The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-07-13
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last night aUf scSn sftRaiats. In the,
south half Al chicago. sTifeg We're raS.
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tsAk.t 4 Mepsands u dorfsti WORTH of
went uhtih hanoks q; were:
carried on by the now frenIied mObs Of
rioters. Incendiarism was rampant;
alarm sfteSialarm followed In quick sue
ffsseeioq n Il anl l0SEs; and hot 4 eatiy .msras
Ing until midnfSht reports 66f fresh lires
followed each other with startling rapid
ity, being confined, however, psincipllly
to railroad rolling stock and buiidinxs.
aEainst which, thus far, the greater pirt
OF the mob's fury has been ditected.
Early In the morning blaze started
tnhi qhlckly J ednmuIicasihg SS oiieS
tracks filed with long lines . Of cars,
many c6Htafnin vuttlAbie ~merchdhdisc
were soon bl9xine 3furious(y. Famed by
strong, winds there were 1T this point d
total Of eighty sars wiped olit.H At the
stock yards one; a&p alter al9thes wis,
reported, and S tlas3li5 diidictS
came urssnts soaliss 1or. ansiiaes., and. poIicS:
But VII tis' iias !sSs 81 Sss tE;]s M III ~.
came ithe-eaasnaxxsofsfhe 6erya- festival.
Eha. Pan Handle yards from Fifty-tiftA
fosa kty-thlrd streets, eight blocks, WERE
4 Nlss of fire. Ten tracks, containing
1rgn 3 thousand to two thousand cars,
hGf4of them loaded, is a total loss. No
akV1 being ut hand the-fife burned itself
out. The Pan Handle station at Sixty
third street was als6 fred and destroyed.
The Grand Trunk syards7At Elston was
n!sea of flames. Five hundred box cars
are supposed to. have been burned. All
efforts to check the flames were futile
The flag shanties and other railroad ,ptop-
erty also burned. and no water eirspt
one stream from o plug ut Eifty-first
street could be obtained. While directing
the movements Of the Eleventh battalion
at this point Fire Marshal Fitzpatrick
was seized by thoroughly frenzied mob
of firebugs and thrown into q pond, from
which he was ,rsicnsd more dead than
alive. Y IS am if3i5.
At Hyde Park, near the worlds fairs
grounds, the ashes Of; forty cars are NOV
smoulderings Q4h after numerous ,ed9rts
the mob has succeeded in firing tbs tlli-
nois Central shops at Burnside. ~. !. li,ti
At the stock yards about fifty toughs,
few OF whom were railroad men, skulke,l
from point to point aud isct 4 inrge hum.
Der Of fires. Their method was thor:
oughly unique. Loading several hand
faftswith BUCKETS of 'twastc" Aand Gil,
they would glide arbundS among the cars
IN the darkness, lighting wads of the ia-
hammable stuff, which would be thrown
into the omen, deorssof the cars rs they
passed by . them. - Fires sprung u.s. On
every hand and no eyganizsl effort on the
pArt Of the police seemed tt be under way
losses to ttRs rsilr6ads Wi BE- enormous; q .
Miles OF their tracks shaye been ruined By
the fierce heati hihdrels. OF switch aud
signal towers with their expensive
hrnism utterly ruined. Thousands
'ofscars and untold quantities OF merchan-
.dise Of every imaginable description have,
ID the flames and gorged the larders of
thieves. Locomotives hive been wrecked
and disabled; miles Of tangled, wires and
prostrate poles litter the ground.
Only One residence has been hurued
thus tat as q direct result s0f the III.
cendiarieS work. and that one was iu
the stock yards district, and business
Tie wanton destruction Of raBvay prSp. .
erty continues unchecked, and with Iii.
creasing destructiveness. The rpaddenc,l
mobs, worked up to the highest bitch Of
fury, paralleled the scenes Of the com.
mune, and 1t appears as though nothing
short of miracle can prevent aas srmed
demonstration against them and. t6s 1ac-
rifice iof mnnv iivos .iis..f 10.
To illustrate the tactics resortsl = 4, s II,
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alarm boxes. tremen we're knocked down
Ing at fires the horses OF ithe department
were stolen. II Sgs
The stoning Of incoming trains was .
.eral persons were more or less injured
BY flying missiles, One engineer On a
Rock Island train was 80 badly Injured
that it was at first supposed that he was
dead. The assaults of the mob, how
ever wore not met with; passive re.
.sistsnce which characterized the course
aeS their attacks were met with ace ics
- telX aimed lead. Du1ing airioe} }in the
sh( 6m9 over an incominss milk ttrain at
q sin4tDn "a deputy United States
'an4 shaf shot Ahd' filled two still ktffSi and
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