Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-07-12

" lC0AOAC PNdNC AAAA RACNGAl Violence
TO persons and property. /. therefore
as mayor OF the city OF Chicago. mere.
by request you TO order suttieien,
military force TO aid the city author.
ties in suppressing the violence and in
executing the laws and suggest thai
five regiments OF the state militia ha
ordered by you Immediately Tor tina
purpose herein indicated
Grand Master Workman SOVEREIGN
Of the Knights of Labor, arrived 10.
day. He said that he had come IA
render what assistance he could To
the American Railway union aud be
should do whatever the officers Of tina,
organization might determine would
best serve the interests OF the strike
He thought that the climax OF the
movement was about reached and that
it was imperative that every labor
organization should put In It's best
blows to win the strike. He added
that this will practically be battle
for self protection and for the future
life of every Workingman's organiZa.
zion in the country. No one can over.
estimate the Importance OF winning
the conflict. Defeat will mean no ten.
porary set back alone, but a perma.
nent disadvantage 10 organized honor
and honesty among the working PEG.
pie OF the land. The knights OF La.
Dor is with the American Railway
union body and soul, and | know that
whatever l do now 10 aid the strikers
will be fully and heartily endorsed
by the 10000 members of the organ,
cation l represent.
Two hundred stock cars on the
Grand Trunk railway are now burning
at the stock yards. S. E. Richie,
Waterman on the Fort Wayne, was
stoned TO death by a mob.
During the afternoon President DebS
sent out large number OF kilograms
to various labor organizations and A.
X. u. assemblies, urging them to stand
firm at least twenty-tour hours longer.
Ii by that time the strike situation is
not improved, Debs has announced
that organized labor all over the coun.
try will be called out without any res
ervation whatever.
Much apprehension is felt concern.
ing the Pullman shops and yards. Dur
ing yesterday afternoon committee
of strikers made a tour OF the works
and ordered the watchmen to leave
the place or suffer the consequences
Some did SO, but later, being treasured
by the company and the reported ar
rival OF the state militia, they re-
turned to their posts.
DAY SCENES.
Chicago, July 7.-Yesterday opened
threateningly and ominous signs We're
visible every where in Chicago. AT an
early hour the mobs began to assemble
about the junction points of the rail
ways, and before o'clock it was eyi
dent that great battle for supremacy
was on.
Mayor Hopkins telegraphed hastily
10 the governor asking for nye regt
mentS of militia TO ala uim in presery
Ing the peace.
Thousands of people gathered al
Kensington, suburb adjoining the
town of Pullman, and the junction
point of the Michigan Central and Ill
inois Central lines. There We're no
troops there, but the track was guarded
by a small company of United States
marshais.
Very soon milk train arrived on Its
way to Chicago, and this was the sig
nal for hostilities to begin. The mob
began an assault and were met with
great Yigor BY the marsAais, who be
gan firing almost instantly. Two OF
the rioters We're killed outright and a
number wounded. A mad frenzy
seized the people and they rushed IL,
seized the milk train and began tip
ping the cars over.
They then detached the engine ana
ran it off a half mile on the track
stopped it, reversed it and opened the
throttle wide and drove it back into
the mass of overturned freight cars
scattering the debris far and wide ana
the track impossible In any
direction. A frantic appeal was SEM
at once to Chicago for assistance ana
troops were dispatched to the scene.
When the locomotive, rushing for-
ward at full speed dashed into the
wreck, and tore through the deraileo
cars, the crowd mounted the wreck
with exultant cheers and held high
carnival until the force of deputies
to charge. AS they came Oh
the run they were met with shower
of stones and coupling pins and, hai'
ing, opened fire.
For a moment the mob wayered as
the bullets cut through the ranks, anu
then with howl they chorged the NJ
tie force of deputies. which retreateu
to safe distance to await reinforce
ments. Police details were hurried y
the scene. and the rioters continues
the derailing of cars while awaiting
for the expected attack, carefully eou'
cealing the dead and injured.
The Rock Island officials closed az
their offices and locked them up. ~
their clerks and Office men were sworn
in as United States deputies.
Very few of the south-bound roaus
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