Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-07-12
The GREAT STRIKE.

The Situation s.rowin= Nar- ~-rt-st< tfsur-
" rh~ r"r~h In tho Hands 80 the Neh--
a Trad ef fir~ = Vile Issu< Csn-.sf by
Baruin< Stations ansf Is.este-I and l. rsalpts
fr~iThf Car ttr-t hy Mob I~d ~
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1HIcsGo. July Two hundred ami
tweni y-frcight ears IN the panhau-
die tracks between Forty-nfth and
Fifty-ni1t Strcess "a distance of aiznut
one mile-werc totally destroyed bv
FIRE between the hours ofs and cluck
iaSt night
shortly after o'el...ls immense
crowds ~ men. women and hovs were
seen coming from the stock var,is to-
ward the network ~ tracks At the. srsv,S-
ing Of For;y-seventh street. Tbs. mob
was augmented every minute by a
seemingly u~ver-eudiux string ot
the strikers and their >vmpathiz-
erS. ant about E u'eio,-k fully 400
people werc massr,i along the tracks
frrEn Forty fifth street They were the
stock varst~ crowd. aud intent on 4
repetition of Thursday nights destruc-
tion. and the few police -xho remained
On duty were utterly ppNcriess. They
were m, even noticed BY the strikers.
who went q work AZ onr-. Down the
tracks wa~ the cry. and with a rush
the mnh started sputhvar,f
At forty-seventh street. I've car
standing IN the Grand Trunk tracks
wrrc the first - usrt destruction.
S~nuir q them wrrs lnssist This did
not letter the frenEisd crowd fr,rn their
work. ani the ~-als were hruiSru and
the doors slii hack. 4 bunch - oil-
soaked waste thrown INSIDE quickly
i-uited The contents. and IN i-ss than
three minutes the ave eurs we're blaz-
ing tr-r,--lv- Without waiting - -,
that their work was complete tls,, crowd
surgsd On
They kept 70 the Panhandle tracks.
ami az Fortv-ninth street came upon
SIX more ear In the Garfield Bouic-
vsri yaryls q the Panhandle four
tracks wers fall u freight ear. more
than half ~ which were ioass,.,I-
A. this crossing l. lac.s4.-d a switch
mau-> tower. and thi> sya> fir,, fired.
Then the mob turned its attention %
the cars On the siding. but for soSne
rrasou fired but one ~ thsm-the car
Of dressed beef which had been started
eastward several davs agn.
Al Fifty-eighth street il situated the
station house % th,. combined roads
This was fired and quickly destroyed.
A strong wind was blowing. and the
flames were quickly spread acru>ss three
or four tracks which rer. fiiIed with
cars The railroad people say that
there were hfty car~ there. forty OF
/ which We're loaded All were soun IN
a mass II flames
By this time the fire department, had
h,,s-n advised II the fires further north
on the tracks and hsi sent their force.
tisre- But on learning ~ the serious.
ness ~ the. situation at Fifty-eighth
strsst. thed abandoned their fight fur
therTsrthwarsi. and came tn the scene
of the eonfiagration. which promised
- BE- serious.
Upon the appearance - the fire and
/ police departments. the mob turne,
about and started for the eitv Or
their way to Forty-seventh street they
set fire to all ears that they had missed
in their hurried march southwark y,
water could h. obtained near the Car
field boulevard yar'ls and the ears wcr,
slowly burned up II was noticed tha
the leaders of the mob 71ere mostly
| Foreigners and a. they rvtraced theil
steps a few II the leaders started off il
the direction IF the stock wards