The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-08
RIOTERS ATTACKED TIE TROOPS
Gen. Miles viii Net DiSperSe MohS
Unless the Mayor Requests.
The 1fe-Up Partially Broken Where
Troops Are. But Tt ht as Eve- Else
where-Debs Reaches Out His Hand
20 strike Boston.

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+ trains, assaulting trainmen, narshals or
+ soldiers. throwing rocks. pieces OF iron or
/ other missiles at them, these assaults shall
/ be repeiled by the use OF firearms." 50
wrote Gen. Nelson A. Miles in his order
| issued this afternoon detailing Federal
| troops To assist the United States mar
/ sha.s- in preventing obstruction 10 the
1 movement of the mail and interstate
/ commerce trains. Ii was. in short. a
notice 20 all rioters that temporixtng with
/ them had ceased. and that hereafter the
/ policy Of the government would be TO put
an end TO their rioting and pillaging by
shooting to kill. As chance would have
il. however il did not fall to the lot of
| the national troops TO be first 10 carry out
the spirit of this order. Company f. Sec
ond regiment, l. \. g., Capt. Kelly
The story of the encounter be-
composing this company and vicious
mob at Forty-seyenth and Looms streets
| is told elsewhere in these dispatches.
Up to 4 o'clock the day had been a COM
paratiyely quiet one TO be sure small
mobs had been going all through the dis
trict west of State street and south Of
there. with threats of firing railroad shops
and the like, but il was more IN the nature
| of threats. This state of affairs WAS doubt
| less the outgrowth of various conditions,
such as the presence of vastly increased
| force of soldiers and that Yesterdays
wrecking and firing of cars had left a large
share of the tracks to the south impassa-
bic, so that about all the discernable move
M pt in IN ha Gha nf "a
trains endeayoring to bring order out of
the chaos which existed all through that
region. The disturbed section today en-
braced space of about twenty-five square
miles, not to mention a sporadic bit OF in
cendiarism, the latter having the distinc-
tion of being the work OF women and chill
| dren. 1t is estimated that in the district
mentioned not less than 5000 rioters we're
out at one time or another during the day.
but the ground was SO thoroughly patroied
| by the police, the marshals and the mill
tary that they found little opportunity for
getting together in large numbers, as they
have been doing heretofore. Sill some Of
them at the stock yards iound time for in-
| dniging in the grim humor of laying out
graveyard in due order and erecting head
/ stones at the graves bearing the names of
their pet ayersions, including the presi-
! dent OF the United States.
The feature Of the day was the showing
| of its teeth by the Building Trades coun-
| Gil of the city in calling out the steam
| filters in the big packing house at the
! stock yards, with the threat that IL was
| merely preliminary to calling out its
| 65,000 members and the tying up of ali
| the buildings in the city. Another feat
ure OF the day was the patrolling of the
sentries before the Federal suo-treasury.
/ in whose vaults lies some 1900 900 of
/ Uncle Sans money. which Gen. Miles
/ thought might prove a temptation 10
| some of Deb's followers not 10 be resisted,
especially in view of the fact that they
are not flush just now.
For the first time since the strike opened
/ there were several distinct notes Of i'm
proyement in the situation. and these
| were not confined To Chicago. Here the
| postal authorities reported noticeable
| improvement in the movement of the
/ mails. outside of Chicago il was noted
/ that the strike. while IL made no progress
| worthy OF mention at any point, gave
/ many evidences Of having reached its cul-
| mination and of falling To pieces. To be-
/ Gin With the promise that the seaboard
/ trunk lines would be tied mp at Buffalo
/ was not fulfilled; the strike was not ex-
/ tended to Pittsburg. as was predicted; al
a number Of points in the tied-up
/ district the strain was lightened at one or
/ two points, men who had agreed to go out
/ falling 20 do so; but the most significant
/ of all perhaps was the refusal of the Amer
/ lean Railway Union ut Louisville, Colo
| rado Springs aud Denver TO obey Debs'
! order 70 strike Joliet also reported de-
| fection from the ranks there. the en-
pioyes of the Joliet a. Eastern railroad re-
| turning to work. On the other hand, the
/ friends of Law and order lad occasion TO
/ be plea .ed on account Of the massIng Of
/ troops here. and al the ordering of the
/ movement Of troops by the president with
| n view 10 lifting the embargo on the Ta-
/ cific coast business both By the Northern
! and Central routes. To this end he or
/ dsred Gen. Merritt, at st. Paul, aud Gen.
! Ous. AT Vancouver barracks. TO see % the
1 opening OF the Northern Pacific. and Gen.
I Brooks. at Omaha, was similarly Instructed
I 10 set things moving on the Central and
/ Union Pacific systems.
I To this. the only foil which the man
ayers 0f the strike EeTe able 10 show Was
! an arrangement between President DsDs
+ and General Master Workman Sovereign,
( OF the knights oi labor. 20 call out the
+ members Of that organ ration. some ls0.-
+ 90 ia number, provi4si the other four
+ members Of the executive committee
+ would agree to the order calling them out
It's estimated that Debs has nov about
+ Is. 900 men, 80 that II the agreement goes.
/ il Will be no small addition to the forces Of
idIsness. There has been n riff in the
I cloud, bat the cloud ss still here.
An open-air mass meeting was held :
night in Keusingion. Over loo people
+ wera present Chairman Thomas HeGte-
cole, OF the Pullman strike COM
migtee, addressed the meeting
He urged the strikers 70 maintain
1 deceney and AZ the same time be said
not 70 weaken. lie was told Chief Arthur
+ OF the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
/ glneers, MAS In the city. and said the en-
gineers would be ordered OUT Ia a short
time.
/ Less than ~ GO tons Of fseisht vas sent
! East for the week ending Thursday night.
/ one must So back thirty years 70 End q
/ week when shipments xere 80 small
/ FIRST BLOOD FOR TEX MILITIA.
Mob Destroying GFand fruHk PTop-
rrav Ffred InaH.