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-At Cfctlettsburg. Ky., six men engage
in a right. Fourjare killed and the oth
ers wounded. They. are in jail heavily
.guarded to i prevent lynching. The
army has taken control of the railroads.
Gen. Miles has stationed his troops at the
depots, and the tracks are guarded for
several mile out "by the State troops. The
Federal troops are to support .the deputy
marshals in moving tntms. The troops
are ordered to resist the mobs with arms,
if necessary;- -pen. Schofield has tele
graphed the several generals at the dif
ferent stations to .take charge of the
Northern, Unioa and .Central; Pacifio
roads land open them' up, using' force, if
necessary. -A. fight occurred at Forty.
perenih and fLoomia streets, Chicago,
yesterday, between rioters r and State
troops. Five mep, a woman and. a lad
were wounded, four of them , mortally.
Warrants will be issued for Debs,
Keiehjer and Howard.-The. employes
on the Elgin, Joljet apd iasterh;road go.
back to work. --The Santa Fe road sent
out a irainfor Chicago "yesterday with a
Pullman attached, in which were fifty!
Federal soldiers. There 'were nearly1
1,500 cars burned Friday night t on the
Panhandle tracks at Chicago, and twelve
miles bf tracks ruined. A A serious riot
ccurs at Fort Wayne, lad. The Ninth
infantry has been ordered to be ready,
with ten days' rations, to go to Chicago.
. r Up to 4 o'clock last afternoon there
"was much less rioting tin Chicago "than
the day and night , before, f -Last night
while the' "polkse wereK firlhgoyer the
heads of .rioters in 1 attempting to drive
them 2'rom the railroad tracks,-a young
lady Watching the fight from the top of
a house was killed. Eight v batteries
are being held in readiness at Fort Mon
roe to! go West if needed.-- At 9:30
o'clock last night the big hay and feed
barns in the centre of the stock yards
' were fired, and Morris' packing house
.' was in danger. A general fire alarm and
many Other alarm;' were sent in from the
stock yards. It was rumored in Bir
mingham; that the engineer j and con
ductors there would strike- before morn
ing. Three men attempts to blow up
the Savannah express office with dyna
mitet Seventy-five per "cent. . of the
industrial; concerns of Chicago closed
down last 'night,' thro wing out of work
100,000 people. 4-Debs telegraphs the
Railway union men of Baltimore to order
out i every railroad 1 and other ! employes
withinT reach of
i
the organization.
Judge Hammond, pf
the Federal court
at Memphis, issues an injunction against
the Railway xunion !.men. fhe Kansas
City' rpad sends d banana train from
Memphis. - It is abandoned at J onesboro,
Ark., all the firemen oh the road going
Workmen unloading- a freight
Chicago find; the bod v of a man
supposed to have been murdered.- The
Chicagio Huzzahs andx Chicago City
Troops, two privatej: cavalry companies,
offer their services jto theNStateJ- The
proposed mass meeting gotten up by
tJisnop t allows nas oeen abandoned, xn
account of the unsettled, condition of
affairs 1 Gen. Lew W allace is organ
izing military companies in Indiana. He
belieyes that civil law .will ensue if the
strikers are not put down.
Attenipt to Blow up ah Express Office.
SavInxah,. July 7? About 3:30 o'clock
this morning a daring attempt was made
to rob the office of the Southern Express
company. ! Subsequently: developments
proved! that the would-be robbers had in
tended to use dynamite had they once
made their way inside the office. Ex
press Messenger. Bacon was j ust making
up nis;pacicages for the early morning
train when three men appeared at the
winaow ana saia they wanted to send a
package off. . Clerk Mathews, who was
standing by, reached for his pistol on the
counter and as he did so the robbers
fired, the bullet piercing an iron grating
above) the counter. With this the
robbers started off and the clerk fired
a shot after ; them. Three policemen
( then came ulp from every direction ex
cept the one in which the robbers made
itheir escape, i
About daylight W. E. Clark; superin
lendent of dry culture, saw three men
in the (Western part of the city trying to
bury something on the banks 1 of oie
of the jcanal&. f He walked toward them
And they ran off. Where they had been
iie discovered three dynamite bombs, to
eaohof which was attached half -minute
.'fuses,
The bombs were brought in and
in charge of the city authorities;
Cooper, of the express comoanv
jplacei
Agent
here, -says jnp expense will be spared to
capture the men lietectives are now
looking tor them in every direction, and
it is believed they will he captured, j
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THE GREAT STRIKE;
INCBNDIABISM AND RIOTING
THE ORDER OF THE DAT.
