Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-12
I se.r, Of tn. A. R. U. will be indicted for

ficers of the A. II. u. will be lnolcteu ZOE
conspiracy.
Reports from various points show that
IL some cases the strikers are ahead ana
IL other instances the railroads ore IN
little better shape. Trains, however, are
tied IN almost everywhere III the West,
and on many roads not train OF any
kind is running.
Serious trouble is reported from Sioux
CITY sGd Sacramento, Cal. At the latter
nj, ce the militia was ordered to charge
the mob. but instead turned about and
went back to their armory. Strikers,
fully armed, are coming into Sacramento
f,tm other towns, and q bloody battle
may occur.
st. Paul, July 5.-Every road in St.
Psul succeeded in getting passenger
trains in and out yesterday and to-day.
The Burlington also sent out two freight
trains this morning, this breaking of the
freight blockade. This afternoon other
roads will probably send out freight
trains.
The regular troops at Fort Smelling will
be used promptly if necessary to aid the
United States marshal in enforcing the
e,ders of the United States courts and
in fully protecting at all hazards the
men employed to take the place of
strikers on the roads in che hands of the
United States receivers. This is the
advice of Judge Caldwell, and, acting on
it Judge Nelson is inconsultaticn with
Gen. Merritt. who is watching the sit
rstion closely and will give whatever aid
Marshal Bede may lequire.
Chicago, July 6.-This has been by fur
the most turbulent and critical day in
the unparalleled railroad strike and boy
colt. When it opened there was gen.
eral feeling that its passage would go
far toward clearing the atmosphere if, in
deed, it did not practically lift the en-
barge on commerce which has held this
city in its grip for the past week. That
expectation was chiefly based on the
presence of federal troops in the most
dangerous districts. But it must be con-
fessed that the hope INDUCED in at the
opening in this regard has not been justi-
fed. The troops were few in numbers at
best, and when they were divided into
Squads and distributed at points sep
arated by very considerable distances it
soon became evident that their prestige
as over-awing bodies had been dissi-
pated at the same time. Instead of fee
ing in fear before the faces of the vet
Grams, as was expected they would do,
the turbulent thousands surged about the
little band of soldiers, jeered and hooted
at them, cast vile epithets at them and
literally played hide and seek with them,
stepping trains at will, and generally
IL Ldtring the embargo in the military
district more effective, if possible. than
before.
The throngs of strikers did not resist
Uncle Sans police. Again and again
vixen there were thousands of them
ebeut a train which it was sought to
Ecve. and on the track in front of it,
they gave way like water before the
leveled hayonets of single company of
infantry or the trampling of single
sound of cavalry. Like water, too, they
closed in again at point just beyond.
They turred switches, derailed freight
cars in front of the slow moving train,
and played all sorts of railroaders' tricks
with which the soldiers were unacquaint-
ed. Thus it was that the troops at the
stock yards, in perseN erence and pa
thence, spent the day in a vain endeavor
to get one train load of dressed beef out
of sight of the starting point.
Aside from the immediate neighborhood
where the troops were operating there
was plenty Of excitement and disorder.
Great mobs gathered on the Lake Shore,
Rock Island, Alton and Western In
diana tracks and proceeded to obstruct
them by overturning box cars, breaking
switches and the like. At one point they
set fire to switch tower and the inter-
locking switch box, though the flames
were extinguished before serious damage
was done. In two instances there was
bloodshed. On the Western Indiana
tracks a hard-pressed special policeman
fired at his pursuers, wounding striker
in the leg. On the Lake Shore road an
official of that company in charge of a
train which he was endeavoring to force
through, emptied his revolver point blank
into the massed strikers about him,
wounding two or three it is believed. He
was saved from the fury of the mob by
bis fireman who put on steam and ran
back to the point of starting.
A mob numbering 1900 started north
on the Lake Shose tracks at Thirty
seventh street, overturning cars and OBJ
structing the line in every possible way.
They were not checked until they reached
Twenty-second street. where heavy
force of police was massed and succeeded
in turning them back. During the day
Mayor Hopkins and Chief of Police Bren-
nan went down the Lake Shore road,
Intending to 60 to the stock yards. Thei:
passs sc was obstructed and they were
compelled to finish the journey on foot
Of the strike, in general, it may be
said that it has broadened during the
day. The. Big -Four, on which it was
understood traffic vas to be resumed by
agreement, is practically tied up. At
Joliet everything is at standstll be-
cause the yardmen have gone out, and
tbs city water works have shut down for
lack of coal. Kansas City is again tied
up pretty completely. The federal troops
quickly put an end to the trouble at
Ration, N. NJ, arresting lot of strikers
and starting them for Denver. Paralysis
continues on the Pacific coast. There
are federal troops at Los Angeles, but
none have been sent to Sacramento and
Oakland, pending q decision of the ques-
ton whether or not the state troops and
United States marshals can cope with the
situation.
The embargo which was mt on the