The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-08

into the crowd. which vsvered and then
beat retreat. first replying to the une1-
reeted rain of shot with . shower OF
stones. As they retreated. leaving
several on the ground, the police
showed no mercy. At every step
they knocked q man down, and a.
they advanced the crowd shosered
stones on them like hail Rushing into
nearby saloons. the mob bsrricaded the
doors. bat were driven out through via
dows and back doors Ike rats Windows
in the houses adjoining them we're sud
denly thrown open and voslsy Of shot
was poured into the police. who returned
the ire, and the mob finally scattered into
ALI The alleys and side streets The
ground over which the fight had occurred
was ike battlefield. The men shot By
the troops and police lay about Ike logs.
Hats knocked of and coats thrown on 10
lessen weight in the fight. were scattered
about, while on the LOOMS street cross
ing. where the eight pcIics officers had
made their stand, were fully 5oo large
stones that had been thrown by the MOP.
Eleven people who had been shot ana
Dayoneted we're taken to . drug store on
LOOMS street.
Capt. Kelly and Q company OF the Sec
ond regiment were In a second skirmisn
az Ashland avenue and Forfy-ninth street
today. A striker ran along row OF
empty box cars and emptied blazing
torch in the oil boxes The sight oil
flames made the mob crazy with delight
Capt Keliy's men were met with a shower
Of stones, and achievements were
quickly summoned and the crowd dis
persed Some Of the rioters were slightly
injured by bsyonet thrusts.
Deputy Marshal Donald III. Goodwin,
detailed on strike duty. was accidentally
shot and killed in the United States
rnarshal's Office this afternoon by Deputy
J. T. ketchum.
In the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy
switching yards at Crawford, just west OF
the Hawthorne rnce track. dozen freight
cars in the yards we're burned at daylight
A survey at the stock yards this MORN
ing showed that along the Panhandle rail-
road for three miles everything perishabie
was destroyed, including cars, switch
houses. signal towers and exposed freight.
The fire was still burning. The number
OF cars on the Panhandle road burned last
night IL estimated at / 200 to 1900 The
total loss is not less than 100000. 1t Is
estimated that besides the loss 10 rolling
stock at least ten or twelve miles of track
was ruined. 1t is impossible TO place
value on the freight destroyed.
While a wrecking crew was passing
Twenty-third street on its return from
Forty-seventh street tonight they discoy-
cred a number of cars on fire. They at
tempted TO put out the fires and were at
tackled by q mob of strikers. A sharp
hand-to-hand conflict ensued, during
which one man was severely bayonetted
aud two others we're arrested by a COM
pany of the Fifteenth United States in
fantry, who accompanied the wrecking
crew. At Forty-seventh street and the
Fort Wayne tracks some cars were fred
In the evening, but the flames were extin-
guished with small loss.
At o'clock tonight q mob of 1000 or
.. 600 people collected at the scene of this
afternoons fight They set fire to several
cars, and three or four were burned before
the fire department reached the scene.
The flames are now under control. A
report was in circulation in the stock yards
late this evening that the an archist ele-
ment was associated with the strikers,
and proposed TO throw dynamite into the
camp Of the soldiers.
Archbishop Feehan has issued q pas
toral, 10 be read in all the Roman Cath
ollie churches tomorrow. urging all Cath
olics 10 avoid occasions and places OF
tumult, and not TO be found among those
"a ho may excite To violence and riot