The evening bulletin., 1894-06-30
FIRST VIOLENT ACT.
Strikers Have Begun Rioting
in Chicago.
PASSENGER TRAINS STOPPED.

The Tie-Up Nearly Complete Through
out the West and Still Spreading.
CHICAGO, June 30.-The first overt
act Of violence in the railroad strike oc-
Cured yesterday afternoon, when the
engineer and fireman of an Illinois Gen.
trail suburban train were driven from
their engine by mob of 200 men.
They were pelted with rocks and bricks
and chased away.
The train southbound from Chicago
was stopped just north of the crossing
at Burnside station. One striker drew
the couplingpin connecting the locomo-
tive with the train, and 12 others board
ed the cab and forced the engineer and
fireman to jump out. AS they did so
the mob began to pelt them with stones.
The engineer and fireman fled for their
lives, pursued by portion OF the mob,
while others backed the engine into the
roundhouse, close at hand, leaving the
cars standing on. the main track.
The episode fired the blood Of the
mob, and when, short time later, a
northbound suburban train appeared It
too was stopped, the engine detached
and taken to the roundhouse and the
cars left standing on the northbound
tracks.
The news was sent to the police sta
ton and force of % men fastened to
the scene and scattered the mob, which
had swollen to fully 600.
At Dauphin park, the police were
compelled to disperse a threatening
mob, and at Kensington, the police pa
troled the tracks all day, although no
oman viOlanpp was attpmnted
The packers at the stockyards tried to
induce the strikers to take eight trains
loaded with beef and held by them,
though their refusal to do SO would re-
suit in throwing thousands of men at
the yards out of employment. The men
refused, and the trains were returned to
the packinghouses. The packers say
they will be afraid to send perishable
freight out of the yards while the strike
continues, as they fear it will become
tied ND on the road where it will spoil.
Yesterday two trains of livestock on the
Santa Fe and ON the Illinois Central
outside of the yards remained on the
tracks because the trainmen refused to
move them.
The Chicago and Alton is badly Grip
pied. Passenger trains have been but
in fairly good shape. Freight traffic is
badly congested, and much perishable
goods is being ruined. The railway
union officers claim that they will have
the road tied up completely.
President Debs says that within "a
hours matters would so shape them
selves that strike on the Burlington
would be effective. Said Mr.. Debs:
1T is life or death with one of the two
sides. We must kill the managers as
sociation or it must disrupt organized
labor in America for years to come.
The contradictory news about the ac-
ton of the Milwaukee and st. Paul road
was supplemented by the statement OF
the chief clerk of Superintendent Barr
that the only two Pullman cars run out
of Chicago by the company had been
dropped for the present. The official
order, he said, had gone out and during
the rest of the strike that the company
would use only its own sleeping and
parlorcars.
The trouble on the Northwestern
spread Yesterday. Freight traffic was
greatly impeded and considerable diff
Guilty was experienced in getting out
passenger trains. There was bad
blockade at Wood street and delays were
reported all along the line.
the general managers conference that
plans had been formulated for the ar
rest on charges of conspiracy, OF Presl-
dent Debs and Organizer Lynch. 1t
was said that the general managers had
been advised to arrest these men and
have them searched for papers, that If
found, would furnish undisputable evl-
dence that certain men were amenable
to the conspiracy law. That the matter
was talked of in the meeting could not
be learned.
"You can say that 1 refused to con-
firm or deny any story concerning the
arrest of either Mr.. Debs or any OF his
followers" said General Manager Egan.
"No; will not say whether the matter
was talked about. We received numer-
ous reports from the representatives OF
the various roads, and the attorneys are
now in close consultation over the mat
ter. Possibly they may make a clear,
concise and legally framed statement OF
the stand of the various roads. we
agreed to tand together and fight a
common battle"
Mr.. Egan said Mr.. Pinkerton was
present at the meeting to see railroad
man about matter concerning man
in Arizona.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad
shops at Milwaukee were shut down
Yesterday on an order from the general
offices Of the company in this city.
Fifteen hundred men are thrown out OF
employment. This step was taken be-
cause many of the employees We're dissat'
isfied, and also ON account OF the exist.
ence of the general strike General
Manager Early said that the shutdown
was on his order, that the officials
meant business and would fight to the
bitter end.
OBJECT TO DEPUTIES.