Fires Started all Over the City Mil
lions of Dollars , of Property De-
troyed Manufactories Cloing -f '
v Thousands of Idle Men
. . Gen. Lew Wallace Says .
rts Civil War Con- '
fllct Between the :
a
Troops and
Rioters.
4 Chicago, July 7. A mob gathered at
Forty-seventh and Loomis streets about
4 o'clock and began setting fire to cars
and other railroad property. The police,
under Inspector Hunt, charged, but the
mob would not desist. Then the "United
States regulars opened 'fire " and ) shot
down a large number, killing i several
and wounding many more. The dead
and' wounded were left lying .on the
streets for the mob to take carebf."
. -Chicago, July 7. The first reports of
the shooting at Forty-seventh and Loo
mis emanated from the headquarters of
the General Managers' assdciaand
were grossly exaggerated it jMhaw
learned that the shooting , was done by
two companies of the Second State milf
itiai. No one was killed, but? six of the
strikers were wounded, two probably
fatally vxi".'H " .;:;x:-i"l
The armv deDartment is takine: con
trol of .the railroads. At.l2b'clock Gen.
Miles issued orders to Geni Crof ton to
send regulars as follows; ;Two com
panies to the Union depot, two tp Dear
born street statioh,- one . to thev North
western; one to the Grand Central, r one;
to theock Islahdone Sto - the Illinois
Central. . ; T3. V''" .' '
xThe general instrt 4 to the troops,
are to accompany, iStH2Prt ; and assist
United , States marshals in . aiding the
despatch of mail trains under the Inter-,.
State commerce act and in removing
trespassers x- and I men obstructing or
destroying the lines of roads engaged hi
the inter-State business;
The decision of Gen. Miles to garrison
every depot in the city means that the
crisis has been reached and that from
now on no attempt will be lacking to sub
due the lawless element and keep the
mob under control. For two hours be
fore the order was issued Gen. Miles was
in consultation with representatives of
the different railroads and of the General
Managers' association. . United States
Marshal Arnold was also present. The
representatives of the railroads stated that
they had an ample force of employes
with which to resume business and that
all that was now necessary was an exer
cise of the authority vested in the army
department for protective purposes.
After this conference Gen. Miles called
Col. Martin and Col. Crof ton into consul
tation, and a few minutes thereafter the
formal order assigning the different com
panies to the depots had been signed and
conveyed; tdxthe military camp onxthe
Lake Front. N -
- The plan of operations to 'be followed
this afternoon is. outlined as follows:
Trains will be made up in the depots"
and yards under the protection of United
States deputy marshals with the mili
tary acting as a reserve force. Should
the mob attempt to prevent the making
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up anu uesuatcn oi me trains tne aepu
marsnais wiu nrsc exercise their au
thority, and should this- not be heeded
the troops will be called into requisition
and the mob driven to a safe distance
with the use of bayonets and rifles if ex
tremes are- forced. In the mean
time the State militia is depended
on to keep the tracks clear Of
the mob . and also all obstruc
tions, commencing at a point about
three miles distant from each of the re
spective depots. , With military and dep-.
uty marshals carrying out the trains for
the first stage, with the National Guard
protecting the tracks for the second and
third stages and with every crossing
over the entire distance guarded by de
tachments of the local police force, it is
believed that enough trains can be run
through the sections now under mob law
to raise the blockade.
