The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-07-12

city. This Is the first shooting in the
present strike. 1t occurred in q locality
where the men were already furious
and 1t Is believed will be tho signal for
desperate encounters very soon.
A Rock Island express from the
bearing the soldiers from Blue Island |
into the city this afternoon, but at
FOrtleth street tho train was e1fectually
blocked by the strikers, who had
thrown fiat cars across the track The
MOB induced the iiremen to get off the
cab. Chief Clerk Iiubbell of the
Superintendent Office of tho Rock
Island was severely stoned while at.
tempting to switch the Blue Island
special bearing the soldiers and the
mob burned Rock Island freight car
at FOrtieth street and would have de-
molished the tower at that point but
were prevented by the police and fire
department..
At o'clock tonight mob number.
ing 1000 men started North on the
Lake Shore tracks, marching toward
the heart Of the city. At twenty eighth
street, they overturned two freight
cars on the track; at Twentieth street
three, and at Twenty-Gfth street two.
They were met at Twenty-second
street by small detachment Of police
and before the officers could make any
arrests the mob had dispersed. The
trainmen repaired the damage within
two hours.
At $50 special Detective Gregory of
the Western Indian Railway shot two
men In the leg who had made an at.
tempt on his life. The shooting was
done In selfdefence. Two cars loaded
with meat we're burned near the Fort
Wayne crossing before the fire depart
ment were able to extingutsh the
flames. The Union Stock Yards
Switching Company has been blocked
by four freight cars which the strikers
have placed across the tracks. From
there they proceeded to the round
house with the intention Of pilinr
some box cars on the switch leading t.
the round house 80 that no engines
could get in or out of the round house.
Inspector Hunt with fifty policemen
met the mob, however, and drove
| them away.
The mob is very rabid and seem bent
on doing everything to destroy proper
ty. They pay no attention to attempts
to dissaude them, having become reck-
lessly daring. There are large crowds
blocking every street and alley in the
stock yards district.
EXCITING TIMES.
CHICAGO, July 5.-The sun went
down on by far the most turbulent ant
critical day thus far in the unpar-
alleled railroad strike and boycott
When 1t opened there was genera
feeling that its passage would go fe
, toward clearing the atmosphere. if in
, deed 1t did not practically lift tho ON
barge on commerce which has held th
city in It's grip for the past week. Tha
expectation was chiefly based on tn,
! nf INo1nrn1 In ho
dangerous district. Looking at the situa
ttOn at the close Of the day it must be
confessed that the hope indulged at the
opening In this regard has not been
| justified. The troops were few in num-
bers at BEST when they were divided
into squads and distributed at points
separated by very considerable dis
tances,it soon became evident 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, tho turbulent thousands
surged about the little bamd Of soldiers,
jeered and hooted them, and cast vile
threats at them and literally played
hide. nd.seek with them, stopping
trains at will and generally rendering
the embargo IN the military district
more effective, if possible. than before.
The throng Of strikers did not resist
| Uncle Sans police, again and again
when there were thousands of them
about n train while it sought to move
leveled bayonets of q single company
of infantry or the trampling Of a single
squad OF cavalry. Like water too they
closed In again at d point just beyond.
They turned switches, derailed freight
cars in front of the slow moving train
and played all sorts Of railroaders tricks
with which the soldiers were unac.
qualnted. Thus Is 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.
Another and plcasanter thing this ex-
perience showed and that was the ad.
mirable GOODNESS, self poise and q. .scip
line Of the troops throughout an exas-
per9ting twelve hours. Not a shot was
fired; not man was picked by q bay.
onet, which argues that with force
enough the soldiers would have done
the work which was expected Of thom
The quality was there, merely the quan
tlty was lacking.
Aside from the immediate neighbor-
hood where tho troops were operating
oACAo was pioHIy Ol o6ClISIll6llI ana uIS
order. Great nobs gathered on Lake
Shore, Rock Island, and tho Western
Indiana tracks and proceeded to OBJ
struct them by overturning box cars
breaking switches and the like. At one
point they set fire to aswitch tower
and interlocking the switch box
though the flames were extingulshed
before serious damage was done. In
two instances there was bloodshed. On
the Western Indinana track, q hard
pressed special policeman fired ut his
pursuers Wounding striker in the leg
On the Lake Shore Road an Official of
that company. in charge OF 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 be-
1eyed. lie 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
numbering 1000 started North on tho
Lake Shore tracks at Thirty-seventh
street, overturnlng cars and obstruct-