Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-07-07
SIX SHOT DOWN.
Blood Begins to Flow In the
Chicago Strike.
WORK OF THE TORCH BEGUN.
Hundreds OF Cars Wrecked and Whole
Trains Burned to Ashes.
FEW SOLDIERS FOR PROTECTION.


Six Hundred Regulars Are Camped on tho
Lake Front, but They Arc Not Able to
Cope with the Thousands Of Infatuated
Strikers - Fire and Police Telegraph
Wires Cut TO Prevent the Authorities
From Interfering In tho Wholesale De-
struction-D Deputies kin Six strikers and
Wound Many Moreno Trains Sent Out,
but Few Arrived From Out Of Town.
CHICAGO, July six dead and an in
| definite number injured lis tho record of
casualties in the strike conflicts in Chica-
| 60 One man was shot I'm the leg. II
later blood letting shall show a like in
| crease, the coroner Will have summers
work before him. The latest develop
ments have but confirmed the conviction
that nothing short of an overwhelming
armed force, with instructions to shoot to
] KILL can settle the trouble, or, as Colonel
| Crofton put it, 1T has ceased to DO a
mere movement Of troops and has become
a campaign. "
The local and state authorities have
awakened TO the critical and grave nature
Of the strike malady which is affecting
the nation greatly. but Chicago in partic-
ular, and are taking measures to apply
| adequate remedies. The city police force
has already been recruited to over 5000
men, and by request of Mayor Hopkins
and by order of Governor Altgeld two
| brigadcs of state militia have been ordered
here to aid in quelllng the disturbances.
The day has been one of constant alarms
| and calling for police and soldiers through
! out that wide stretch Of territory i'm the
| southern part of the city. Riot has boon
| running rampant. Cars have been over
| turned, switches broken and tracks OBJ
! structod i'm numerous ways. Tho torch
| has been applied in numerous instances
| To cars, switch towers and the like. not o.
mention an attempt to fire a part of the
great Armour packing places In fact, at
one time the incondidry blazes followed
each other in such quick succession that
| the fire department was put to straits
| TO care for all of them To add to the
| gravity of the situation 10 was found that
| the strikers were interfering with the po-
| lice, railroad and fire alarm telegraph sys
| tenn, and in one or two instances police
men who were using the police telephone
calls were stoned.
In general the order Of things compared
| with that of yesterday was reversed Then
the railroads were trying TO break the
blockade by sending trains out. They
recognized the futility Of that method of
procedure and practically gayo up any
attempt at outward movement
But there were some incoming passen-
! ger trains on several of the roads together
| with few Of the regular milk trains Be
| tween these two classes of traffic the strik-
! ors rnnnaornn ia rlrn l-a frorfI.1. CO..
| every road running i'm q southorly diroc-
| ton The Fort Wayne, the Lake shore,
| the Michigan Central the Baltimore and
| Ohio, the Illinois Central, the Alton, the
! Panhandle, tho Western Indiana the
| Rock Island and the Monon all experiono-
ed difficulty in greater or less degree at
some time or all Of the time during the
day
The trick Of soaring the crew from a
train on the Lake Shore, cutting the en-
| CINE loose, running it up the track. open
| ing the throttle and letting It run fun tilt
back upon the standing train was a new
one and of character likely to be imi.
tated
The stOning Of incoming trains was
common pastilne with the mObs. and sey.
/ eral persons were more or less injured by
flying missiles. One engineer on a Rock
Island train was so badly injured that il
was at first reported that he was dead.
The assaults of the mobs however were
not met with the passive resistance which
characterized the course pursued hereto
fore. On two occasions at least their at
tacks were met with accurately aimed
lead. During riot in the forenoon over
an incoming milk train at kensington a
deputy United states marshal shot and
killed two strikers, and during the after
noon the deputies guarding an incoming
Baltimore and Ohio passenger train re-
piled to the vollcy OF shots and stones
which the strikers showered upon them
by turning their royolvers loose. killing
four Of their assailants and wounding a
number of others.
A new and grave feature was added t.
the situation yesterday when % meet
ing of representatives Of all of the bodies
of organized labor in the city, after % pro.
tracted discussion, I'm which general sym.
pathy strike was favored, appointed a
committee OF three, with full power to act
and at the same time called a meeting of
all organized labor for next sunday to rat.
ify their action.
OF the strike in general it may be said
TO have broadened and strengthened I'm
its grip. The most significant feature of
it is the carrying of the strike east to
Cleveland, tying up all the connections OF
the seaboard trunk lines there, with the
promise that it Will reach the trunk lines
themselves and so practically reach the
Atlantic seaboard by tying up the railroads
at Buffalo. Thus the strike would be ex
tended from ocean to ocean.
-Four Strikers shot.
A passenger train ON the Baltimore and
Ohio, which had been held in South Chi
cago all night, was started for the city
under the guard of several deputy mar
shals At Forty-third and Ash streets it
was met by mob which fired on the
train and at the same time poured in vol
ley after volley of stones. Tho trainmen
and deputies at once returned the fire, and
for three minutes lively fusillado was
kept up. -Four of the strikers were hit
and were carried OF 10y their friends
A short time after the through train for
New York pulled out, but was compelled
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