The cause of the fight at Forty-seventh
and Loomis streets was an attack on a
wrecking train made by the mob. The
Western Indiana, workmen. had partially
succeeded in clearing awav an obstruc
tion when the mob- drove them awav.
The firing on the mob was done by Com
pany L of the second infantry, State
troops, thirty-eight men; strong; 'com
manded by Capt. Maher and not by
Federal troops. The mob had been grow
ing ugly for some time and Capt. Maher
concluded it was about time to beat a
retreat. His company,' accompanied by
six policemen and twenty deputies, be
gan to move slowly off, guarding x the
train. Lieut. Reed was struck down
and suddenly Yardmaster McKee; of the
Grand Trunk, was compelled to fire at
several men who made a rush for him.
This opened hostilities and the militia,
deputies and police' poured lead into the
mob as fast as they could pull triggers.
The soldiers fired anywhere from two to
six rounds a piece and the others emptied
their revolvers. No firing was done un
til Second Lieut. Reed had been struck
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bwiue on uie rempie wim stones. Me is
believed to be dangerously wounded.
The troops, after thought, were unable to
cope with the mob and took a train back
to the city. They have arrived in a
badly demoralized condition, many of
them being badly battered and bruised.
The latest advices from the scene of
the shooting are that he following riot
ers were shot: Thomas Jackman, shot in
back, will die; Henry Williams, shot in
left arm; Toney Gakewski, shot in right
arm; John Kordnderg. stabbed with
bayonet, will die; unknown woman,
shot in right hip; unknown man, shot
through fiver, will die; unknown boy,
17 years old, shot through stomach, will
'die. ;;x j;' - " i x.-;'
Chicago, July 75:15 p. ml War
rants will be issued in a short jtime for
the arrest of Debs, Keieher and Howard,
onjk charge of conspiracy and obstruct
ing fthe maiL Attorney Milchrist has
charge of the matter! and warrants will
be worn before Commissioner Hoyne.
Marshal Arnold has been asked to detail
deputies to serve the papers. m
WASHijiaTON, July 7. Gen. Schofield,
commanding the army, has sent orders
to Gen. Merritt at St. Paul and -Gen. Otis
at Vancouver barracks, directing them to
use force to open-up communication
throughout the : entire length of the
Northern Pacific railroads.. The position
taken is that this road is a military and
mail line, x Similar orders will shortly
issue covering -the entire Union Pacific
line. . "x; x, L v, ...;,; f ; :-;xVj :
r den. Schofield" lias just telegraphed
orders to Gen. Ruger at San Francisco
and Gren. Brookes sat Omeha similar in
terms to those directed to Gens. Otis and
Merritt, placing f in their charge the en
tire Union ana Central Pacio, railroad
Bystem with instructions to open up a
line of communication from San Fran
cisco to Omaha. d-xf. -:
Chicago, JulyZThe tramc managers
of the various railroads met at the stock
yards to-day and decided not to attempt
to move freight trains until Monday.':, u
Los ANQBLfis, ; Cal., , July 7 The
Santa Fe road- dispatched an overland
train for Chicago this 'morning! The
train had ' a Pullman attached and fifty
regular soldiers . were on. boardrThe
troops will go as far as the Needles. "By
a clever ruse, strikers, and idlers were all
drawn, from the Santa Fe depot. It had
been ' announced T that ; . the- Southern
Pacific company would send out a train
for San Francisco 'and ' after s the crowd
had congregated at the Southern Pacific
depot the Santa Fe train rolled out of the
yards. ; No Southern Pacific train went
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; CraCAOO, July 7. -The numder of cars
on the Panhandle iroad between Fifty-,
fifth and Sixty-third streets destroyedby
fire last night is' estimated to have been
from 1,200 to 1,500.. The total loss is
said to be not less than i,000,000. : It is
'estimated that j besides the loss of rolling
stock, at least ten, or .twelve miles , of
track; is ruined. At Fifty-fifth boule
vard there are five tracks. The ! yard
branches out there in a fan shape, andat
the south end it is about twenty tracks
wide; 'All the rails5 on which ; burning
bars stood are ruined, and on many of
the tracks the ties are entirely burned.
