The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-07-09
4 BATTLE AT HAMMOND
One Person Killed and Several
Others Wounded.
FIRED UPON BY FEDERAL TROOPS.
Unole Sans Soldiers Called Upon TO Gross
the IndiAnR-ulinois state Lins--A Busy
Day In ChicAEo-Ths Prssldent's ProoIa-
mation--saturday's Riot Victims.

mRtion-Saturday's Riot Victims.
CHICAGO, July 9.-On Saturday a squad
of thirty-six militiamen, under command
of a lieutenant, sent out to guard a CON
struction train whose purpose was TO re-
move the wreokage piled on the tracks by
| the mob the night before, was savagely
| attacked by a mob numbering 10000 per-
| sons. After the lieutenant had been laid
| low by missile the mob pressed upon the
soldiers, unheeding the warning Of the
troops TO keep back.
The soldiers opened fire and several per
sons fell wounded. Undetcrred by the
rife Shots the rioters again charged upon
| the soldiers, who used their bayonets
| mortally wounding the leader of the mob
| Unable to Withstand the onset from over
| whelming numbers the soldiers were
! forced to retreat several Of them having
| been hurt
The victims of this engagement were;
| John Burke strike leader, killed by
| bayouet thrust through the abdomen.
| Wounded-Lieutenan Reed Company c,
| Second infantry, l. n. g., struck on the
head by stones condition critical; Thomas
! Jackman, shot in back, will die; John
| konderg, stabbed with bayonet, will die;|
| unknown man, shot through liver, will
| die; unknown boy, 17-yesr-old, shot
! through abdomen, will die; Tony Ga
| jeuski, shot in right arm; Henry Williams,
shot in left arm; John Kerr, shot in hipi
| unknown woman, shot in right hip.
! At another point the police in firing
| over the heads of a mob killed woman
on n house top and wounded other persons.
| The dead woman was Martha Bach, aged
20.
A serious fight occurred at o clock yes
terday afternoon at Hammond, Ind, be
tween a mob of 5000 men and Company B,
| of the United States infantry, in which
two of the mob are known to have been
| killed and several others, including one
woman, are said to have been fatally
! wounded. The mob became so violent
shortly after noon that a battalion of the
first Illinois militia was sent down from
| Pullman. 1t drove the rioters over the
state line, which runs just west of Ham.
mond. Word was sent to Chicago for q
| company of regulars who could operate
| irrespective of the state line.
Captain Hart, with Company B of the
| Fifteenth infantry, was dispatched to the
| scene. The regul ars were patrolliug the
| tracks in a passenger coach when they
! were attacked by the mob with stones
some shots being fired. The troops at
once returned the fire through the car
| windows, killing Charles Fleischer, who
| was shot through the bowels; fatally
| wouuding Victor Nanceter, and slightly
wouuding W. II. Campbell in the leg,
| Victor Rite in the leg, Mrs. Fleming in
the knee and an unknown man in the hand,
Three additional companies of regulars
were sent from Chicago on a special train,
arriving at 8 o'clock The mob had driven
out all the telegraph operators in town
T.
it very difficult to obtain informatio n
from the place, but it is certain that there
were no further disturbances.
| A Pan Handle wrecking train, bearing
twenty deputy marshals, was stoned by a
a mob at Twenty street last night,
and the deputy marshals arrested two
men. The mob still threw stones and
fired on the marshals, who returned the
fire killing one man and woundiug sew
eral others. Five cars and the oil house
were burned at Twenty-second street.
Comparative quiet prevailed as IA rule
within this city yesterday, although there
, We're, as might have been expected, a
number of sporadic instances where little
knots of malcoutents gathered, became
t boisterous, and were finally scattered by
, a charge from the police. A number OF
small mobs formed, went rioting firing
l and overturning cars, and some head!
I were cracked, and smaller brawls, mostly
the result of too much bad whisky, wer,
! frequently reported at police headquarters
p There was, however no concerted etfor
r. at incendiarism or violence, although at
number of places individual cars wert
+ fred, several of which were destroyed.
coal train on the Eastern Illinois wal
ditched at Root street by a switch being
misplaced after the engine and four car
had passed over.
l. The work of clearing the tracks in tht
= Grand Trunk yards at Forty y-ninth anC
Ashland streets, where debris from tn
e hundreds of burned cars Uttered tn
e tracks, was completed under police anC
military protection, the monotony how
q ever being enlivened by occasional DO
@ lice sallies when the gang Of idlers watch
n ing the work became too large and threat
ening. At p. m, when the finishing
a touches had been put on the work, nearl.
II all the onlookers had disappeared, and tn
troops, laborers and police were with
- drawn.
II No sooner had they got well out Of sight
however, than gang of 800 men suddenl,
appeared, and with crowbars, picks ant
=, shovels tore up about an eighth Of mil
u of track before word could be got to tn
e police department. They fed before an
10 other charge of the police, and the worl
of repair was again pushed forward.
J. RiOtous mobs, consisting of men
/ women and children, took possession o
the freight yards at Halsted, Morgan an,
Meagher streets in the afternoon, The,
e. burned cars and had everything their owl
+. way for nearly two hours. All Of the re
serve force Of police officers on the Yves
20 side had been detailed to the yards of tn
n Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and th
Wisconsin Central roads earlier in tn
day and nothing lay in the path of tn
II frenzied strikers aud their friends.
" Inspector Lewis detailed a squad o
Z thirty police officers to the scene of tn
disturbance. The fire department ha
l- been called out on three different occa
e sions, each time TO extinguish flames il
freight cars, Thirteen cars were burned