The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-07-12
APPLIED THE TORCH
ENCENDIARIsM Is RAMPANT IN THE
CHICAGO YARDS.

LNCENDIARISM IS RAMPANT I'm THE
CHICAGO YARDS.
Thousands of Cars Are Burned and
am Enormous mount OF Merchan-
disc Ks Destroyed or stolen A
Night of Terror.
Chicago, July with flaming torch
lawless hordes of firebugs were at work
last night, at score of points in the
south half of Chicago. Fires We're rag
ing in every direction among the numer-
GUS railroad yards, thousands of cars and
tens of thousands of dorrars worth OF
mel chandise went up in smoke or were
carried off by the now frenzied mobs OF
rioters Incendiarism was rampant,
alarm after alarm followed In quick sue
cession all night and from early morn
ing until midnight reports of fresh fires
followed each other with startling rapid
lty, being confined, however, principally
to railroad rolling stock and buildings,
against which, thus far, the greater part
of the mob's fury has been directed.
Early in the morning blaze started
among some overturned cars at Kensing-
ton, quickly communicating to other
tracks filed with long lines of cars,
many containing valuable merchandise
were soon blazing furiously. Famed by
strong winds there were at this point
total of eighty cars wiped out At the
stock yards one blaze after another was
reported, and from the outlying districts
came urgent calls for engines and police
protection, increasing in frequency.
But with the falling shades of night
came the climax of the fiery festival.
The Pan Handle yards from Fifty-ffth
to Sixty third stseets, eight blocks, were
mass of fire. Ten tracks, containing
| from thousand to two thousand cars,
half of them loaded, is total loss. No
water being at hand the fire burned itself
| out. The Pan Handle station at Sixty
third street was also fired and destroyed.
The Grand Trunk yards at Elston was
| a sea of flames. Five hundred box cars
| are supposed to have been burned. All
| efforts to check the flames were futile.
| The flag shanties and other railroad prop
| erty also burned, and no water except
| one stream from a plug at Fifty-frst
| street could be obtained. While directing
| the movements of the Eleventh battalion
/ at this point Fire Marshal Fitzpatrick
| was seized by a thoroughly frenzied mob
| of frebugs and thrown into pond, from
/ which he was rescued more dead than
| alive.
| AT Hyde Park, near the worlds fair
| grounds, the ashes of forty cars are now
| smouldering, and after numerous efforts
the mob has succeeded in firing the Ili-
Il nois Central shops at Burnside.
At the stock yards about fifty toughs,
few of whom were railroad men, skulked
from point to point and set large hum-
ber of fires. Their method was thor
oughly unique. Loading several hand
i will ofu nf oCko nd oil
they would glide around among the cars
in the darkness, lighting wads of the in
fiammable stuff, which would be thrown
into the open doors of the cars as they
passed by them. Fires sprung up OH
every hand and no organized effort on the
part of the police seemed to be under way
| to intercept them. The aggregate of the
i losses to the railroads will be enormous.
| Miles of their tracks have been ruined by
the fierce heat, hundreds of switch and
signal towers with their expensive
nechs nism utterly ruined. Thousands
of cars and untold quantities of merchan-
disc of every imaginable description have
fed the flames and gorged the larders Of
1 and disabled; miles of tangled wires and
| prostrate poles litter the ground.
Only Che residence has been burned
thus far as a direct result of the in
cendiaries work, and that one was in
the stock yards district, and business
| buildings have escaped altogether. But
the wanton destruction of railway prop
erty continues unchecked, and with in
creasing destructiveness. The maddened
mobs, worked up to the highest pitch of
fury, paralleled the scenes of the COM
mune and it appears as though nothing
short of miracle can prevent an armed
demonstration against them and the sac
rifce of many lives.
To illustrate the tactics resorted to by
the incendiaries to hamper the work of
the fire department empty cartridges
were forced into the key holes of the fire
alarm boxes, iremen were knocked down
with stones and bricks, and while work
ing at fires the horses of the department
were stolen.
The stoning of incoming trains was .
common pastime with the mobs, and sew
eral persons were more or less injured
by flying missiles One engineer on q
Rock Island train was so badly injured
that it was at first supposed that he was
dead. The assaults of the mob, how
ever, were not met with passive re-
sistance which characterized the course
pursued yesterday. On two occasions at
least, their attacks were met with ac-
curately aimed lead During riot in the
morning over an incoming milk train at
Kensington a deputy United States
marshal shot and killed two strikers, and
during the afternoon the deputies guard
ing an incoming Baltimore & Ohio pas
senger train replied to volley of shots
and stones which the strikers showered
upon them by turning their revolvers
loose, killing four of their assailants and
wounding number of others.
Of the situation in general it may be
said to have broadened and strengthened
it's grip. The most significant feature Of
it is the carrying of the strike East to
Cleveland, tying up all the connections
of the seaboard trunk lines there, with
the promise that by tomorrow it will
reach the trunk lines themselves and SO
practically reach the Atlantic seaboard
by tying up all roads at Buffalo. Thus
the strike would extend from ocean to
ocean. There is no notable relief at the
points heretofore placed under embargo,
and the situation at Kansas City was
complicated by the tying up of the Fort
Scott road, thereby involving another
Southwestern line.
The Pacific coast remains in paralysis
from which there are no indications OF
relief III
Cleveland, July, 7,-Slowly but surely
the great railroad strike is sweeping
Eastward. After an all-night session OF
the members of the A. r. u, in which
every road running into this city was
represented, it was decided at an early
hour this morning to tie up every linz
centering in Cleveland.
SHOT BY THE TROOPS.
The Regulars Finally Fire upon the
/ Strikers.
Chicago, July "a fight occurred yes
terday afternoon at Hammond, Ind, be-
tween mob of 5000 men and Company
| Is, Fifteenth infantry in which one of