The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-07
PLANS OF STRIKE LEADERS
All X. of L. and FederatiOniSts
Likely to Be Ordered Out.
Strikers Advised by President Debs
Not to Gather in Crowds and to
Keep the Peace-Incidents.

CHICAGO, July 6.-With flaming torch,
-lawless hordes of fire bugs are ar work at
a score of points in the south half of
Chicago. Fires are raging in every di-
rection among numerous railroad yards and
hundreds Of cars and tens of thousands of
dollars worth of merchandise have al
off by the now frenzed mobs of rioters
Incendiarism is rampant, alarm after
alarm has followed in quick succession all
day, and tonight at IL o'clock the glare
reflected from the heavens shows that the
dastardly pastime continues unabated.
From early morning until this hour
followed each other with startling rapid
ity. being confined. however. principally
to railroad rolling stock and buildings,
against which, thus far. the greater part
of the mob's fury has been directed. Early
this morning a blaze started among some
overturned cars at Kensington, quickly
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long lines of cars; many containing valu-
able merchandise were soon blazing furi-
ously. Famed by strong winds there were
at this point a total of eighty cars wiped
out. AT the stockyards one blaze after an
other was reported, and from the outlying
districts came urgent calls for engines and
police protection, increasing in frequency
But with the falling shades of night
came the climax OF the fiery festival. The
Panhandle yards from Fifty-fifth to Sixty
third street-eight blocks-are a mass of
fire. Ten tracks, containing from a thou
sand to two thousand cars, half of them
loaded, will be total loss. No water be-
ing at hand the fire must burn itself out
The Panhandle station at Sixty-third street
was also fired and destroyed
The Grand Trunk yards at Elston are a
sea of flames, five hundred box cars sup
posed to have been burned and efforts to
check the flames have been futile The flag
shanties and other railroad property is also
burning, and no water except one stream
from a plug at Fifty-first street can be
obtained. While directing the movement
of the Eleventh Battalion at this point.
Fire Marshal Fitzpatrick was seized by the
thoroughly frenzied mob of fire bugs and
thrown into a pond, from which he was
rescued by. the police more dead than alive.
Everything at this point will probably be
total loss.
At Hyde Park, near the worlds fair
grounds, the ashes of forty cars are now
smoldering. and word has just come in that
after numerous efforts the mob has sue
ceeded in firing the Illinois Central shops
at Burnside.
WORK OF ToUGHs
At the stock yards tonight about fifty
toughs, few of whom were railroaders are
skulking from point to point and have
started a large number of fires. Their
method was thoroughly unique. Loading
several handcars with buckets of waste"
and oil they would glide around among the
cars in the darkness. lighting wads of the
infiammable stuff. which would be thrown
into the open doors of the cars as they
passed by them. Fires sprung up on every
hand. and an organized effort on the part
| OF the police seemed to be under way to
intercept them. This is the banner district
| OF the city, II not OF the entire country, for