The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-07-14
TORCH IS USED BY
CHICAGO STRIKERS
BLAZE STARTED IN BALTIMORE
AND OHIO YARDS.
FlREMEN SUBDUE FLAMES
Five Companies Illinois National
Guard Ready TO Move to Points
Downstate.
RAIL STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS.

RAIL STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS.
Strikers foiled in attempt TO burn
hundreds of cars in Baltimore and
Ohio yards in Chicago. One car de-
stroyed found soaked with oil: others
similarly treated were saved by
prompt work Of firemen and police.
Five companies Illinois national
guard held under arms downstate
ready to move TO any point where au'
thorities cannot suppress disorders.
National guard companies ordered
TO assemble at their armories at
Warrensburg and Bonneville, Mo-, as
a precautionary measure.
Governors OF Iowa and Alabama
decide yesterdays strike disorders
not serious enough TO warrant mobili'
cation of troops, but warn strikers OF
future trouble.
Northwestern railroad lays off sew
eral trains, chiefly suburban. South.
ern railway unable TO run its New
Orleans accommodation train because
of lack Of firemen.
Governors of Indiana, Kansas and
Missouri asked for troops because OF
growing disorders.
Federal injunctions granted against
strikers committing violent acts at
East St. Louis, H., and Shreveport,
La.
Hundreds of strikers reporting back
to shops for work.
Two thousand railroad molders
threaten to go on strike on behalf OF
the shop crafts.
Charitable organizations Of South
Chicago report greatly increased calls
Cor food and supplies from strikers
families.
Rioters at Burnside, H., shops
threaten to stage fresh outbreaks at
the first opportunity.
John Kassel, beaten by strike slug.
gers yesterday at Baltimore and
Ohio shops in Chicago, dying in the
county hospital.
Officials of various lines don over
alls and perform duties of strikers.
Chicago.-Striking railway en-
ployes and their sympathizers resort
ed to the torch in Chicago in what the
police say was an effort to destroy
hundreds Of cars in the Baltimore and
Ohio yards. Quick worS by the fire
department and the police held the
blaze to one oil soaked CIR and slight
damage to other cars, which also had
been soaked with oil. Rivulets OF oil
had been built along the tracks so the
flames would spread rapidly. The
doors of the car that was destroyed
had been sealed after the fire was
started. The fire department worked
an hour and a half before getting the
flames under control.
This fire was the only act OF VIC.
lence reported in Chicago up to this
time but fears were felt that rioting
would break out in Burnside. where
the Illinois Central shops are located.
the moment police vigilance was re.
Taxed. Idle workmen lettering around
the poolhalls speak good %naturedly OF
last nights riot and urge their hearers
TO stick around for a bigger show"
at the first opportunity.
Strikers set fire to a string of cars
In the Pennsylvania yards at Argo.
Several cars were destroyed. but
firemen prevented the flames reaching
the company shops.
Theodore Haas, for IS years an
inspector on the Illinois Central,
whose house was robbed and partially
destroyed quit.
II am quitting. not because l be.
lieve the railroad men will gain any
thing by it. but it is a case of quit or
be killed." he explained.
Neither the union leaders nor the
rail executives appeared TO be making
any move to settle the strike. The
United States railroad labor board.
having issued it's dictum that the
strikers were no longer under it's
jurisdiction, was observing a hands
off" policy.