Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-07-07

ne tonhanNic yards from fifty-hfth
street 90 Sixty taird street, eight blocks,
ore Wa7s OF Ere Ton tracks containing
from 1000 to 1000 cars, half Of them
loaded, viii ho a total loss No water be-
/ snS 90 hand the fine must burn itself out.
~ fanhand.e station nc sixty third
/ street was also fired and destroyed.
Tho Grand Trunk yards at Elston are
sea of llama Five hundred box cars are
supposed to have been burned. and efforts
TO check tho flames have been futile.
/ While directing tho movement of the Flev-
enth battalion at this point Fire Marshal
Fitzpatrick was seized by the mob of fire.
bugs and thrown into pond from which
he was rescued by tho police more dead
than alive. Everything at this point win
probably De a total loss.
All the cars In the yards were destroy
ed. Tho mob showed much method In
its incendiarisn, and hundreds of cars
were riilod and their contents carried
away before he torch was applied. The
less IN this yard iscstimated 40 81, zoo, 600.
AT Hyde Park. near the fair grounds.
the ashes of so cars arc now smoldoring,
and word has just come I'm that after nu-
mcrous Efforts the mob has succeeded in
| firing the Illinois Central shop at Burn
side
Troops are hurrying south, company
after company, in heavy marching order,
moving TO the turbulent district from the
center of the city.
The aggregate of the losses TO the rail
| roads Will be enormous. Thousands OF
cars and untold quantities of merchandise
of every Imaginable description have fed
the flames and gorged the larders Of the
thieves valuable locomotives have been
wrecked and disabled, miles of tangled
wires and private poles literally strew the
ground
Telephone, telegraph, electric light and
fire alarm wires are now the especial OBJ
ject of attack.
Sovereign Declares Himself.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign of
the knights of Labor arrived in Chicago
from Dos Moines He said
This is the most critical period in the
history of unionism in America This
Will practically be a battle for self protec-
ton and for future life of every working
mans body I'm tho country. Not one can
over estimate the importance Of winning
this conflict. Defeat will mean not tenn
porary setback alone, but permanent
and everlasting disadvantage TO organized
labor and honesty among the working
! I
here. That is why / will do whatever the
American Railway union thinks best as
regards the ordering of strike
AS regards a walkout on tho part Of
the members of all trades unions in the
city, / will say that think it might bring
about great good.
To Strike Everywhere.
President Debs sent out a large number
TtF ..f. Ill.
tions and assemblies Of the American
Railway union urging them TO stand firm
for at least "a hours longer. II by that
time the strike situation has not improved
for the better MIR Debs announced, or
gained labor all over the country will be
called out without any reservation what
ever.
stoned TO Death.
5. r. Ritchie, a special policeman en-
ploycd by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
| Chicago road. was stoned to death 10y a
mob at the Fifty-seyenth street crossing
Of that road Richie, who was also q dep
uty sheriff, caught some boys overturning
a switch shanty and compelled them to
set it upright again While he was talk
ing to the boys q mob approached and at
/ tempted to burn the shanty.
Ritchie drew his reyolvcran threatened
to kill the first man who approached tho
shanty. The mob kept surging around
him, but he held Off until his revolver was
| accidentally discharged. the bullet strik-
ing him in the foot He was easy prey for
the mob then, and they quickly had him
down. They stood around his body and
literally stoned him to death. His head
was pounded almost TO pieces The mob
finally went away, leaving him for dead,
but he was still alive when the police ar
rived. lie was taken TO tho hospital, but
died in a short time. No arrests were
made.
Industries Paralyzed.
After today smokoloss chimnots will
give Chicago's smoke inspectors nothing
to lool. for An exhaustive canvass of the
industrial concerns of the city reveals an
appalling state Of affairs and warrants the
statement that today 10 per cent of them
will stop their machinery and keep 10 so
until tho present embargo on traffic is
raised. The effect will be to throw into
idloness upward of 100, 600 workers.
Tho Deering Harvest company works
will stop, throwing 3, 600 people out The
Illinois Malleablo Iron companys fur
naoes were allowed to die out for lack of
fuel and pig iron, shutting out BOO The
~ luludcca OF the LIMOS steel company
plant are banked for need Of coke and all
the companies at south Chicago, Joliet
and Milwaukee are closed, throwing into
idleness 1900 at South Chicago !, 300 mt
Joliet 1000 at Milwaukee and POO at
North Chicago, a total of 3, 100.
The Union Foundry company and the
Kimball Bridge company allied concerns,
cannot get iron, and those plants are idle.
adding $50 more TO the army Of unom-
ployed men.
Killed Her Husbands Assailant.
Herbert Letters, striking Chicago Bur
lington and Quincy employee, was shot
and instantly killed by Mrs William j.
Lohmann Lehman took the place of a
Chicago Burlington and Quincy fireman
who went on strike Accompanied by
his wife he started TO 60 to work. Let
ters engaged the people in conversation,
his object being TO persuade Lehmann to
join the strikers
A fight onsuod, and Lehman threw
Letters down. During the progress of the
fight Mrs. Lehman stood looking on, but
when she saw her husband struggling on
the ground with his assailant she lost her
self control, and drawing his revolver from
his hip pocket she fired "a shot at the men.
The bullet struck Letters in the heart He