The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-07-06
THE GREAT STRIKE.
TWO THOUSAND Openly DEFiED
FEDERAL AUTHORITY.

Tons OF Fruit, Vegetables, Ice, Meat and
Other Perishabie Goods Stand In the
Cars-Dumb Animals Crowded Into
Stock Cars Are Suffering Thirst and
Hunger-Several Trains Deraiied.
CHICAGO, July 3.-Monday's develop
ments in the great Pullman-American
Railway union strike were prolific in
sensationalism, the principal theater
OF action being in Chicago and adjacent
suburbs. Wild rumors were rife, and
when it was announced that orders had
been issued for the Second regiment to
proceed at once to Blue Island, 18 miles
out, extra editions of all evening papers
with warlike headlines were eagerly
scanned by thousands of anxious PEG
pie. This report proved later to be un-
founded. The first serious clash oc-
Cured when 200 deputy United States
marshals were surrounded at Blue
Island by 1000 strikers, who openly
defed federal authority. Weapons
were drawn by both sides, and Deputy
Marshal John A. Logan was painfully
cut with q knife, but when bloody
conflict seemed imminent the deputies
retired to their barracks cars to await
reinforcements, leaving the strikers
masters Of the situation.
In the evening an injunction from
the United States court was read and
bulletined. The authority of the
United States was openly ridiculed and
after few minutes quietness the riot
Gus spirit OF the strikers reasserted it
self. At midnight reports Of further
disorder were current, it being stated
that the strikers were tearing down the
bulletined mandate of the court.
Fearing to precipitate bloodshed the
Rock Island company decided, after its
$3.50 express had been gotten through,
not to make any further effort to move
trains during the night. The strikers
have now locked horns with the state
and federal authorities;~ the railway
officials are chatting under the continued
embargo on their business, while the
desperate determination of their late
employees neither to work themselves
nor to allow others to fill their places is
evidenced by the flood of reports of in.
dividual conflicts here and there, com
ing from all over the city. A number
of trains have been derailed by mis-
placed switches.
A Panhandle passenger train was
partially derailed at Kinzie and Canal
streets, but was not seriously delayed.
The strikers are stealing brasses from
the aXleboxes of cars, and in some in
stances dropping coupling pins into the
cross head guides of locomotives, caus-
ing the destruction of cylinder heads.
Tons of fruit, vegetables, ice, meats
and other perishable goods stand in the
ears under broiling sun, no one car
ing or daring to move it to destination.
Dumb animals crowded into stockcars
suffer thirst and hunger, and prices Of
vegetables and fruits are going up.
At midnight District Attorney Mil
christ when asked if troops had yet
been ordered out from Fort Sheridan,
said: II do not think they will be
called out until the order of the courts
has been violated and the judges rec.
Ommend that such measure be taken
to uphold the dignity of the court and
Justice. Unless the trouble is brought
to an end soon it is my opinion that the
strike will terminate in bloodshed."
The firemen of the Lake street ele-
waited road decided after midnight that
they would go on strike to assist the
American Railway union. The specific
cause of the strike is that the elevated
road received some coal which was de-
livered by the Panhandle, which is one
of the roads boycotted by the American
Railway union.