The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-08

CHICAGO, July land IL is furthered Or
dered that If any act of hostility be com
United, such as firing upon railroad trains,
assauiting trainmen. marshals and soldiers
by throwing at them rocks, pieces OF iron or
other missiles. those assaults shall be repelIed
by the use of fire arms"
So wrote General Nelson A. Miles in his
order issued this afternoon detailing fed
eral troops to assist United States mar
shals in preventing obstruction to the
movement OF mail and interstate COM
merce trains, 1t was, in short, notice to
all rioters that temporizing with them had
ceased, and that thereafter the principle of
the government would be to put an end to
their rioEing, arson and pillage by shoot
Ing to kill whenever necessary.
AS chance would have it, however, it did
not fall to the lot of the national troops to
be the first to carry out the spirit of this
order. CompanyF. Second regiment, IN.
g., had that distinction.
The story of the encounter between the
81 young militiamen composing this COM
pany and vicious mob at 47th and LOOMS
streets is told elsewhere in these. dis
patches.
Up to 4 o'clock in the afternoon the day
had been a comparatively quiet one. To
be sure small mobs had been going about
all through the district west of State street
and south of Thirty-ninth burning a few
ears here and there and making threats of
firing railroad shops and the like. but it
was more in the nature of bushwhacking
than anything else, and not at all like the
massed bands of strikers who gathered
along the railroad tracks yesterday and
the day before absolutely blocking all
movement by sheer force of numbers.
This state of affairs was doubtless the
outgrowth of various conditions, such
the presence of A vastly increased force of
soldiers, and the fact that yesterdays
wrecking and firing cars had LETT q large
share of the tracks to the south impassa-
BILE so that about all the observable move
ment was In the shape of wrecking trains,
endeavoring to bring order out of the
chaos which existed all through that re-
gion. The disturbed section today en-
breeed space If about twenty-five
square miles not to mention the sporadic
bit of incendiarism on the Burlington
road at Crawford and Western avenues
the latter having the distinction of being
the work of women and children. 1t is es-
t1mated that IN the district mentioned
not less than 80, 900 rioters were out at one
time another during The day, but the
ground was so thoroughly patrolled by the
police, the marshals and the military that
they found little opportunity for getting
together in large numbers as they have
been doing heretofore.
Still, some of them at the stock yards
found time for INDUCING in the grim
humor OF laying out graveyard in due
order and erecting headstones at the gravss
bearing the names of their pet ayersions,
including that of the president of the
United States. One feature OF the day
was the showing of its teeth by the build
ing trades council of the CITY in calling
out the steam filters in the big packing
houses at the stock yards with the threat
that il was merely preliminary TO calling
out its p. 600 members, aud the tying up of
all building in the city. Another feature
of the day was the patrolling of the sen
tries before the federal sub-treasury in
whose vaults lie some fifteen million dol
lars of Uncle Sans money which General
Miles thought might prove temptation
TO some of Debs' followers not to be re-
sisted. especially in view of the fact that
they are not flush Just now
For the first time since the strike opened
there were several distinct notes of i'm
provement in the situation and these were
not confined To Chicago. Here, the postal
authorities reported a noticeable improve
ment of the mails. Outside Of Chicago. il
was TO be noted that the strike. while it,
made no progress worthy of mention at
reached It's elimination and of failing TO
influence. To begin with, the promise
that the seaboard trunk lines would be
tied up at Buffalo was not fulfilled: th,.
strike was not extended TO Pittsburg. as
was predicted at number OF points in the
tied district; the strain was lighteued an
Dne or two points; men VINO had agreed Ia
20 out failed to do SO; but, most significant
of all, perhaps, was the refusal Of the
American Railway union at Louisville
Colorado Springs and Denver TO obey Debs'
order 10 strike. Joliet also reported de-
lection there, the employees OF the Joliet
ElCia and Eastern returning TO work.
On the other hand, the friends Of law
and order had occasion TO be pleased on
account of the maSsing OF troops here
and at the ordering OF the movement of
troops by the president with a view TO
lifting the embargo on Pacific coast busi
hess, both by the Northern aud Central
routes. To this end he ordered General
Merritt at 81. Pau and General Otis at
Van Couver barracks TO see 10 the OMEN
lug of the Northern Pacific lines. while
General Kruger At San Francisco and Gen
eral Rookie AT Omaha were similarly in
structed 10 set things TO moving on tha
Central and Union Pacific systems.
To all this the only foil which the mana
gers OF the strike were able TO show yvas
an arrangement between President Oabs
and Grand Master Workman Sovereign of
the Knights OF Labor, TO call out ;he mem
bers of the latter organization, some HIM
dred and fifty thousand IN number. nro-
vided the other four members OF the exec
utive committee woDld agree to the or,Irr
calling them out. IL is estimated rbst
Debs has now about 750J0 men, so that II
the agreement goes il VIII be no small ad-
dltion 10 the forces of idleness.
There has been rift in the cloud. but
the cloud is still there