The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-06
tracks. sad 10 promptly arrest all persous

police 10 dismiss al officers who were Ia
me Lake Shore & Michigan Central yards
toaay and aid nos Interfere with the stri l.
ers who overturned cars ay the score
The immediate cause Of the issuance
81 my proclamation was the ovarturn!ag
81 cars on the Lake Shore 4 Michiraa
central railroad this afternoon. " said Mr..
Hopkins. That sort OF business gnust be
stopped. I desire that nv letter to Chief
Brennan IN reference To the duty OF the
/ police be published. so that all Officers viii
hereafter perform their duty or receive
their dismissal from the force. desire il
! distinctly understood"
At J o clock ,. n. a special consis ting OF
an engine and one passenger car was sent
oat on the Lake Shore from the station
/ on Van Buren, street. loaded with a detail
OF special officers of the road. Al Fortieth
street the mob grew 80 demonssrassve that
| the train was compelled TO halt. One of
the deputies drew his revolver. bat before
he could shoot a policeman dssarmed him.
| The crowd saw the movements and be-
came Wild with frenzy. They rushed
I upon the engine, swarming all around il,
| pelted II with stones and bricks, breaking
I windows and bowling like madmen. The
| police then drew their revolyers and fred
| into their midst. One or two men are
said 10 have been hat. but il is not yet
known how seriously they were hurt A
| dozen or SO shots were fired. In the mean
time the engineer had reversed his engine.
and the train was forced back out of reach
OF the mob, and returned to the city. This
Is the first shooting in the present strike.
mob coming north on the Lake Shore
tracks was stopped by squad of police
near the Twenty-second street crossing,
and dispersed. A mob busted itself ali
day IN oyerturning freight cars on the
Western Indiana, and etfectuaily pre-
vented the operation of the road. but at q
| O'Clock tonight 1t disappeared. leaving
nothing but idle spectators. Ninety men
| OF the Fifteenth regiment. under Mai.
Hartz and Capts. Chaplin and Mitchell,
dispersed 5000 men who biockaded the
| passage of meat train near the main en-
trance to the stock yards this morning. A
short distance from the scene of the
trouble, an order to move on the double
quick, with fixed bayonets, was gwen.
| Through the crowds the soldiers went
without resistance, and the strikers and
their Sypathizers fled. Many women were
in the crowd, and their voices joined those
of the men in deriding the troops and
peace officers. At Wallace street, f.. s.
| Wright, an officer of a packing company,
/ was Knocked senseless by a stone when
| trying 20 throw switch. His fall was the
/ signal for an order to the cavalry to
| charge. At the first move OF the horse
men the rioters turned back without fur
| ther trouble. The train proceeded TO
| pelose & Shepard's stock yard. Here the
| order to clear the tracks was given, and
| the horsemen rode into the crowd. The
rioters scattered without being harmed.
| At the Fort Wayne crossing closed gates
barred further progress. Beyond the
| crossing several freight cars were dumped
sidewlse on the track. Neither police nor
soldiers would touch the cars. At other
| points along the line blockades were made,
| and the afternoon was spent in attempts
TO straighten mp the roadway. About
/ 10000 people gathered around the stalled
1 train.
Fifteen freight cars were overturned on
| the Lake Shore road near Fifty-ninth and
Haistesd streets, just at the entrance to
| the Union stock yards at 1:S1 y. M. A
mob numbering thousands rushed by
common impulse at the cars and pitched
| them in the ditch. No troops were there.
A mob overturned fifty freight cars on
| the Fort Wayne road between Thirty
ninth and Root streets, point not covered
/ by troops.
Deputy United States MarshaIs Peck
| and McCann, at Grand crossing, saw a
striker approach switch on the Illinois
| Central tracks. As he would not halt
| they fred at him, and one shot took effect
| in his leg. A city policeman placed the
| deputy marshal under arrest A conflict
| of authority is likely to ensue. as Grand
/ crossing is within the city limits and the
| policemen have been instructed that their
authority Is paramount
Orders have been issued TO the troops
| at the stock yards to fire on any one who
| attempts TO uncouple cars on made-up
trains. United States soldiers are hooted
| at and police officers do not seem to have
| control Railroad communication with
the city is cut of
Grand Master Workman Sovereign, OF
| the Knights Of Labor, is en- route from
| Omaha To confer with President Debs.
| Debs, in an interview this afternoon. de-
clared that If it became necessary the
| chiefs Of the various labor organizations
in the city would call out every trade in
| Chicago. The special police at Nelson.
Morris Il Co. packing house struck today
| and gave up their stars. The city police
were called upon to take their places.
Six companies OF infantry from Fort
| Leavenworth. Kan, and two companies
| from Fort Brady, Mich, have been ordered
/ TO Chicago. The troops at Blue Island
/ have been sent 10 the stock yards.
| The conductors and brakemen on the
| Northwestern decided this afternoon 20
continue the strike. Sixty-five freight
handlers on the Illinois Central struck TO-
/ day.
The Calumet Terminal railway employees
| have struck. and as a result the steel mills
| in south Chicago will probably close In
| the morning.
Every policeman on the South Side was
/ called into service this afternoon, when
| word was received that there WAS a block
sde on the Rock Island road At Twenty
4 fifth street. A dozen cars had been thrown
of the track, aud behind the distractions
/ we.e three passenger trains trying to
4 get into the city. Thousands Of peo-
/ pie surrounded the trains, and the
aspect became threatening. 50 much
so that the railroad officers sent IN a cali
/ for policemen O. disperse tho mob. When
| the mob first attacked the train az Twenty-
| fifth street there we're few policemen there.
and they could not do anything with the
| mob. AT Twenty second street there was
another gang which attempted to throw
freight car of the track. While trying 70
| dist,erse the mob and prevent tue strikers
from carrying out their purpose. an otfIesr
/ vas struck on the head BY stone Dy one
! Of the crowd and seriously injured. Rein
I foroements arrived and the mob WAS dis