The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-06
BLOOD At LAST.
Two Rumors of Battle Be-
tween the Railroad
Anarchists and
0fficers.
MAsSING TROOPS IN CHICAGO.
Strikers Still Hold Carnival o.
Desolation in the Union
Stock Yards.
ALTGELD ASKED FOR TROOPS
Disorder in st. Louis Too-At-
torney Generals Reply to the
Governors Protest.

SnlSAGO, Cul1 " 4oJ-f.-IouOIIif otSSA
eleven o'clock mob of 5000 men and boys
held up milk train on the Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne tracks at Foruieth street and
stoned the engineers and fireman. Leuten-
ant O'Neill, with squad of thirty police
men, charged the crowd with drawn re-
voiyers, but the mob only jeered and hoot-
ed, and finally commenced to throw large
stones at the officers. The police then fred
into the mob, and several persons are re-
ported fatally injured.
CHICAGO. July 6, 1S94.-At ten o'clock
this morning mob of 500 men attacked the
Illinois Central road at Kensington. In d
few minutes box cars were run ON the main
line, switches were turned and the line
completely blockaded. Officials of the com
pany at once called upon the police depart
was reported shortly afterward that the
United States marshals at KensingJon were
firing on the mob, and that one man had
been killed.
HOPKINS WANTS TROOPS.
Mayor Hopkins at 10:30 this morning
stated that unless he became convinced that
the police could handle the big mobs that he
had learne1 were gathering in various parts
OF the city. he would telegraph Governor
Altgeld within an hour to call out the First,
/ oe
all the cavalry troops and the artillery.
Il have just received word from Chief
Brennan that several mobs of from 5000 to
1000 persons are gathering at a dozen
points," said the Mayor, 'and 1 am con-
WINGED thar the crisis is reached. and moth
ing but the troops can save the city from
riots and perhaps worse. The militia could
be ready for duty within two hours after
they received orders"
MORE FEDE2ALs ARRIVE.
Two companies of regular infantry from
Fort Brady, Mich, arrived in Chicago this
morning, and at eight o'clock marched from
the Northwestern Depot to the lake front to
join the troops modified there under Cen
eral Miles command. The men had long,
hard and hurried trip from the upper Pen
insula, and looked dusty, fatigued and not
III the best of hurnor.
The complete roster of troops now mobil-
lied on the lake front and awaiting orders to
march to the Stock Yards is as follows:-
Troop 'sKn, Seventh Cavalry and Battery
''E". First Artillery, from Fort Sheridan.
Two companies infantry. Nineteenth Regi-
nent. Fort Brady, Mich.
Two companies OF infantry, Fifteenth Reg
iment, five companies OF infantry OF various
a~ EOrf Isanv worth
Company G and G, Thirteenth Infantry,
and Company K, Seventh Calvary. are
under arms and awaiting orders at Camp
Dexter, about one mile from the yards. The
troops will not be ordered to the yards until
trains have been made UP and are ready for
despatch No call for aid had been received
from tho Lake Shore and the Rock Island
people I'D to eleven o'clock.
GENERAL MANAGERS REPORT.
This morning the General Managers made
the following reports
The engineers of the Illinois Central at
Centralia, ILL.,, met yesterday and decided to
stand by the company.
All fhe perishable freight which was
bIockaded on the Illinois Central at Mounds,
H., has been released
The Illinois Central sent out two freight
trains from Chicago yesterday-the first
since the tie-up.
Owing to interference with trains and the
blocking of tracks the Baltimore and Ohio
ran no trains this side of South Chicago last
night
The Illinois Central freight switchmen at
Freeport returned to work at six o'clock last
night
The Rock Island commenced this morning,
with wrecking crew, to clear up its main
line from the Van Buren, street station to
Englewood.
4 number of Chicago and Erie and
Wabash cars were burned in the yards of
these companies last night.
MISERABLE ALTGELD.
The Inter Ocean, commenting on Gov.
Altgeld's protest against the use of Federal
troops in illinois, says:-"Just at this juno
ture neither the President nor the Mayor
seems to care much for the Governor, and
each has full power to act"
The Tribune says" In times like these
some idea may be gathered of the infinite
distance that yawns between John p. Alt
geld and Dick Yates