The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-09
STRIKERS KILLED.
Voluntary Military Fire On
An Advancing Mob.
TWO WOMEN AMONG THE VICTIMS
Stock Yards Are Fired and Meat
Packing Houses Threatened.
FACTORIES LOCK OUT THEIR FORCES
This hrows tOo, 900 Men Out of Work Be-
cause There Is No Sale for Goods.
Gen. Miles Issues Last WARNING
Two WOMEN AMONG The VICTIMS
Stock Yards Are Fired and Meat
Packing Houses Threatened.
FACTORIES LOCK OUT THEIR FORCES
This hrows 900 Men Out of Work Be-
cause There d No Sale for Goods.
Gen. Miles Iseuss Last Warning.

Chicago H. July THE army depart
rnent has taken control OF the railroads.
At y o'clock General Miles issued orders
20 Colonel Crofton to send regulars fol-
lows: Two companies to the union depot
two companies TO Dearborn station; one
e. I.pany to the North tern; one company
10 the Grand Central; one company to the
Rcck island; one company 10 the Illinois
Central
The general instructions to the troops
gre to accompany. support and assist United
States lnarshals in aiding the dispatch OF
mail trains under tine interstate commerce
net; in removing tresspassers and men OBJ
structing or destroying the lines of rail-
roaf erga eed in interstate business.
Shoui6 the crowds engage in any act OF
bcstiIltv such as throwing rocks or other
wise attacking the troops the latter are
ordered to resist with the use Of arms If
necessary.
The First Battle.
fight occurred at Forty-ninth and
LOOMS streets at o'clock this afternoon,
caused by an attack on a wrecklnS train,
made by the mob. The Western Indiana
workmen had partially succeeded in clear
ing away an obstruction when the MOB
drove them away The firing on the mob
was done by Company c, of the Second in
fantrv. state troops, $50 men strong, COM
taanded by Captain Maher. The mob had
been srowing ugly for some time, and Cap
tain A.aher concluded ii was about time to
beat a retreat His company, accompanied
by six policemen and twenty deputy sher-
ifs began to move slowly of. guarding the
tain.
Lieutenant Reed was struck down and
euddenIy Yardmaster Mckee. OF the Grand
Trunk was compelled to fire at several men
who made a rush for him. This opened hos
ti.ities and the militia. deputies ana
police poured lead into the mob as fast as
they could pull triggers.
The soldiers fired anywhere from two
20 SIX rounds apiece, and the others empt-
led their reviewers.
No frinc was done until Second Lieuten-
ant Reed had been struck twice on the
Jennie with stones. He is believed to be
dangerously wounded. The troops, after
the fight were unable to cope with the mob
and tcck the train back TO the city. They
have arrived in d badly demoraiized CON
eition. MANY OF the men being badly bat
tered and bruised.
I.ist OF Rioters Shot.
The latest advices from the scene of the
shooting are that the following rioters were
shot:
THOMAS JACKMAN, shot In the back.
VIII die.
HENRY WILLIAMS, shot in the left arm.
TONY GAJEWSKI. shot in the right
arm.
John KORNDERG, stabbed with bayo
net VIII die.
CHI n
hip.
CT VIII die.
UNKNOWN BOY, seventeen years oio'
shot through the stomach. VIII die.
Genera. tIiIcS's Plain Words.
"And it is further ordered that an act of
hostility, such as firing upon railroad trains
or assaulting train men, msrshals or SOL
diers, by throwing at them rocks, pieces of
iron or other missiles, those assaults shall
be repealed by the use of firearms"
- wrote General Nelson y. Miles in his
order issued this afternoon detailing fed
eral troops TO assist United State. mar
sIals in preventing obstruction TO the move
I.ent OF mail and Interstate commerce
trains. It was in short, notice TO all RI
oters that temporz!ng with them had
ceased and hereafter the policy OF the gov
eminent would be 10 put an end to their
riot.ng. arson and pillagc by shooting to
Kill whenever and wherever necessary.
Tae M:IitiaIaen Had First shot.
As chance would have it, however, il did
not fan to the lot of the national troops to
he the first to carry out the spirit of this
order. Company c, Second regiment, Hi
nois national guard, had that distinction.
The story Of the encounter between the
thirty-seven young militiamen of this COM
pauy and a vicious mob at Forty-seventh
aud LOOMS streets is told elsewhere in
these dispatches.
IN to I o'clock in the afternoon the day
had been a comparatively quiet one. To
be sure, small mohs had been going about
all through the district west OF State street
and south of Thirty ninth, burning a few
cars here and there, and threatening the
firing % railroad shops and the
like. but it WAS more in the nature Of
discriminating than anything Csc, and
not a all Ike the massed bands
Of strikers who gathered along the rail
road tracks yesterday and the day before,
absolutely blocking all movement by sheer
force of numbers.
The disturbed section today embraced a
sDaca Of about twenty-five square miles