The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-09
"A BATTLE AT HAMMOND
One Person Killed and Several
Others Wounded.
FIRED UPON BY FEDERAL TROOPS.
Dncie Sans Soldiers Called Upon to Gross
the Iad;ana-Illinois State Line-A Busy
Day In Chioago-The Presidents ProcIa-
D,ation--saturday's Riot Victims.

CHICAGO, July 9.-On Saturday a squad
II thirty-six militiamen, under command
Of a lieutenant, sent out to guard con-
struction train whose purpose was to re-
move the wreokage piled on the tracks by
the mob tho night before, was savagely
attacked by mob numbering 10000 per-
sons. After the lieutenant had been laid
low by missile the mob pressed upon the
soldiers, unheeding the warning Of the
troops to keep back.
The soldiers opened fire and several per-
sons fell wounded. Undeterred by the
rifle shots, the rioters again charged upon
the soldiers, who used their bayonets,
mortally wounding the leader of the mob.
Unable to Withstand the onset from over
whelming numbers, the soldiers were
forced to retreat, several of them having
beep hurt.
the victims of this engagement were;
John Burke, strike leader, killed by
bayonet thrust through the abdomen.
Wounded-Lieutenant Reed, Company C,
Second infantry, I. N. G., struck on the
head by stones, condition critical; Thomas
Jackman, shot in back, will die; John
konderg, stabbed with bayonet, will die;
unknown man, shot through liver, will
die; unknown boy, 17-year-old, shot
through abdomen, will die; Tony Ca
5euski, shot In right arm; Henry Williams,
shot in left arm; John Kerr, shot in hip;
unknown woman, shot in right hip.
J At another point the police in firing
over the heads of mob killed a woman
On a house top and wounded other persons.
The dead woman was Martha Bach, aged
rs.
A serious fight occurred at o'clock yes
terday afternoon at Hammond, Ind, be-
tween n mob of 5000 men and Company b,
of the United States infantry, in which
two of the mob are known to have been
killed and several others, including one
woman, are said to have been fatally
wounded. Tho mob became so violent
shortly after noon that battalion Of the
6rst Illinois militia was sent down from
Pullman. 1t drove the rioters over the
state line. which runs just west Of Ham.
mond. Word was sent to Chicago for a
leompany of regulars who could operate
irrespective Of the state line.
Captain Hart, with Company d Of the
Fifteenth infantry, was dispatched to the
bccne. The regulars were patrolling the
tracks In . passenger coach when they
Iwere at acked by the mob with stones,
some shots being fired. The troops at
ouce returned the fire through the car
Windows, killing Charles Fleischer who
Iwounding Victor Vanceter, and slightly
swounding w. H. Campbell In the leg,
Victor Rite In the leg Mrs. Fleming in
the knee and an unknown nun In the hand.
Three additional companies Of regulars
were sent from Chicago on a special train,
arriving at O'clock The mob had driven
out all the telegraph operators in town
and had cut the telegraph wires, making
bt very difficult to obtain informutio n
from the place, but it is certain that there
swere no further disturbances.
A Pan Handle wrecking train, bearing
twenty deputy marshals, was stoned by a
y mob at Twenty second street last night,
tand the deputy marshals arrested two
Auep The mob still threw stones and
lhred on the marshals, who returned the
hre, killing one man and wounding sew
leral others. Five cars and the oil house
lwere burned at Twenty-second street.
Comparative quiet prevailed AZ a rule
srithin this city yesterday, although there
Iwere, as might have been expected, q
Number of sporadic instances where little
Knots of malcontents gathered, became
boistcrous, and were finally scattered by
. charge from the police. A number Of
small mobs formed. went rioting, firing
and overturntnB cars, and some heads
were cracked, and smaller brawls, mostly
the result of too much bad whisky, were
frequently reported at police healq quarters.
There was, however, no concerted effort
at incendiarism or yiolopce, although at a
number of places individual cars were
fred, several of which were destroyed A
coal train on the Eastern Illinois was
'uitched at Root street by a switch being
misplaced after the engine and four caIs
had passed over.
The work of clearing the tracks In the
iGrand Trunk yards at Forty-niEth and
Ashland streets, where debris from the
hundreds of burned cars Uttered the
aracks, was completed under police and
military protection, the monotony, how
ever. being enlivened by occasional po-
iice sallies when The gang of idlers watch
Ing the work became too large and threat
ksning, At p. M, when the finishing
touches had been put on the work, nearly
all the onlookers had disappeared, and the
troops, laborcrs and police were with
drawn.
No sooner had they got well ont of sight,
noweyer than gang of $40 men suddenly
appeared, and with crowbars, picks aud
shoveis tore up about au eighth of a mile
oftrack before word could be got TO the
police department. They fled before an
ether charge of the police, and the work
of repair was again pushed forward.
! Riotous mobs, consisting of men,
women and children, took possession OF
the freight yards ut Halsted, Morgan and
Meagher streets in the afternoon. They
burned cars and had everything their own
way for nearly two hours All OF the re-
serve force VI Relicc officers on the west
side had been ieteilsd to the yards of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the
Wisconsin Central roads earlier in the
day and nothing lay in the path of the
frenzied strikers aud their friends.
! Inspector Lewis detailed squad of
thirty police officers to the scene of the
disturbance. The fire department had
been called out on three different occa-
sions, each time to extiRguish flames in
freight ears. Thirteen curs were burned.
The mob gatr cred about the firemeu when
,:hey arrived in response to an aldra, and
greatly interfercd in the work of extin-
Euishing tho fires.
The arrival Of the police had but little
effect. Tho bluecoats were hooted at and
pclted with stones. The crowd numbered
nearly 2,000, and was made up of the
toughest element OF the city. Wellknown
thieves and other desperate men with
whom the police of the Maxwell street
station have had considerable trouble,
mingled in the mob and to-k an active
part in the disturbance. The police finally
lnsde a determined chs.ge and drove the
mob TO the adjoining streets, and from
She freight ards, clubbing the leader
Freely. The police remained on duty all
the afternoon, and the strikers were kept
nom doing I, rther v.a!snce.
The confer zee announced for noon yes
tertay betwe n committee of the en-
pioJes OF Pn! iaan aud Second Vice Presi.
dent Wicks. the eo1pany, did not GO