The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16
computation of the loss can be made, and
that viii take much time.
OTHER PROPERTY BURNED.

SOAnpuIdUlou VI tne loss can De made, and
that will take much time.
OTHER PROPERTY BURNED.
Within the city limits tower houses
have been burned and tracks torn up.
Damage has been done in many railroad
shops and enormous sums expended in de-
Tending the roads against rioters
General Manager St. John of the Rock
Island road said yesterday that the total
loss to his company over their entire line
would probably be not far from 81, ,OOO, 900.
Counsel for many of the railroads are
already at work drawing up claims for
financial redress from the county of Cook
and the city of Chicago, but figures are
hard to get at Concerted action on this
line will be taken by the general mana
gers at an early date.
AS an outcome of the strike and its dis
astrous effect upon the interests of the
commission men of South Water street,
the South Water Street Commercial
Club has called a meeting to formulate a
plan of action in regard to the claims
against the railroad companies. A COM
mittee has been appointed to have pres
ent at the meeting all actual dealers and
receivers, shippers, brokers, cold storage
and railroad men interested in the trade
and the claims. 1t is estimated on the
street that the claims will aggregate
$500, 900, and that the losses of the com
mission men would not be a cent less than
81, SOC, 900.
EFFECT ON THE FRUIT TRADE,
The effect of the California fruit trade
has been most disastrous. The first car
of California fruit to move eastward in
twelve days started yesterday. In the
four days preceding the Fourth of July
there were ninety cars of bananas en-
route to Chicago, large portion of which
never reached here.
Another great cause of loss was that
outside shippers got the idea that there
was going to be a famine nere and they
began to rush in perishable freight that
never reached Chicago dealers, and which
is now scattered all over the country, q
dead loss.
One prominent dealer was asked to-
| night as to what legal standing the
claims to he made would have; Il was
in New York" he said, during the
troubles of 1877. We shipped west car
! load of lemons, which were destroyed at
! Pittsburg. The consignee never received
| dollar from the railroad company, but
we sued him and he paid our bill. Posi-
! bly, that will be the case with the claims
! here. l am satisfied that over 81 ,000, 900
| has been lost, but / am not satisfied how
! the railroads are to be compelled
to pay for consignments which rotted on
| the tracks. At the time of the strikes
| they had in force two contracts one with
the Pullman company and one with the
merchants. 1t was question with then
which contract they should keep. They
decided in favor of Pullman, and now
their attitude toward the losses of the
merchants is to be determined"
LOSSES OF LIFE.
While the list of casualties, resulting in
losses of life and personal injury charge
| able to the strike and consequent riots is
not so extensive as casual reader of the
newspapers would suppose, the number
! of victims is large enough to make very
serious showing. In Chicago and
vicinity, including Hammond, eight, and,
! indirectly, ten lives have been
! lost, the victims being killed
outright or afterward dying OF
their injuries, while the number
wounded was forty-one. Two accidents
are chargeable to the incompetency OF
green men employed to take the places
were lost and four persons injured
The shedding of blood began July 2
when Deputy Marshal Logan was slightly
stabbed while fighting a mob at Blue
Island.
On July s. when the riots at the stock
yards began, Edward O'Neil and Antonio
Hopp were wounded by policemen.
w. E. Ansleyn and Frank Udess were
wounded on July 6, by marshal at Ken
sington, and Peter Schwarts, flagman
at the Pan Handle and Wisconsin Central
junction, was nearly beaten TO death by
! rioters.
Herbert Letters, striking switchman
was shot and killed by Mrs. William j.
Lehman, whose husband, Burlington
fireman, had been assaulted Oy Letters al
the corner of Eighteenth street and Oak
| lev avenue on July o.
The battle at F'orty-ninth and LOOMS
streets took place July Z. The number OF
casualties resulting from that will never
be known, as many of the wounded were
at once taken to their homes and no re
port made of their injuries As far as as
certained the dead were John Burke
Charles Ober and Thomas Jackman. The
injured among the rioters numbered if
teen and among the militia four.
SHOT DOWN AT A CROSSING.
The same day during a riot at the Pan
Handle crossing at Twenty-second street
Joseph Warzowski was killed by deputy
| marshal and Martha Boch, a spectator
of the disturbance at Ashland avenue and
Sixteenth street, was killed by a stray
Shot from a policeman's revolver
At Hammond on July soldiers Of the
United States army fired their first Of
fensive shots east of the Mississippi river
for many years, killing Charles tleischel
and wounding w. II. Campbell and Victor
DeZuttner.