Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-07
ILLINOIS.
BRIEE RESUME
OF THE DAY IN THE CITY WHERE ALL |
 EYES ARE TURNED.

BRIEF RESUME
 OF THE DAY IN THE CITY WHERE ALL
 EYES ARE TURNED.
 CHICAGO, July 6.-Six dead and an in- oennite number Of injured is the record of casualties Of the strike conflict in Chicago today. Yesterday one man was shot in leg. If the sblood letting tomorrow shall show like increase, the coroner will have a summers work before him.
 The developments of yesterday went far to convince all thinking people that the gravity of the situation had not been ap- preciated by the authorities or the people at large. Persons who were here during tbe railroad strike of 1877, who saw the at- mosphere clear perceptibly when no more than eighty bronzed and husky regulars from tbe plains marched down Madison street and went into camp on Lake-Eront, Wngged t;mas tne,T heads knoWjG11siy oWjG1siy when three sheri slnes mat number wsfe ordered from Fort fiji. Rdan, comprising the three arms oi
 s1e service, and said they would make I short work of Debs' followers.
 But after twelve hours spent in persistent
 coolness and bravery, under as trying cir
 cumstances as were ever seen, these same | citizens nd tho officers in commaud Weru
 they were in 1877, and that it was still a 1 long march to peace and the resumption of
 unimpeded traffic on any of the railroads
 running out of Chicago.
 l 1ue ueVelOpiueuL5 OI tue nlBnC ana tDOBe of today have confirmed the conviction l that nothing short of an overwhelmn D 2 | armed force, with instructions to shoot to 1 kill, can settle the trouble or, as Colonel | Crofton put it, .It has ceased to be mer e movement of troops and has become a | campaign.''
 The local and state authorities have | awakened to the critically grave nature of | the strike malady which is atflcting the
 patton generally, but Chicago in particu- lar, and are taking measures to apply ade- quate remedies.
 The city police force has already been recruited up to over 5000 men, and by re- quest of Mayor Hopkins and by order of Governor Altgeld two brigades of state militia have been ordered here to aid in quelling the disturbances.
 At the nation's capital also the fact is recognized that the conditions are entirely out of the ordinary, and that provisions
 mI st be made for fighting men as has never been seen in the history of the nation in time of peace, if the authority processes of it's courts are not 10 be laughed to scorn for an indefinite time. The strike question is so infectious at certain points that the president and his draw any more regular troops from the country west of Chicago. It is therefore in contemplation, should the forces, fed eral, state and municipal, already gathered here, be unequal to the task of restoring order, to send here ten companies sta- tioned on the Canadian border, with the reserved intention, if circumstances de- mand it, of exercising the right to call for 20. .000 men of the crack military companies of New York and Pennsylvania. The day in Chicago has been one of con- stant alarm. Riot has been running rampant throughout the day, cars have been overturned, switches broken and tracks obstructed in numerous ways. The torch was applied in many instances to cars, switch towers and the like. An attempt was made to fire part of the great Armour packing plant; in fact, at one time the incendiary bazes followed each other in such quick succession that the fire department was put to straits to care for all of them.
 Late in the afternoon it was found that some people were interfering with the po- lice, railroad and fire alarm telegraph sys- tems, and in two instances policemen who
 were using the police telephone calls were stoned.
 h general the order of things compared with that of yesterday WAS reversed. The
 railroads were trying to break the blockade by sending the trains out. Today they
 recognized the futility of that method of
 procedure and practically gave up any at-
 tempt at outward movement. But there
 were some incoming passenger trains on
 several of the roads, together with a few of
 the regular milk trains.
 Between these two classes of traffic the
 strikers managed to make trouble for nearly
 every road running in southerIy- direc-
 tion. The Fort Wayne, Lake Shore, Michi-
 gan Central, Baltimore and Ohio, the IlIi-
 nois Central, the Alton, the Panhandle,
 the Western Indiana, the Rock Island and
 the Monon all experienced difficulty in
 greater or less degree at some time or all of
 the time during the day. The trick of