Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-03
BLOOD Was Shed.
A Striker Cut a Deputy
Marshal Yesterday.
SKlRMlSA WITH MARSHALS.
Considerable Damage Done
to Railroad Property.
Brasses Taken Away, Coupling Pins
Pat Where They VIII Injure. and
Like Things Done-severni
More Cities Fecei the strike.


Chicago. July 2.-Today's develop
ments in the great Pullman American
Railway union strike have been pro-
life in sensationalism, the principal
theater of action being in ChicaP nd
adjacent suburbs Wild rumo' &. %.
rife and when 1t was annou u -
orders had been received for Sc,
ond regiment to proceed at on,
Blue Island, eighteen miles out. ext. '
editions of all evening papers with
war-like head lines We're eagerly scan
ned by the thousands of anxious peo-
pie. This report proved later to be UNI
founded. The first serious clash oc-
CURED today when 200 deputy United
States marshals were surrounded az
! Blue Island by 1000 strikers who openly
defed Federal authority. Weapons
We're drawn by both sides and Deputy
! fully cut with q knife. but when
/ bloody conflict seemed imminent the
/ deputies retired to their barrack cars
! TO await endorsements. leaving the
| strikers masters OF the situation.
This evening an Injunction from the
| United states court was read and bull
| letined. The authority of the United
\ States was openly ridiculed, and after
l few minutes of quietness the riot
GUS spirit of the strikers reasserted
/ Itself. AT midnight reports of other
! disturbance were current, II being
I stated that the strikers We're tearing
/ down the bulletinod mandate of the
I court.
stopped Sending Trains.
Fearing to preclpltate bloodshed, the
Rock Island company decided after its
$50 express had been gotten through
not to make any further efforts to
move trains tonight. but tomorrow can
hardly fail to bring crisis. The
strikers have now locked horns with
the state and Federal authorities The
railway officials are chatting under the
/ continued embargo on this business.
which the desperate condition render.
The attitudeof their late employees
neither to work themselves nor to al
low others to fill their places, is evil
denced by the flood OF reports of in
| dividual conflicts here and there, com
ing from all over the city.
a number OF trains have been de-
rallied by misplaced switches A Pam
handle passenger train was partially de-
| rallied at Kinsie and Canal streets to-
| day, but was not seriously delayed
The strikers are stealing brasses from
the axle boxes Of cars, and in some
Instances dropping coupling pins into
the cross head guides OF locomotives.
/ Nauliib Aht htatIuCllpn OF cycllnQer
heads
Tons Of fruit vegetables, ice, meats
and other perishable goods stand in the
cars under a broillng sun. no one car
ing or daring TO move 1t to the des-
tination.
Dumb animals crowded into stock
cars suffer thirst and hunger and
prices of vegetables and fruits are GO
ing up.
II is thought that no move likely to
precipitate hostllities will be made be-
fore daylight. At midnight District At
torney Milchrlst when asked II the
troops had yet been ordered out from
Fort Sheridan. said:
II do not think that they will be
called out until the order of the courts
has been violated. and the Judges
recommend that such measure be
taken to uphold the dignity of the
court and justice. Unless the trouble
is brought to an end soon. It is my
opinion that the strike win terminate
in bloodshed"
Joined the strikers.
The tiremen OF the Lake street ele-
waited decided after midnight that they
would go on strike to assist the AmerI-
can Railway union. The specific cause
OF the strike is that the elevated road
received some coal which was delivered
roads boycotted by the American rail-
way union.
President Debs of the American Rail
way union. whei. asked about his ICON.
ference with Mr.. II. Il. Studebaker
admitted that he and Mr.. Studebaker
together with Vice President Howard
had been talking together.
There was no result. II was an in.
formal telk. Mr.. Studebaker proclaim
ed that he was not authorized to act
for the Pullman company or the rail
way managers. that he approached us
as private citizen in his individual
capacity, and proffered his services 1,
bring about settlement II, az an indi
vidual. he could do anything to put
stop TO the troubles existing We con
clu'led nur talk by declaring there WA
no use Of threshiug Cd straw; that ".
started out with n proposition 10 arbI
trnte the difference between Mr.. Pull
man and his employees. but had beer
snubbed. We are sim ready. notwith
standing, to stand by that proposition
but since 1t was made new compiled
lions have arisen which must be con
sidered In a plan OF settlement on thu
one plan that we will agree upon as 1
base of settlement"
DAbs repeated the basis of settlemen
already published.