Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-11
BLOODSHED AND FIRE.
SIX STRIKERS KILLED IN CHI
CAGO BY DEPUTIES.
Thousands of Freight Cars Burned BY
Hiotcrs-The Loss to Property Over a
Million and "A Half DoiIars-Firemen
Assaulted While Putting Out Fires.

Million and Half DoIIars-Firemen
Assaulted While Putting Out Fires.
CHICAGO, July six dead and an
indefinite number of injured is the
record Of casualties in the strike con-
| tiict> in Chicago yesterday.
lncendiarism was rampant, alarm
after alarm followed in quick success
/ sion all day and night and at / / o clock
! the glare reflected from the heavens
showed that the dastardly pastime
continued undated From early
morning until midnight reports of
fresh fires followed each other with
startling rdpidity, being confined,
however, principally to railroad roll
ing stock and buildings, against
which thus far the greater part of
the mob's fury has been directed.
Early yesterday morning a blaze
started among some overturned cars
at KensingtOn, quickly communi-
eating to other tracks filed with long
lines of cars, many containing valua-
bic merchandise, were soon blazing
furiously. Famed by strong winds.
there were at this point "a total of
eighty ears wiped out. At the stock
yards one blaze after another was re-
ported, and from the outlying dis
trlcts came urgent calls for engines
and police protection, increasing in
frequency.
But with the falling shades of night
came the climax of the fiery festival.
The Panhandle yards from Fifty fifth
70 SiXty-third streets, eight blocks.
were mass of fire. Ten tracks con-
tanning from 1000 to 1000 ears, half
OF them loaded, were d total loss. No
water being at hand the fire had to
burn itself ont.
The Panhandle station at Sixty
third street was also fired and de-
stroyed. The Grand Trunk yards at
Elston was sea of flama Five hun
dred box cars are supposed to have
been burned, and efforts to check the
tiameS were futile.
AT midnight all the cars in the wards
had been destroyed. The mob showed
much method in its inceudiarism and
hundreds of cars were rified and their
contents carried away before the
torch was applied. The loss in this
yard is estimated at loo, 600
The flag shanties and other railroad
property were burned, and no water,
except from one plug at Fifty first
street, could he obtained. While di-
rectlng the movement of the Eleventh
battalion at this point Fire Marshal
Fitzpatrick was seized by the thor
"uGhly frenZied mob of fire bugs and
thrown into Il pond, from which he
was rescued by the police more dead
than alive. Everything at this point
viii probably be Il total loss
The aggregate of the losses to the
railroads viii bc enormous Miles OF
their tracks have been ruined by the
fierce heat: hundreds of switch and
sigma! towers with their expensive
mechanism are utterly ruined
Thousands of cars and untold quan-
titles of merchandise of every imagin-
able description have fed the flames
"Ad goI ged the larders of thieves:
valuable locomotives have been
wrecked and disabled: miles of
tangled wires and PROSTATE poles lit
ter the ground.
10 illustrate the tactics resorted 60
hv the lncendiaries to hamper the
work OF the trcmenr empty car
trldgeS were forced into the ltevholes
Ct the fire alarm boxes, frcmen were
knocked down with stones and bricks,
and while working at the fires the
horses of the department were stolen.
Deputies shoot to Kill.
The assaults of the mobs, however.
we're not met with the passive re
slstance which characterized the
course pursued Thursday. On two
occasions, at least. their attacks were
met with accurately aimed lead.
During riot over an incoming milk
train at kensingtOn deputy United
States marshal shot and killed two
strikers and during the afternoon the
deputies guarding an incoming Balti-
more and Ohio passenger train re-
piled To the volley of shots and stones
which the strikers showered upOn
them by turning their revolvers loose.
killing four of their asSailants and
Wounding a number OF Others
An Overwhelming Force Needed.
The developments so far have led
10 the firm conviction that nothing
short of an overwhelming armed
force with instructions to shoot to
Kill can settle the trouble or, as Colo
mel Crofton put it, sit has ceased to
be mere movement of troops, and
has become campaign
The local and state authorities have
awakened to the critical gravity of
the situation which is affecting the
nation generally and Chicago particu-
larly, and are taking steps to apply
adequate measures. The city police
force has already been recruited uD
to 5000 men, and by request of Mayor
Hopkins and by order of Governor
Altgeld, two brigades of state militia
have been ordered to aid in quelling
the disturbances.
There is no notable relief at the
points heretofore placed under en-
barge. The Pacific coast remains in
paralysis, from which their is no indi-
cations of relief, and "A significant
note comes from Seattle, Wash. where
the stevedores were called out by the
chief of the Knights of Labor to pre-
vent the unloading of steamer from
San Francisco, indicat ting that Grand
Master Workman Sovereign's promise
to Debs to aid him in every possible
way was not merely for effect The
day closed with no rift in the pail
which overhangs the nation