Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-07-13
SEVERAL SMALL M0Bs F0RMEP.
But No Concerted Effort Made !,
Either Incendiarism or
= Violence. ...1
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SATURDAYS FIGHT DISCUSS.
Officials of the Opinion That ;
! x Least Dozen Were
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! Killed. ...t

quiet prevailed during the day, though
there were, as might have been ex.
pected, number Of sparodic instances
where little knots of malcontents gath
cred, became boisterous and were
finally scattered by charge from the
police. A number of small mobs
formed, went rioting, firing and over
turning cars; heads were cracked, and
small fry brawls, mostly the result of
too much bad whisky, were frequen tly
reported at police headquarters. There
was, however, no con certed effort at
I Incendiarism or Violence,
although at number of places in
dividual cars were fred, several of
which were destroyed. A coal train on
the Eastern Illinois was ditched by a
switch being misplaced, after the en-
gine and four cars had passed over.
The work Of clearing the tracks in
the Grand Trunk yards at Forty-ninth
and Ashland, where debris from the
hundreds Of burned cars Uttered the
tracks, was completed under
Police and Military Protection,
the monotony, however, being broken
~ C :sjonal police sallies when the
ga 'ri g. of idlers watching the work
ecam' 90 large and threatening. AT
a. m, wnen the finishing touches had
been put on the work, nearly all the on
lockers had disappeared, and the troops,
4 laborers and police were withdra wn.
81 q soonsr had they got Wen out oi
sight, however, than gang Of 800 men
suddenly appeared, and with crow bars,
picks and shovels, tore up about an
eighth Of mile of the track before
word could be got to the police depart.
ment. They fed before another
Charge of the Police,
and the work of repair is again being
pushed forward.
Riotous mobs, consisting of men,
women and children, took possession OF
the freight yards at Halsted, Morgan
and Meagher streets during the after
noon, They burned cars and had
everything their own way for nearly
two hours. All of the reserve force of
police officers on the West Side had
been detailed to the yards of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy and the
Wisconsin Central roads earlier in the
day, and nothing lay in the path of the
Frenzied Strikers and Their Friends
The fire department had been called
out on three different occasions, each
time to extinguish flames in freight
cars. Thirteen cars were burned. The
mob gathered about the fremen when
they arrived in response to an alarm
which hae been sent in, and greatly
interfered in the work of extinguishing
fires. The arrival of the police had but
little effect. The bluecoats were hooted
at and pelted with stones. The crowd
numbered nearly 1000 and was made
up of the
Toughest Element of the City.
Well known thieves and other des-
perate men, with whom the police of
the Maxwell street station have had
considerable trouble, mingled in the
mob and took an active part in the dis
turbance. The police finally made q
determined charge and drove the mob
to the adjoining streets and from the
freight yards, clubbing the leaders
freely. The police remained on duty
all the afternoon and the strikers were
kept from doing further violence.
At the headquarters OF the General
Managers association it is. admitted
that not railroad in Chicago is NOV
ing any trains except under heavy
military or police guard. Most Of the
roads are getting through q limited
number of passenger trains. but the
tie-up Of freight business is practically
complete.