The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-07
A BLOODY DAY IN CHICAGO.


man vas shot IN the leg. II
the blood letting tomorrow shall show n
Ike increase the coroner viii have a sum
mer's work before him. The developments
OF yesterday went far 10 convince all
thinking people thas the gravity of the
situation had not been appreciated by the
authorities or the people at large. Persons
VINO were here during the railroad riot Of
ls77 and who saw the atmosphere clear
perceptibly when no more than eighty
bronzed and husky regulars from the
plains marched down Madison street and
went into camp on the lake front, wagged
their heads when three times that many
were ordered from Fort Sheridan. But
after twelve hours OF as patient and per-
sistent GOODNESS and bravery under trying
circumstances as was ever seen, those
same citizens and officers in command
were forced to admit that things were not
as they were in ls77. and that il was still
long way to peace and the resumption OF
traffic on any Of the roads running out of
Chicago.
The developments of the night and
those of the day have led 10 the firm con-
viction that nothing short OF an over
whelming armed force, with instructions
10 shoot to kill, can settle the trouble. As
Col. Crofton put il. 1T has ceased to be
mere movement of troops, aud has become
a campaign" The local and state anthori-
ties have awakened TO the critical gravity
of the situation which Is affecting the
nation generally and Chicago particularly,
and are taking measures 20 arply adequate
measures. The police force has already
been recruited up to over 5000 men. and
at tho request of Mayor Hopkins and by
order of Gov. Altgeld two brlgades of state
militia have been ordered here to help in
quelling the disturbance.
At the national capitol also the fact Is
recognized that the prevailing conditions
are entirely out of the ordinary. and that
provision must be made for such a num-
Der of fighting men as never has been seen
in the history of this nation in times of
peace, If the dignity of the United States
and the processes of its courts are not TO
be laughed TO scorn for an indefinite time.
The strike infection is so widespread and
SO menacing at many points that the
president and his advisers believe il would
be unwise to withdraw any more regular
troops from the country west of Chicago.
IL is therefore in contemplation should
the forces Federal and municipal. al
ready here be unequal TO the task OF keep
ing order TO send here the companies
stationed on the Canadian border in the
state OF New York. with the intention. II
circumstances demand. of exercising his
right TO call for 200 men from the crack
militia regiments of New York and Penn
sylvania.
The day has been one of constant alarm
for the deputy marshais and police here
and every " here through a wide stretch OF
territory in the southern part of the city.
Riot has been running rampant through
out the day; cars have been overturned.
switches broken and tracks obstrneted in
numerous ways, and the torch has been
applied in numerous instances to cars,
switch towers and the like, not to mention
an attempt to fire a part of the Armour
packing plant. To add to the gravity of
the situation, IL was found that the strik-
ers were interfering with the fire alarm
and telegraphic signals, and in one or two
instances police who were using the police
telephone calls were stoned.
In general the order Of things compared
with that Of yesterday was reversed. The
railroads were yesterday trying to raise
the blockade by sending troops out. To-
day they gave up any attempt At outward
movement. There were some incoming
passenger trains on several roads, together
with few regular milk trains, but outside
of this class Of traffic the strikers man
aged to make trouble for nearly every road
running In a southerly direction. Tbs
Fort Wayne. Lake Shore. Michigan Gen.
trail. baltimore & Ohio. Alton. Illinois
Central, Panhandle. Western Indiana.
Rock Island and Monon all
experienced difficulty in greater
or less degree at some time during the
day. The trick Of soaring crew from
train, running the engine mp the track.
opening up the throttle and letting 1t run
back full tilt on The standing track WAS a
new one, aud Of a character likely TO be
Initiated. The incoming trains were
stoned for pastime. One engineer on a
Rock Island train was so badly injured
that il was al first thought he was dead.
The assaults from the mobs, however. were
not met with the passive resistance which
characterized the course pursued yester-
day. ON two occasions at least these
attacks we're met with accurately aimed
lead.
During . riot over an incoming stock
train at kensington deputy United
states marshal shot and killed two
strikers. and during the affair the deputies
guarding an incoming. passenger train re-
piled TO q voliey of shots aud stones which
the strikers showered upon them by turn
ing their revolvers loose, killing four q
their assailants and woundlng number
? Of others.
A new and grave feature was added 20
the situation this afternoon, when . meet
ing Of representaiives Of ali bodies Of orr
eanixed labor in the city held q protraeted
discussion In which general sympathy
with the strike vas favored. A com mittss
Of four with full power TO act xas
APPOINTED, and called . meeting Of or
Kanizsd labor for next Sunday 10 ratify
their action. Late this afternoon the sec
ond regiment Of state militia xas ordered
to the stock yards.
Ol the situation ia general, IL may -
said TO have broadened and strengthened
its gria The most significant feature of
il IS the carrying Of the strike east to
Clereland. tying ap all tl.e connections Of
The seAboani trnnk lines. with the promise
that By tomorrow IL will reaeh the trunk
lines themselves. aad 50 practically reach
the Atlantic ssabosrd. By tying up the
railroads At Buffalo. Thus the strike
would be extended from San Francisco 10
I SeE York. There ~ no notable relief 80
the points heretofore placed under en-
/ barge. and the situation at Kansas City
x4s com uIicatS1 BY tha tying Qp Of "a