It is impossible now to place any, value
on thefreight ' destroyed by the fire.
Whole coal trains had
been sidetracked
in the yard and rthey
stroyed. ' j
were entirely de-
Fort Wayne, InC, July 7. There was
a serious riot here this noon.- When the
westbound Pennsylvania passenger and
mail train pulled into the. depot United
States Deputy Marshal John Ryan, of
Indianapolis, attempted to read the
court injunction tq the 1,000 men as
sembled. He was hooted and jeered and
some one in the car threw a missile
which knocked him -down. He feir in
the midst of the mob -and pulled his re
volver. Myron, a leading union man,
ordered the mob to I disperse and the
trouble ended. An attempt was made to
arrest one of the rioters, but the feeling
was becommg so bitter that the prisoner
waslreleased. I I 1
Oswego, N. Y. July 7. Capt. Regan,
commanding Company G, Ninth United
States inf antry K has been ordered to be
prepared, with ten (days' rations, to pro
ceed with his command to Chicago on
call. ;Xx -' .-' ' : i -
4 Watertown, N.l Y.,
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Bartlett, Ninth regiment
United States
armv, . at Madison j barracks, Sacketra
Harbor, has been ordered to be ready to
leave for Chicago at a moments notice.
Chicaqo; July 7.--' 4 And it is further
ordered thatif an tactx of hostility be
committed, such as firing upon railroad
trains, or assaulting; trainmen, marshals
or soldiers, by throwmgx'atLthem rocks,
pieces of iron or Other missiles, those as
saults shall be repelled by the use of "fire ;
arms." So wrote Ghsn. Nelson A. Miles,
in his order issued this afternoon detail
ing Federal troops to assist United States
marshals in preventing obstruction to
the movement of mail and inter-State
commerce trains, i It was, in short,
notice to all rioter that temporizing
with them had ceased, and that there
after the policy of the Government
would be to put an end to their rioting,
arson and pillage by shooting to kill
whenever and wherever necessary. As
chance would have it, however, it did
hot fall to the lot of j the National trooDS
to be the first to carry out the spirit of
tnis oraer. ijompany u, second Tegi
ment, Illinois National Guards, had that
distinction. x
Up to 4 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,
burning a few cars here and there,' and
threats of firing railroad shops ancj. the
like, but it was more in the nature of
bushwhacking than anything else and
hot at all like the massed bands of strik
ers who gathered along the railroad
tracks yesterday and the day before, ab
solutely blocking all Movement by sheer
force of numbers, j , x -
This stateW affairs was doubtless the
Joutgrowth of various conditions, such as
the presence, of a vastly increased force
iof soldiers and the fact that yesterday's
wrecking and firing cars had left a large
share of the tracks to the south impassi
ble, so that about all the discerna
ble movement , was in the shape
of wrecking trains, endeavoring to
bring order out of the chaos
which existed all through that region
The disturbed section to-day embraced
space of about twenty-five square
miles, not to mention the bit of incendia
rism on the Burlington road at Crawford
and at Western avenue, the latter hav
ing the distinction of beingthe-work of
women and children. It is estimated
that in the district mentioned not j less
than oO.ulX) 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 for
getting together in large, numbers, as
they have been doing heretofore. Still
borne of them at the stock yards found
time for indulging in the grim humor of
laying out a graveyard in due order and
erecting headstones at the graves therein ,
bearing many names, includinsr that of
the President of the United States
One feature of the day was the show
ing of its teeth by the Buildings1 Trades
Council of the city in calling; out the
steam fitters in big packing houses at the
stock yards, with the threat that it was
merely a prehminary to calling out its
25,000 members asd the tying sip of all
building in the city. . . ! '
- Another feature of the day was the
patrolling of sentries before the Federal
sub-treasury, in whose vaults lies some
f 10,UW,UUU of Uncle Sam's money, which
Gen Miles thought might prove a tempta
tion to some of title rioters, especially in
view; of the fact, that they are not very
nusnea, just now. x- xbfs..;;.?
