The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-06
NOT ENOUGH OF THEM
Soldiers Are Effective as Far as
They Go.
Chicago Strikers Are Too Many
for Them.
PLAY MANY TRICKS.
Switches Are Turned and Cars
Thrown OFF.


down last night on by far the most
turbulent and critical day thus far II
the unparalleled strike and boycott.
When it opened there was a general
feeling that its passage would 20 far
toward clearing the atmosphere. if
indeed it did not practically lift the
embargo on commerce, which has
held the city in its grip for the past
vveek-that expectation chiefly rely
ing on Federal troops in the most
dangerous districts
But the situation at the close Of the
day, it must be admitted, did not
justify the hope INDUCED in in this
regard The troops were few in num-
bers at best, and when they were
divided into squads and distributed
at points separated by very consider
able distances, it soon became evi-
dent that their prestige as Overawing
bodies had been dissiPated at the
same time
Instead of fleeing in fear before the
faces of the veterans, as was expected
they would do, the turbulent thou
sands surged about the little band of
soldiers, jeered and hooted at them,
cast vile epithets at them and literal
w PLAYED hide and seek with them,
stopping trains at will, and generally
rendering the embargo in the mill
tary district more effective, if posi-
bic. than b efore.
The throngs of strikers did not re-
sist Uncle Sans police Again and
again when there were thousands of
them about a train which 1t was
sought to move and on the track in
front of it, they gave way like water
before the leveled bayOnets Of a single
company of infantry or the tramping
of single squad of cavalry. Like
water, too, they closed in again just
beyond. They turned switches, de-
rallied freight cars in front of the slow
moving trains, and played all sorts Of
railroaders' tricks, with which the
soldiers were unacquainted. Thus it
was that the troops at the stock
yards, 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.
Aside from the Immediate neigh Dor
hood where the troops were operating
disorder Great mobs gathered on
the Lake Shore, Alton, West shore
and Rock Island tracks and proceeded
to obstruct them by Overturn4ng box
cars breaking switches and the like.
At one time they set fire to a signal
tower and an interlocking box, though
the flames We're extinguished before
serious damage was done
In two instances there was blood
shed. On the Western Indiana ira cl1s
at his pursuers, wounding a striker IN
the leg. On the Lake Shore road an
official of that company, in charge of
a train which he was endeavoring to
force through, emptied his revolver
point blank into the massed strikers
about him wounding two or three. it
is believed. He was saved from the
fury Of the mob BY his engineer, who
put on steam and ran back to the
point Of starting
Shortly after noon a mob mum ber-
inc ,. 600 started north on the Lake
Shore tracks at Tbirty-seventh street,
Overturning cars and obstructing the
line in every possible way to Twenty
second street, where a heavy force of
police was massed and succeeded in
turning them back.
During the afternoon Mayor Hop
kins and Chief Of Police Brennan went
down to the Lake Shore road with
official of that road, intending to go
to the stock yards Their course was
INSTRUCTED and they were compelled
to finish the journey on foot
Mayor Hopkins said last night that
the outcome of a conference between
himself, Corporation Counsel Rubens
and the officials of the American Rail-
way union would probably result in
request being made in the name of
the people of Chicago to George NJ.
4 ul1man to come back to Chicago and
submit the differences between him
self and employees to arbitration The
request will not be sent to Mr.. Pull
man until another meeting between
the city officials and Debs-
To be in readiness for an emergen-
cy the general managers, superinten-
dents and minor officials Of the sew
eral railroads centering in Chicago
had cots and other conveniences for
sleeping placed in the station build
ings and spent the night at headquar-
tiers.
The Erie is turning all its west
bound trains at Hammond and send
deemed safe to run trains up into the
from Indianapolis with two deputies
is now at Huntington. Ind. where
trouble has been feared.
Fourteen strikers and svmpathizers.
arrested a Blue Island for obstruct-
ing mails and contempt Of in junction,
were arraigned before COmmissi Oner
Hoyne and held in 81 600 bail each.
Marshal Arnold said: There viii
undoubtedly be serious trouble at the
stock yards, as the troops cannot sub
nit to much more stone throwing and
defiance without shooting. When
they do. nothing can prevent the kill
ing and wounding Of hundreds and
should it occur. will 90 far toward
ending the strike abruptly"
In California the strikers have
everything their own way IN other
parts of the country the strike is
spreading, and the next twenty four
hours may bring the story Of blood
she'd
WILL ENFORCE THE Law