Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-07-09
CRISIS IN CHICAGO.
Continued Eioting Brings Troops Pouring
Into the city.


Into the city.
CHICAGO July 9.-'1his city IS today
practically under martial law Tho strik-
ors have been warned To censc ioting at
noon today, troops arc being hurried into
the city by thousands and thousands more
are In readiness to follow As tho hour
OF noon approaches cyory ono feols that
the crisis of the great railroad strike Is at
hand.
All night long the lawlossnoss hero con
tinued. Early this morning it was re-
ported that % big shooting ARRAY was ina
progress nt Forty ninth street and the
Grand Trunk S tracks, south and west of
the stockyards. There was great excite
ment. The cause is not yet known.
The General Managers association is-
sued the following bulletin. "A panhan-
die wrooking train bearing 20 deputy mar
shals was stoned by mob at Twenty Soc
ond street Inst night and the deputy mar
shnls arrested two mon. Tho mob still
threw stones and fired ON tho murshals,
who returned the fire, killing one man
and woundng several othors Five cars
and the oilhouso were burned 40 Twenty
second street.
Two moro freight cars wcro fired and
destroyed 400 llnlstoad street on tho Grand
Trunk, and 20 number OF other small in
ocndiary fires Were set About midnight
It was discovered by the police that no
torious anarchist was drilling a hundred
Of his fellows In hall at Ashland and
Forty ninth streets, "a hothrd of foreigners,
but they became alarmed and scattered
before raid was made.
At o'clock this morning the mass
meeting of trades unions was stil ballot
ing on the question of going on a general
strike Tho feeling was very strong in
favor of a strike unless the Pullman COM
pany viii agree 20 arbitrate
John Mcbride, president of the Miners
National union, Is in the city comforting
with the leaders OF the strike.
Rioting In Indiana.
At a late hour last night the regular
nightly procession OF wagonlonds of meat
started down town from the packing house
district A small mob charged on the
wagons and ondeavored to dissuade the
mon from proceeding on their routes A
squad of police rushed up and drove the
crowd away after sharp skirmish with
clubs. IL had bocn reported earlier in the
night that all drivers of meat wagons
would strike, but none of them evinced
any desire 90 leave their wagons when APP
preached by tho crowd
Tho riotlng at Hammond, Ind, oulmi-
mated i'm "a conflict between tho mob and
Company b, Fifteenth United States in.
fantry, in which Charles Floischer, q la
borer, was killed, Victor Nacotcr fatally
wounded and William Campbell shot
| through both legs. A number of Other
/ people were slightly injured, but were
carried away 10y their friends and secret
cd, and it will DO impossible to learn the
exact number wounded.
The trouble Began Saturday night Tho
rioters kept their work up all night, burn
ing cars and disabling engines. Sunday
i morning they burned "a Pullman car
Most OF this work was done inside the IL
linois state lino and as soon as the Hi
nois militia arrived on the scene tho mol
retired into Indiana and jeorod at the
troops
About o o'clock Sunday morning q
great crowd gathered again about the No
non depot. Several freight cars were over
turned and the Michigan Central tracks
blockadcd. The shoriifs and MARSHALL
deputies were powerlcss to restrain th'
mob and as there was no hope Of the In
diana militia arriving before late i'm thu
evening an appeal was made TO the fed
eral authorities at Chicago. Company
Of tho Fifteenth infantry, 80 en-, wa
sent ont at once.
The troops were stationed about the Mo
non depot, as that seemed TO be the cen
ter Of the rioters attack and their pres
ence quicted things for awhile, and tn
blockade on the tracks was fairly raise
at / O'Clock i'm the afternoon, and severa
passenger trains pulled through.
"Make Ready, Fire."
This seemed 20 anger the mob and wit
an increase of numbers its passions gre,
into a frenzy. The regulars were greote
with oaths and shouts of dorision, and vol
leys of sticks and stones were showerc
upon them. Tho men stood their ground
however and kept the mob for sovera
hours from approaching the buildings b
B o'clock fully 3, 600 rioters were assem-
bled. They had been aroused by thoi
leaders TO frenzy that mado an encounto
with the soldiers certain. several time
they rushed upon the company Of troops
but were met by fixed hayonets and drlve
back. AT last however tho entire bod
Of strikers made a determined rush to