The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-16
IT COST MILLIONS.
CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS SUFFER
HEAVILY FROM THE STRIKE.
Railroads Not the Only Sufferers-Losses on
Traffic and Property Estimated at S3,-
coo, OOO-Uncle Sam Has Bill.

Chicago July 15.-Now that the railroads
| are getting their traffic in shape ana pusl-
ness is assuming It's normal condlt1on, some
| speculation as to the cost OF the great
| strike to the railroads and others IN chicago
alone may be interesting.
All the general managers committee
say at present they have not sufficient Gaia
to hazard opinion that could De reHeo
urcn. Urged to make guess, one Oh lheli
tonight said that the losses OF the roadS
would reach at least $5ooooo ana insh'
| go as high as sS000,OO0. He declined to per-
| nit the use Of his name, however, as the
! father of the random opinion
It will probably be many weeks peIore
| the managers can secure figures TOT
| detailed report. Many things must pc
| taken into consideration. The loss occa-
| stoned by suspended traffic will be the
| largest item, but the destruction OF prop
| erty will be by no means a small one.
The Pan Handle Suffered.
| Nearly 600 Pan Handle cars We're Destroy
] ed in one blaze and of this number ninety
eight are known to have contained
merchandise. 1t will be necessary TO learn
from the shippers invoices just what these
nnety-eight cars contained before any
computation of loss be made, and
that will take much time. Within the
city limits tower houses have been burned
and tracks torn up. Damage has been done
in many railroad shops and enormous sums
expended IN ueIenUlnS INc TOauS GSGlLoL
rioters.
General Manager ST John, of the Rock
Island road, said yesterday that the total
losses to his company over their entire
line would probably be not far from 81 000,-
600. Counsel for many of the railroads
already at work drawing up claims for
fir ancial redress from the county of Cook
and the city of Chicago, but figures are
hard to get at. Concerted action on this
line will be taken bV the general managers
at an early date.
Commission Men Want Damage.
AS an outcome of the strike and it's
| disastrous effect upon the interest Of COM
! mission of South Water street, the South
| Water Street Commercial Club has called
q meeting to formulate a plan of action
| in regard to claims against the railroad
| companies. committee has been ap-
! pointed to have present at the meeting all
| attta dealers and receivers, shippers,
| brokers', cold storage and railroad men
| Interested In the trade and the claims IL
| Is estimated the street that the claims
| will aggregate 100000 and that the losses
| of the commission men direct and Indirect
would not be cent less than 81 800 600.
The effect the California fruit trade
| has been most disastrous. The first car
| of California fruit to move eastward IN
| twelve days started yesterday. In the four
| days preceding the Fourth of July there
were ninety cars OF bananas en- route to
| Chicago, u large portion of which never
reached here.
another great cause of loss
was that outside shippers got
ehe 'oea that there was going to be a
famine here and they began to rush in
! perishable freight that never reached Chi
caeo dealers and which is now scattered all
| over the county a dead loss
Loss of Freight.
One prominent dealer was asked tonight
| nC to hot
| be made would have.
Il was in. New York. he said, during
| the troubles of 1877. We shopped west a
| carload of lemons which were DESTROYED at
lstsburg. The consignee never RENTED
/ dollar for the shipment, but we sued him
! and he paid our bill. Probably that will he
| the case with claims l am satisfied that
/ over $1,000,000 had been lost but | am no+
| satisfied how the railroads are to be com
! PEELED to pay for consignments which rotted
| on the track. In the time of the strikes
| they had in force two contracts one with
| the Pullman company and one with the
merchants. 1t was question with them
! which contract they should keep They de-
| clded in favor of the Pullman company
and now their attitude toward the losses
| of the merchants is to be determined"
Many Lives Lost.
While the list of casualties resulting in
the losses of life and personal injury d.
rectly chargeable to "a strike and con.e-
/ QueDl llOtS Is not 30 extensive S casual
reader of the newspapers would suppose
the number of victims is large enough to
make very serious showing. In Chicago
and vicinity, including Hammond, eight
| and indirectly ten lives We're lost, the VIC
| TINS being killed outright or afterward
| dying Of their injuries, while the number OF
| wounded, far as reported was forty-Cne
! Two railroad accidents occurred, probably
chargeable to the incompetency of green
men employed to take the places of strikers
| by which two lives were lost and four Der
| sons injured
The shedding of blood began July Cd.
| when Deputy Marshal Logan was slightly
| stabbed while fighting a mob at Blue ISL
| and.
July 5th. when the riots at the stock
wards began Edward O'Neill and Antonio
| Hopp were wounded by policemen.
| w e. Ansyan and Frank Udess were
! wounded July 9Th by marshal at Ken
| sington; and Peter Schwartz, hasman at
| the Pan Handle. and Wisconsin Central
| junction, was nearly beaten to death by
| rioters.
| Herbert Letters a striking switchman,
| was shot and killed by Mrs. William j.
| Lehman, whose husband, a Burlington
| fireman, had been assaulted by Letters at
| the corner of Eighteenth street and Oakley
| avenue, July 9Th.
| The battle of Forty-ninth and LOOMS
| streets took place July 7th. The number
of casualties resulting from that will never
| be known many of the wounded were
at once taken to their homes and report
| was made of their injuries. AS far as as
certained. the dead were: John Burke,
| Charles Ober and Thomas Jackson. The
| injured among the rioters numbered flf
teen and among the militia four.
! Innocent Persons Killed.
| The same day during a riot at the Pan
| Handle crossing, at Twenty second street,
| Joseph Wargsowski killed by a deputy
marshal, and Martha Back a spectator of
| the disturbance at Ashland avenue and Six
teenth street, was killed by stray shot
| from a policeman'S revolver
At Hammond. July Sth, soldiers Of the
| United States army fired their first often
! sive shots east of the Mississippi river for
| many years. killing Charles Fletcher and
| wounding w. H. Campbell and Victor
! Dezuttner.
| Patrick O'Connor shot and killed by
| an Illinois militia private at the corner of
| Newberry avenue and TN~yl.Tl street, July
| 18th. During the conflict between two com
! panies of deputy marshals, brought on by
| fright, at kensington, July 18th, Peter
| Fische a deputy marshal, and Andrew
| Gregory a bysta nder, were wounded.
July 14th w. Suchran. striking team
ster was shot by Rudolph Scoll, a driver
| whom he was trying to pull from the seat