For the first time since 'the strike
opened therefwere several distinct notes of
improvement m the situation,! and these
wer not - connned to Chicago.1 Here,
the postal authorities renorted a L notice
able improvement of. the mails. J Outside
of Chicago it was to be' noted that the
strike, while it made no progress worthy
of mention at any point, gav . many evi
dences of having reached its culmina
tion and of failing ; influence,) t To begin
with, the promise that , the Seaboard
trupkj k lines x wou14jxt be - tied up
at i Buffalo- was hotifulfilledr? : the
strike was ; hot ' extended .to. .Pitts
burg, as was predicted; at ! a - number
of points in the , tied-up territory, the
strain was lightened, iAt oneror two
points men- who had agreed i to, go out
failed to do so, but most significant of
all, perhaps, Was. -the refusal; ofs the
American Railway union, men at Louis-"
yill0f? Colorado Springs ndi Denver to
obey, the order to strike. "Joliet also re
ported a defection from the ranks thereH
, On the other hand the friends of law
and order had occasion to be pleased on
account of massing of troops here and at
the ordering of a decided! movement of
troors hy the President . with a- vie w to4
lifting the embargo oh. Pacific coast
business, both by the Northern and Cen-'
tral routes. ; t;C l ... i' 'v;i.;.
To all this the? only foil which .the .
managers of the strike were able to show
was an arrangement between President
Debs and Grand Master iWorkman Sov
ereign, of the Knights of Labor, to call
out the members of that organization,
some. 150,000 in number, provided tho
other four members bf j the' executive
committee would agree to the order call
ing them out. ' ' I ' '
It i3 estimated .that Debs has now
about 75,000 men out,so that if the agree
ment goes, it will be no small addition to
the forces of ; idleness. 4 ' -j . , ,
There has been a rift in the cloud; but,
the cloud is still there, j ' j
The Daily News issued at 7 'o'clock an
extra containing the following import
ant information, and they vouch for its
correctness in every particular: '
Late this afternoon President Debs,
of the ; American? Railway union, in
torn)9d a, . Daily News reporter thathe
had teeived a messagefrom'iErF. Law
rence, vice president ot the First Nationa
bans, saymg that Vice President Wickes
of the Pullman company, jwasl willing to
see him. Debs thereupon told Mr. Law
rence that he was perfectly willing to
meet Mr. Wickes- j '
Vice President Wickes when seen later
at his omce said: 'This; morning: Mr.
Lawrence-oalled on me and asked me if
I would be willing, to met a' committee
of our ex-employes. I told him that I
would gladly meet such a committee and
have always been willing to meet such a
delegation at any time. The position of
the Pullman company, however, is un
changed. I do not expect that the com
mittee will come to me intending to dis
cuss arbitration. If they i desire to dis
cuss the situation, as it is, I am ready
and willing to see them. The confer
ence; will be to-morrow at my Office, i. at
what hour I am unable to state."
, GiXveston, Tex., July 7. Everything
here remains normal. No movement
has yet. been made by the American
t Railwav.union to attemnt a tie un of the
Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe road for itsN
refusal to drop the Pullmans.
Fort Monroe, Va., July 7. Battery
L, Fourth artillery, returned to Balti
more to-night. Eight batteries at the
post are being: held in readiness for field
service to reinforce the troops in the
.West if it should become necessary.
Chicago, July 7. The police guard
ing the Northwestern tracks at Sixteenth
and 'Ashland avenue at 8:30 o'clock to
night had a conflict with rioters. In at-
tempting to drive them away the police
shot over their heads, and a young lady,
named Martha Bach,, who was watching
the afair from the roof of a near-by
house, was killed. A little boy was shot
and one policeman injured by a rock,
Several freight cars were fired.
