The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-06

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| General Miles said this forenoon he
considered the strike situation more
favorable than was anticipated
| Soldiers from Fort Leavenworth, he
said, would arrive this afternoon. Cen
eral Miles and other army officers held
a consultation. 1t is understood the
subject discussed was the disposition
OF troops along the Union Pacific and
The possibility of bringing a detach-
ment here from Fort Omaha.
| somebody VIII Get Hurt.o
| AT l o'clock the meat train had
moved only to Fort Wayne crossing.
AT the crossing the gates were closed
and no one would open them. Addi-
tons to- the mob were being received
continually and the crowd rapidly grew
more excited. Threats of violence were
loud; stones were thrown and the tenn
per or the crowd was such that United
States Marshal Donnelly remarked
that violent encounter was probable
before night. The stock yards at Fifty
fourth street are full of strikers Com
panies G and G, of the Fifteenth in
tantry, have just arrived from Blue
Island to reinforce the troops already
there. Company G marched through
the yards and charged with bayonets,
but the mob disappeared before them.
Large crowds were on the tops of the
freight cars, but no stones were thrown,
The yards have been closed.
The train on the Lake Shore was
stopped at Forty-fourth street at IL
o'clock. The engineer and fireman.
We're forcibly' put off the engine by the
strikers. The engine was then cut and
the train moved back into the yards.
AT 12:45 p. M, ait Forty-seventh street
| crossing of the Rock Island, an linz
mense crowd was gathered, anticipaG-
ing the arrival of the incoming Rock
Island passenger train The troops
cleared the track. There was some
stone throwing. The train proceeded
to the city.
General Miles said that ait noon, with
the troops on the way, the forces in
Chicago will number 1000 men. eff
that is not enough to maintain ORDER
said the general, ''the government will
furnish more General Miles, when
Informed of the charge of the mob ait
the stock yards, remarked significantly,
Somebody will get hurt down there.''
Many women Were in the crowd and
their voices joined those of the men
deriding the troops and peace officers.
At Wallace street, NJ. S. Wright, an
officer of the packing company, was
knocked senseless by a: rock, when try
ing to throw a switch. His fall was
the signal for an order for the cavalry
to charge. AT the first move of the
horsemen the rioters turned back and
without further trouble the train pro-
ceeded to Dolez & Shepard's stock
yards. Here an order to clear the
tracks was given and the horsemen
rode into the crowd. The rioters scat
tered without being harmed. AT Fort
Wayne crossing the closed gates barred
further progress. Beyond the crossing
several freight cars were dumped side
ways on the track. Neither police nor
soldiers would touch the cars. At
other points along the line blockadeS
were made and the afternoon was
spent in attempts to straighten up the
roadway. About 10000 people gathered
around the stalled train.
Intoxicated with success, the big
crowd rolled back to the stock train
where the soldiers were under COM
mand of Major Hartz. The Michigan
Central officials were trying to get a
wrecking train to remove the over
turned cars. They failed. and at 4
o'clock it was decided to take the train
back to the stock yards. AS the train
backed into the yards, thousands fol-
lowed it, exulting in the victory won
after a hard days battle
Several cars and switch shanties at
Forty-ninth street, the property of the
Grand Trunk were set on fire This
evening and destroyed.
Rumored n. of l.. Strike.
At noon today it was announced at
the General Managers association
headquarters that Information had
been received of am order issued today
by General Master Workman Sovereign
for a strike of all the knights of La
Dor between Omaha and the Pacific
coast. The strike order, it was stated,
included the employees in all lines of
business, and not merely those working
for the railroads. The General Man
ayers association received word that
there was rioting in the southern parts
of the city. A mob gathered at Thirty
fifth street on the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois tracks, stoned all passing trains.
directing attention particularly to the
coaches. The Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy experienced trouble
at Western avenue and a detail of Do 2
lice was sent to dispense the crowd ait
Florty-third street, in the Rock Island
yards. A large crowd of strikers be-
came demonstrative and a heavy detail
Of police was sent.
Freight Cars Ditched.
Fifteen freight cars were overturned
On the Lake Shore road near Thirty
nlnCn anu ddlSuedu SCreeIS JUST aC The
entrance to the Union stock yards, at
i:30 p. m. A mob numbering THOU
sands rushed by common impulse at
the cars and pitched them i'm the ditch
No troops were there. A Thousand
strikers congreg gated on Fortieth street
and went to Worth avenue and tried
to wreck the tower house Of the Lake
Shore and Rock Island roads. A large
force of police was dispatched to the
scene. Later the mob overturned fifty
freight cars on the Fort Wayne road
between Thirty-ninth and Root streets,
4 point not covered by troops.
MAYOR HOPKINS DECISION.