The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-03

CHICAGO, Jnly 2-The consequences
to :hfs ty4breatsning to become very
serious, Mayor Hopkins and four mem,
bers st the city council will confer with
Eugene v. Dsbs and tho Members Of
tho Managers Association With q view
to adjusting tho great railroad strike.
This was decided upon by the council, a
.rcsolution to that effect having been
unanimously adopted at toeuighss
meeting.
CHICAGO, July S.-~S o. m-The rogu.
lar troops at Fort Sheridan havo been
ordered to move this morning. Tho
destination Is not known at present, but
is supposed'to bo Blue Island.
CHICAGO, July 2.-To-day's develop
mouts in tho great Pullman-A. r. U.
strike have'been prolific in sensational;
lism, the principal theatre Of action
being in Chicagoand adjacent suburbs.
Wild rumors were rife, and when 1t
was announced that orasrs had been is.
sued for the Second regiment to pro-
ceed at once to Bluo Island, eighteen
miles out, extra editions Of all evening
papers with war.like headlines were
eagerly scanned by thousands Of anx-
ious people. This report proved later
to be unfounded.
Tho first serious clash occurred to-day
when two hundred deputy Unitod States
marshals were surrounded at Bluo is-
land by two thousand strikers. who
openly de6ed federal authority. Weap'
ona were drawn by both sides and Do
putty Marshal John A. Logan was pain
fully cut with knife, but when a
bloody conflict seemed imminent, tho
deputies retired TO their barraUk cars to
await roIntorcemonta, leaving the attis-
ers masters of the situation.
This evening IN injunction from the
United States court was road and buIle-
tined. Tho authority OF the United
States was openly ridiculed and after a
few minutes Quietness, the riotouS spirit
OF the strikers reasserted itself. At
midnight reports Of furtner disorder
were current, it being stated that tho
strikers wero tearing down the bulle-
tinod mandates OF tho court.
A CRISIS EXPECTED.
Fearing to precipitato bloodshed, the
Rock Island company decided, after its
$3.50 express had gotten through, not to
mako any further attempt to move
trains tonight, but tomorrow 1t will
hardly fail to bring crisis. Tho strik-
ors have now locked horns with the
state and federal authorities and the
railway officials aro chafng under tho
continued embargo on their business,
whilo the desperate determination OF
their late employees neither to work
themselves nor to allow others to fill
their places, is ovidenced by tho food OF
reports Of individual conflicts, and these
coming from all parts Of the city.
A number OF trains have been de-
railod by misplaced switches. A Pan
handle passenger train was partially do
rallied at Kinsie and Canal streets to-
night but was not seriously delayed.
Tho strikers arc stealing brasses from
the axle boxes Of cars, aud in some in.
stances dropping,couplin pins into tho
cross head guides Of locomotives causing
the destruction OF cylindor-heads. Tons
Of fruit, vegetables. ice, meats and
other perishable goods stand in the cars
under broiling sun, no ono caring or
daring to movo it to its destination.
Dumb animals, crowded into stock
cars, suffer thirst and hunger and prices
OF vegetables and fruits arc going up.
It is thought that no move likely TO
prccipisate hostilities will bo mado be-
fore daylight.
no TROOPS rTE
At midnight District Attorney Nil.
christ whom asked il troops had yot
been ordered out from Fort Sheridan,
said: ~ do not think they will be called
out until tho order Of tho courts has
beon violated and the judges recon-
mend that such measure he tGkcn TO
uphold the dignity Of the court and
Justice.
"Unless the troubls Is brought TO an
end soon. it is my opiuion that tho
/ strike will terminate in bloodshGd."
The fremen OF tho Lake street eleva-
ted road decided after midnight that
they would 20 on strike to support tho
A. r. u, The specific cause OF tho
striko is that tho elevated road vGcsiv0d