The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-06
Police Fire Into a Mob At
lacking a Train.
on THE BRINK OF ANARCHY.
The Whole Labor Situation Very
Serious.

A Meeting to Be Held To-day to De-
eide whether All the Organized La
Dor in the Country Shall Be Called
Out-The Tendency of the Strikers
TO Destroy Property Increasing at
an Alarming Rate No Conflict
With the Troops Precipitated Yet,
But a Bloody Clash Apt to Occur
at Any Moment.
Chicago, July 5.-At o'clock this af-
ternoon a special tram, consisting of an
engine and one passenger car, was sent
out on the Lake Shore road from the Van
Buren, street station loaded with a detail
of special police. Officers of the road
were also on board. The police had been
dispatched to aid in the moving of trains
in the vicinity of the stock yards. At
Fortieth street the mob grew so
demonstrative that the train was com
PEELED to come to a halt. The engineer
believed himself to be the object of
attack and drew his revolver Before he
could shoot a policeman disarmed him.
The crowd saw the movement and be-
came wild with frenzy. They rushed
upon the train, literally swarming around
it. peted it with stones and sticks break
ing many windows and hOwliug like mad
men The police then drew their own re-
vOlvers and fired into the crowd. One
or two men are said to have
been hit, but it is not yet known
how seriously they were hurt. A
dozen shots or so We're fired. In the mean
time, the engineer had reversed his en-
CINE and the train was soon forced back
ward out of reach of the now unbridled
mob and returned to the city This is
the first shooting i'll the present strike. II
occurred in a locality where the men were
already furious, and it is believed will be
the signal for desperate encounters very
soon.
THE WORST DAY OF THE STRIKE.
The sun went down on by far the most
turbulent and critical day thus far in the
unparalleled railroad strike and boycott
When it opened, there was a general feel
ing that its passage would 20 far to-
ward clearing the atmosphere if indeed
It did not practically lift the embargo
on commerce which has held this city in
its grip for the past week. That expecta-
tion was chiefly based on the presence of
federal troops in the most dangerous dis
tricts
Looking at the situation at the close of
the day, it must be confessed that the
nope ludulged in at the opening in this
regard has not been justified The troops
We're few in numbers at best, and when
they were divided into squads and dis
trlputcd at points separated by very con-
siderable distances, il soon became evil
dent that their prestige as overawing
bodies had been dissipated
THE MOB JRERs AT THE SOLDIERS.
Instead of fleeing in fear before the
faces of the veterans, as was expected
lhey would, the turbulent thousands
slrged about the little band of soldiers,
leerlng and hooting at them. cast vile
epthets at them and literally played hide
ana seek with them, stopping trains at
VIII, and generally rendering the en-
Dargo in the military district more
eutctlNe, II possible, than before.
Inc thronGs of strikers did not resist
Uncle Sans police. Again and again,
Nhen there were thousands of them a about
traln, which it was sought TO move and
on the track of it, they gave way like
water before the leveled bayonets
OF single company of infantry or
the trampllng of a single squad of
cavalry. Like water, too, they
yIoseI IN again at point just
beyond. They turned switches, derailed
freight cars in front of the slow moving
trains and played all sorts of railroaders'
tricks with which the soldiers were un-
acquainted. Thus it was that the troops
AZ lhe stock yards in perseverance and
Pdylence, spent the entire day in vain
Su'eaVor to get one train load Of dressed
0col OUT OF sight of the starting point.
GOODNESS OF THE TROOPS
Inc soldiers were cool and self-possessed
OuC inexperienced in this sort of duty.
throughout an eXasperating twelve
Hours not shot was fired, not a man was
lHcked by bayOnet, which argues that
WIN force enough, the soldiers would
aa.e uone the work which was expected
=, =, mem. The quality was there; merely
'He quantity was lacking
Aside from the immediate neighbor-
uooo where the troops We're operating,
tIe'e We're plenty of excitement and disor-
uer' Great mObs gathered on The Lake
1.u0re' Rock Island, Alton and Western
.uulana tracks and proceeded to obstruct
tnrln oy overturning box cars, breaking
sMIches and the like. At one point they
i9e1 hre TO switch tower and interlock-
aug switch box, though the flames were
done
HLooDsHED IN TWO INSTANCES.
- IN TWO instances .there was bloodshed
1u Ihe Western Indiana tracks, hard
pie9Sed special policeman hred at his
PI'Suers' wounding a striker in the leg.
VA lhe Lake Shore road. an official of
ttN"0 company, in charge Of a train, which
was endeayoriug TO force through,
,-n"lltd ,,'.td his revolver point blank into the
-taSeu strikers about him, wounding
s"o or three, it is believed. He was
sn snaqu from the fury Of the mob by his
,uttheer, VINO put on steam and ran back
10 the point Of starting
b. ennruy noruy after noon, a mob numbering
,V started north on the Lake Shore
t'a'hs al Thirty street. overturn-
nn5..a tais and obstructing the line in every
tt''' way. They were not checked un-
Nh'ere heavy force of police Was massed. .
succeeded in tgrning them buck
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