The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-09
CALNER At CHICAGO.
Hammond the Scene Of the
Days Only Riot.
DEBS STILL DESPERATE.
He Sticks Out For a Universal
Strike.

Two Men Killed and Several Wounded
in the Rioting at Hammond-The
Mob FIees Across the Indiana Line
on the Approach of Militia-Printers
Send an Amusing Appeal to Presi-
dent C1eveland-The Federal and
State Troops at Chicago at the Ser
vice of the Mayor.
Chicago, July S.-The storm center to-
day was at Hammond, an eastern suburb
of the city. Here a mob of nearly 5000
were in possession and no troops in sight
They have sacked the Western Union
Telegraph Office, overturned freight cars
and committed all sorts of depredations.
Five railroad employees were wounded at
the hands of the mob and one fatally.
The outbound Sunday passenger train
from Chicago on the Monon railway was
brought to a halt by the mob, the engi-
neer and fireman we're made to dismount
and the locomotive was quickly ''killed"
by opening valve and allowing the water
to run out of the boiler The active lead
ers of the mob were not local strikers or
known to the Hammond people. Under
their leadership, however, the town was
terrorized throughout the night and rail-
way traffic was paralyzed.
HAD EVERYTHING ITS OWN WAY.
Boldly operating right in the center of
3 the town, the mob had everything nearly
it's own way. The worst trouble came
railway employees, three men were
laid low in a bunch. Two other
railroad men were badly in
a jured in other encounters. The man
3 whose wounds are supposed to be mortal
is H. B. Miles, an employe of the Inter-
locking Switch Company. One of the
acts Of the mob was the burning of Pull
man coach. 1t was set on fire in several
places simultaneously, and completely
consumed. Fully twenty-five freight cars
were derailed and tipped upside down,
but the torch was not applied to those.
An unprecedented proceeding in strike
tactics was the attack on the telegraph
Office. The mob became possessed with
the idea that kilograms were about to be
sent to Gov. Matthews at indianapolis
asking for troops, and the strike leaders
81 determined to forestall such action if pos
81 sible
81 Entrance to the telegraph Office was
effected with scant courtesy and in the
# expressive language of an eye witness,
the place was cleaned out completely"
SECOND BATTLE.
A serious fight occurred this afternoon
at o'clock at Hammond, Ind, in which
two of the mob were killed and several
Others, including one woman, are said to
have been fatally wounded. The mob be-
~ came so violent shortly after noon that a
battalion of the First Illinois militia was
sent down from Pullman. 1t drove the
N rioters over the state line, which runs
N just west of Hammond, but was not
able to follow further owing to possible
conflict of interstate statutes. Word
pany of regulars, who could
operate irrespective of the state
line Capt. Hart with Company B of the
& Fifteenth infantry, was dispatched to
the scene. The regulars were patrolling
the tracks in passenger coach when
they were attacked by the mob with
stones, some shots being fired. The troops
Il at once returned the fire through
the car windows, killing Charles Fleysch-
man, who was shot through the
bowels, and wounding W. H. Campbell
in the leg. Several other men and one
woman were wounded but their names
are unknown. Three additional cOmpa-
nies Of regulars were sent from Chicago
:. on special train arriving at p. m. The
mob has driven out all the telegraph
operators and has cut the telephone
wires, making it very difficult to obtain
Information from the place, but it is GER
tain that up to 8 O'Clock tonight there
were no further disturba noes.
LOOKS LIKE A GENERAL STRIKE.
# Chicago, July 9, 80 a. m.-Reports
From the conference of ira les union dele
gates at Uhlich's hall at this hour indi-
Pate that a general strike will be
declared here. Upon the circula-
tion of the Presidents proclamation this
morning, call was circulated for another
fneeting of District No. l6 of the Interna-
#tional Typographical Union at 3o'clock
Tomorrow afternoon. Up to this hour
the officers of the union have received no
Communication from the President.