The Bessemer indicator., 1894-07-14
RIOTING In CHICAGO.
SOLDIERS SHOOT TO KILL.
vast Mobs Bur. and Piundsr. .-seldisrs
Miiitia, Dspuuss ana Police Unite
to suppress Them.

the important feat urc Of Tuesday $
record was the participation by troops.
President Cleveland decided that the
United States marshals needed assist
ance and the soldiers at Fort Sheridan
were sent into Chicago The disposi-
ton Of the troops was decided
upon as follows: At the Blue Is
land yards, where the most serious
trouble occurred, $50 men; at Grand
Crossing, 100; at the stock yards, $50
infantry and 80 or GO cavalry. 1t was
decided to divide battery of artillery
in three sections and place them at
Blue Island, the stock yards and South
Chicago. To the latter part was as
signed $50 infantry,
The western portion Of the Rio
Grande road was completely tied up
and all trains were abandone d on the
Bird.
Very few trains of any kind were
run to or from Chicago The stock
yards are doing nothing.
Troops started to Ration from Santa
Fe but the trainmen deserted at Las
Vegas. The soldiers ran the train u
short distance further and then the
fires died out. The troops finally
reached Ration Tuesday, and with
others sent from Fort Wingate, guard
ed the railroad property.
Under guard of soldiers and mar
shals the Gulf and Santa Fe roads
managed to move three trains out Of
Trinidad.
The strikers in Sacramento and
other California towns are becoming
violent On Tuesday a mob Of 3, 600
drove marshals from a train, side
tracked cars and disabled engines
The authorities were helpless. The
situation is practically the same at Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland.
Troops are being called out.
1t was feared that there might be
serious conflicts on the Fourth, but
this was not realized. The greatest
violence was manifested at Sacra-
mento. A large force of militia was
massed there and they were ordered
TO clear the depot grounds Of strikers
who appeared ready to fight. The
marshal gave orders that the militia
should not fire under any circum-
stances The militia officers decided
that they could do no effective work
under this restriction, SO they re-
turned to their barracks, leaving the
strikers in possession. The latter
were very much excited and called for
aid from outside points. Armed
bodies of sympathizers from Red Bluff
and Dunsmuir started to their aid.
Arms were being collected at Sacra-
mento for the strikers.
Troops were keeping the peace at
Las Angeles. Strikers drove work
men from the shop at Oakland.
The day at Chicago was quiet, ow-
ing to the presence Of troops. A
number of freight cars were burned.
Some Of the roads were doing better
in running trains but some of them
were doing nothing
At Trinidad the sensation Of the
day was the arrest of forty-eight Rail
way Union men, among whom were
Charles NJ Melick, president, o. r.
Murtle. vice president, and J. c. Car
rig, chairman of the strikers Ex-
ecu,ive Committee. The men
were arrested upon orders of Judge
Hallett for contempt Of court and taken
to Denver for trial. They considered
it bluff The Denver & Gulf road
started several trains, one Of which
went south with Pullman attached.
The receiver expected to receive all
freight offered the next day and to run
regular passenger trains.
President .Ieffery having found him
self unable to combat the strike sue
cessfully, announced his determine
ton to cease all efforts to run trains
until the fremen get ready to return
to work The chief trouble centers
about Salida.
The tie-up at Grand junction wa,
still maintained on the 4th.
At Pueblo seven strikers were ar.
| rested. Troops from Fort Russell were
on guard.
A good deal of violence was reported
from Chicago on the 5th. The rail
road lines were tied up as close as eve
despite the presence Of the troops from
Fort Sheridan. The troops were fa
too few in number to successfully
combat the great crowds of men wht
sought in any way to impede thu
movement Of trains. The strikers ant
their sympathizers did not offer re
sistance to the soldiers and always re
treated when the soldiers charged up
on them, but mmediately returned
and, on the sly, resumed their occupa
tion of pulling coupling pins, turning
switches, throwing cars from track:
and in hundred ways making it i'm
possible for the railroads to run trains
| A detachment of cavalry spent TIL,
dly in helping the stock yards men t.
| get meat train out of the city, bu
the attempt finally had to be aban
dopol op account of tho tracks holm,
blocked.
The strikers, while not attacking O
resisting the soldiers, did not hesi
tate to jeer at them and insult them
Under this trying treatment the sol
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