The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-06
A CRISIS.
Chicago Strikers Lock Horns with
State and Federal Troops.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES ROTTING.
Complete Interruption of Freight Trsfiic At
st. Louis-The Pacific Coast-General
Managers' BuIletin-President
Debs Interviewed.

CHICAGO, July 3.-Yesterday's devel
opments in the great Pullman-A. R. u
strike have been prolific in sensation
alism, the principal theater being in
Chicago and adjacent suburbs The
first serious clash occurred when 20t
deputy United States marshals were
surrounded at Blue Island by 1000
strikers, who openly defed federal au-
thority. Weapons were drawn by both
sides, and Deputy United States Mar
shal John A. Logan was painfully cut
with a knife, but when a bloody con-
fict seemed imminent the deputies re-
tired to their barrack cars to await
reinforcements from Fort Sheridan,
leaving the strikers masters of the sit
uation.
Last evening an injunction from the
United States court was read and bull
letined. The authority of the United
States was openly derided, and after a
few minutes quiet, the riotous spirit of
the strikers reasserted itself. At mid
night reports of other disorder were
current, it being stated that the strik-
ers were tearing down the bulletin
mandate of the court.
Fearing to precipitate bloodshed the
Rock Island company decided after it's
$50 express had been gotten through,
not to make any further efforts to move
trains, but to-day can hardly fail to
bring crisis. The strikers have now
locked horns with the state and fed
eral authorities.
A number of trains have been de-
rallied by misplaced switches. A Pan
handle train was partly derailed at
Kinzie and Canal streets last night,
but was not seriously delayed.
Tons of fruit, vegetables, ice, meats,
and other perishable goods stand in
the cars, under a broiling sun, no one
caring or daring to move it to the des-
tination. Dumb animals crowded into
stock cars suffer thirst and hunger,
and prices of vegetables and fruits are
going up.
RIOT AT BLUE ISLAND.
BLUE ISLAND, ILL.,, July 3.-The pres
ent outlook here is not the most pros
porous for law and order. There is
very turbulent element among the
strikers, especially among their SYM
pathizers, 1000 of whom are employed
in the different yards at Blue Island.
These men are off for the Fourth of
July and it is the element that is most
feared.
Yesterday morning train having on
board 100 deputy United States mar
shals, commanded by United States
Marshal Arnold, came into the yards
and was stopped by the strikers. A
small riot followed, in which guns and
knives were drawn and a general
knock down fight occurred.
IMPROVING IN DENVER.
DENVER, Col, July 3.-The situation
In this city, so far as the operating of
passenger trains is concerned, showed
some improvement yesterday. The
usual morning trains were sent out in
all directions. The Santa Fe brought
in train from the east which had been
four days on the road from Chicago.
The Union Pacific Cheyenne train came
In without sleeper, but this was be-
cause connections were missed. There
was no train from the east on the Rock
Island, it being tied up at Omaha. The
Denver e Rio Grande is running all
passenger trains. Few freight trains
are running on any of the roads.
Five companies of the Seventh regi- |
ment, United States army, stationed at |
Fort Logan, left at $3.50 o'clock, yester-
day morning on a special train for |
where over 100 deputy mar
shals We're disarmed by a mob. The |
troops are under command of Col. |
Ward and Lieut.-Col. Baker.
OUT IN ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, July 3. The status of the |
strike here is that of almost |
complete interruption of freight |
traffic, while passenger trains made up |
by yardmasters and a'number of termi- |
nal association switchmen who have re-
turned to work are moving practically |
on time. On both sides of the river all |
have struck except those on |
the Wabash Western and the st. Louis, |
Keokuk & Northwestern. In all about
], 500 men have gone out in all the
yards and perhaps 1000 more have been |
out in unskilled lines of labor
by the detection of the switchmen and |
their allies. The only additions to the
ranks of the strikers yesterday were
the freight brakemen of the st. Louis
division of the Louisville & Nashville,
who have thereby laid up that division.
NO TROUBLE AT ST. JOSEPH.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 3.-It is not IN
likely that general tie-up on all of
the roads running into st. Joseph will
occur at any time. Members of the
American Railway union are reticent
on the subject, merely saying they ex-
pect to do what they think is right at
all times How soon they may decide
that it is the proper thing to bring
about a general tie-up no one can accu-
rately foretell.
The American Railway union of this
city will hold another meeting to-
night, at which their future course
will possibly be outlined.
Clippings.
Michigan's new senator, John Pat
ton, is regarded in Washington as a
handsome man. He is compactly built