The herald., 1894-07-09
TORCH AND GUN.
More Rioting at
Chicago.
Police and Firemen on the
Keen Jump.
State and Federal Troops
Kept Busy.
Rioters Hold High Carnival at
Hammond.
A Company Of Regulars Fires
Upon the Mob.
Many Men Fall Before the Deadly
Fusillade.
Only One Killed So Far as Known.
but Many Wounded.
A General Sympathetic Strike Decided
Upon by the Chicago Trades
Unions-No Improvement
In tho Situation
Many Men Fall Before the Deadly
Fusillade.
Only One Killed So Far as Known.
but Many Wounded.
A General Sympathetic Strike Decided
Upon by the Chicago Trades
Unions-No improvement
In tho Situations

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July "a. .. NAT this
hour the union meeting is said to be
balloting on the question of general
strike, with indications favoring
the ordering OF q strike. Alter the
reading of President Clevelend's procla-
nation, many of the conservatives, it is
said, became radical in their views, an d
were anxious to join the strikers. A
decision is looked for soon.
At 4:i5 a. M, after an all night secret
session, the meeting OF union leaders Of
Chicago decided to go on q general
strike unless the Pullman strike il
settled. They will allow until
noon Tuesday for Pullman to arbtrate
or come to some form of agreement with
his striking employees, failing in which
II the trades in Chicago will 90
out at p. m. Tuesday. This means
not only that building trades workers
will stop, but also that butchers. bakers
and street car and elevated railroad en-.
ployees will 60 out, completely paraiyz.
ing all industries, besides seriously al
fecting the food supply of thousands of
people.
THE Days EVENTS.
CHICAGO, July 8.-Comparstive quiet
prevailed as rule within the city to.
day, though there were. az might have
been expected, number Of sporadic u
stances where little knots Of malc(
tents gathered. became boisterous and
were finally scattered by . charge from
the police. A number Of small mobs
formed, went rioting, firing and over-
turning cars. Heads were cracked and
small.fry brawls, mostly the result of
too much bad whisky, were frequently
reported at police headquarters. There
was, however, no concerted effort at inl
cendiarism or violence, although at q
number OF places individual cars were
fred. several of which were destroyed.
A coal train on the Eastern Illinois was
ditched at Root street by q switch being
displaced after the engine and four cara
had passed over.
GRAND TRUNK TRACKS CLEARED.
The work of clearing the tracks in the
Grand Trunk yards at Forty-ninth and
Ashland, where debris from thousands
of burned cars Uttered the tracks, was
completed today under police and mil.
itary protection, the monotony, how
ever, being enlivened by occasional
police rallies when the gatherings Of
idlers watching the work became too
large and threatening.
At p. M, when the finishing touches
had been put on the work, nearly all
the on-lookers had disappeared and the
troops, laborers and police were with.
drawn. No sooner had they got we'll out
OF sight, however, than gang of 500
men suddenly appeared and with crow
bars and shovels tore up about an
eighth OF mile of the track. They fed
before another charge OF the police and
The work OF repair is again being pushed
forward.
THE TIIEATER OF EXCITEMENT.
Hammond. Ind, adjoining the city
on the southeast, was the theater of the
days greatest excitement. Here the
finally became so serious that a compa-
ny of United States troops went out
there. They preserved peace for sew
erat hours. but the mob increased in
size and finally became dsmonst.ative
so that it necessitated charging on them
by the troops, with the reEult that one
man was killed, two badly wounded and
a number OF others received serious in.
jnries.
Everything at Pullman was quiet to,
day.
RIoToUs MoBs.
Riotous mobs. consisting Of men,
women and children. took possession of
the freight yards at Halstead, Morgan
and Meagher streets this afternoon.
They burned cars and had everything
their own way for nearly two hours. All
3f the reserve force of police officers on
The West Side had been detailed 10 the
Yards of the Chicago. Rurinpton and