The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-07-09
PAYING DEBs' DEBTS.
His Followers Coin the Best Blood of
Their Veins to Discharge
the Debt.


rule within the city today, though
there were, as might have been ex'
pected, a number of sporadic in
stances where strikers and officers
came together.
A number of small mobs formed,
went rioting, firing and overturning
cars, heads were cracked and small
fry brawls, mostly the result of toe
much bad whiskey, were frequently
reported at police headquarters,
There was, however, no concerted
effort at incendiarism or violence,
though at number of places in
dividual cars were fired, several OF
which were destroyed.
A coal train on the Eastern Hi
nois was ditched at Root street by a
switch being misplaced after the
engine and four cars had passed
over, The work of closing the tracks
in the Grand Trunk yards at Forty
ninth and Ashland avenue, where
debris from the hundreds of burned
cars Uttered the tracks, was COM
pleted today under police and mill
tary protection. At 4 p, m. when
the finishing touches had been put
on the work nearly all the on-lookers
had disappeared and the troops,
laborers and police were withdrawn.
No sooner had they got well out of
sight than a gang of 800 men sud
denly appeared, and with crowbars,
picks and shovels tore up about an
eighth of a mile of track before word
could be got to the police de-
partment. They fed before charge
of the police and the work of repair
is again being pushed forward.
At Hammond, adjoining the city
on the southeast, was the theatre
of the days greatest excitement
Here the rioting of last night was
resumed, and finally became so
serious that a company of United
States troops went out there. They
preserved peace for several hours,
but the mob increased in size, and
finally became demonstrative so that
it necessitated firing on them by the
troops with fatal results.
Everything at Pullman was quiet
today, Riotous mobs consisting of
men, women and children took pos
session of the freight yards at Hal
stead, Morgan and Meagher streets
this afternoon. They burned cars
and had everything their own way
for about two hours. All of the re-
serve of police officers on the West
side had been detailed to the yards
of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, and the Wisconsin Central
roads earlier in the day and nothing
lay in the path of the frenzied strik
ers and their friends.
From time to time during the day
the Chicago fire departments were
called out by constantly recurring
alarms, from various portions of
the city, where and whenever rail
way property was found to be en-
dangered by the flames the firemen
we're only enabled to interfere un-
der police protection, otherwise
they were warned away by the
strikers, and forced to desist from
their efforts to combat the flames
and protect the endangered city
from the merciless ravages Of the
''fre fiend,
The tragedy of the day occurred
at Hammond, Ind, where acompa-
ny of regular troops was called out
to suppress a riot. The company
under command of Major Hartz,
arrived just as the rioting strikers
were in the act of firing Pullman
sleeper, on the tracks in front OF
the depot. The mob was ordered
to dispense, instead they attacked
the troops with stones, clubs, etc.
Finding all other measures useless
the commanding officer gave the
order to fire. When the smoke
cleared away two of the strikers
were found dead on the ground,
and a number wounded. For a
time following the deadly discharge
pandemonium reigned, and a bloody
battle seemed imminent, but the n
rival of fresh troops, followed by
the arrest of several of the ring
leaders Of the mob, put an end t
hostilities of the day Elsewhere
the situation remains unchanged
with torch and gun ready for in
slant action.
A Second Skirmish.