Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-07-15
STItIKE NEWS.

Following are the dispatches re.
ceived late Saturday evening:
President Gompers ofthc American
Federation of Labor will be at Chica-
go Sunday, and new coplications are
now feared. The calling out OF all
labor organizations will vastly in
crease the crowds and cmbarass the
handling OF the disorderly elements.
Scenes of violence were enacted
along the Burlington track for the
first time this morning. The mob
upset several cars. The police dis.
persedt the rioters. Details Of militia
and Federal troopsar scattered along
the lines.
President Debs was served with an
injunction, issued by the U. S. Court
some days ago, as he was leaving the
Sherman House day after a con.
ference with General Master Work
man Sovereign.
y survey at the stock yards this
morning showed that along the Pan.
handle railroad for three miles every
thing perishable had been destroyed
including cars, switch houses, signal
towers and exposed freight. The fire
is still burning.
1t is reported at IL 4. NJ. that the
mob Is firing cars and other property
on the Chicago and Northern Pacific
near the City. United States troops
have been ordered to the scene OF
the trouble.
Serious rioting is reported in many
different localities and property
Is being fired right and left. General
Muster Workman Sovereign after
looking at the scene OF obstruction
said it was hoodlums and not strikers
that were doing the rioting.
President Debs says call for Il
general strike will be made jointly by
General Master Workman Sovereign
and himself.
Lake shore engineers and iiremen
Mt Toledo, Ohio held secret meet.
ing to-day and formulated demand
That the Lake Shore Company rein
state the conductors and firemen dis
charged during the Ann Arbor
trouble II year ago.
The Chicago Journal says Pres
idcnt Dcbs to-day sent word to tho
labor organizations West, North and
South side Street railways and ele
waited ronds: "Bc ready to walk ont
Monday"
General Scoficld has sent telc-
graphic orders from Westinghouse
General Ruger, San francisco, Gen
cral Brooks, Omaha. placing them in
charge of tho entire Union and
Southern Pacific systems with in
structions to open line OF commu.
nication between San Francisco and
Omahn.
When the west bound Pennsylvu-
mia passenger and mail train pulled into
the Fort Wayne depot Deputy Mar
shall Ryan read q court Injunction to
1000 men assembled there. He was
jccrcd by the mob and some one
threw a missile and knocked him
down. Hc pulled his pistol and tho
lending Union mon ordered the mob
to dispense and there the trouble end
ed.
Tho number Of cars burned on tho
Panhandle road last night is esti-
mated at 1000 and the total loss not
less thad one million dollars. Besides
loss OF rolling stock, at least twelve
miles of track hnvc been destroyed.
1t il impossible to place the valuc on
tho freight destroyed.
Tho Santa Fec engineers at Trini-
dad, Colornno, arc being arrested for
refusing to run cngines. II in under
stood that the Union Pacific employees
Mt Cheyenne have decided not to
strike.
Tho Santa Fe sent ono train south
today from Ripon, New Mexico.
Tho iiromcn on that rond have been
ordered to return to work but have
not done 80.
Tho Brotherhood fircmen on tho
Rio Grandc Mt Denver decided by a
closc vote not TO strike.
Tho switchmen are still out at
Cleveland and the railroads arc max.
ing very little hcadway.
Tho troops opened fire Mt last IN
Chicago and twenty mon nt least
went down before them. There is no
telling how many were wounded.
Tho mob attacked the troops when
they rallied mud replied with u vollcy.
Trims arc bringing the wounded into
the city ond the trouble is not yot
over. Tho regular light artillery has
been ordered 10 the scene. Tho firing
was done by Co. q. Of the 18th infant.
ry.
LATER:-Lnbt night Mayor Hop.
kius said that he believed that tho