The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-07-13
The Boys i'm Blue Kept
Busy Maintaining
Peace.
Justice Travels with a Leaden Heel
and Strikes with. an Iron
Hand.
The Mills Of the Gods Grind Slowly,
bnt They Grind Exceed.
ingly Fine.

OHlCAGO, July .-O.OO p. Ill. - lno
soldiers have opened fire at last and
twenty men at least have gone down be-
fore them There is no telling how
many have been wounded. The fight
occurred on the tracks Of the Chicago e.
Western Indiana road, at Forty. seventh
and Loomia streets. The mob attacked
the troops, and the latter at once replied
to the assault. A train is now bringing
in the wounded.
CHICAGO, July To-day at the stock
yards brought no receipt of live stock
and no prospects Of shipments. The
paralysis Of railways and packing houses
continues complete. Along the Bur
lington tracks scenes Of violence were
enacted today for the first time. At
Twenty Fourth street the mob upset
several cars. The rioters we're dispersed
by the police. symptoms Of disorder
were frequent today all along the rail
way tracks between Thirty. ninth and
Fifty-ifth streets in the Stewart avenue
district. Police officers, details of mill
tia and federal troops we're scattered
along the line. At Brighton park, a
squad Of police under Lieut.. Walsh had
orders to shoot at the first attempt Of
rioters to destroy property. President
Debs was served with the injunction
issued by the United States courts
some days g as he was leaving
the Sherman house today after
Sovereign. A survey of the stock yards
this morning showed that along the Pan
Handle district for three miles every
thing perishable was destroyed, includ-
ing cars, switch houses, signal towers
and exposed freight. The fires were
still burning and policemen were guard.
ing the Lake Shore, Fort Wayne, West.
ern Indiana and Pennsylvania tracks at
the stock yards last night. Preparations
are being made to start trains eastward.
Many distractions we're 30 ingeniously
and firmly fixed that 1t was almost i'm
possible to remove them. Intent ON de-
stroying freight cars in the Monon yards
at Sixty-fourth street a mob gathered at
5a. m. Forty. policemen were sent to
the yards. Their appearance did not
brighten the strikers. Several shots
we're fired into the mob and
the men fled. One Of the men was
struck by a bullet and was hurried
away by his friends. At Fourth street
and the Grand Trunk tracks this morn
ing a mob threatened to burr the round
house. Col. Moulton and forty men of
the Second regiment, l. N. g., were sent
70 guard the building and yards. At IL
a. m. IL was reported that a mob was
firing cars and other property on the Chi
csgo and Northern Pacific near the
western city limits. Five companies Of
troops were ordered to the scene. Seri-
u rioting wac reported at IL a. m. on
the Grand Trunk road in the vicinity Of
Elston. Rioting was also reported
as renewed ID the Burlington tracks
at the Western avenue crossing, the
property Of the company being fired
right and left. At 1880 a. m. a mob of
Handle road. At Fiftieth street the po-
lice met with a volley Of pistol
shots, but refrained from returning fire
and renewed charges dispersed the
crowd. The Second regiment went to
Forty-seventh street to act as a guard
for the Pan. Handle tracks. United
States Marshal Arnold, Gen. Miles and
officers of the blockaded railroads have
decided to start trains under a guard OF
United States regulars and run them to
the stock yards.
Debs said today he had no intention OF
eaving the city. The call for q general
strike, he said, would be made jointly by
teneral Master Workman Sovereign and
imself. Sovereign, after visiting the
took yards. said hoodlume. not strikers
were doing the rioting. He is in com.
munication with the executive board Of
the Knights Of Labor in regard to
striking.
United States Marshal Arnold and
General Miles, after consultation at mil,
itary headquarters, decided to send
troops to all the roads which are tied VI
and clear the yards and tracks. The
plan IL to send one company Of troops tt
each depot along with forty marshals
A train will then be started on each
road and the military will clear the yardi
and tracks of the crowds. The soldiers
will have orders to fire upon any one
who disobeys the order to leave the rail
road property.
The police encountered rioters at FIJI
tieth street and the Grand Trunk tracks
this morning. Shots were fired on bott
sides but no one was hurt. At Engls
wood several hundred rioters ieered a.
the soldiers and police and finally free
several shots. The fire was returned b!
two or three officers and a charge tenn
porarily dispersed the mob.