The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-06

Chicago July 5-The sun went down
on by far the most turbulent and crit
Iical day in the unparalleled railroad
strike and boycott.
! When it opened there was a general
feeling that it's passing would go fan
towards clearing the atmosphere, if, in
deed. it did not practically lift the en-
barge of commerce which has left this
city in it's grip for the past week.
That expectation was caused by the
reliance upon federal troops in the
most dangerous districts.
But the situa ton of the close of the
day is such that it must be admitted
that the hope INDUCED in this regard
has not been justified.
The troops are few in number, at
best. and when they are divided into
squads and distributed at parts separ-
ated by considerable distances it soon
became evident that their prestige as
overawing bodies had been dissipated
! at the same time.
Instead of fleeing in fear from the
faces of the soldiers, as was predic-
ted. the turbulent thousands surged
around the little band and jeered and
hooted at them, casting vile epithets at
them and literally playing hide. and
seek with them, stopping trains at
will and generally rendering the en-
barge in the military district more
lstrong than before, though the strik-
ers did not resist Uncle Sans police.
Again and again when there were
| thousands of them about a train which
lit was sought to remove, they gave
way like water before the leveled bay
onet of a single company of infantry
or the trampling of a single squad of
cavalry.
Like water, too, they closed in at a
point just behind. They turned switch
es, derailed freight cars in front Of the
slow moving trains and played all sorts
of railroad tricks, with which the sol
diers were unacquainted.
Thus it was that the troops at the
stock yards, in perseverance and 81
lence, spent the entire day in an en-
deavor to get one train load of dressed
beef out of sight of the starting point.
Another and pleasanter thing this
experience showed and that was the
admira bic GOODNESS, self-possession and
discipline of the troops throughout an
exciting twelve hours. Not shot was
fired. Not a man was pricked with a
bayonet, which argues that with
done the work which was expected of
them.
The quality was there merely the
quantity was lacking.
Aside from the immediate neighbor-
hood where the troops were operating,
there was plenty of excitement and dis
order
Great mobs gathered on the Lake
Shore, Alton, West Shore and Rock
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struct them by overturning box cars
breaking switches and the like.
At one time they set fire to a signal
tower, and an interlocking box, though
the flames were eXtinguished before
serious damage was done.
In two instances there was blood
shed. On the Western Indiana tracks
a hard-pressed special policeman fired
at his pursuers, Wounding a striker in
the leg.
On the Lake Shore road, an official
of that company, in charge of a. train
which he was endeavoring to force
through emptied his revolver point
blank into the massed strikers about
him, wounding two or three. it is be-
lieved. He was saved from the fury of
the mob, as was his engineer, who put
on steam and ran back to the point of
starting.
Shortly after noon, a mob number
ing 1000 started north on the Lake
Shore tracks at Thirty-seventh street,
overturning cars and obStructing the
line in every possible way. They were
not checked until they reached Twenty
second street, where a heavy force of
police was masSed and succeeded in
turning them back.
During the afternoon, Mayor Hop
kins and Chief of Police Brennan went
down to the Lake Shore road with an
official of that road, intending to go to
the stock yards. Their course was OBJ
structed and they were compelled to
finish the journey on foot OF the
striking men, it may be said the stu
alton broadened with the day.
On the Big Four, on which is was
presumed traffic would be resumed i'm
it is practically tied up.
AT Joliet, everything is at a stand
still because the yardmen have gone
out, and the city waIterworks have
shut down for lack of coal.
The federal troops quickly put an end
to the troubles at Ration, N NJ, ar
resting a large number of strikers.
Paralysis continues on Srthe Pacific
coast There are federal troops at Los
but none have been sent to
or Oakland, pending a de
not the state troops and United States
marshals can cope with the situation.
The night closes down with a very
uneasy feeling touching the develop
ments before morning.
Conflict of Authority.
Ninety men of the Fifteenth regi-
ment, under Major Hartz and Cap
tains Chin and Mitchell dispersed
3, 600 men who were blocking the pas
sage of a meat train near the main en-
trance to the stock yards this morning. (
A short distance from the scene of the !
trouble the order to move on double I
quick with fixed bayonets was given.
the crowd the soldiers went
without resistance and the strikers and /
their sympathizers fed without REFORM /
ing.
Deputy United States Marshals Pick
and McGann. at Grand Crossing, saw
a striker approach switch on the ILL
nois Central tracks today. As he
would not halt, they fired at him. One
shot took effect in his leg The city
policeman placed the deputy marshals
under arrest. A conflict of authority /
is likely to ensue, as Grand Crossing /
is within the city limits and the police