New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-07-11

south, attempting to reach the city. The
mob Immediately charged on it, and in
a trice the engine was detached and the
cars overturned. The crew had already
fed and the strikers, mounting the en-
gine, carried it back quarter of mile
when, opening the throttle, they jumped
from the cab land the locomotive, running
forward at full speed, dashed into thu:
wreck and tore through the derailed cars
until it was thrown upon its side. The
crowd mounted the wreck with ex-
ultant cheers and held high carnival un-
til the force of deputies prepared to
charge. As they came on the lun they
were met with shower of stones and
coupling pins, and halting, opened fire.
Two of the strikers were killed and sew
eral others wounded. For moment the
mob wavered as the bullets cut through
their ranks, and then with a howl they
charged the little force of deputies which
retreated to a safe distance to await re-
infercements. Police details were hur-
ried to the scene and the rioters contin-
ued the derailing of cars while waiting
for the expected attack carefully conceal
ing the dead and injured men.
At 2:30 the passenger train On theBal-
tjmore & Ohio, which had been held in
South Chicago all night, was started for
the city under the guard of several de-
putty marshals. 1t was met by a mob,
which fired on the train, and at the same
time poured in volley after vollev of
stones. The lrainmen and deputies at
once returned the fire, and for three min
utes lively fusillade was kept up. Four
of the strikers were hit and were carried
off by their friends. None of the men
on the train were hurt,and the train pro-
ceeded to the depot without further in
terruption. 1t was reported later that at
least four strikers were killed in the fight
and several others injured. A short time
after this train had arrived at the depot
| the through train for New York pulled
ou. and was compelled to stop at Thirty
ninth street by long lines of blazing cars
which had been fired by the strikers.
Several cars had also been thrown across
the track, and were set on fire. The train
WAS compelled to return to the depot. At
Burnside, station three miles nearer
Chicago than Kensington. fifty empty
freight cars were standing upon the track
The mob set fire to these, and they were
all practically destroyed. The Baltimore
and Ohio mail train due at Chicago at
6 40 p. m. Thursday when nearing
thirty ninth street, was attacked bv a
bowling mob of 500 or more who show
| cred stones and other missiles upon it.
All the windows in the train and CAB of
the engine were smashed In, and the mob
| threatened to kill the engineer. They
also turned box cars over on the tracks
ahead of the train and drove it back to
Seventy fifth street from which point it
finally receded to South Chicago.
Saturday: A bloody battle took place
between the rioters and Illinois militia
Saturday afternoon. The number of
killed will never be known as the mob
carried off number of men who were
seen to fall, but the casualties as far as
known amount to one killed and about
| fifty wounded. The mob had placed
certain Instructions and when an at
tempt Was made to remove them, the
! mob stood around hooting and bowling
and occasionally flying stone at the
soldiers. This condition of affairs pre-
vailed for two or three hours, until 1t.
Harry Reed was struck twice on the head
in quick succession by stones and fell to
the ground like a dead man. Can't.
Kelley then concluded the time had come
and, wheeling his men quickly, gave the
word to charge, and the handful of mill
| tlamen sprang forward with leyeled bay
onets. John Burke was standiug. in front
of the mob throwing coal as fast as be
could move his arms One of the first
soldiers in the charge plunged his bay-
enet clear through his body, the point
coming out at the back. Burke went
down like log and died in few min
| utes.
The mob broke before the charge but
quickly rallied. and, after short pause,
came on again, sending a pattering Of
revolver bullets before it. The troops.
the deputies ami the police waited for
no orders, hut the rifles came to level,
revolvers were drawn and a storm Of
leaden death swept into the mob. Men
fell right and left but the militia, depu-
ties and the police pressed forward, ra-
Inif1Iy driving the crowd haforo fIo,,,8