The herald., 1894-07-06

ttflkdfe lIum CaTfyiug out tuelf purpose,
an officer WAS struck on the head by a
stone thrown by one of the crowd and
seriously injured. ReinforcemeEts ar
rived and the mob was dispersed. Over
200 policemen then patrolled the track
and crossings and protected the wreck
ing crew, who were engaged in replacing
the derailed cars. This was not accom-
plished until nearly O'Clock in the
evening. when the first train started for
the city.
ANOTHER CALL FOR POLICE.
The most urgent call after the one
from Twenty.fifth street and Rock
Islsnd tracks, was for men at Thirty
ninth street and the Chicago and East
ern Illinois tracks. This call was sent
out by General Manager Egg an. who said
a mob WAS in control at that place and
the police were unable to handle it.
MOVING MEAT TRAIN.
Ninety mon OF the Twentieth regiment,
under Major Harts and Captains Chap.
man and Mitchell, dispersed 5000 men
who were blocking the passage of meat
train near the main entrance 10 he
stock yards, this morning. A short dis
tance from the scene of trouble, an order
to move on the double quick with fixed
bayonets was given. Through the
crowds tho soldiers went without resist
ancs and the strikers and their SYM
pathizers fed without reforming.
At O'Clock the meat train had moved
only 10 the Fort Wayne crossing. At
the crossing the gates were closed and no
one would open them. Additions to the
mob were being received continually
and the crowd rapidly grew more ex-
cited. Threats of violence were loud.
Stones were thrown, and the temper
of the crowd was such that United States
Mcrshal Donnelly remarked that vio-
lent encounter was probable before
night.
Many women were il the crowd, and
their voices Joined those OF the men in
deridipg the troops and peace officers.
At Wallace street. M. S. Wright, an
officer of the packing company. was
knocked senselese by a rock while trying
to throw o switch. His fall was the
signal for an order to the cavalry in ad-
vance of the train to charge. At the
first move of the horsemen, the rioters
turned back without further trouble.
The train proceeded to Delos & Shep-
ards stockyard. Here an order to clear
the tracks was given and the horsemen
rode into the crowd, the rioters scatter
ing without being harmed.
At the Fort Wayne crossing closed
gates barred further progress. Beyond
the crossing several freight care were
dumped sideways on the track. Neither
the police nor the soldiers would touch
the cars.
At other points along the line block
ades were made and the afternoon was
spent in the attempt to etraighten up
the roadway. About 10000 people
gathered around the stalled train.
FURTHER DISORDERS.
Fifteen cars were overturned on the
Lake Shore road, near Fifty-ninth and
Halstsad streets, just at the entrance to
the Union stock yards. A mob number
ing thousands rushed by common i'm
pulse at the cars and pitched them in
the ditch. The troops were there.
One Thousand strikers congregated at
Fortieth street and Wentworth avenue
aud tried to wreck the tool house of the
Lake Shore and Rock Island roads. A
large force OF police was dispatched to
the scene. Later the mob overturned
80 freight cars on the Fort Wayne road
between Thirty ninth and Root streets,
point not covered by troops.
A Rock Island inbound passenger
train was stopped by strikers at Fifty
first etreet this evening an6 the engineer
and fireman, fearing violence, deserted.
General Superintendent Dunlap took
charge OF the engine with porter for a
fireman. The engine was showered with
clubs and stones, but continued to
Thirty eighth strest when derailed
freight stopped it.
A cattle train on the Pennsylvania
road was stopped at the yards by three
empty freight cars which had been over
turned.
Trainmaster Wright of the Michigan
Central was hit on the head with rock
and seriously injured.
A train on the Lake Shore was stopped
at Forty-fourth street at IL O'Clock. The
engineer and fireman were forcibly put
off the engine by strikers. The engine
was then cut and the train moved back
into the yards.
At IL As p. m. at the Forty-se venth-
street crossing OF the Rock Island an
immense crowd was gathered anticipat-
ing the arrival OF the incoming Rock
Island passenger train. Troops cleared
the track. There was some stone throw
ing. The train proceeded to the city,
GENERAL MILES TALKS.
General Miles said, at noon, with
troops now on the way the forces in
Chicago will number 1000 men. 'Ii
that is not enough to maintain ORDER"
said the general, "the government will
furnish more"
Miles, when informed of the mob at
the stock yards remarked significantly
Somebody will get hurt down there"
General Miles said this forenoon he
considered the strike situation more
favorable than was anticipated. Soldiers
from Fort Leavenwortn, he said, would
arrive this afternoon. General Miles
and other army officers held consulta-
tion. 1t ia understood the subject of
discussion was the disposition OF the