Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1894-07-14


CHICAGO, July 5.-Police have been
dispatched to aid in moving trains IN
the vicinity of the stock yards. A train
on which were officers of the road start
ed out on the Lake Shore, but at 10th
street the mob got so denonstratlve
that the train was compelled to halt.
The engineer, thinking he was the OBJ
Ject OF the attack, drew his revolver, but
was disarmed by a policeman. The
crowd saw the movement and became
wild with frenzy. They pelted the en-
glneer with stones, breaking the win
dows and bowling like madmen. The
police then drew revolvers and fired into
the midst. A dozen or SO shots were
fired, but it was not known whether
anyone was hurt seriously. In the
meantime the engineer reversed his en-
CINE and the train was forced backward
out OF the reach of the now unbridled
mob and returned TO the city. This is
the first shooting in the present strike.
The conductors and brakemen on the
Northwestern decided this afternoon to
continue the strike.
Sixty five freight handlers on the Hi
nois Central struck today.
At the stock yards orders have been
issued to the troops to fire on any one
who attempts to uncouple cars on trains
made up. The United States troops are
hooted at and the police officers do not
seem to nave control. Railroad commu-
nication with the city is cut off.
FROM GENERAL MILES.
WAsHINGToN, July 5.-General Soho
field today received the following tele-
Sowing to the excellent discipline and
great forbearance of officers and men,
serious hostilities were avoided yester-
| day Several small fights occurred.
Matters look more favorable today, al
| though Inference exists on five roads.
All roads are endeavorlng to move
freight and mail trains"
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 5.-John Phil
| lips attempted to stop an outgoing mail
train on the Little Rock & Memphis
road by shutting off the air brakes. Con-
| dnctor Harry Mcdonald turned the on
| the brakes again and took the train out
| with a revolver in hand, threatening to
kill any man who attempted to stop it.
His wife stood by his side with a revol-
yer under her apron
SAN Francisco, July 5.-The seventh
day of the great railroad strike closes
with the blockade more complete ir
northern California than it has been al
any time since Debs ordered the A. r.
| U. To tie up the Southern Pacific. Al
Sacramento and Oakland the embargo
enforced by the strikers is absolute, not
a wheel being allowed to turn.
| Tonight the determined A. r. U.
1 ctil in 80 ho
mento depot. General Dimond, cha
grined at the action of his troops yes
terday in refusing to move upon tie
strikers, this morning left Sacramento
and returned to San Francisco. Before
doing so, however, he sent two com.
panies from Stockton home in disgrace
and issued an order depriving the Sacra-
mento companies of their arms and
uniforms.
During the day the strikers estab
lished headquarters in the vicinity OF
the railroad yards and settled down fol
a long seige. 1t is believed the railroad
company will make nc further move at
Sacramento Until federal troops can be
had there.
At Oakland the strikers are in abso.
lutte control. The state militia proved
of no avail, for the sympathy of the
militiamen is with the strikers. Com
pRnies from Petaluma, San Rafael and
Santa Rosa had been ordered to Oak
land, but they were sent home without
being ordered against the strikers. This
morning the company fired up two
switch engines on Oakland mole. No
sooner had this been done than a mob
of 800 strikers bore down upon the
yards, pushed by tie unresisting deputy
sheriffs and captured the locomotives.
| They ran the engines into the switches,
blew off the steam, raked out the fires
and let out the water. The railroad
officials made no further attempt to turn
a wheel.
At San Jose large force of strikers
stopped the passage of trsins by throw
ing themselves in front.
Many of the interior towns are al
ready running short of supplies and are
complaining bitterly.
Fireman Wing, who was accidentally
shot by militiaman at Sacramento yes
terday, died today.
Coastwse and even eastern mails are
now coming in and going out of San
Francisco on ocean steamers. The pos
tai authorities no longer hope for a
speedy resumption of railroad traffic.
| Mails for southern California were
| taken out on the steamer Santa Rosa.
Coastwise steamers are unable to
meet the demand for passenger trans
portatiou.