The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-08

Chicago. July 7.-"And it is further
ordered that if any act of hostility be
committed, such as firing upon railroad
trains. assaulting trainmen, marshals
or soldiers, throwing at them rocks.
pieces of iron or other missiles, these
assaults shall be repealed by the use OF
firearms
So wrote General Nelson A. Miles in
his order issued this afternoon, detail
ing federal troops to assist United
States marshals in preventing obstruc-
ton TO the movement of mail and inter-
state commerce trains.
1t was, in short, notice to all rioters
that temporizing with them had ceased,
and that hereafter the policy OF the
government would be to put an end TO
their rioting. arson and pillage by
shooting to kill whenever or wherever
necessary.
As chance would have it, however, it
did not fall to the lot OF the national
troops to be the first to carry out the
spirit of this order.
Company c, Second regiment, l. \. G.,
had that distinction.
The story of the encounter between
the sixty-seven young militiamen com
posing this company and riotous mob
at Forty-seventh and Loomis streets Is
told elsewhere in these dispatches.
Firing RaiEroaG Shops.
Up to o'clock in the afternoon the
CAV had been q compare lively quiet one.
To be sure, small mobs had been going
all through the district west Of State
street and south Of Thirty-ninth. burn
ing a few cars here and there and max
ing threats of firing railroad shops and
the like, but it was more in the nature
of bushwhacking than anything else.
and not at all like the massed bands of
strikers who gathered along the rail-
road tracks yesterday and today, ab-
solutely blocking all movement by
sheer force Of numbers.
This state of affairs was doubtless
the outgrowth of various conditions
such as the presence of a vastly in
creased force of soldiers, and that yes
terday's wreckng and firing OF cars
had left large share of the tracks to
the south impossible, so that about all
the discernible movement was in the
shape of wrecking trains endeaVoring
10 bring order out Of the chaos which
existed all through that region. The
disturbed section today embraced
space of about twenty-five square miles,
not to mention the sporadic bit or in
cendiarism on the Burlington road at
Crawford and Western avenue, the
latter having the distinction of being
the work of women and children. 1t
Is estimated that in the district men
toned not less than $4,000 rioters we're
out at one time or another during the
day, but the ground was SO thoroughly
patrolled by the police. the narShals
and the military that they found little
opportunity fer getting together in
large numbers, as they have been doing
heretofore.
Lnid out Graveyard.
still some Of them at the stock yards
found time for INDUCING in the grim
fumor Of laying out a graveyard in
due order and erecting headstones at
the graves bearing the names of their
pet diversions, including that OF the
president Of the United States.
One feature Of the day was the show
ing of its teeth by the building trades
council of the city, in calling out the
steam filters IN the big packing houses
at the stock yards with the threat
that il was only a preliminary to call
ing out its CO, 900 memb and the ty-
ing up Of all building in the city.
Another feature of the day was the
patrolliEg Of the sentries before the
federal sub-treasuTy, III whose vaults
lie some ST.. 600 900 of Uncle Sans mon
CIV. which General Miles thought
might prove a temptation 70 some of
Debs' followers not TO be resisted, es-.
pecially in view of the fact that they
are not flush just now.
For the first time since the strike
opened, there were several distinct
notes of improvement in the situation
and these were not confined to Chica-
90. Here the postal authorities repor-
ted a noticeable Improvement in the
movement of mails.
The Apex Reached.
Outside of Chicago. it was noticed
the strike, while ii made no progress
worthy of mention at any point, gave
many evidences of having reached its
y.r r,S s,,-Ir
To begin with, the promise that the
seaboard trunk lines would be tied Up
at Buffalo, was not fulfilled.
The strike was not extended to Pitts
burg. as was predicted at a number Of
points in the tied up district.
The strain was lightened at one or
two points.
Men who had agreed to go out, failed
TO do so.
But the most significant of all, per-
haps, was the refusal of the American
Railway union at Louisville, Colorado
Springs and Denver to obey Debs' or
der to strike.
Joliet also reported a detection from
he ranks there; the employees of the
Toilet & Eastern are returning TO work.
On the other hand the friends of law
and order had occasion to be pleased
On account of the massing of troops
here, and at the ordering of the move
menI OF troops py the pl eSluSlt WIFI
a view to lifting the embargo on Pa
ciic coast business. both by the North
ern and Central routes. To this end he
ordered General Merritt at ST. Paul,
and General Otis at Van Couver bar
racks, to see to the opening of the
Northern Pacific. and General Brooks
at Omaha was similarly instructed TO
set things to moving on the Central
and Union Pacific systems.
A Rift i'm the Cloud.
To this the only foil which managers
of the strike were able to show was an
arrangement between President Debs
and Grand Master Workman Sover-
eign, of the Knights of Labor. 20 call
out the members of that organization,
some 10000 in number, provided the
other four members Of the executive
committee would agree to the order
calling them out. 1t is estimated that
Debs has now about $4,000 men. so that
if the agreement goes, it will be no
small addition to the forces of idleness. /
There has been a rift in the cloud, |
but the cloud is still there.
THEY COME TOGETHER.