The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-08
Secured Reinforcements and Fought
Their Way to Safety by Freely
Using RevOlvers and Clubs.
ANOTHER FIGHT LATER
Incendiaries Charged by Regular
Troops and One BayOneted.
Numerous Smaller Riots During the Day
Methods of the Fire Bugs-DispO-
sitiOn of Uncle Sans Soldiers.

CHICAGO, July 7.4~"Ard it is further or
dered that if any act of hostility be COM
mitted, such as firing upon railroad trains,
assaulting trainmen, marshals or soldiers,
by throwing at them rocks. pieces of iron.
other missiles, those assaults shall be
repelled by the use of firearms
SO wrote General Nelson a. Miles, in his
order, issued this afternoon, detailing fed
eral troops to assist United States marshals
in preventing obstruction to the movement
of mail and interstate-commerce trains. 1t
was, in short, notice to all rioters that tenn
porizing with them had ceased and there
after the policy of the government would
be put to an end to their riot, arson and
pillage, by shooting to kill whenever and
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 T,
Second Regiment, 1. n. G., had that dis
tinction. The story of the encounter be-
tween the thirty-eight young militiamen
composing this company, and vicious mob
at Forty-seventh and Loomis streets, is
told elsewhere in these dispatches.
Up to o'clock in the afternoon the day
had been a comparatively quiet one. To be
sure, small mobs had been going about all
through the district west of State street
and south of Thirty-ninth street, burning a
few cars here and there, and 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 railroad tracks yesterday and
the day before, absolutely blocking all
movement by sheer force of numbers.
This state of affairs was doubtless the
cutgrowth of various conditions, such as
the presence of a vastly increased force
Of soldiers and the fact that yesterdays
wrecking and firing of cars had left
large share of the tracks to the south i'm
passable, so that about all the discernible
movement was in the shape of wrecking
trains endeavoring to bring order out OF
the chaos which existed all through that re-
gion. The disturbed section to-day en-
braced space of about twenty-five square
miles, not to mention the sporadic bit of
incendiarism on the Burlington road at
Crawford and Western avenues, the latter
having the distinction of being the work
of women and children. 1t is estimated
that in the district mentioned not less than
fifty thousand rioters were out at one time
and another during the day but the ground
was so thoroughly patrolled by the police,
the marshals and the military that they
found little opportunity Of getting together
in large numbers, as they have been doing
heretofore. Still some of them at the stock
yards found time for indulging in the grim
humor of laying out a graveyard in due
order, erecting headstones at the graves
therein. bearing the names of their pet
aversions, including that of the President
of the United States.
The feature of the day was the showing
of its teeth by the Building Trades Council
OF the city in calling out the steam filters
in the big packing houses at the stockyards,
with the threat. that it was merely pre-
lminary to calling out it's 5000 members,
and the tying up of all building in the city.
Another feature of the day was the pa
trolling of sentries before the federal sub
treasury. in whose vaults lie some fifteen
million dollars OF Uncle Sans money.