The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-07-06

words Of Warning.
CHICAGO, July 6.-Yesterday's sun went
down on by far the most turbulent and
critical day thus far In the unparalleled
railroad strike and boycott. When 1t
opened there was a general feeling that
It's passage would go far toward lifting
the embargo on commerce which has held
this city in its grip for the past week
| The expectation was chiefly based on the
presence of federal troops in the most
| dangerous districts.
it must be co Messed however, that the
! hdpe has not been justified. The troops
! we're few in numbers at best and when
| they were divided into squads and dis
| tributed az points separated by very con
| siderable distances il soon became evil
| dent that tlseir prestige as overawing
| bodies had been dissipated. Instead OF
| fleeing in fear before the faces of the vet
erhns, as was expected they would do, the
| turbulent thousands surged about the
| little band OF soldiers, jeered and hooted
at them, cast vile epithets at them, and
literally played hide and seek with them,
stopping trains at will, and generally rem
deFing the embargo in the military dis
trict more effective, If possible, than be-
fore.
The throngs Of strikers did not resist
| Ubcle Sans police. Again and again,
when there were thousands of them about
train which It was sought TO move, and
on the track in front of it, they gave way
like water before the leveled bayonets of
a single company ofinfantry or the tramp
ling of single squad of cavalry. Like
water, too, they closed in again at point
just beyond. They turned switches, de
rallied freight cars in front of the slowly
moving trains and played all sorts of rail
rpaders' tricks with which the soldiers
we're unacquainted. Thus it was that the
troops at the stock yards in perseverance
and patience, spent the entire day in a
vain endeavor to get one train load of
dressed beef out of sight of the starting
point.
Another and pleasanter thing this ex-
perience showed, and that was the ad-
mirable GOODNESS, self poise and discipline
Of the troops throughout an exasperating
twelve hours. Not a man was shot and
not a man was pricked by bayonet,
which argues that, with force enough, the
soldiers would have done the work which
was expec rd ofthem.
Aside fr.m the immediate neighbor-
hood where the troops were operating
there was plenty of excitement and disor-
= |
{ Shore, Rock Island, Alton and Western
Indiana tracks and proceeded to obstruct
} them by oyerturning box cars, breaking
i switches and the like. At one point they
set fire to switch tower and an inter
locking switch box, though the flames were
] extinguished before serious damage was
) done.
! In two instances there was bloodshed
a On the Western Indiana tracks a hard
D pressed special policeman fired at his pur
guers, wounding striker in the leg. Or
the Lake Shore road an official of that
/ company, in charge of a train which he
? was endeavoring to force through emptiet
Y his revolver point blank into the masset
5 strikers about him, wounding two ol
t three, it is believed. He was saved from
3 the fury of the mob by his enginee-, whC
a put on steam and ran back to the poin
+ Of starting.
u Shortly after noon a mob numbering
d 1000 started north on the Lake -Shor,
s tracks at Thirty seventh street, overturn
n ing oars and obstructing the line in ever!
possible way. They were not checked un
ill they reached Twenty-second street
| where heavy force of police were massed
n and succeeded in turning them back.
9 OF the strike in general it may be sait
a that it has broadened. The Big Four, OF
o which it was understood traffic was to b
l. resumed by agreement, is practically tiet
g up. At Joliet everything is at stand
r still. because the yardmen have gone out
n and the city water works has shut dow
t for lack Of coal Kansas City is again tie,
y up pretty completely. This federal troop
t quickly put an end to the trouble at Ra
d ton, N. NJ, arresting lot of strikers AM
Il starting them for Denver, though the
l. may be hung up on the way.
= Paralysis continues on the Pacific coast
. There are federal troops at Los Angeles
T. but none have been sent to Sacrament
g or Oakland, pending decision Of tn
g question whether or not the state troop
l. and United States marshals can cope wit
- the situation.
General Miles, in speaking of the OF
structing tactics of the strikers and thei
sympathi' rs at the stock yards and ad
" jacent railroads, said:
d These men do not seem to realize hoy
O. close to death they are every time the
attempt to stop a train and harrass tn
'e troops. That bloodshed has not yet take
place is due to the extraordinary coolnes
le OF the soldiers, and their wonderful sci
10 control They have taken the taunts an
Is sneerk of the crowd with great forbeai
- ance, and have submitted to indignitie
and insult in a remarkable manner Thes
people do not seem to realize what a tel
rible engine of destruction they are goin
nc against when they fool with the soldiers
Fifty IOf those soldiers could NOW dow
N 1000 people i'm a few minutes. The pres
dent b. i'm earnest in this matter of SUI
p pressing interference with the operatio
} Of the laws. The orders of the federl
/. court are being treated with contemp
= Conditions like those existing today car
4 not laEt many hours without ending in
declaration of martial law Then th
military will be supreme"
After personal inspection of the scene
= of violence near Furtieth street MayC
Hopkins returned to the city, and for
half hour was closeted with Corporatio
ne Counsel Rubens. At the expiration
he this interview a letter was dispatched {
e's Chief of Police Brennan ordering an II
50 vestigRtion into the overturning of ireigl
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