The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-09
Affecting Scenes at the Different Towns
When the Young Soldiers Took
Their Departure.
MORE BIG FOUR TROUBLE
st. Louis Division Men Expected
to Go Out Again.
Strike Ordered on the Evansville g.
Richmond = Situation at Fort
Wayne Growing Serious.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HAMMOND, Ind. July Sin attempting
TO move the north-bound Monon mail
train at this point this afternoon regular
soldiers were compelled to shoot into
crowd of strikers and their sympathzers
and the following persons were killed and
wounded:
CHARLES FLEISCHER. shot through
bowels. and died instantly.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL. shot in thigh
VICTOR VASETER, shot in leg.
MRS. FLEMING, shot in knee.
VICTOR BITE. shot in leg.
UNKNOWN MAN. shot through the
wrist.
Had the troops been at shorter range no
doubt the loss of life would have been
greater. Persons standing fully half mile
from where the shooting was done say they
could hear the bullets flying past them. 1t
was learned late this evening that a girl
spent ball and quite badly injured. Her
name could not be learned 1t is a dis
tressing fact that none of the persons shot
were strikers, but were only onlookers.
At 10 o'clock the city is comparatively
quiet, but the riotous spirit is liable to
break forth at any time. The action of the
Mayor in closing the saloons tonight has
no doubt done much good, as not an intox-
icated man can be seen on the streets
AT 10 o'clock this morning Company B,
fifteenth Infantry. United States army
came here from Chicago and has been here
all day. The company is in command of
Major Hartz and Captain Hatch. The
south-bound mail train on the Monon had
been stopped about an hour previous and
the engine KILLED" AS soon as the troops
arrived the train was coupled up and sent
out
All day long the crowd had been grow
ing until o'clock this afternoon. when
the mail train from the south over the
Monon came in. The troops had gone
down the road to meet it with the special
train which had transported them from
Chicago. 1t was their intention to escort
the mail through the city. AS the special,
which was in advance of the mail train.
came around the curve about three hun
dred yards south of the depot the crowd,
numbering at least five thousand, was
standing the tracks. The captain of the
company motioned for the rioters to stand
back. but no heed was paid to the order.
The command was gwen to fire and the
order was Immediately obeyed. a volley
was poured into the rioters and the men
fell back off the right Of way of the rail-
road, carrying the injured.
MOB ARMING ITSELF.
Many threats were made by the crowd
that the troops would be mobbed if they
stayed here tonight. and cries could be
heard all along the line of strikers to "Go
home and get your gun and we will give
these dogs all the shooting they want"
At O'Clock this afternoon ten cars
came in over the Michigan Central bring
ing about two hundred more soldiers. The
train also had a wrecking car attached.
The crew had been clearing up the tracks.
which all the way from Kensington had
been blocked by overturned box cars The
Mihigan Central succeeded in removing all
distractions by O'Clock and several
trains have been run out from Chicago.
AS predicted in last nights dispatch. the
strikers shortly after midnight took pos
session of all the railroads running through
here. The agents were driven out of their
offices. box cars were overturned and an
attempt made to burn the three sleepers
taken off of train No on the Monon last
night. The first coach attacked was the
Olinde. All the windows were broken and
the car set on fire in two places, but IT
did not burn. All the windows in the other
two cars were broken.
The mob then went to the Erie and
the Monon depots, and after driving out
the operators the buildings were saturated
with oil in several places, but from some
cause the torch was not applied.
AL the notices of the Injunction ordered