The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-26

The following graphic account of
the actions of the strikers in Chi
cago and in Hammond, Indiana,
shows TO what lengths the men
have gone:
CHICAGO, July S.-Comparative quiet
prevailed as rule within the city to-
day, though there were, as might have
been expected, a number of sporadic in
stances where little knots of malcontents
gathered, became boisterous and were
finally scattered by charge from the
police.
A number of small mobs formed,
went rioting, firing and overturning cars.
Heads were cracked, and small-fry
brawls, mostly the result of too much
bad whisky, were frequently reported at
police headquarters. There was, how
ever, no concerted effort at incendiarism
or violence, although at number OF
places individual cars were fired, several
of which were destroyed. coal train
on the Eastern Illinois was ditched at
Root street by switch being misplaced
after the engine and four cars had passed
over.
The work OF clearing the tracks in the
| Grand Trunk yards at Forty ninth and
| Ashland streets, where debris from thou
| sands of burned cars Uttered the tracks,
was completed today under police and
| military protection, the monotony, how
ever. being enlivened by occasional po-
| lice rallies when the gatherings OF idlers
| watching the work became too large and
| threatening.
4P. NJ, when the finishing touches
| had been put on the work, nearly all the
| onlookers had disappeared, and the
| troops, laberers and police were with
drawn. No sooner had they got well
| out OF sight, however, than gang OF 800
men suddenly appeared, and with crow
bars and shovels tore up about an eighth
of mile Of the track. They tied before
another charge OF the police, and the
work of repair is again being pushed Tor
ward.
Hammond, Ind, adjoining the city on
the southeast, was the theatre OF the
davis greatest excitement. Here the
| rloting of last night was resumed, ano
| finally became so serious that a com
| pany of United States troops went out
there. They preserved peace for severa
hours, but the mob increased IN size
| and finally became edemonstrative, so that
it necessitated charging on them by the
troops, with the result that one man was
| killed, two badly wounded, and mum
ber Of others received serious injuries
| Everything at Pullman was quiet today
Riotous mobs consisting OF men, wo-
men and ildren took possession of the
freight yards at Hastead, Morgan ant
| Meagher streets this afternoon. They
burned cars and had everything their Owl
way for nearly two hours. All OF the re
serve force OF police officers on the Yves
side bad been detailed to the yards o
the &. e. d q. and the Wisconsin Centra
roads early today and nothing lay IN tn
path Of the frenzied strikers and thei
friends.
Shortly after 3 O'Clock John NJ. Egar
at the general managers headquarter
sent the following message TO Chief Bren
nan:
els there no way that We can secur
protection from the mobs in our yards
: They are burning cars and destroying
other property in the yards at Halstead
Neagher and Morgan streets, and not /
policeman can be found"
Chief Brennan at once transmitted th'
| mcfSaRe 10 the inspector VINO htAhilth
squad of thirty police officers to the seem
OF the disturbance. The fire department
: had been called out on three different OF
casiOns, each time 10 extingulsh flame
in freight cars. Thirteen cars Wcr
burned The mob gathered about th
firemcn when they arrived in response L
AN alarm and greatly intertcred IN til
work of extinguishing the fires. TIL
arrival oi the police had but little effect
The bluecoata were hootcd at and pelt
| ed with stones. The crowd numbcfe
2 nearly 2OOO and was made up of Tia
D | toughest element of the city. Well
! | known thieves aud other desperate me
whom the police Of Maxwel-htroet sta
ton have considerable trouble with min
| glcd in the mob and took active part II
! the disturbance. The police finally mad
"A determined charge aud drove the mo
| to the adjacent station and from th
freight yards, clubbing the leaders freely
- The police remained on duly ali th
afternoon and the strikers were krr
| from doing further violence.
The mob commenced tO collect earl
this morning ia the yards oi the thicaet
| Burlington aud Quincy, and AT the w ih
| cunein Central tracks at Western aVrhu
= | aud Sixteenth street. IhfontH hghinF
the railroads aud drnunciaiion II ia
police were heard OH all sidns. and
| only required the move 81 some leader
start another conflict. The police. uun