The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08
TROOPS FIRE ONA MOB
AtLeaSt Three OithG Wounded
Will Die.
No MERCY TO BE SHOWN.
Gen. Miles Issues Orders That Mean
Business.

Il state Soldiery the First of the Mill
q tary Contingent to Do Any Shoot
4 ing-A Girl Killed by a Stray Shot
From the Police Firing Over the
Heads of the Mob-A Total of 500
Freight Cars Burned as the Result
ofFriday Nights Incendiary Rcids.
Il The Situation Trife More Hopeful.
Chicago, Ill, July 7.-"And it is further
II ordered that if an act OF hostility be COM
mitted such as firing upon railroad trains
II or assaultmg trainmen, marshals or sol
q diers by throwing at them rocks, pieces
Il of iron or other missiles, those assaults
q shall be repelled by the use of firearms"
So wrote Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in his
a order issued detailing federal troops
81 TO assist the United States marshals in
n preventing obstruction to the movement
8 of mail and interstate commerce trains
81 1t was, in short, notice to all rioters that
81 temporizing with them had ceased. and
that thereafter the policy Of the govern
ment would be to put an end to their
Il rioting, arson and plllage by shooting to
kill whenever and wherever necessary.
u AS chance would have it, however, it
4 did not fall to the lot of the national
troops to carry out this order first.
Company c, Second Regiment Illinois
n National Guards, had that distinction.
a Thestory of the encounter between the
Il thirty-seven young militia men of this
company and a vicious mob at Forty
seventh and Loomis streets is told else
where in these dispatches.
HOW THE MoBs SPENT THE DAY.
Up to o'clock in the afternoon the day
n had been comparatively quiet one. To
# be sure, small mObs had been going about
q all through the district west of State
street and south of Thirty ninth, burning
# few cars here and there, and making
# threats Of firing railroad shops and the
# like; but it was more in the nature of
" bushwhacking than anything else, and not
81 at all like the massed bands of strikers.
81 who gathered along the railroad tracks
81 yesterday and the day before, absolutely
"A blocking ali movement by sheer force of
n numbers
This state of affairs was doubtless the
M outgrowth of various conditions, such as
the presence of vastly increased forced
81 of soldiers and the fact that esterday's
"a wrecking and firing cars had left a large
sd share of the tracks to the south impass-
N ablc, so that about all the discernable
81 movement was in the shape of wrecking
n trains, endeavoring to bring order out of
# the chaos, which existed althrough the
q region.
THE RIOTERS $4,000 STRONG.
The area covered twenty-five square
# miles which the rioters covered with their
M lncendiariSm. 1t is estimated that in the
II district mentioned, not less than $4,000
n rioters were out at one time and another
during the day, but the ground was so
81 thoroughly patrolled by the police, the
M marshalS and the military that they
Isl found little opportunity for getting to-
# gether in large numbers as they have been
M DONG heretofore, still some of them at
M the stock yards found time for induging
VA IN the grim humor Of laying out a grave
M YARD IN due order and erecting headstones
# ao me graves therein, bearing the names
OF their pet aVersOns including that of
The President of the United States.
one feature of the day was the showing
# OF lts teeth by the building trades council
# OF the city, including the steam filters in
y
81 WIN a threat that it was merely pre-
hminary to calling out its $4,000 members
81 city
Another feature was the patrolling of
# sehVrles before the federal subtreasury
III whose vaults lie some Sl5, 5,O00, 600 of
# Cucle SANS money. which Gen. Miles
SHQught might prove temptation to some
III Vi resident Debs' followers not to be re-
sisted especially in view of the fact that
'ney are not very flush just now.
SITUATION IMPROVING.
For the first time since the strike
M opened there were several distinct notes
VI improvement in the situation, and
TyIese were not confined to Chicago.
Hcre the postal authorities reported a
nCuceaole Improvement in the movement
" inc mails. Outside of Chicago it was
W ne noted that the strike while it made
NO progress worthy of mention at any
poiuy gave many evidences Of having
V"CHeu It's elimination and Of failing in
uouce 10 begin with, the promise that
vHe seaooard trunk lines would be tied
ny aU buhaIo was not fulfilled: the strike
was not extended to Pittsburg, as was
touicJed at a number of points
Vne Tied up territory the strain
M "o Hghtened; at one or two points
'0u VINO had agreed to 80 out failed 10
81 out most significant of all per
y"Pe was The refusal Of the American
rea'IWay Union men at Louisville, Colo
lalo Springs and Denver to obey Presi-
rouv Dehs' orders TO strike. Joliet re
tor'ed detection from the ranks there,
.u % employees OF the Joliet, Elgin and
eastern returning to work.
FRIENDS OF GOOD ORDER PLEASED.
3h the other hand. the friends Of law
""N oruer had occasion to be pleased on
,ouhI OF the massing Of troops here
,, Nr AZ the ordering Of a decided move
,nV OF troops by the President with
cd,s, 10 hitting the embargo on Pacific
Cenlral routes 10 this end he ordered
at Merritt ~ ST. Paul. aud Gen OTIS
aueouyer barracks 10 see 10 the open