Chicigo, July 7. The big hav and
feed barns at Broadway and Centre
avenue, in the heart oi thft ntonk varda
district, were fired at 9:30 o'clock. Nel -
son Morris nackihcr house iawidanirerfid.
and a general alarm has been sent in.
Alarms are also comings from different
parts of the yard1. j : !
Birmingham, Ala. , July 7. The strike
situation ' to night is gloomy. While
every fast mail and local passenger train
went oht to-day, it is impossible to say
what will be the condition at midnight.
The; American Railway union is growing
constantly and they have been in con
tinued session since Thursday night,
with prospects of continuing so until the
strike ceases. To-night a grand mass
meeting of all branches of railroad or
ganizations is in sessionand it is rumored
that all engineers and conductors will go
out.! If this be true, the condition here
willbe a virtual tie up. The conditions
Highest of all in Leavening Power:.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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f rom a provision standpoint in some par-)
ticulars are discouraging, though
Birmingham I has a good cduntrv,1";'
whifch to dmw tha noivsari(ia rwfl 0 e V
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Chicago, July 7. -An exhaustive can
vass of the industrial concerns of the city
yesterday reveals an appalling state Of
affaiiB and warrants the statement that
to-night 75 per cent of them will stop
their machinery and keep it so until the
.embargo on traffic is raised.' The . effect
will be to throw into idleness upwards
of 100,000 workers. J :
The Great Western Refining company
has fuel for bat two days and will then
close.; The Chicago Wire and Spring
company shut down last! Tuesday for
lack of fuel, throwing out 150 men.
Cook county hospital has been burning
hard coal for two days because of CJon
tractor Kelly's inability to secure soft
boai. The Chicago Packing Box comr
pany dosed throwing out 300, because,
nobody wants boxes when goods; cannot
be shipped 1 4 - ' -j . v
i Baltimore, July 7. Telegrams were
received from President Debs requesting
labor leaders in Baltimore to order out
every railroad and other employe within
reach ofthe organization's influence.This
means an effort to extend the strike to
the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and
Ohio systems in the East.! The Baltimoe
and Ohio officials were in their offices at
midnight.' i '
x Memphis, Teah., July, 7. Yesterday
Judge Hammond, of the Federal court,
issued an omnibus injunction, -directed
against the local and national officers of
the American Rfiilway union, to prevent
them ; from interfering with the mails.
"With the aid of special policemen and
deputvUnited States marshals, trains
were 4pved on alLthe roads, i ,The Kan
sas City sent I a banana train towards
Kansas City but it got only as far as
Jonesboro, Ark., when the firemen went
out all along the line and left the bananas
there to rot. ; j. . : .: A
xCmcAGO, July 7. Mayor HoVkins-Te-ceived
a letter, from Chief of Police
Seivey, of Omaha, president of the In
ternational Association-of Chiefs of Po
lice, offering to send 1,000 trained and
oApeiieuueu yuucemen ip uaicago zrom
different points in the West, if Chicago
desired their services and Jwould pay
them. The offer will not be accepted,
as all the men necessary can be found in
Chicago. I j r
The mayor, while very grateful for the
offer, said the city of Chicago could take
care of itself, f f
The Chicago Hussars and the Chicago
City Troops, both of them private military
organizations, have offered their services
to aid in restoring order. ! The Hussars
are able to put in the field, at an hour's
notice, sixtj mounted men. The sheriff
accepted the offer of the organization
and the Huzzars were assembled at Tat
tersalls to-night at 7 :30 o'clock and sworn
in as special deputies. Capt. E. L. Brand
Js1cominanderThey- are armed' with
4o-calibre Colts revolvers. . : , ... t
The City Troops, Capt. Funkhouser
commanding, tendered their services to
Brig. Geh. Wheeler, commanding the
National Guard of the State of Illinois.
