The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-09
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 the Pullman cars. and wht S..lis ur- Quaiutances say, took no part In any lawless aot. was shot dead on the tracks.
 over winch his life blood poured in a stream.
 Campbell and Setter also fell when shot and were unable to move. Miss Fleming. who was not even spectator of the melee, being simply In the not of crossing the tracks after a visit to a neighbours house, fainted when shot, was picked up by by-standers ard cur
 ried to the nearest house.
 The shedding of blood was in obe- diencc to orders issued by General Miles to shoot any person caught in the act of blocking the highway of interstate commerce or of destroying railroad property used in the carriage of mails.
 Flsischer had gone to the tracks simply to find and take home his son. who. he had been told. was looking on In the outskirts of the mob. He had crossings patrolled. Overawed by the better view and spy his child. when he was struck by bullet. Friends carried the body to his house. His wife was standing on the threshold awaiting his return with the child. and fell fainting when she saw the men approaching with the body of her husband.
 The indiscriminate firing of the reg ulars created intense rage and excite ment. Hundreds of the mob rushed to their homes and returned to the scene with revolvers and shot-guns or filling the air with oaths and imprecations, declaring their intention of killing every man wearing an army uniform. In the meantime dead line had been thrown out. Beyond it Mayor Reilly mounted box car and pleaded with the crowd to be calm and to commit no fur ther violence. The crowd WAS unwilling to respond to the advice, but at this moment the regulars were reinforced by three companies that came in from Chicago on special train on the Michi- gan Central. These were Company F, Fifteenth Infantry, Captain McDowell, Company A, Fifth Infantry, Captan Kendall, and Company E, Fifth Infan- try, Captain Brown.
 The latter as brevet major was the senior in command of the battalion. On the arrival of these endorsements details were sent out and tracks and crossings patroiied. Overawed by the display of military force the mob gradually thinned out and at midnight the streets of the town had resumed their normal aspect.
 There was almost riot among the citizens when Campbell, one of the wounded, was taken up the street to surgeons. Two thousand persons blockaded the streets, filling the air with cries for vegeance. A cry was raised of down with the militia" and the mob had commenced to turn back towards the tracks when Mayor Reilly put in another appeal for peace and or der.
 Late this evening Company D was or dered down the Monon tracks to get out two Pullman cars for connection with the train expected from the south. As the soldiers approached the water tank E. c. Weeks was in the act of turning the water out of the standpipe which is used to fill the engines. Fire was open ed, and Weeks. intending to fool the reg ulars, dropped into the high grass at the side of the tracks as though he had been shot. The first rank of the com pany closed about him and finding him unhurt placed him under arrest.
 President Shields of the local Ameri- | can Railway union sent g. telegram to Governor Matthews to-day saying the | troops were shooting down people pro- miscuously without provocation and asking the governor if something could l not be done to help.
 The governor replied: Have sent state troops to restore order and to protect lives of law-abiding citizens. | Rioting and lawlessness must be SUD- | pressed. Citizens who obey the laws | have nothing to fear from the federal or | state authorities"
 Company B returned to Chicago after the shooting on it's own train, over tho Chicago and Eastern Illinois road.
 If it had not done SO an attempt | would have been made to serve war rants for murder upon it's members. Such warrants were sworn out before justice, but the soldiers got away before the police could execute the warrants.
 All the electric street car employees agreed tonight unanimously to join the strikers when called.
 A mass meeting was held tonight to protest against the shooting. Mayor Reilly and several preachers made speeches which pacitied the crowd, all declaring that the shooting was unjust iaable and an outrage. Their counsel to keep the peace was followed by all.
 Immediately after the shooting the mayor issued a proclamation closing all saloons until the trouble was over.
 VIII Declare General Strike.
 Chicago, July 8, 1:30 a. Reports from general conference of trades delegates at Uhlnich's hall at this hour indicate that general strike will be declared here. Upon the circulation of the presidents proclamation this morning a call was circulated for another meet ing of District No. 16 of the Inter- national Typographical union at o'clock this (Monday) afternoon.
 Suicide of an Unknown,
 Washington, July s.-An unknown man jumped from the long bridge into the Potomac river yesterday afternoon and was drowned. The body was re- covered last night. When it was re- moved to the morgue and examined it was found to be that of finely built, man of 160 pounds. No money was found in the pockets The shirt was white with the initials HI. J. , F." worked on the top and initial opp on handkerchief in pocket. The coat bore the name of Brooks, Boston, and fha af noa&a.. =, x