The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-07-14
SOME WILD SCENES
rrvEIv TIMES IN THE CHlCA"O
RAILROAD YARDS.
st-fLers Gather i'm Large
. Turn Switches and Overturn Nnss'
INIT Avoid an Open Conflict WIZ"
the United states Troops.

the Un1teO StltCS
Chicago. July 6.-This has been by faf
the most turbulent and critical day Ill
the UNPARALLELED railroad strike ana boy
colt. When it opened there was a gen
eral feeling that it's passage would 90
far toward clearing the atmosphere H. III
deed. it did not practically lift the en-
largo on which has held TINS
city in it's grip for the past week An %'I
expectation was chiefly based Oh .ne
presence of federal troops Ill the mos'
dangerous districts. But it must De con-
fessed that the hope INDUCED IN at Tue
onening in this regard has not been Justi-
fed. The troops were few in numbers at
hest. and when they were divided into
sorads and distributed at points sep
arated by very considerable distances II
soon became evident that their prestlge
"a over-awing bodies had been dlssi-
mated at the same time. Instead OF hee-
ing in fear before the faces OF the vet
Grams. as was expected they would no.
the turbulent thousands surged about the
little band of soldiers, jeered and hooted
at them, cast vile epithets at them ana
literally played hide and seek with them'
stcpping trains at will, and generally
T.. 1dt ring the embargo in the military
district more effective, if possible, than
before. =.
Tn throngs of strikers did not resist
Uncle Sans police. Again and again
when there were thousands OF TEEN
ebout a train which it was s0ught TO
r.cve, and on the track in front OF 1t,
they gave way like water before the
leveled h%ayonets Of a single company OF
infantry or the trampling of a single
/ sound of cavalry. Like water, too, they
closed in again at a point just beyond.
They turred switches, derailed freight
cars in front of the slow moving train,
and played all sorts of r~ailroaders' tricks
with which the soldiers were u%nacquaint-
ed. Thus it was that the troops at the
stock yards, in perse, erence and pa
thence, spent the day in a vain endeavor
to get one train load of dressed beef out
of sight of the starting point.
Aside from the immediate neighborhood
where the troops were operating there
was plenty of excitement and disorder
Great mobs gathered on the Lake Shore,
Rock Island, Alton and Western In
diana tracks and proceeded to obstruct
them by overturning box cars, breaking
switches and the like. At one point they
set fire to a switch tower and the inter
locking switch box, though the flames
were extinguished before serious damage
was done. In two instances there was
b%loodshed. On the Western Indiana
tracks a h~ard-pressed special policeman
fred at his pursuers, wounding a striker
in the leg. On the Lake Shore road all
official of that company in charge of q
train which he was endeavoring to force
through, emptied his revolver point blank
into the massed strikers about him,
wounding two or three it is believed. He
was saved from the fury of the mob by
bis fireman who put on steam and ran
back to the point of starting.
A mob numbering 1900 started north
on the Lake Shcoa tracks at Thirty
seventh street, overturning cars and OBJ
| structing the line in every possible way
They were not checked until they reached
Tw%enty-second street. where a heavy
force of police was massed and succeeded
in turning them back. During the day
Mayor Hopkins and Chief of Police Bren
a went down the Lake Shore road
Intending to 60 to the stock yards. Thei
passs &c was obstructed and they were
compelled to finish the journey on foot.
Of the strike, in general, it may be
said that it has broadened during the
day. The Big -Four, on which it was
understood traffic vas TO be resumed by
agreement, is practically tied up. AT
Joliet everything is at a stGndstill be-
cause the yardmen have gone out, and
the city water works have shut down for
lack of coal. Kansas City is again tied
up pretty completely. The federal troops
quickly put an end to the trouble at
Ration, N. NJ, arresting a lot of strikers
and starting them for Denver. Paralysis
continues on the Pacific coast. There
are federal troops at Los Angeles, but
none have been sent to Sacramento and
Oakland, pending a decision of the Ques-
ton whether or not the state troops and
United States marshals can cope with the
situation.
The embargo which was put on the
Canadian Pacific railway from London
west to Chicago on account of the using
of Pullman cars. in addition to their W
sleepers, was raised to-day upon the COM
pany agreeing to do without the Pull
mans. 1t was announced at the general
managers association headquarters the
information had been received of an or
der issued to-day by General Master
Workman Sovereign, of the knights of
Labor, for a strike of all knights be-
tween Omaha and the Pacific coast. Tho
strike order, it was stated, included all
K. of l.. employees in all lines of bust
ness, not merely those working for the
railroads. The information came to the
general managers in dispatch from
Des Moihes.