The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-09
TRE DAY IN CHICAGO.
no Rows OF Amy Consequence, but
Numerous Fire Alarms.


Numerous Fire Alarms.
Chicago, H., July S.-Comparative quiet
prevailed as rule within the city today,
although there were, as might have been
expected, number CT sporadic Instances
where little knots Of Inafcontents gathered,
became b1isterous and We're finally SCATTER
ed by charge from the police.
A number of small nlobs formed wen
rioting. firing and overtUrning cars. heads
were cracked and smaller bra1Vls mostly
the result OF too much bad whisky, were
frequently reported 4 police headquarters.
There We're. however, no concerted efforts
at violence although at 4 number of places
individual cars We're tired, several Of which
we're destroyed.
Il believe the worst has been pa ssed and
there viii be no serious trouble" sail
Mayor Hopkins tonight. 1.-The shooting int,
the mob by the state troops Saturday after.
noon has shown the lawless element what
1t may expect if Re persists in it's outbreaks
against law and order. The thugs and
criminals who have been nasQuerading as
strikers, evidently believing the soldiers
would not fire on them, now know better
ana they Will if | am not greatly mistaken,
be more careful in the future"
A Riot Hammond.
Chicago, July 8,-The storm center TO-DAY
was at hammond, an eastern suburb of
t. city, clty. Here mob of nearly $500 were
N@' I.
They had :acl<ed the Western Union Tel
egraph ollce, overturned freight cars and
cumniitted al sorts of depreGa tons
The outbound Sunday passenger for chi.
cage, on the Monon railway, was brought
to a halt by the mob. The engineer and
locomotive was quickly killed" by opening
a. ', se aaI all4W!ng the water to run out
LOB we're not local strikers known to
the hammond people. Under their leader
ship. however the. town was terrorized
t'"Ou2nDut the night and rail tf,af6
VS. paralyzed.
Two Men KiIIed-severaI Wounded.
Two men were killed and eight or nins
men were wounded in a collision between
Company g. of the Fifteenth infantry.
United States army, which was sent 10
Hammond from Chicago.
The mob became so violent shortly after
noon that battalion of the Illinois militia
as sent down from Pullman. 1t drove
the rioters over the state line which runs
just west OF Hammond, but was not able
to do anything. Word was sent to Chicago
for company of regulars who could
operate irrespective OF the state. Captain
Hart with Company 3. OF the Fifteenth
infantry, was dispatched to the scene
The regulars were patroling the tracks
in a passenger coach when they were at,
>ached by the mob with stones, some shot,
being fired.
About three hundrd shots were fired i,
the first volley ana Charles Freischmar
There were hundreds who fell either from
fright or wounds.
Another volley was fired and a man
n& med Campbell was killed A big. brawnv
fellow then shouted to the MOB:
Get your guns. boys. and Stay tn.
hounds -
The mob needed no second urging and
Went home to get guns. They returned al
. O'Clock and Captain Hart had his men in
passenger coach, firing frorn the win.
dCWs.
Tie United States marshal and most Of
ms deputies refused to stand the fire with
the soldiers and left the scene.
Three additional companies of regulars
We're sent from Chicago on q special train
arriving At o'clock.
Inc MOB had driven out all the telegraph
opera tors and had cut the telephone Wtres.
making It very difficult 10 obtain infor.
nation from the place. but it is certais
mat UP to clock tonight there were I'd
further disturbances.
R0ided the Telegraph Office.
An unprecedented proceeding in strike
TACTICS was the attack on the telegraph
office. Eae mob became possessed with the
idea that kilograms We're about to be sent
Governor Matthews. at Irdianapolis asking
for troops,a and the strike leaders determined
to forestall such action If possible Entrance
to the telegraph office was effected with
scant courtesy, and III the expressive Ian.
Suage OF an eyewitness, the place Wa&
cleaned out completely
Deb. Gale On Buffalo Men.
Buffalo, r. y. July S-The following dis
patch from President Debs, to MS repre-
sentative here has just been received:
We ask your cooperation in Buffalo. We
are making d great fight for labor and de-
serve the support of ali railway enlployes. 8
Capital has combined 10 enslaye labor we b
must ali stand together go down ~ 8s