The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-07
blood AND FIRE.
Dangerous Aspect of the Great
Railway Strike at Chicago. =.
SEVEN DEAD, MANY HURT.
Df the Dead Six Were Riotous
Strike Sympathizers.
THE OTHER A DEPUTY SHERIFF.

10 Was Benton to Death While Endeavor-
Ing to Prevent tho Destruction of .
Railroad shanty-Thousnnds of Rail-
road Cars Destroyed by FIre-Governor
AitgoId Again Protests Against the In
PRODUCTION of Federal Troops, and Il
Seconded by Governor stone.
CHICAGO, July 7-Seven dead and an In
hetinite number of injured is the record
casualties in the strike conflicts in Chi
ngo yesterday. On Thursday one man
was shot in the leg If the blood letting
boday shall show a like increase the coro-
ner will have summers work before him.
The developments of Thursday went
lar to convince all thinking people that
ihe gravity of the situation had not been
appreciated by the authorities or the peo-
pie at large. Persons who were here dur.
hg the railroad riots of 1877, and who
law the atmosphere clear perceptibly
when no more than eighty regulars from
ibe plains marched down Madison street
md went into camp Oh the lake front,
wGgged 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' followers.
But after twelve hours of as paten.
aud persistent coolness and bravery under
trying circumstances as was ever seen
these same citizens and the officers in COM
mnnd were forced to admit that things
were not as they were In III, and that it
was still n long mark to pence and the re-
sumption of unimpedcd traffic on any of
The railroads running out of Chicago
The developments of tho night and
chose of yesterday have but confirmed the
conviction that nothing short of an over
whelmiug armed force, with instructions
10 shoot to Kill, can settle the trouble, or
s Colonel Crofton put it, "It has ceased
TO be mere movement Of troops aud has
bccome campaign"
Tho local aud state authorities have
awakened to the critically grave nature
pt the strike malady which is affecting
she nation generally, but Chicago in par
ncnlar, and are taking measures to apply
adequate remedies. The city police force
has been already recruited up to over 5000
men, and by request Of Mayor Hopkins
and by order of Governor Altgeld two
brigades of state militia have been or
ntred here to aid III qre!ling the disturb
Bcss.
Governor Altgeld has again called on
thc state troops to suppress disorder. The
First regiment, 750 strong, went to Hyde
Park and kenslngton last evening. The
BeGond, with about the same number of
mon, followed shortly after, being assigned
to the stock yards district under direction
Of Police Inspector Hunt. The Third
regiment, COO men, will be placed on duty
In the district north of Thrty-ninth street.
The Seventh regiment, 7O0 men, is held in
reserve, together with Battery d, at the
Michigan avenue armory.
Bishop Fallows and Rev. DR.. p. S. Hen
son, of the First Baptist church, have
placed themselves at the head of a move
mcnt to be inaugurated and conducted
by the different churches Of the city to
bring about n settlement of tho present
labor difficulties by pcaceuble means.
At the nations capital, also, tho fact is
recognized that the prevailing conditions
arc entirely out of the ordinary, and that
provision must be matlc for such mnss-
ing Of fighting men as has never before
been seen in the history of the nation In
time of peace, if the authority and dig
nity of the nation and the processes of its
c1ifrts are not to be laughed to scorn for
m indefinite time.
The strike question is so infec5ye at
certain points that the president and his
advisers believe it would be uuwise to
withdraw aay more regular troops from
the country west Of Chicago. 1t is, thero-
fore, i'll contemplation, should the forces,
federal, state and municipal, already
gathered here be unequal to the task of
restoring order, to send here the ten COM
penies stationed on the Canadian border,
with the reserved intention, If circum-
stances demand it, of exercising tho right
TO call for eo010 men of tho crack military
regiments of New York and Pennsylvania.
The day in Chicago was one Of constant
alarms and calling for police, deputy mar
yhnls and soldiers here, there and every
where throughout wide stretch of terri.
tory in the southern part of the city Riot
has been rurning rampant throughout the
lay, cars have been overturned, switches
broken aud tracks ohstructed in numer-
pus ways. The torch was applied In nut
msrous instances to cars, switch towers
and he like, not to mention an attempt
10 fire pnrt of the great Armour packing
plant In fact, Mt one time the incendiary
blnLes followed each other in such quick
srcccssion that the fire department was
put to straits to care for all of them. To
add to the gravity of the situation it was
found that tho strikers were interfering
with the police railroad and fire alarm
telegraph system, and in one or two in
lice telephone calls were stoned. About
slightly cars were burned altogether in the
Illinois Central yards In addition two
Hundred stock cars of the Grand Trunk.
weso burned in the stock yards. At mid
nisa incent iary fires were raging in every
direction. Ii the Pan Handle yards alone
,5cp cars were destroyed.
The maddened mobs worked up to the
highest pitch Of fury, paralleled tho scenes
OF the commune. To illustrate the tactics
fsscrted TO 6y the ineendiaries to hamper
the work of the fire department, siisi siPty-
cartridges were forced into the keyholes
Of the fire alarm boxes, fremen we're
knocked down with stones and bricks and
while working at fires the horses OF the
department were stolen.
At the stock yards last night about
fifty tnughs few of whom were railroad
man, skulked from point to point, aud set
large bupber OF fires. Their method