The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-03

Chicago, July 2.-Today's develop
ments in the great Pullman-A. R. u
strike have been, prolific in sensational
ism, the principal theatre of action be-
ing Chicago and adjacent suburbs.
Wild rumors were rife, and when il
was announced that orders have been
issued for the Second regiment to pro-
coed at once to Blue Island, eighteen
miles out, extra editions of all evening
papers, with war-lil1e headlines were
eagerly scanned by thousands of anx-
ious people. This report proved, later
to be unfounded.
The first serious clash occurred TO-
day, when 200 deputy United States
marshals were surrounded at Blue Is
land by 1900 strikers, who openly de-
fed federal authority. Weapons were
drawn on both sides, and Deputy Mar
shall John a. Logan was painfully cut
with a knife. but when a. bloody con-
lict seemed imminent, the deputies re-
tired to their barrack cars to await re-
Inducements, leaving the strikers mas
tiers of the situation
This evening an injunction from the
United States court was read and bull
letined.
The authority of the United States
was openly deTided, and after a few
minutes quiet, the rioting spirit of the
strikers reasserted itself.
At midnight. reports of other disor-
uers We're current, it being stated that
the strikers We're tearing down the
bulletin mandate of the court.
Fearing. TO precipitate bloodshed, the
Rock Island company decided, after its
$50 express had been gotten through,
not to make any further effort to move
trains tonight, but tomorrow can hard
ly fail to bring a crisis. The strikers
nave now locked horns with the state
and federal authorities. The railroad
officials are Chafing under the contin-
ued embargo on business, while the
de- perate condition of their late en-
ployees, determined neither to work
Hhemselve nor to allow others to I'LL
their places, is evidenced by the flood
of reports OF individual conflicts mere
and there coming from all over the
city.
A number of trains have been de-
Tailed by misplaced switches.
A Pan Handle, passenger train was
partly ditched at Kinzie and Canal
delayed.
The strikers are stealing brassas
from the axle boxes of cars and in
some instances dropping coupling pins
into the cross head rSlides Of the loco
motives, causing the destruction Of
cylinder heads.
Tons Of fruits. ice, vegetables, meats
and other perishable goods are in the
cars under a boiling sun, no one daring
10 move it to its destination.
Dumb animals, crowded into stock
cars. suffer thirst and hunger. 1t is
thought no move likely to precipitate
hostilities Will be made before daylight.
At midnight, District Attorney Mil
christ, when asked If troops had yet
been ordered out from Fort Sheridan,
said:
II do not think they will be called
until the order Of the courts have been
violated and the judges recommend
that such measure be taken to up-
hold the dignity Of the court and ius-
tice. Unless the trouble is brough 10
an end soon, it is my opinion the strike
will terminate in bloodshed"
The firemen of the Lake street eJeva-
TED road decided after midnight they
would strike to assist the A. r. L The
specific cause Of the strike is that the
elevated road received some coal which
was delivered by the Pan Handle.
which is one Of the roads boycotted by