The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-09

Chicago, July S.-Comparative quiet
prevailed, as a rule, within the city to-
day, though there were, as might have
been expected, a number of sporadic in
stances where little knots Of malcon-
tents gathered, became boisterous and
were finally scattered by charge from
the police.
A number of small mobs formed,
| went rioting, fighting ond overturning
cars; heads were cracked and small
fry brawls mostly results of too much
bad whisky, were frequently report
ed at police headquarters. There was,
however, no concerted effort at incen-
diarism or violence, although at a num-
Der of places individual cars were fired,
several of which were destroyed.
A coal train on the Eastern Illinois
was ditched at Root street by switch
four cars had passed over.
Clearing Up the Debris.
The work of clearing the tracks in
the Grand Trunk yards at Forty--ninth
street and Ashland street, where de-
bris from hundreds of burned ears lit
| tered the tracks, was completed today
under police and military protection,
! the monotony, however, being enliv
ened by occasional police rallies when
/ the gatherings of idlers watching the
work became too large and threaten
| ing.
! At p. m. when the fininsing touches
had been put on the work, nearly all
the onlookers had disappeared and the
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Withdrawn. No sooner had they got
+! we'll out of sight. however, than a gang
of 800 men suddenly appeared and
! with crow bars and shOVelS tore up
about an eighth of mile OF the track.
| They fled before another charge of the
lpolice, and the work of repair is again
being pushed forward.
| At Hammond, Ind, adjoining the city
| on the southeast, was the theatre of
1.-THE days excitement. Here the rioting
| of last night was resumed, and finally
became so serious that a company of
! United States troops went out there.
| They preserved peace for several hours,
but the mob increased and finally be-
came demOnstratiVe, so it necessitated
the charging on them by the troops,
with the result that one man was kill
| ed, two badly wounded, and a number
of others received serious injuries.
| Everything at Pullman was quiet to-
day.
Women and Children Take Part.
Riotous mobs, consisting of men, wo-
men and children. took possession of
/ the freight yards at Halstead, Morgan
and Meagher streets this afternoon.
They burned cars and had everything
! their own way for nearly two hours.
All of the reserve force of police Of
, ficers on the west side had been de-
Z tai RI 40 ride of 10 p n
! and the Wisconsin Central roads early
/ in the day, and nothing lay in the path
of the frenZied strikers and their
| friends.
Shortly after o'clock, John NJ. Egan
at the General Managers headquar-
tiers. sent the following message to
Chief Brennan:
rs there no way that we can secure
protection from the mobs in our yards?
! They are Burning cars and destroying
other property in the yards at Hal
stead. Meagher and Morgan streets,
and not a policeman can be found
Chief Brennan at once transmitted
the message to the inspector, who de-
tailed a squad of thirty police officers
to the scene of the disturbance 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 firemen when they
arrived in response to an alarm, and
greatly interfered in the work of ex-
tinguishing the fire.
J The arrival of the police had but
i little effect.
The bluecoats were hooted at and
pelted with stones. The crowd num-
bered nearly 2,000 and was made UP of
the toughest element of the city. Well
known thieves and other desperate
men whom the police of the Maxwell
street station have had cons.derab BILE
took an active part in the disturbance
the police finally made determined
charge and drove the mob to the ad-
joining streets and from the freight
yards, clubbing the leaders freely. The
police remained on duty ali the after
noon, and the strikers were kept from
doing further violence.
Hovvling, Cursing Mobs.
The mobs commenced to collect early
this morning in the yards of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the
Wisconsin Central tracks at Western
avenue and Sixteenth street
Threats against the railroads and de-
nunci3tion of the police were heard on
all sides, and 1T only required the move
of some leader to start another con-
fiict The police numbering $50, and
three companies of the Seventh regi-
ment were on duty all last night and
this morning, when the crowd began
gathering, action was at once taken to
disperse it. The men were obstinate.
and at first refused to move. The 20
lice officers used their clubs with telling
effect and in a short time the mobs
were dispersed
The militia were camped in the yards
at Western avenue and early yesterday
morning the boys were distributed
through the yards and instructed to
deal severely with anyone caught in
the act of burning or uncoupling cars.
Shortly before noon stroke was seen
to come from a freight car on the Wis
consin Central tracks The firemen
were under guard of police officers,
and had difficulty in eXtinguishing the
flames.
No sooner was the fire out at that
point than another was discovered two
blocks away
This was soon extinguished.
| Alarms of this sort continued
Throughout the day.
During the day another mob went to
the yards of the Pan Handle road at
Rockwell and Sixteenth streets, and
set fire to a number of cars.
The yards were poorly guarded by
1.-THE police and when the engine COM