Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-09
THEREGULARSFRE INTO ANOTHER MOB


Coach are Attacked-rhey FIRE Into
the Mob with Fatal KssulJs.
CHICAGO. July s.-A serious fight oc-
Cured at o'clock this afternoon at
Hammond, Ind, between mob Of 5000
men and Company B Of the Fifteenth
Q. S. Infantry, in which two Of the mob
are known TO have been killed and sew
sral Others. including one woman, are
said to have been fatally wounded.
The mob became so violent shortly
after noon that a battalion of the First
Illinois militia WAS sent down from
Pullman. II drove the rioters over the
State line, which runs just west Of
Hammond, but we're not able TO do
more. as they could not move into the
State OF Indiana.
Word was sent to Chicago for a COM
pany Of regulars who could operate ir-
respective OF the State line. Captain
Hart, with Company b, of the Fifteenth
infantry, was dispatched 10 the scene.
The rioting GU minated this afternoon
in a conflict between the mob and Com
pany B, Fifteenth U. S. infantry, in
which Charles Fleischer, a lsborer, was
killed: Victor VsCeter fatally wounded
and VIM. Campbell shot through both
legs A number. OF other people were
slightly injured, but were carried away
By their friends and seereted, and il
will be impossible 10 learn.
THE EXACT NUNIBER WOUNDED.
The trouble began last night as told
In these dispatches. The rioters kept
their work up all night, burning cars
and disabling engines. This morning
they burned a Pullman Car. Most Of
this work was done inside the Illinois
State line, and as soon ae the Illinois
militia arrived on the scene the mob re-
tired into Indiana and jeered the troops.
AT about Q o'clock this morning a
great crowd gathered about the Monon
depot. Several freight trains were over
turned and the Michigan Central tracks
blockaded. The sheriff and marshals
and deputies were powerless TO restrain
the mob, and as there was no hope OF
the Indiana militia arriving before late
this evening an appeal was made 10 the
Federal authorities In Chicago. Com
uany &. of the Fifteenth infantry, 35
men, was sent at once. The troops
were stationed about the MonOn
depot, as that seemed 10 be the centre
Of the rioters attack, and their pres
ence quietsd things for awhile, and the
blockade on the tracks was finally
raised at / o'clock in the afternoon, and
several passenger trains pulled through.
This seemed 10 anger the mob, and
with an increased number, its passions
grew to q frenzy. The regulars were
greeted with oathS aud shouts Of de-
riSiOn, and volleyS Of sticks and stones
were showered upon them. The men
stood their ground, hewever, and kept
the mob for several hours from ap-
preaching the buildings.
AT o'clock fully 5000 rioters were
aSse N bled They had been aroused by
theireaders 20 a FRENZY that made an
encounter for the soldiers certain. Sew
eral times they rushed upon the COM
pany OF troops, bus were met with
fixed bayOnets and driven back. At
last, however, the entire body Of strikers
made a determined rush toward the
spot.
"NAKE READY" "FIREp
was the command, and thirty-fve
Spring6elds rang out in response. A
second volley quickly followed. The
first staggered the rioters and the sec
Ond stopped them as efTectually as if
they had run up against a stone wall.
Several men were seen TO fall but
they were taken away by their COM
rades and the extent OF their injuries
could not be learned. FieiScher fell in
the front rank of the rioters. He was
taken TO the hospital, where he died in
a short time.
In the rush that followed scores Of
women aRd children were trampled un.
der foot and half dozen women tainted
on the tracks. The soldiers then took
40 position on the track at the Rus
sell street crossing.
The news Of the killing spread with
remarkable rapIdity and ten minutes
aiterward the streets in the Vicin-
ity were filed with a threat
ening mob. Major Hartz left
his company for few moments TO assist
the fremen and doctors In placing
Vacetsr on the patrol wagon and was
Immediately surrounded BY crowd.
XIII him." ''shoot MIN down, were
the cries Of several excited men, as the
mob surged around the Major. Hartz.
however, did not pay any attention TO
them and was not molested.
AT this point the excitement was at
its height. Man ran from house to
house
BORROWING SHOT GUNS,
rifles and other firearms. ''To arms"
was the cry heard on every side, and
fully three thousand people responded.
Matters looked so threatening that a
call was sent to Chicago for
and two more
were sent out on
s special train. These additional troops