The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-07-11
SIX WERE KILLED.

SIX WERE KILLED.
Bloody and Fatal Corsequ enceS OF Ihe
Great + s!lcosd ss-iks.
CHICAGO, j July Six dead and an in
definite number Of injured is the record
| of casualties in the strike conflicts IN
Chicago today. Yesterday one man
was shot in the leg. If the blood.let-
| ting tomorrow shall show a like Ia.
crease, the coroner will have a sum-
mer's work before him. The develop
! ments of yesterday went far to convince
all thinking people that the gravity of
the situation had not been appreciated
by the authorities or the people at large.
Persons who were here during she rail-
road strike Of 1877, and who saw the
| atmosphere clear preceptibly when no
more than eighty bronzed snd dusty
regulars from the plains marched
down Madison street and went into
camp on the lake front, wagged their
! heads knowingly when three times
that number were ordered from Fort
| Sheridan, comprising the three arms of
the service, and said they would make
short work of Mr.. Debs'S followers.
But after twelve hours of as patient
and persistent GOODNESS and bravery
under trying circumstances as was
ever seen, these same citizens and the
officers in command were forced to ad-
nit that things were not as they were
| in II and that it was still long mark
to peace and the resumption Of unlm'
peded traffic on any of the railroads
| running out Of Chicago.
The developments of the night and
| those of today have confirmed the con-
viction that nothing short OF an over
| whelming armed force, with lnstruc-
t1ons to shoot to kill, can settle the
trouble, or as Col. Crofton put it, 1T
| has ceased to be mere 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 affecting
the nation generally, but Chicago in
particular, and are taking measures to
apply adequate remedies. The city
| police force has already been recruited
up to over 5000 men, and py request OF
Mayor Hopkins and by order of Cover
1or Atgeld. two brigadeS OF State mill
tia have been ordered here to aid IN
quelling the disturbances.
at the nations capital, also the TACT
is recognized that the preventing con-
ditions are entirely out of ordinary and
| that provisions must be made for such
a massing of lighting men as has never
| before been seen together ID the nlsto-
| ry of the nation in time Of peace, II the
authority and dignity of the Federal
government and the processes of its
| courts are not to be laughed to Scorn
for an indefinite time. The strike ques.
| tion is so infectious at certain points
| that the President and his advisers be-
lieve it would be unwise to withdraw
any more regular troops from the coun-
| try west of Chicago. 1t is therefore IN
contemplation, should the forces. Fed.
eral, State and municipal already gath
cred here, be unequal to the task Of re.
storing order to send here the compa-
MES stationed on the Canadian border,
with the reserved intention, if clrcum-
stances demand it, of exercising the
right to call for 20, 900 men of the crack
military regiments of New York and
Pennsylvania.
The day in Chicago has been one Of
constant alarms and calling for police,
| deputy marshals and soldiers here,
there and everywhere Throughout a
wide stretch of territory in the south
ern part of the city. Riot has been
running rampant throughout the day;
cars have been overturned, switches
broken and tracks obstructed in num-
erous ways; the torch was applied in
many instances TO cars, switch towers
and the like, not to mention an attempt
to fire part of the great Armour pack
ing planC-in fact, at one time the in
cendiary blaZes followed each other In
| such quick succession that the fire de-
partment was put to straits to care for
all of them. To add to the gravity Of
the situation it was found that the
strikers were interfering with the po-
lice, railroad and fire alarm telegraph
systems. and in one or two instances
policemen who were using the police
| telephone calls were stoned
| The assaults of mobs, however, was
not met with the passive resistance
which characterized the course pursued
Yesterday. GA two occasion at least their
attacks were met with accurately aimed
Head. During riot, in the forenoon,
over an incoming milk train at Ken
siugton, deputy United States mar
shall shos and killed two strikers, and
during the afternoon, the deputies
guarding an incoming Baltimore and
OHIO passenger train replied to the
Volley of shots and stones which the
strikers showered upon them by turn
ing their revolvers loose, killing four
of their assaiIants and Wodndlng a
number of others.
Stoned tn Death.
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