Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-07

CHICAGO. July with flaming
torch, lawless hordes of fire bugs are at
work at q score of points in the south
half of Chicago.
Fires are raging in every railroad
yard, hundreds of cars and tens OF
thousands Of dollars OF merchandise
have gone up in smoke or been carried
off oy the irenzied mob of rioters. In
cendiarism is rampant, alarm after
alarm has followed in quick succession
all day and tonight at IL o'clock the
glare reflected from the heavens show
that the dastardly pastlme continues
unabated.
Early this morning blaze started
among some overturned ears at Ken
sington, quickly communicating TO other
tracks filled with long lines of cars.
Many containing valuable merchandise
were soon blazing furiously. Famed
by strong winds there were at this
point eighty cars wiped out But with
THE FALLING SHADES OF NIGHT
came the climax OF the fiery festival.
The Pan-Hsndle yards, from Fifty-ffth
TO Sixty-third streets, eight blocks
are a mass of fire. Ten trains, con-
tanning from a thousand to two thou
sand cars, half of them loaded, will be
a total loss. No water being at hand,
the fire must burn itself out. The
Panhandle station at Sixty-third street
was also fred and destroyed. The
Grand Trunk yards at Elston is sea Of
of flames Five hundred box cars sup
posed TO have been burned, aud efforts
TO check the flames have been futile.
At Hyde PARK, near the Worlds Fair
Grounds, the ashes OF forty cars are
now smouldering, aud word has just
come in that after numerous efforts the
mob has succeeded 10 firing the Illinois
Central shops at Burnside.
At the Stock Yards tonight about
fifty toughs, few of whom were railroad
men, are skulking from point to point
and have set large number OF fires.
This is the banner district Of the city,
IL not of the entire country, for all
round tnughs, and it is as much as
mans life is worth to interfere with
them.
TROOPS ARE HURRYING SOUTH;
compaDV after company, Ia heavy
marching order, are moving 10
the turbulent district from the centre
OF the city.
The aggregate OF the losses to the
railroads will be enormous. Miles Of
their tracks have been ruined by the
fierce heat, hundreds OF switch aud sig
nal towers with their expensive mechan-
ism utterly ruined. Thousands of cars
and untold quantities Of merchandise of
every imaginable description have fed
the flames aud gorged the larders Of
thieves; valuable locomotives have been
wrecked and disabled; miles Of tangled
wires and prostrated poles Uttered the
ground.
The maddened mobs now worked up
to the highest pitch of fury are paral-
telling the scenes Of the commune, and
at this hour ii appears as If nothing short
OF the miraculous can prevent an armed
demonstration against them and the
sacrifice of many lives.
TO ILLUSTRATE The TACTICS
resorted TO by the iucendiaries TO ham
Der the work Of the fire department,
empty cartridges were forced into the
kew holes OF the fire alarm boxes, fire.
men were knocked down with stones
and bricks, aud while working at fires
the horses Of the department were
stolen.
At midnight all the cars in the yards
had been destroyed. The mob showed
much method Ia ITS incendiarism and
hundreds OF cars were rided and their
contents carried away before the torch
was applied. The loss In the Pan Han
die yards alone tonight is estima ated at
Sl.2OO,O00
CHICAGO, July 6.-The First regi-
ment, $50 strong, went TO Hyde Park
and Kensington this evening. The Sec
ond with about the same number Of
men followed shortly after, being as
signed TO the stock yards dis
trict under direction of police
Inspector Hunt The Third regiment,
six hundred men, will be placed on duty
in the district north of Thirty-ninth
street. The Seventh regiment, ZOO
men, is held in reserve, together with
battery d at the Michigan avenue
armory.