde Park and Kensington last evening.
The Second regiment, with about the
same mum Der of men. followed shortly
after, being assigned to the stock yards
district, under direction of Police In
speotor Hunt. The Third regiment COO
men, were placed on duty in the district
north Of Thirty-uinth street The Seventh
regiment. 700 men, is held In reserve. to-
gether with Battery ID, at the Michigan
avenue srmory.
Troops are hurrying south; company
after company, In heavy marching order.
hurrying to the turbulent district from
the center Of the city.
The aggregate OF the losses TO the rail-
roads will ne enormous Miles OF their
tracks have been rn ned by the fierce heat:
hundreds Of switch and signal towers. |
with their expensive mechanism, utterly |
ruined thousands Of cars and untold |
quantities Of merchandise have fed the |
flames and porged the larders of thieves:
valuable locomotive have been wrecked |
and disabled; miles OF tangled wires aud |
private poles litter the ground.
Telephone. telerr ph, electric light and |
fire alarm wires sre now the especial
object Of attack. The ~ sging Of tre
alarm boxes constituting new aud
doubly dangerous element In the tremen-
dous wave of incen ,iArIsm now sweeping
over the southwest section Of the city'
as IL does. notice being re.
ceived Of the state % affairs until a fire
has attained such hsadwsy that 10 can
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