The herald., 1894-07-06
TURBULENT MODS
A Day Of Disorder
in Chicago.
Rioting in the Stock Yards
District.
Freight Cars Overturned by
Strikers.
A Trying Ordeal for Federal
Troops.
The Troops Hooted and Jeered
by the Mob.
Futile Efforts to Raise the Traffic
Embargo.
No Heed Paid to the Orders of the
Military.
First Bloodshsd Daring the strike-Po-
lice Use Their Revolvers, Wound
ing Several striksrs-rhs sit-
uation Very Critical.
The Troops Hooted and Jeered
by the Mob.
Futile Efforts to Raise the Trafflc
Embargo.
No Heed Paid to the Orders Of the
Military.
First Bloodshed Daring the strike-Po-
lice Use Their Revolvers, Wound
ing Several Striksrs-rhs sit-
uation Very Critical
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO. July 5.-The sun went down
on one of the most turbulent and critical
days thus far seen in the unparalleled
railroad strike and boycott. When It
opened there was q general feeling that :
its passage would 60 far toward clearing
the atmosphere, if, indeed, it did not
practically lift the embargo on commerce
which has had this city in its grip for
the past week. That expectation was
caused by reliance on federal trooos in
the most dangerous districts. But the
situation at the close of the day is such
that 1t must be admitted that the hope
indulged in in this regard has not been
justified. The troops are few in num-
ber at best, and when they were divided
into quads and distributed at points eep.
arated by considerable distances, it soon
became evident that their prestige in
overawing bodies of strikers.h had been
dissipated at the same time. Instead of
fleeing in fear before the faces of the
soldiers, as was predicted, the turbulent
thousands surged around the little band
and jsered and booted at them, catt vile
epithets at them. and literally played
hide and seek with them. stopping trains
at will, and generally rendering the en-
barge in the military district more
strong than before. though the strikers
did not resist Uncle Sans police.
THE TRoors PowERLEss.
Again and again, when there were
thousands OF them about train which
it was sought to move, they gave way
like water before the leveled bsyonets
OF single company of infaatry or this
trampling of single squad OF cavalry.
Like water, too, they closed in again at q
point just behind. They turned
switches, derailed freight cars in
front Of the slow moving
train and played all sorts of railroad
tricks, with which the soldiers were un-
acquainted. Thus it was that the troops
at the stock yards, in perseverance and
silence, spent the entire day in vain
endesvor to get one train load OF dressed
beef out of sight of the starting point.
Another and pleassnter thing this expe-
rience showed, and that was the admir-
able GOODNESS, self-possession and dis
cipline of the troops throughout an ex-
citing IL hours. Not shot was fred,
not men Yves pricked with a bsyonet,
which argues that with force enough the
soldiers would have done their work
which WAS expected of them. The
quality was there, merely the quantity
was lacking.
DISORDER AND EXCITEMENT.
Aside from the immediate neighbour
hood where the troops were operating
there was plenty of excitement and dis
order. Great mobs gathered on the
Lake Shore, Alton, West Shore and
Rock Island tracks and proceeded to
obatruct them by overturning box cars.
breaking switches aud the like, AT one
tina they set fire to a signal tower and
htt ihtetiochiik ooA, 'io"B" tho H"Ano1
were extinguit he'd before much damage
was done.
TWO INSTANCES CT BLooDsHED.
In two instances there was bioodshed.
! On the Western Indiana tracks hard
pressed special policeman fred at his
pursuers, wounding q striker in the Ley.
On the Lake Snors road an official OF
that company in charge OF a train which
he was endeavoring to force through.
emptied his revolver point blank into
the massed strikers about him, wound-
ing two or three. it is believed. lie was
eaved from the fury Of the mob, as WAS
his engineer, who put on steam and ran
back to the point OF starting.
Shortly after noon mob numbering
1000 started north on the Lake Shore