The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-07-11
SIX WERE KILLED.
Bloody and Fatal Coasequ srces OF the
Great L abroad strike.

Bloody and EaCai CO3sequ occeb oi lhe
Great Il abroad strike.
CHICAGO. July Six dead and an in
definite number Of injured is the record
of casualties in the strike conflicts in
Chicago today. Yesterday one man
was shot in the leg. If the blood.let
ting tomorrow shall show a like Ia.
crease. the coroner will have a sum
mer's work before him. The develop
ments of yesterday went far to convince
all thinking people that the gravity OF
the situation had not been appreciated
by the authorities or the people at large
Persons Who were here during she rail-
road strike of 1877, and who saw the
atmosphere clear preceptibly when no
more than eighty bronzed and dusty
regulars from the plains marched
down Madison street and went into
camp on the lake front, waeged 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's followers
But after twelve hours of as patient
and PERSISTENT GOODNESS and bravery
under trying circumstances as was
ever seen. these same citizens and the
officers in command were forced to ad-
NIT that Things were not as they were
in ~ and that it was still long mark
to peace and the resumption of unlm-
peded traffic on any OF the railroads
running out of Chicago.
The Developments of the night and
those of today have confirmed the con-
viction that nothing short OF an over
Whelming armed force, with lnstruc'
tIons to shoot to kill, can settle the
trouble, or as Col. Crofton put it, lit
has ceased to be mere movement OF
troops and has become campaign.
The local and State authorities have
awakened to the critically grave nature
of the strike malady which is affecting
the nation generally, but Chicago IN
particular. and are taking measures to
apply adequate remedies. The city
police force has already been recruited
up to over 1900 men, and by request OF
Mayor Hopkins and by order of Cover
1or Atgeld. two brigades of State mill
tia have been ordered here to aid IN
quelling the disturbances.
At the nations capital, also the tact
is recognized that the preventing con-
ditions are entirely out of ordinary and
that provisions must be made for such
a massing of fighting men as has never
before been seen together in the hlsto-
~ of the nation in time of peace, II the
authority and dignity of the Federal
government and the processes OF Its
courts are not to be laughed to scorn
for an indefinite time. The strike ques.
ton is so infectious at certain points
that the President and his advisers be-
lieye it would be unWise to withdraw
any more regular troops from the coun-
try west of Chicago. 1t is therefore in
contemplation, should the forces. Fed.
eral, State and municipal already gath
cred here, be unequal to the task Of re-
storing order to send here the compa-
MES stationed on the Canadian border,
with the reserved intention, If circum-
stances demand it, of exercising the
right to call for 10000 men of the crack
military regiments of New YORK and
Pennsylvania.
The day in Chicago has been one Of
constant alarms and calling f0r police.
deputy marshals and soldiers here,
there and everywhere Throughout a
wide stretch of territory in the south
ern part of the city. Riot has been
running rampant throughout the day
cars have been overturned, switches
broken and tracks obstructed IN num-
erous ways; the torch was applied In
many instances to cars, switch towers
and the like, not to mention an attempt
to fire part Of the great Armour pack
ing plant-in fact, at one time the in
cendiary blazes followed each other in
such quick succession that the fire de-
partment was put to straits to care for
all of them. To add to the gravity OF
the situation it was found that the
strikers were Interfering with the po-
lice. railroad and fire alarm telegraph
systems, and in one or two instances
policemen who were using the police
telephone calls were stoned
The assaults of MODS, however, was
not met with the passive resistance
which characterized the course pursued
yesterday. Oatwo occasion at least their
attacks were met with accurately aimed
lead. During riot, in the forenoon.
over an incoming milk train at Ken
siugtoD, deputy United States mar
shall shos and killed two strikers, and
during the afternoon, the deputies
guarding an incoming Baltimore and
OHIO passenger train replied to the
volley of shots and stones which the
strikers showered upon them by turn
ing their revolvers loose, killing four
Of their assailants and woundlng a
number of others.