The morning call., 1894-07-07
STONED THE DEPUTIES.
Beginning of the Great Riot at
Kensingt0n.

Kensington.
CHICAGO, July 6-TWo strikers were
killed outright ana others are thought to be
seriously injured IN the riot in the Illinois
Ce ntral yards at KensiDgton this morning
At 10 o'clock 500 men were rushing up
and down the yards overturning the
freightears and destroying the tracks.
About $50 United States deputy marshals
and Cook County deputy sherffs charged
the mob at various places. The strikers
forces were rapidly recruited. By 1886
thousands of freDZied men were bowling
and throwing stones over a stretch of
track one mile iD length. At that time the
Illinois Central milk train came steaming
slowly up from the south. The mob
charged on il and in trice the engine was
detached and the cars overturned. The
train crew fed. The strikers. mounting
the engine, carried it back a quarter of a
mile, when, opening the throttle, they
jumped from the cab. The locomotive
rushing forward at full speed crushed into
the wreck and tore through the deraled
cars until it was thrown upon its side.
The crowd mounted the wreck with ex-
uItant cheers and held high carnival until
a force of deputies prepared to charge, and
as they cane on the run they were met
with shower of stones and coupling pins.
and hating fred. For a moment the mob
wavered as the bullets cut through their
ranks, and then with howl they charged
the little force of deputies. which retreated
TO a safe distance to await re-enforce-
ments. Police details were hurried to tie
scene and the rioters continued derailing
cars while awaiting for the expected at
tack, carefully concealing the dead and
Injured men.
At 80 o'clock this afternoon the pas
senger train on the Baltimore and Ohio
which had been held at South Chicago all
night, was started for the city under the
guard of several deputy marshals. At
F0rty-third and Ash streets the mob stood
and fired on the train and the trainDen
and deputies returned the fire, and five
minutes rapid fusillade was kept uD. No
trainmen were injured and the train pro-
ceeded TO the depot without further inter-
ruption. 1t was reported that four strik-
ers were killed and several others injured.
a mob attempted this afternoon TO over
turn the cars on che Panhandle road at
Brighton Park. They were resisted by
Deputy Sheriffs, and Charles Foote, a
striker, was shot in the neck by deputy.
The wound is fatal.
One of the men who was arrested when
the Rock Island train was stoned this
morning near Fortieth street was the son
of eX-Judge Moran.
The General Managers Association this
afternoon passed a resolution stating that
it is not fact that some of the State off,
ciais have intimated that the present
stOppage of railroad traffic is due TO a lack
of trainmen instead OF lack Of protection
by police officers. The resolution sets
forth that 80 per cent of the railway en-
ployes of the Chicago lines are anxious to
work. and only prevented by the lawless-
ness of the mobs not yet suppressed.
An attorney called on Mayor Hopkins
to-day to report that the strikers were try-
ing to intimidate the firemen and engineers
in the International Packng-h house refrig-
orator plant. The stOppage of this plant
means that thousands of dollars worth of
meat will be ruined. The Mayor ordered
forty-fve men to protect the plant
Bishop Fellows Of the Reformed Church
and Rev. P. S. Henson (BaptisD, called on
the Mayor to-day and announced a mass
meeting at Battery d on Sunday after
noon. The purpose of the meeting is to
discuss plans for settling the strike.
Mayor Hopkins to-day sent letter to
Governor Altgeld formally applying for
State troops to restore the city to peace.
able condition.
All the the unmarried men in the stock
yard Offices Of Armour e. Co. have been
sworn in as deputy Sheriffs, and are now
on duty.
Herbert Letters, striking Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy employe, was shot
and instantly killed this afternoon by Mrs.
William j. Lehman. Lehman took the
place Of a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
fireman, who went on strike. Letters
met Mr. aud Mrs. Lehman and endeavored
TO argue Lehman into striking. A quarrel
ensued in which Lehman was getting
worsted when Mrs. Lehman shot Letters.
The fremen in the Morris, Swift and
Armour packing-houses struck this morn
ing and were soon followed by the steam
filters. Armour & Co.'s teamsterS refuse
to work longer, fearing violence.
This morning three mail trains on the
Fort WAYNE road we're sent through the
district between Forty-ffth and Flfiy-ifth
streets, where the blockade existed yes
terday. During the night the frelghicars
that had peen dumped on the tracks were
removed and trains were sent out without
trouble. 1t was announced this morning
that forty-three soldiers from the regular
army would escort the Lake Shore mali