The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-07-09
THE CARS BURNED
The Damage Over a Million and a
Half Dollars,
DEBs MAKES A SENSIBLE APPEAL
More than 1000 Cars Burned, and
Many of Them Loaded with
Valuable Merchandise
DEBs MAKES "A SENSIBLE APPEAL
IncendiarIsm Rampant.

CHICAGO, July 6.-With flaming torch,
lawless hordes of frebugs are at work
at score of points in the south half of
Chicago. Fires are raging in every di-
rection among the numerous railroad
yards, hundreds of acres and tens Of
thousands of dollars worth of merchan-
disc have gone up in smoke or been
carried off by the now frenzied mob of
rioters. Incendiarism is rampant, alarm
after alarm has followed in quick success
sion all day, and tonight at II the glare
reflected from the heavens shows the
disorderly passtime continues unabated.
From early morning until this hour,
midnight, reports of fresh fires followed
each other with rapidity, being confined,
however, principally to railroad rolling
stock and buildings, against which thus
far the greatest part of the mob's fury
has been directed. Early this morning
blaze started among some overturned
cars at Kensington, quickly communi-
eating to other tracks filed with long
lines of cars, and many containing
valuable merchandise. These were soon
raging furiously, famed by strong
winds. There is, at this point, a total
of so cars wiped out.
At the stock yards one blaze after an
other was reported and from the out
lying districts came urgent calls for
engines and police protection. But
with the falling shades of night came
the climax of the fiery festival. In
the Panhandle yards, from 55th to 63d
street, 80 stock cars are on fire. The
tracks contain 1000 to 1000 cars. Half
of them are loaded. They will be a
total loss. No water being at hand the
fire must burn itself out The Pan
handle station at 63d street was also
fred and destroyed. The Grand Trunk
yards at Elston is sea of flame. Five
hundred box cars are supposed to have
been burned and efforts TO check the
flames have been futile. While direct
ing the movement of the 1Ith battalion
at 51st street, Fire Marshal Fitzpatrick
was seized by the thoroughly frenzied,
mob of firebugs aud thrown into a
pond, from which he was rescued by the
police more dead than alive. Every
thing at this point will probably be
total loss. At Hyde Park, near the
worlds fair grounds, the ashes of 40
cars are smouldering and word has just
come in that after numerous efforts the
mob succeeded in firing the Illinois
Central shops at Bur nsides.
At the stockyards tonight about so
toughs, some of whom are railroad men,
were skulking from point to point, and
started large number of fires. Their
methods were thoroughly unique.
Loading several hand-cars with buckets
of waste and oil, they would glide
around among the cars in the darkness,
lighting wads of stuff, which would be
thrown into the open doors of the cars
as they passed by. Fires sprang up on.
every hand, and no organized effort on
the part of the police seemed to be un-
der way to intercept them. This is the
banner district of the city, if not of the
entire country, for all-around toughs;
and it is as much as mans life is worth
to interfere with them.
Troops are hurrying south. Company
after company on heavy marching or
ders are moving to the turbulent dis
trict from the center of the city. The
aggregate losses of the railroads will be
enormous, Miles of their tracks have
been ruined by the fierce heat, hun
dreds of switch and signal towers with
their expensive mech anism are utterly
ruined. Thousands of cars and.untold
quantities of merchandise of every i'm
aginable description have fed the flames
and filed gorges and larders of the
thieves. Valuable locomotives have
been wrecked and disabled, and miles
of tangled wires and PROSTATE poles
litter the ground. Telephone, telegraph,
electric light and fire. alarm wires are
now the special object of attacks. The
plugging of the FIRE alarm boxes consti-