The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-13
THE CENTER OF DISTURBANCE

Soldiers Being Surrounded and Hard
Pressed by Thousands OF Rioters Bent on
Their Destruction.
CHICAGO, July s.-The storm center
to-day was at Hammond, an Indiana
suburb of the city. Here a mob of
nearly 5000 was in possession and no
troops in sight. They sacked the
Western Union telegraph office: over
turned freight ears, and committed all
sorts of depredations. Five railroad
employees were wounded at the hands
of the mob, one fatally.
The outbound Sunday passenger
train from Chicago on the Monon rail-
way was brought to halt by the mob.
The engineer and fireman were made
to dismount, and the locomotive was
quickly KILLED" by opening valve
and allowing all the water to run out
of the boiler.
The active leaders of the mob were
not local strikers, or known to the
Hammond people. Under their leader
ship however, the town was terrorized
throughout the night, and railway
traffic paralyzed.
Boldly operating right in the center
of town, the mob had everything
nearly its own way. The worst trouble
came about 3 a. m, when in skirmish
with railway employees three men were
laid low in bunch. Two other men
We're badly injured in other en-
counters.
The man whose wounds are sup
2mpIoye of the Interlocking Switch
Co.
One of the acts of the desperate mob
was the burning of Pullman coach.
1t was set on fire in several places
simultaneously and completely con
sumed. Fully twenty-five freight cars
were derailed and tipped upside down,
but the torch was not applied to them.
An unprecedented proceeding in
strike tactics was the attack on the
telegraph office. The mob became pos
Sessed with the idea that telegrams
were about to be sent to Gov. Mat
thews at indianapolis asking for
| troops, and the strike leaders deter
mined to forestall such action if possi-
BILE.
Entrance to the telegraph office was
effected with scant courtesy, and, in the
expressive language of an eyewitness,
1.-The place was cleaned out complete
ly." Since then telegraphic communi-
cation between Hammond and the out
side world has been cut off com
pletely.
The MIlitIsl Inadequate-A Call fcf Regu-
lars.
CHICAGO, July 8, p. m.-With the
approach Of night feeling of greatest
apprehension is spreading over Chi
eago.
News has just been received here
that the mob at Hammond, Ind, num-
bers 10, 900, and that the militia there
is unable to cope with the riotous
forces.
| A call for regulars has been received.
The humor of the mob is getting
hourly worse. Gen. Miles has ordered
three companies from the lake front to
Hammond. These are part of the
soldiers brought here from Fort Leaven-
worth. The Indiana militia has been
unable to handle the mobs
A Handful of United States Regulars in
Imminent Peril.
CHICAGO, July 8, s p. ma report
from Hammond says one man was
killed and another seriously wounded
in riot at o'clock tonight. The
dead mans name is Charles Fleischman.
He was shot through the abdomen and
died instantly.
A mob congregated about the Monon
tracks destroying railroad property
and obstructing the tracks. A few
minutes before 6 o'clock the mob pro-
ceeded to place on the tracks where
an empty Pullman car was standing.
Ropes were procured and thrown over
the car.
Capt Hart and thirty-nine men of
Co. 3, of the Fifteenth infantry u. $.
A., had been patrolling the tracks in a
passenger coach. The military train was
run up behind the mob and the order
to fire was given.
About 300 shots were fired and at the
first volley an unknown man dropped
dead.
At the next volley w H. Campbell,
spectator, fell to the ground with a
bullet in his thigh.
Another volley was fred and several
people were wounded how many is not
known, as the wounded were carried
away by members of the mob.
As soon as the soldiers stopped firing
big brawny fellow, who was in the
crowd, stepped to the front and urged
the mob to avenge the murder. ''Get
your guns, boys" he said, land slay
the hounds"
The mob needed no second urging,
and rushed to their homes and got
their weapons. They returned and at
tackled the soldiers.
A furious battle is now raging.
The troops, three companies of the
regulars, which had left the city
shortly after o'clock in command of
Gen. Miles had not as yet reached the
scene.
The railroad tracks are obstructed,
and IL is feared that the reinforcements
will not reach the scene IN tune to pre-
vent the capture of Capt. Hart and his
handful of men.
The United States marshal and most
of the deputies refused to protect the
soldiers, and have left the scene.
The soldiers have retrsated to the
coach and are firing through the win
do4ys on the mob.
The Soldiers Fired and Six or Seven Men
Were seen to Drop.
CHICAGO. July s.-Rioters on the Illi-
nois Central tracks at Grand Crossing,
where the first regiment of militia is
stationed, charged on the picket line
and for a time drove it back.