Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-05
THE STRIKE.
Some Late News from the Labor
War. stat

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!, A dispatch dated Chicago, July A
says: With rifles levelled and revolvers
drawn, half of the Second Battalion
Fifteenth Regiment, United States In
fantry, proceeded through dense mob
of more than 5000 men, boys, women
and children to their camp in the stock
yards to-day to do their part in ending
the great Pullman boycott.
The day was trying for the troops and
police and one of intense excitement
from daybreak until night. Besides
the $50 men composing Companies G
and ID of the Fifteenth Infantry, there
We're the cavalry and artillery and a
squad of 20 policemen.
The trouble began early in the morn
ing. At 8 O'Clock Swift & Company
tried to move their stalled meat train,
east-bound, which the strikers had held
in durance for As hours.
Every obstacle was placed in the way
of the employees of the big packer, and
it was 11.30 before the train could be
started out on it's long journey. Even
! then the troops were obliged to charge
! the crowd with bayonets, before which,
like flock of frightened sheep, it fell
back and permitted the train to move.
Then came the worst part of the day.
The military train on the Lake Shore
road, which left the Rock Island station
at an early hour this morning with the
cavalry, artillery, horses and supplies
of the Fifteenth Regiment on board,
pulled into the yards at Fortieth and
Halsted streets at 2 p. m. There it con-
tinued to switch up and down until
| twilight when the attempt to move it
further was abandoned
Six times the train was uncoupled by
the strikers or their sympathizers, in
spite of the fact that on every car sat
the bronzed and seasoned army men,
who had seen service and know how to
shoot and who declared they would do
so if any man attempted to interfere
with the train.
This they would have done, but the
strikers We're too agile for them. Be
fore the rifles could be aimed the of
tenders would be back in the midst of
the crowd, where it would have been
worse than folly to shoot, .jeering and
hooting at the discounted military.
Only once did the soldiers look calm
ly on at two persons uncouple the train
and although they had plenty of time
to shoot, failed to do so. In this case
the persons were women.
While the military train was moving
it was guarded part of the time on both
sides by squads of armed men, in addi-
ton to those who rode on top. Nothing
was done at the stock yards except the
moving of Swift & Co. IS $75, 900 train of
meat.
After the troops had abandoned their
train and gone into camp the crowd de
rallied the two rear cars of the train and
then, satisfied with their days work,
and finding no more soldiers or police
men to harass, they quietly dispersed.
Fifteen Pan Handle freight cars were
burned at Forty-seventh street by a
crowd of strikers and their friends.
The great blockade ON the Rock
Island railroad was entirely raised at
lis o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and |
trains that had been tied up for
five days began to move. The first of
the trains that were stalled at Joliet |
came up the track guarded by soldiers !
ten cars, half of them Pullmans, made |
up the train. This was followed by six
other trains of equal length, all guarded
by regulars.
Des Moines, Ia, July 1.-The govern
or this morning ordered the Fourth reg
iment, except Company X, to Sioux
City.
Denver, Col, July 4.-The Wyoming
troops reached Pueblo at 2 O'Clock to
aid in moving mails.
Santa Fe, N. M, July 4.-The New
Mexico infantry are yet stalled few
miles out of Las Vegas. Efforts will
again be made to move trains through
Trinidad.
Salt Lake City, July 4.-The garrison
of government troops at Fort Douglas
has been ordered to hold itself in readi-
ness to move at short notice.
Danville, ILL.,, July 4.-The troops
alone make it possible to move trains
on the eastern Illinois railroad. The
Wabash sent out one passenger train,
which has moved from Tilton by Sher-
i'll Newton. On the Big Four passen-
ger trains are running as usual.