The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-07

ChicaSO. july with flaming torch
es lawiess hoydes Of frebugs are at
work at a score Of points in the south
shalf of Chicago.
Fires are raging in every direction
among the numerous railroad yards.
Hundreds Of cars and tens of thous-
Rnds Of dollars worth Of merchandise
has gone up in smoke or been carried
off by the now frenzied mobs of rioters.
Incendiarism is rampant.
Alarm after alarm has followed in
quick succession all day, and tonight, at
II o'clock, the glare reflected from the
heavens shows that the disorderly pas
time continues undated
From early morning until this hour,
(midniglat), reports of fresh fires fol-
lowed each other with startling rapid
tys being confined, however. princi-
pally to railroad rolling stock and build
lngs against which, thus far. tie great
est part Of the mobs fury has been di-
rected.
Early this morning, blaze started
among some overturned cars at Ken
sington, quickly communic2 ting to
other tracks filled wish long lines of
cars, many containing valuable NOR
chandise. which were soon raging fuIf-
ously, famed by strong winds.
There IS at this point total Of eighty
cars wiped out.
At tle stock yards. enc blaze after
another was reported and from the out
lying districts came urgent calls for
engines and police protection, increas-
ing in frequency.
But with the falling shades Of night
came the climax of the fiery festival.
The Pan Handle yards from Fifty
fifth to SiXty-third street, eighty
stocks, are on FIRE.
The tracks, containing from 1000 to
1000 cars, half Of them loaded, will be
a total loss.
No water being at hand, the fire must
burn itself out
The Pan Handle station at Sixty
third street was also fired and de-
Etroyed
The Grand Trunk yards at Elston is
q sea of flames.
Five hundred box cars are supposed
to have been burned and efforts to
check the flames have been futile
While directing the movement Of the
Eleventh battalion at Fifty-frst street,
Fire Marshal FitzT atrick was siezed by
the thoroughly frenzied mob of fire
bugs and thrown into a pond. from
which he was rescued by the police
more dead than alive.
Everything at This point will prob
ably be a total loss.
st HYDE Park, near the Worlds fair
grounds, the ashes Of forty cars are
now smouldering, and word has Just
come in that after numerous efforts
the mob has succeeded in firing the
Illinois Central shops at Burnside
At the stock yards tonight about fif-
y toughs. some of whom were railroad
men, are skulking from point to point,
and have set a large number of fires
Their meshod was thoroughly
unique.
Loading several handcars with buck
cts Of waste and OIL, they would glide
around among the cars in the dark
ness, lighting wads OF the stuff, which
would be thrown into the open doors
Of the cars as they passed by them.
Fire sprung up on every hand and
no organized effort on the part Of the
police seemed TO be underway to inter-
cept 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
a mans life is worth to interfere with
them.
Troops are marching south; company
after company, on heavy marching or
Ger, are moving to the turbulent dis
trIet from the center of the city.
me aggregate Of the losses to the
railroads will be aDO1.r11O11e
Mics OF their tracks have been ruin
cd by the flre heat, hundreds Of switch
anc signal towers, with their expensive
mechanism, utterly ruined.
thousands cars and untold GUAM
titles OF merchandise of every imag gina
bic description have fed the flames, and
gorges the larderS OF thieves.
valuable locomotives have been |
wrecked and disabled
Miles Of tangled wires and PROSTATE
poles litter the ground
Telephone telegraph, electric light |
and fire alarm wires are now the
especial objects Of attack, the plugging
OF fire alarm boxes constituting a new
and doubly dangerous element in the
tremendous wave Of incendiarism. |
sweeping over the southwest portion Of /
the city, preventing as il does. notice
being received of the starting of fires
until, with the poor water supply in |
these outlying districts, a fire has at |
tanned such Roadway that it cannot !
be stopped except through lack Of |
further material on which to feed
The rladdened mobs, now worked up |
TO the highest pitch of fury, are par
alelling the scenes of the commune, and |
at this hour it appears as though moth |
ing Of the miraculous can prevent an |
armed demonstration against them and |
the sacrafice of many lives.
AT midnight all the cars in the yards |
have been destroyed. The mob showed /
method in its incendairism and hun
dreds Of cars were rified and their con-
tents carried away before the torch was