Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-07
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the GAZETTE of that day, three strikers
were shot dead and q dozen or more
wounded by the deputy marshals. The
marshals only used their pistols when
stoned and abused by the rioters.
Four of the men killed We're in a mob
that were stoning a Baltimore and Ohio
train entering Chicago. The deputies
guarding the train replied to the volley
of stones with bullets. Not q shot was
fired by the regular troops. a special
railroad policeman was stoned to death
by mob. No attempt was made on
any of the roads to start trains. The
railroad managers and the authorities
seemed to fear that the military and
police forces were inadequate to cope
with the tens of thousands of desperate
men. As stated yesterday upon the
application of the Chicago authorities,
Governor Altgeld ordered out two
brgades Of State troops. The police
force was recruited to three thousand
men. The mobs continued to burn
cars and smash switches in the railroad
wards. The rioters also tried to set fire
to the Armour packing plant. Fire and
stones were the weapons of the strikers.
Every incoming train was met by the
strikers with volleys of stones. General
Miles seemed to take hopeful view OF
the situation last night. He said the
mobs had scattered, but were resort
ing to more dangerous methods. lie
did not believe it would become nee
essary to declare martial law in Chicago.
The United States troops went into
camp on the Lake Front, and Colonel
Crofton was placed in command.
The iiremen in the packing houses OF
Nelson Morris & Co., Swift & Co., and
Armour & Co., went on strike.
Governor Altgeld sent another long
Geographic letter to President Cleye-
land, disputing his authority to place
United States troops i'll Chicago, and
again demanding their withdrawal.
The President, in his brief but pointed
reply, said "While am still persuad-
ed tia | have neither transcribed my
authority or duty in the emergency that
confronts us, ii seems to me that in this
hour of danger and public distress dis
cussion may well give way to active
effort or the part of all in authority to
restore obedience to law and to protect
life and property. ,
II can be stated that the admlnistra-
ton is sure OF its ground, and that the
federal troops in Chicago will not be
recalled in any event other than the
complete restoration of such order as
will allow United States mails to go
through uninterrupted and the perfect
administration of the orders of federal
courts.
There was the widest kind Of a dem
onstratiou when Pullman palace car
which was pushed By several hundred
strikers from switch half a mile away,
was seat spinning into the blaze. There
were screams o. delight, from women
as well as from men, as the palace car
went up in smoke, and the frenzy OF
the crowd was so great that several OF
the spectators Were overcome with ex-
element and fell to the ground in fits.
The mob did not dispense until reg
iment OF militia was sent to the scene,
and by that time there was nothing
much left to burn. The number of cars
burned on the Pan Handle tracks was
SOS.
The Federal, State and city officials
realize the serious aspect of the situa-
ton, and there are fully 10000 armed
men in the field to oppose the lawless
element.
The 100000 or more idle men in Chi
cago, in addition to the strikers, are
taking advantage of the situation, and
last night it came to the knowledge Of
the Federal authorities that the an
archist and social element made W
largely Of the unemployed, were pre-
pariug to blow up the south end of the
Federal building and take possession OF
the millions in money now stored iii
the treasury vaults. A guard of United
States troops was accordingly placed
around the building, and no person was
permitted to get near enough to place
dynamite under the building.
At midnight several thousand freight
cars were burning in the different rail
road yards at Chicago. The fremen
were prevented by the mob from ex-
tinguishing the flames, and at one place
the rioters seized fire marshal and
threw him in pond.
The aggregate of the losses to the
railroads will be enormous. Miles OF
their tracks have been ruined by the
fierce heat, hundreds of switch and sig
nal towers, with their expensive mec-
hanism, are utterly ruined. Thou
sands of cars and untold quantities OF
merchandise of every imaginable de-
scription have fed the flames and gorged
the larder of the thieves; valuable loco
motives have been wrecked and dis
abled; miles of tangled wires and pri-
vate poles are on the ground. Tele-
graph, electric light and iire-alarm
wires are now tho especial object of at
tack, the plugging of fre-alarm boxes
constituting new and doubly danger
Gus element in the tremendous wave of
incendiarism now sweeping over the
southwest section Of the city, prevent
ing as it does, notice being received of
the starting of fires until, with the poor
water supply in those outlying dis
tricts, fire has attained such Roadway
that it cannot be stopped except
through lack of further material on
which to feed.
OF the situation in general, it may be
said to have strengthened its grasp.
Its most significant feature is the car
rying of the strike eastward.
The mails were in more disorganized
condition yesterday than any time since
the strike. Many of the factories are
to close down and it is said that 100000
men will then be thrown out of work.
The General Managers Association
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