The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-12
HE'LL ITSELF
WITH ALL ITS FIRES OF RRIM'
STONE IS AS NOTHING
TO CHICAGO AND -, -. =,
HER FIRE.
ARCH IMPS Or SATAN
IN HUMAN FORM SET FIRE TO MIL
LIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF
PROPERTY AND DANCE IN
GLEEFUL SPORT WHILE
THE FLAMES DO
THEIR WORK.
THE HEAVENS ABLAZE WITH LIGHT,
While the Earth is a sesthing Mass Of
Flames-The Maddened Rioters Stone
Flremgn, Plug Up Fire Boxes
and SEEK in Every Way to
Prevent Cessation CT
Their Fiendish Work.
THE HEAVENS ABLAZE WITH LIGHT,

CHICAGO, July G.-With flaming
torch, lawless hordes of firebugs are
at work at a score of points in the
south half of Chicago. Fires are rag
ing in every direction among the num-
erous railroad yards and hundreds OF
cars and hundreds of thousands OF
dollars worth of merchandise have al
ready gone up in smoke or been car
ri ID off by the mobs of rioters. In
cendiarism is rampant, alarm after
alarm has followed in quick succession
all day, and tonight at II o'clock the
glare reflected from the heavens shows
that the dastardly work continues IN
abated. From early morning until this
hour (midnighD numbers of fresh out
breaks, fires followed each other with
startling rapidity, being confined,
however principally to railroad roll
ling stock and buildings, against
which, thus far the greater fury OF the
mob has been directed.
Early this morning q blaze started
among some overturned cars at Ken
sington, quickly communicating to.
other tracks filled with long lines OF
cars, many containing valuable mer
chandise were soon blazing furiously.
Famed by strong winds there were at
the shops total of 90 cars wiped out.
At the stockyards one blaze after an
other reported and from the outlying
districts came urgent calls for engines
aud police, increasing in frequency.
But with the falling shades OF night
came the climax of the fiery fiends.
The Panhandle yards from Fifty-tifth
and SiXty-third streets, eight block,
are mass of fire.
There are trains there containing
from 1000 to 1000 cars, half OF them
loaded, which will be total loss. The
Panhandle station at Sixty third
street was also fired and destroyed,l
The Grand Trunk yards at Elston is a
mass of flames, 500 box cars supposed
to have been burned, and all efforts to
check the flames have been futil9.
While directing the movement OF the
| Eleventh battalion at this point, Fire
Marshal Fitzpatrick was seized by the
! thoroughly frenzied mob of tireOugs
/ and thrown into a pond, from which
he was rescued by the police more
dead than alive. Everything at this
point will probably be total loss
At Hyde park, near the worlds fair
| grounds, the ashes Of 40 cars are now
smouldering, and word has just come
in that after numerous efforts the
mob has succeeded in firing the Hi
nois Central shops at Burnside At
the stockyards tonight about so
toughs, few of whom were railroad
men, are skulkiug from point point,
and have set large number of fires.
Their method was thoroughly unique.
Loading several handcars with buck
cts of waste and oil, they would
glide around among the cars in the
darkness lighting wads of inflammable
stuff which would be thrown into the
open doors of the cars as they passed
by them. Fires sprung up on every
hand and an organized effort on the
part of the police failed to intercept
them.
This is the banner districI of the
city, il not of the entire country for all
round toughs. Troops are hurrying
south, company after company IN
heavy marching orders to the Iurbu.-
lent district from the center OF the
city. The aggregate of the losses to
the roads will be enormous and miles
OF their tracks have been ruined by
heat. Hundreds OF switch and signal
towers with their explosive mechau'
ism are ruined. Thousands of cars
and untold quantities of merchandise
of every Imaginable description nave
fed the flames.