The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-07-07

inuenhlte number OF injured is the
record OF casualties in the strike con-
flicts in Chicago to-day. Yesterday ono
man was shot in the leg. II the blood
shedding tomorrow shall show like
increase the corner will have summers
work before him.
The developments Of yesterday went
far to convince all thinking people that
the gravity Of the situation had not
been appreciated by the authorities or
the people at large. Persons who were
here during the railroad strike OF 1877.
and who saw the atmosphere clear per-
ceptibly when no more than eighty
bronzed and husky regulars from the
plains marched down Madi son stree and
went into camp on the Lake Front,
wagged their heads knowingly when
three times that number were ordered
from Fort Sheridan, comprising the
three armies of the service and said
they would make short work of Mr..
Debs' followers.
But after twelve hours of as patient
and persistent GOODNESS and bravery.
under as trying Circumstance as were
ever seen, these same citizens and tho
officers in command were forced to ad~
nit that things were not as they were in
1877, and that it vas still q long mark to
peace and the resumption of unimpeded
traffic on sny Of the railroads running
out of Chicago.
The developments OF the night and
those Of to-day have confirmed the con-
viction that nothing short of an over
whelmning armed force, with instruc-
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trouble, or, as Colonel Crofton puts it,:
at has ceased to be more movement
OF troops and has bee ome a campaign. :"
Auth critics Abandoning to tho Nature of
A fairs.
The local and State authorities have
awakened TO thu critically grave nature
OF che strike, many OF which is afllict
Ing tho nation generally, bu. Chicago
in particular, and are taking measures
to apply adequate measures. The citv
police force has already been recruited
up to over 1900 men, and by request of
Mayor Hopkins and by order of Gov
ernor Altgeld, two brigades OF State
militia have been ordered here to aid in
quelling the disturbance.
At the nations capital, also, the fact
is recognized that the prevailing con-
ditions are entirely cut of the ordinary
such massing OF fighting men as has
never before been se7n together in the
history of the nation in time of peace,
If the authority and dignity of the Fed
eral government and the processes OF
Its courts are not to be laughed to scorn
for an indefinite time.
The strike question is so infec tious at
certain points that the President and
his advisers believe it would be unwise
TO withdraw any more regular troops
from the country west of Chicago 1t is
therefore in contemplation, in case the
forces, State and municipal. gathered
here be unequal to the task of restoring
order, to send here the ten companies
stationed on tho Canadian border with
the reserved intention, if circumstances
demand it, OF exercising the right to
call for 20, 600 men of the crack military
regiments of New York and Pennsyl-
vanla.
A Day of Constant Alarms
The day in Chicago has been one Of
constant alarms and calling for police,
deputies and soldiers here, there and
everywhere throughout wide stretch
OF territory in the southern part Of tho
city. Riot has been running through
out the day, cars have been overturned,
switches broken and tracks INSTRUCTED
in numerous ways, the torch was an.
piled in many instances to cars, switch
towers and the like, not to mention an
attempt to fire a part OF the great
Armour packing plant; in fact. at one
time the incendiary blazes followed
each other in such quick succession
that the fire department was put to
straits TO care for all of them.
In general the order of things, com.
narp0 with that nf nd
verscd. Then the railroads we're try
Ing to break the blockade by sending
the trains out. To-day they recognized
the futility OF that method of pro-
cedure, and practically gave up any
attempt at outward movement.
The stoning OF incoming trains was
common pastime with the obs, and
several persons were moro or less in
jured by flying missiles. One foreigner
on Rock Island train was so badly
injured thai it was at first reported
that he was dead.
The assaults of the mobs were not met
with the passive resistance which char.
acterized the course pursued yesterday.
On two occasions, at least, their attacks
were met with accurately aimed lead.
During the riot in the forenoon over an
incoming milk train at Kensington a
deputy United States marshal shot and
killed two strikers, and during the
afternoon the deputies guarding an in
coming Baltimore and Ohio passenger
train replied to the volleys OF shots and
stones which the q rikers showered upon
them by tuning their revolvers loose,
killing four Of their assailants and also
woundiIg a number
The Strike Has StrenR thened Its Grip.
OF the situation in general tho strike
may be said to hava ngthencd its
grip. Its most sign.ic feature Is tho