St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-06
IA DAY OF DISASTERS.
Chicago Mobs Wreck Cars
/ and Destroy Switches.
TROOPS ARE P0WERLESS.
Thousands Of Strikers VS.. a
Little Band Of Soldiers.
SEVERAL RIOTERS INJURED.
a Railroad Man and a Police
man Empty Their Guns.
Sa
iTHE STRIKE HAS BR0ADENED.
No Progress Made Toward
Moving Traffic.
PACIFIC COAST PARALYZED.
Thousands Of Strikers VS.. a
Little Band of Soldiers.
a Railroad Man and a Police
man Empty Their Guns.
THE STRIKE HAS Ba0ADENED.
No Progress Made Toward
Moving Traffic.
PACIFIC COAST PARALyzE0.


eCHIcAGo, July 5. The sun went
down on by far the most turbulent and
critical day thus far in the unparalleled
railroad strike and boycott. When it
opened there was general feeling that
ITS passage would go far toward clear
ing the atmosphere, if, indeed. it did
not practically lift the embargo on
commerce which has held this city in
Its grip for the past week. The ex-
pectation was chiefly based on the pres
ence OF federal troops in the most
dangerous districts. Looking at the
situation at the close of the day, how.-
eyer, it must be confessed that the hope
igdulged at the opening in this regard
has not been justified. The troops were
few in numbers at best. and when they
gere divided into squads, and dis
tributed at points separated by very
considerable distances. it soon became
evident that their prestige as over
awing bodies had been dissipated at the
same time.
1Hstead OF fleeing In fear before the
faces of the veterans, as was expected
they would do, the turbulent thousands
surged about the little band of soldiers;
jeered and hooted at them; cast vile
epithets at them. and literally played
hide and seek with them, stopping
trains at will, and generally rendering
the embargo in thee military district
more effective. If possible, than before.
The throngs of strikers did not resist
UNCLE SANS PoLICE.
Again and again when there were
thousands of them abouta train which
it was sought to move; and, 0athe track
III front of it, they gave way like water
before the leveled bayonets of single
company OF infantry. or the trampling
of a single squad of cavalry. Like
water, too. they closed in again at a
polnt just beyond. They turned
switches, derailed freight cars in front
of the Slow moving train and played all
sort of railsoaders s. tricks with which
the soldiers were unacquainted. Then
1t was that the troops at the stockyards,
in perseverance, and patience, spent the
entire day in vain endeavor 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 admir-
able coolneSs, Self-poise and disci.
pliae of the troops throughout an exas-
perating twelve hours. Not shot was
fired; not man was pricked by a
bayenet. which argues that, with force
enough, the soldiers would have done
the. work which was expected of them.
The quality was there; merely the
qutntity was lacking. Aside from the
Immediate neighborhood where the
troops were operating, there was plenty
OF excitement and disorder.
GREAT MoBs GATHERED
ON the Lake Shore, Rock Island, Alton
Western Indiana tracks and pro-
| ceeded to obstruct them by overturning
box cars. breaking switches and the
like. At one point they set fire to
switch tower and an interlocking switch
box though the flames were extin.
guished before serious damage was
done. In two instances there was
bIooashed. On the Western Indiana
tracks hard-pressed policeman fired
at his pursuers, woundiug striker
in the leg. On the Lake Shore
| road an Official Of that company in
| charge of a train which he was endeav-
oring to force through, emptied his
revolver point blank into the massed
Strikers about him, woundine two or
| three it Is believed. He was saved from
the fury of the mob by his fireman, who
| puton steam and ran back to the point
ofstarting. Shortly after noon mob
Numbering 1900 started north on the
Lake Shore tracks at Thirty-seyenth
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 succeed
ed in turning them back. During the
afternoon Mayor Hopkins and Chief of
Police Brennan went down the Lake
| Shore road with an official OF that road.
| Sntending to go
- TO THE sToCKYARDs.
: Their passage was obstructed, and
! they were compelled to finish the Jour-
| ney on foot. or the strike in general it
may be said that IL has broadened dur
ling the day. The Big Four, on which it
was understood traffic was to be resumed
4 tby agreement. Is practically tied up.
AT Joliet everything is at standstill,
because the yardmen have gone out and
the city water works have shut down
for lack of coal. Kansas City is again
tied up pretty completely. The federal
troops quickly put an end to the trouble
Cat Ration, N. N. arresting lot of strik-
kers and starting them for Denver;
Though they may be hung upon the way.
iiParalysis continues. ON the Pacific coast.
| There are federal troops at Los Angeles,
but none have been sent to Sacramento
or OAKLAND. pending decision of the
question whether or not the state troops
and United States marshals can cope
| with the situation.