Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-12
UNCLE SANS TROOPS.
THEY ACT As GUARDS FOR
NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAINS.
Soldiers Are Sent Out With Northern
Pacific Passengers Trains From
st. Paul FOR the COast-A Bridge
Of the Great Western Destroyed.

st. Paul, July 9.-Trains on the North.
ern Pacific are being guarded by United
States regulars. The first train was sent
out Saturday evening. Being the first
through train out, and carrying regulars,
it drew a large throng of A. X. U. peo-
pie II other spectators TO the union
depot, where perfect order prevailed. The
train pulled slowly through the yards, at
tracing no little attention from those
along the tracks and on the bridges. The
soldiers and their e~quipage could be seen
through the open windows, and the sight
was hot a pleasant one for the crowd.
Many did not know that the regulars
wire on the move and many were the
C njectures made regarding their destina-
ton and mission. From Mississippi
street to the great Northern shops the
track was lined with children and in some
ir stances women, who hooted at the tops
of their voices and scratched the backs
of tteir hands to show the contempt
they felt for the "scabs." Cries of
"scab, scab." were heard at every cross
ing. Beyond this the crowds were orderly
and M stones were thrown. This fact
may have been due to the presence of the
police who were patroling the yards.
There was no demonstration at Minneap-
oils. No or q seemed to notice that there
was anything out of the ordinary about
the train. 1t arrived Ut the uniGn depot
at $50 and left ten minutes later.
With the Chicago roads ard the st.
Paul Il Duluth the situation exhibits no
new feature. the only interferences to
trs tfic bei'g reported by the Omaha.
Passenger trein No. CD was derailed at a
switch one-haif mile south of West Su-
perior on Friday night while on its way
to st. Paul, presumably the work of
strikers. The engine, baggage car and
csr V ere derailed, but no one
WAS injured. This train left at IL o'clock
with a new engine. the other having been
diSatled by the shock it sustained, and
reached here about 7 o'clock n the even
ing. The other case of violence occurred
at Spooner, Wis, where the freight trsin
which left here Friday afternoon for Du-
luth was attacked by a large body of
strikers. who tried to take possession.
One of them succeeded in climbing on
one of the cars CLd cutting the air brake
thus stalling the train. BY intimidation
the fireman was compelled to leave his
engine. The engineer backed down the
yards and secured another fireman and
was about to make ahead when some
turned a switch. The engineer,
seeing a clear yard, rushed at full speed,
so that none could jump on. 1t happened
the switch turned was a split switch
and the train went through all right.
AT = o'clock this morning Ducas street
notified Lieut.. Murphy at the
precinct station that the Chicago
Great Western railroad bridge, this side
of South Park, had been set o n fire
about midnight and was burned. One Of
the watchmen at South Park saw be-
tween twelve and fifteen men run away
fl ON the burning bridge and escape in
boats on the river, and it is believed the
bridge was fired by strikers or sympa.
tkisers with the strike with the intention
of stopping traffic on that line. The
was a wooden trestle spanning a
gully down which there flows "a sluggish
to the river, and was about $50
feet long. The burning of the bridge
will close all traffic on the Great Western
line between here and South st. Paul,
and will effectrally prevent the moving
Of stock yard trains which the company
contemplated doing to-day, and it will
alsH stop traffic on the motor line.
All roads report that they are sending
out passenger trains on time. and sornc
they are sending out freight. The
declare that no road is running
passengers on time and none sending out
The Northern Pacific train sent ont
escort of regulars has passed Man.
Ian. n. d., without incident. Three
trains were sent out of Spokane to-day.
The railroads have the best of the sit
nation at Duluth. The mayors of Da-
nth and Superior nave issued proclama- |
lions warning men from gathering or in |
with trains An Omaha freight, |
The first for nine days, has arrived at
Duluth, and the Northern Pacific sent out |
Is first train from there for three days.
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