Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-12
CHICAGO QUIETER.
Only Small Mobs Went Rioting on
Sunday.
WORK OF CLEARING TRACKS BEGUN.
hammond, Ind. the Theaser of the Days
Greatest Excitemsnt-United States
Troops KIN q Man and Wound
Several-Cars Burned.

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Greatest Exeitemsnt-United States
Troops Ksn a Man and Wound
severaI-Cars Burned.
CHICAGO, July 9.-Comparative quiet
prevailed as a rule within the city
yesterday, though there were. as might
have been expected, a number of
sporadic instances where little knots
of malcontents gathered, became bois-
ferrous, and were finally scattered by
charge from the police. A number of
small mobs formed, went rioting,
firing and overtnrning cars; heads
were cracked and small fry brawls,
mostly the result of too much bad
whisky, were frequently reported at
police headquarters There was, how
ever, no concerted effort at incendiar-
ism or violence, although at a number
of places individual cars were fired,
several of which were destroyed. A
coal train on the Eastern Illinois was
ditched at Root street by a switch be-
ing misplaced after the engine and four
cars had passed over.
The work of clearing the tracks in
the Grand Trunk yards at Forty-ninth
and Ashland, where debris from the
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tracks, was completed yesterday under
police and military protection, the
monotony, however, being enlivened
by occasional police rallies when the
gatherings of idlers watching the work
became two large and threatening. AT
p. m. when the finishing touches had
been put on the work, nearly all the
onlookers had disappeared and the
troops, laborers and police were with
drawn.
No sooner had they got we'll out of
sight, however, than gang of 500 men
suddenly appeared, and with crowbar
and shovels tore up about an eighth
of mile of the track before word
could be got to the police department.
They fed before another charge of
the police, and the work of repair is
again being pushed forward.
Hammond, Ind, adjoining the city
on the southeast, was the theater of
the days greatest excitement. Here
the rioting of Saturday night was re-
sumed and finally became SO serious
that company of United States troops
went out there. They preserved peace
for several hours, but the mob increased
in size and finally became demonstra-
tive, so that it necessitated charging
on them by the troops, with the result
that one man was killed, two badly
wounded and a number of others re-
ceived serious injuries.
All the reserve force of police officers
on the west side had been detailed to
the yards of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy and the Wisconsin Central
roads earlier in the day, and nothing
lay in the path of the frenzied strikers
and their friends.
Shortly after 3 o'clock John NJ. Egan,
at the general managers headquarters,
sent the following message to Chief
Brennan: rs there no way that we
can secure protection from the mobs in
our yards? They are burning cars and
destroying property in the yards at
Halstead, Meagher and Morgan streets,
and not a policeman can be found"
Chief Brennan at once transmitted
the message to the inspector, who de-
tailed squad of thirty police officers
to the scene of the disturbance. The
fire department had been called out on
three different occasions, each time to
extinguish flames in freight cars.
Thirteen cars were burned. The mob
gathered about the fremen when they
arrived in response to an alarm and
greatly interfered in the work of ex-
tinguishing the fires.
The arrival of the police had but lit
tie effect. The blue coats were hooted
at and pelted with stones. The crowd
numbered nearly 1900, and was made
up of the toughest element of the city.
Well-known thieves and other desper-
ate men, whom the police of the Max
well street station have had consider
able trouble, mingled in the mob, and
took an active part in the distur bance-
The police finally made determined
charge and drove the mob to adjoining
streets and from freight yards, club
bling the leaders freely. The police re-
manned on duty all the afternoon. and
the strikers were kept from doing
further violence.
The mobs commenced to collect early
yesterday morning in the yards of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the
Wisconsin Central tracks at Western
avenue and Sixteenth street. Threats
against the railroads and denunciation
of the police were heard on all sides,
and it only required the move of some
leader to start another conflict. The
police, numbering $50, and three COM
panies of the Seventh regiment were
on duty all Saturday night and yester-
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gathering action was at once taken to
disperse it. The men were obstinate
and at first refused to move. The po-
lice officers used their clubs with telling
effect and in a short time the mobs
were dispersed.
The militia were camped in the yards
at Western avenue, and early yester-
day morning the boys were distributed
through the yards and instructed to
deal severely with anyone caught in
the act of burning or uncoupling cars.
Shortly before noon smoke was seen to
come from freight car on the Wiscon-
sin Central tracks. The firemen worked
under guard of police officers, and
had difficulty in extinguishing the
flames. No sooner was the FIRE out at
that point than another was discovered
two blocks away This was soon ex-
:inguished. Alarms of this sort con-
tinued throughout the day.
During the day another mob went to
the yards of the Panhandle road at
Rockwell and Sixteenth streets and
set fire to a number of cars. The