Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-11
$l,OOO,OOgOR CARS BURNED.
AtLeast Four Of Them
Will Certainly Die.
The Soldiers Have at Last Been
Given Orders to ShOot-Ehe
City Wild With Continued
Alarms of Fire Last
Night-The Strike
Grows Weaker.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 7.-"And 1t
is further ordered that If any act
of hostility be committed, such as
firing upon railroad trains or as
saulting trainmen, marshals, or
soldiers, by throwing at them rocks,
pieces of iron, or other missiles,
those assaults shall be repelled by
the use of arms"
So wrote Gen. Nelson A. Miles
in his order issued this afternoon
detailing Federal troops to assist
United States marshals in pre-
venting obstruction to the move
ment of mail and interstate COM
merce trains. It was, in short, no.
sice to all rioters that temporizing
with them had ceased, and that
hereafter the government would
put an end to their rioting, arson,
and pillage by shooting to kill
whenever and wherever necessary.
AS chance would have 1t, how
ever, it did not fall to the lot of
National troops to be the first to
carry out this order. Company c.,
Second Regiment, I. N. G., had
that distinction. The story of the
encounter between the thirty-seven
young militiamen cf this city and
vicious mob at 47th and Loomis
street, is told elsewhere in these
dispatches. Up to 4 o'clock in the
afternoon the day had been a COM
paratively quiet one. To be sure,
some mobs had been going about
all through the district west OF
State street and south of 39th,
burning a few cars here and there
| and threats of firing railroad shops
and the like, but 1t was more in
the nature of bushwhacking than
anything else, and not at all like
the massed bands of strikers who
gathered along the railroad tracks
yesterday and the day before,
blocking all movement by sheer
force of numbers. This state of
affairs wus doubtless the outgrowth
| of various conditions, such as the
presence of a vastly increased force
of soldiers, and the fact that firing
cars had left the Lake tracks to the
south impossible so that all the
discernable movement was in the
shape of wrecking trains, and en-.
deavoring to bring order out Of
chaos, which existed all through
that region.
The disturbed section To-Day EN-.
braced a space of about twenty-five
square miles, not to mention the
bit of incendiarism in the Burling
ton Road at Crawford and Western
Avenues, the latter being the work
of women and children. 1t is es'
timated that in the district moi
less than $4,000 rioters were out
at one time and another during the
day, but the ground was so thor.
oughly patrolled by the police, the
marshals and the military that
they found little opportunity for
massing large numbers, as they
have been doing heretofore.
Still, some of them at the stock
| yards found time for indulging in
the grim humor of laying out a
graveyard in due order, and erect
ing headstones with the graves
therein bearing the names of their
pet aversions including that of the
President of the United States.
One feature of the day was the
showing of It's teeth by the build
ing trades in calling out the sta
tionary engineers in packing houses
at the stock yards. with the threat
that it was merely preliminary
to calling out it's $4,000 members,
and the tying up of all buildings
in the city.
Another feature of the day was