Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-07-07
SIX SHOT DOWN.
Blood Begins to Flow In the
Chicago Strike.
WORK OF THE TORCH BEGUN.
Hundreds of Cars Wrecked and Whole
Trains Burned to Ashes.
FEW SOLDIERS FOR PROTECTION.

Six Hundred Regulars Are Camped on the
Lake Front, but They Are Not Able to
Cope with the Thousands of Infatuated
Strikers - Fire and Police Telegraph
Wires Cut to Prevent tho Authorities
From Interfering In the Wholesale De-
Observation-Disclosures Kill Six strikers and
Wound Many Moreno Trains Sent Out,
but a Few Arrived From Out of Town.
CHICAGO, July six dead and an in
definite number njured is the record of
casualties in the strike conflicts in Chica-
go. One man was shot in the leg. IL
later blood letting shall show like in
crease, the coroner will have summers
work before him. Tho latest develop
ments have but confirmed the conviction
that nothing short of an overwhelming
| armed force, with instructions to shoot to
kill, can settle the trouble, or, as Colonel
Crofton put it. 1t has ceased to be n
mere movement of troops and has become
| a campaign
The local and state authorities have
| awakened to the critical and grave nature
of the strike malady which is affecting
the nation greatly, but Chicago in partic-
ular, and are taking measures to apply
| adequate remedies. The city police force
has already been recruited to over 5000
men, and by request of Mayor Hopkins
and by order of Governor Altgeld two
! brigadcs of state militia have been ordered
here to aid in quclling the disturbances.
The day has been one of constant alarms
and calling for police and soldiers through
out that wide stretch of territory in the
southern part of the city. Riot has been
running rampant. Cars have been over
turned, switches broken and tracks OBJ
structcd in numerous ways. The torch
| has been applied in numerous instances
| to cars, switch towers and the like not to
| mention an attempt to fire n part of the
| great Armour packing places. In fact, Mt
| one time the incendiary blazcs followed
each other in such quick succession that
| the fire department put to straits
| to care for all of them. To add to the
| gravity of the situation it was found that
the strikers were interfering with the po-
lice, railroad and fire alarm telegraph sys.
tenn, and in one or two instances police
men who were using the police telephone
calls were stoned.
In general the order of things compared
with that of yesterday was reversed Then
the railroads We're trying to break the
blockade by sending trains out. They
recognized the futility Of that method of
procedure and practically gave up any
attempt ut outward movement.
But there were some incoming passcn-
ger trains ON several of the roads, together
with n few of the regular milk trains. Be
tween these two classes of traffic the Strik
ers managed to make trouble for nearly
every road running in southcrly dircc
ton. The Fort Wayne, the Lake Shore,
the Michigan Central. the Baltimore ~ :;
Ohio the Illinois Central, the Alton, the
Panhandle, the Western Indiana, tho
Rock Island and the M0non all cxpcricnc-
cd difficulty in greater or les degree at
some time or all OF the time during the
day.
The trick of soaring the crew from a
train on the Lake Shore, cutting the en-
CINE loose, running il up the track, open
ing the throttle and letting it run full tilt
back upon the standing train was n new
one and of a character likely to be imi-
tatcd.
The stoning of incoming trains was a
common pastine with the mobs, and sew
eral persons We're more or less injured by
flying missiles. One engineer ON IA Rock
Island train badly injured that il
was at first reported that he was dead.
The assaults of the mobS, however, were
not met with the passive resistance which
characterized the course pursued hereto
fore. On two occasions at least their at
tackS were met with accurately aimed
lead During riot in the forenoon over
an incoming milk train ut kensington 4
deputy | nitCd states marshal shot ant
killed two strikers and during the after
noon the deputies guarding an incoming
Baltimore and Ohio passenger train ~
! piled TO the VolCy of shots and stone.
which the strikers showcrcd upon then
by turning their reviewers loose, KILN;
, four of their ASSISTANTS and w0unding
number of others
\ new and grave feature was added t,
\ the situation yesterday when meet
\ ing of representatives of all of the bodic
> of organized labor in the city, after a pro
tracted discussion, in which general sym
pathy strike was favored, appointed
committee OF three, with full power to act
and at the same time called a meeting O
all organized labor for next sunday to rat
ify their action.
OF the strike in general it may he sal
to have broadcncd and strengthened il
its grip. The most significant feature G
it is the carrying of the strike cast {
Cleveland, tying up oil the connections {
< the seaboard trunk lines there with til
promise that it will reach the trunk line
themselves and so practically reach tn
Atlantic scaboard by tying up the railroad
at Buffalo. Thus the strike would be CT
tended from ocean to ocean.
Four Strikers Shot.
A passenger train ON the Baltimore an
Ohio which had been held in South Oh
NJ cago all night, was started for the cit