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BY the officers. II was expected. would
meet with violent opposition.
s-sscp, Toxx~rs Set IN Fire.

meet with violent opposition.
switch Towers Set on Fire.
Leaving the meat traln Mt the cross
i ing. the mob started down the ira cks
intent upon mischief. The rioters fred
q switch-tower and interlockins boxes
NEAR Forty-sixth street and Stewart
avenue. They drove the operating
gang from the tower, and when the
structure was deserted 1t was SGT on
. fire. A swltch-box controlling the IN
\ terlociing system was fired, but in both
cases the flames were cxtingushed
without causing the destruction OF the
property.
\ a dummy train on the Fort Wayne
from East Chicago stopped near the
crossing at which the meat train was
Z standing and was the object OF an at
tack by one section of the mob.
Yards Full of strikers.
AT noon the yards at Fifty-fourth
!; G and G. of the Fifth Infantry. arrived
from Blue Island to reinforce troops al
ready present. The troops got Off the
cars at Fifty-thrd street. Company G
deployed and the men marched through
the yards with fixed bayonnts. The mob
disappeared before them. Large crowds
were on the tops of freight cars, but no
stones were thrown.
A train on the Lake Shore was stopped
At 40 this morning. Tho engineer and
fireman refused to leave the engine and
were forcibly pulled off by the strikers
The engine was then cut from the train,
which was moved back into the yards
BY the strikers
niue Islands Morning Quiet.
There was hardly enough ciamor or
appearance OF disposition to riot In Blue
Island this morning to disturb sick
room. The wholesale arrests. with the
continued presence of the Federal
troops. seemed to exercise n hypnotic
influence on the strikers and the town
appeared to be rapidly falling back into
its original calmneas.
+ Gen. Miles. at United States Military
Headquarters here, said this noon that
no considered the strike situation more
favorable than was anticipated. He was
hoping that serious trouble or bloodshed
might be avoided. Soldiers from Fort
Leavenworth and Fort Brady would ar
rive during the afternoon, he said. and
would be posted to good advantage.
4 Gen Miles said at noon that with the
troops now OH the way the force In
Chicago will number 1000 men. If that
is not enough to maintain order" said
the General, 1.-THE Government will fur.
nish more
Special Federal Grand Jury.
n The order for a special Federal Grand
r. ta,.a .tft. go Tr,it.
States statutes by the strike leaders was
entered on the records to-day in accord
ance with the decision OF Judge Cross
cup,
At Dearborn station. the terminus of
the Erie, Wabash. Santa Fe. Monon,
Grand Trunk and Eastern Illinois, an
EFFORT was being made to-day to get
through passenger trains on all these
roads. Most OF the trains were getting
out OF the station on time. 1t was said
that no attempt to renew the suburban
service on any OF the Dearborn station
lines would be made to-day.
Freight Car. Overturned.
Fifteen freight cars were overturned
on the Lake Shore road, near Thirty
ninth and Halsted streets, just at the
entrance to the Union Stock Yards, ut
100 p. M. A number of cars belonging
to the Stock-Yards Switching Associa-
ton were overturned II few moments
before.
No troops We're at the scene Of the
trouble just then.
Ten thousand strikers congregated at
Fortieth street and Wentworth avenue
and tried to wreck the tower-house on
the Lake Shore and Rock Island roads
Police Lieut.. Fitzpatrick was de-
spatched to the scene with a large force
of police.
Special Policemen strike.
All of the special policemen at the
Nelson Morris & Co.'S packinG-house at
the Stock Yards. fourteen in number,
struck to-day and gave up their stars
The city police were called upon to take
their places.
WILL WESERN X. OF /. QUIT?