The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-07-07


AttgeId Again Protests Against the In
PRODUCTION Of Federal Troops, and IL
Seconded by Governor stone.
CHICAGO, July 7-Seven dead and an In
definite number Of injured is the record
of casualties in the strike conflicts in Chi
cago yesterday. On Thursday one man
was shot in the leg. If the blood letting
today shall show like increase the coro
ner will have summers work before him.
The developments Of Thursday went
far to convince all thinking people that
the gravity of the situation had not been
appreciated by the authorities or the peo-
pie at large. Persons who were here dur
ing the railroad riots of 1877, and who
saw the atmosphere clear perceptibly
when no more than eighty regulars from
the plains marched down Madison street
and went into camp on the lake front,
wagged their heads knowingly when
three times that number were ordered
from Fort Sheridan comprising the three
arms of the service, and said they would
make short work of Mr. Debs' followers.
But after twelve hour, of as patient
| and persistent GOODNESS and bravery under
these same citizens and the officers in com
mand were forced to admit that things
were not as they were in ~, and that it
was still long mark to peace and the re-
sumption of unimpeded traffic on any Of
the railroads running out of Chicago
The developments of the night and
| those of yesterday have but confirmed the
conviction that nothing short of an over
| whclming armed force, with instructions
to shoot to kill, can settle the trouble or,
as Colonel Crofton put it, at has ceased
| to be a mere movement of troops aud has
become a campaign"
| The local and state authorities have
awakened to the critically grave nature
| of the strike malady which is affecting
the nation generally, but Chicago in par
| tiCular and are taking measures to apply
adequate remedies. The city police force
| has been already recruited up to over B ,OOO
men, and by request of Mayor Hopkins
| ard by order of Governor Altgeld two
| brigades of state militia have been or
dered here to aid III quelling the disturb
ances.
Governor Altgeld has again called on
the state troops to suppress disorder. The
| First regiment 750 strong went to Hyde
Park and Kensington last evening The
Second, with about the same number OF
men, followed shortly after, being assigned
to the stock yards district under direction
of Police Inspector Hunt. The Third
regiment, 800 men, will be placed on duty
in the district north of Thirty-ninth street
The Seventh regiment, 700 men, is held in
reserve, together with Battery d, at the
Michigan avenue armory.
Bishop Fallows and Rev. DR.. p. S. Hen
son, of the First Baptist church, have
placed themselves at the head of move
ment to be inaugurated and conducted
by the different churches of the city t.
bring about a settlement of the present
labor difficulties peaceable means.
At the nations capital also, the fact Is
recognized that the prevailing condition,
are entirely out of the ordinary, and that
provision must be made for such a mass
ing Of fighting men as has never before
been seen in the history of the nation il
time OF peace, if the authority and dig
nifty Of the nation and the processes of it
courts are not to be laughed to scorn TO
an indefinite time,
The strike question is so infective a
certain points that the president and hi
advisers believe it would be unwlse t,
withdraw any more regular troops from
l
fore in contemplation, should the forces
federal, state and municipal, alread,
gathered here be unequal to the task o
restoring order, to send here the ten com
| panies stationed on the Canadian border
with the reserved intention, If circum
stances demand it, of exercising the righ
to call for 10000 men of the crack militar,
r regiments of New York and Pennsylvania
The day in Chicago was one of constan
alarms and calling for police, deputy mar
shals and soldiers here, there and every
where throughout wide stretch of terri
tory in the southern part Of the city Rio
has been running rampant throughout tn
} day, cars have been overturned, switche
broken and tracks obstructed in numer
Gus ways. The torch was applied in nu
merous instances TO cars, switch tower
< and the like, not to mention an attemp
To fire a par of the great Armour packing
plant In fact at one time he incendiar,
blaZes followed each other in such quicl
I succession that the fire department wa
put TO straits to care for all of them. n
add to the gravity of the situation it wa
D found that the strikers were interferinl
T. with the police, railroad and fire alaru
| telegraph system, and in one or two in
stances policemen who were using the pc
8 lice telephone calls were stoned. AbOu
| eighty cars were burned altogether in tn
- Illinois Central yards In addition tw
y hundred stock cars of the Grand Trun
u We're burned in the stock yards. At mid
night incendiary fires were raging in ever
Q direction, In the Pan Handle yards alon
n 300 cars were destroyed.
n The maddened mobs worked up TO tn
highest pitch of fury, paralleled the scene
e Of the commune, To illustrate the tactic
+ resorted to by the incendiaries TO hampe
the work of She fire department empt
10 cartridges We're forced into the keyhole
e Of the fire alarm boxes, fremen wer
l. Knocked down with stones and bricks, an
while working at fires the horses of ia
u department were stolen
g. At the stock yards last night abou
fifty toughs, few of whom were railroa
men, skulked from point to point, and Sc
d a large number o. ures. Their metho
r was thoroughly unique Loading sewers
hand cars with waste and oil they woul
oil Ia nd tl.,, f., IL