The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-07-11
THE GREAT STRIKE.
Chicago the Scene of Lawlessness-Presi-
dent Cleveland Sends Troops TO the City
and Issues Proclamation Ordering
the Mob to Dlsperse.

For two weeks past the strike of the
American Railway Union has been
making trouble in Chicago, stopping
the running of trains and causing the
destrution of railroad property.
Eugene Y. Debs, the president OF the
American Railway Union, who ordered
the strike, is thirty-6ve years old, and
very determined in his effort to carry
his point. Things got very bad last
week. The strike extended to many
roads east of the Ohio river. and all the
through lines to the Pacific were tied
up.
President Cleveland sent the United
States troops to Chicago to see that the
mail trains and interstate commerce
was not interfered with.
Gov. Altgeld protested against the
troops taking any part in the matter,
and put in the plea of States rights,
but President Cleveland in charac-
teristic reply intimated that it was
no time to talk, but something must
be done to,uphold the laws of the land.
at a time when mobs were destroying
property and resisting the police, the
deputies and the military in Chicago.
The President followed up this pro-
clamation with another on Sunday,
ordering the mobs to disperse by noon
on Monday. The proclamation seems
to have had the desired effect.
The Presidents course was approved
by the business men of Chicago and
also by member of some Of the labor
unions in the city.
TWO MILLIONS LOST.
CHICAGO, July IAN afternoon
paper prints the following: Competent
authority estimates the property loss
in this city alone by fire and waste
during the last ten days at s., 600, ,OO0-
a loss traceable directly to the strike.
But that amonnt is Insignificant IN
comparison to the loss due to sacri-
fee Of wages and paralysis OF business.
The railroad tie.up has thrown not less
than 2OO, 900 railroad employees out of
work. and now it is announced, as the
result of careful canvass, that in
dustrial establishments in Chicago and
its envirous, employing 100000 men
will shut down down until the strike is
settled. Other manufacturing COM
munities throughout the West are
doing the same thing, and it is not an
exaggeration to state that the ranks of
id!ers in the West will be increased
100000 men by reason of the strike.
The Western country is, therefore,
LOSING 100000 OADAY
in wages, estimating the pay of the
men at the low average of 81 day. On
the basis of estimates of men out of
work in Chicago now by reason of the
strike, the working men are contribut-
ing 100000 day in lost wages and
100000 more in drafts upon their re-
sources for the cost of living or daily
total of S500,000.
A RIOT AT HAMMoND-TWo OF THE MOB
KILLED AND OTHERS WOUNDED.
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 were in sight. They had sacked
the Western Union Telegraph office,
overturned freight cars and committed
all sorts of depredations.
Two men were killed and eight or
nine men were wounded in collision
between Company B. of the Fifteenth
infantry, United States army, which
was sent to Hammond from Chicago.
ALL QUIET AT HAMMOND
HAMMOND, Ind, July 9.-All is quiet
here. The citizens of Hammond awoke
to find themselves surrounded by one
third of the militia force of the State.
All the troops are in the vicinity Of the
railroad depot platform, the sidewalks
and cars being filled with citizens SOL
diers.