They Can put: forty mounted men,
thoroughly equipped and well drilled,
into the field at an hour's notice. 1
At 4 o'clock this afternoon some work
men who were loading a car in the
Santa Fe yards at Fourteenth ; street
found the body of a man whom the
police think was murdered. The body
was noticed lying under a platform. It
was covered with blood and over the left
eye was a peculiar gash. The man was
about 35 years old and in his pocket
was a book in iwhicb was written, 'F.
Wi Painter. If hurt notify Eady Harris
burg, Pa." The body was moved to the
county morgue.
Bishop Samuel Fallowaand Rev. P. S.
Henson,. who headed the movement of
ministers for a mass meeting at Battery
D to-morrow to consider j means for the
settlement of the strike, ' announce that
in consideration of the continued threat
ening aspect of affairs it has been iudged
wisest not to hold the . proposod mass
meeting, .but in lieu thereof, to secure
the appointment of a committee of 100
representative I citizens who will take
charge of the negotiations looking to
v arbitration.
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E. E. Clark, grand chief of the Order
of Railway Conductors, was in the city
to-day. Mr. Clark said SJhi3 order would
not identify itself with the strikers. He
said: "When the strike began I was re-
nuested bv Mr.tDebs to join in it. Isaid
that our order had laws which prevented
any participation in sympathetic ' strikes
and that I-had no personal desire to join
x in - movements' of the kind. The com-
panies with which we have agreements
i have lived up to their contracts and we
have no desireto break them. There
" are cases where Individual? members of
our order have iolned in the strike. We
rcancot help that A conductor who
does not want to work can tjuit after
civincr the company notice, ii, now-
ever, he goes to the' extent of attempting
to get other conductors to go with him
he will be disciplined and in such cases
that usually means expulsion.'
j "The triumph of this railroad strike
would be the triumph of anarchy." said
Grand Master Wilkinson,' of the Brother
hood of Trainmen, to day. "The time
has arrived when things must be called
bv their rieht names without any foolish
delicacy It is a foregone conclusion
though that the movement-must fail.
That is my conviction; Anjr other ter
mination would be a concession that the
Government cannot control .the nation
and that the lawless element have the
upper hand."
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Twenty-five cars loaded with coal and (
meat were brought into the city to-day
AliijqijBVc r andPort Wayne road. :
. 1 . . ltho roofs of- the cars:
vara TT - a. a triA . .
iimiucu wjr uuiku ocaces troops.
The progress of the train, which was the -first
moved by the Fort Wayne in nearly
a week, was slow and difficult. Mobs 1
were assembled at every crossing, and
when the crosainca wata MiiinH v.o. -
train stopped, the troops tumbled down
w m guiw ana witn th-ir bayonets v
forced the rrml n o-of fr
Ihe mobs were surlv but maA r ;
sistance.
An afternoon rarer nrinta v n
me: Competent authnntv Miim.
property loss in thisjrfty alone, byfire '
and waste during the last ten days at '
,t00.000 a-loss traceable directrf to 1
the 8 Tike. Bnfc that WUt amnnnt 1 t..
significant compared with the. loss of K
wages-j and paralysis j of business;-The -
railroad tie up has thrown not less than :
200 000 railroad employes out pf work,
ouu now it is announced as the result of '
careful canvass, th&tindnstrial
ments employing 100,000, will shut down -
uxivu uie f BXTixe r is , dnvn. , ntfA -
manufacturing coxnmuniti a throughout
the West are doing the same thing, and '
it is not an eiaswratinn tA at that . j
the ranks of idlers in the West will b -
increased 1.000.000 mm hxr kah fv:
strike. The Western country is there-- 4
vou tw,wv,yw a uay m wages,- es- -timating
thepay of. themen at the W
rate of IJ a dav. Gh thahMia Af
estimate of men out of work in Chicago
now. by reason of the Btrik; th wmv.
ingmen are contributing $300,000 a day
" cum fiwvjVuumoTo in uraits ,
upon their resources for the cost of
livin:, or a daily total of $600,000.
According to an afternoon paper the
plot to blow up the town of .Pullman,
which was said to have hpAn fmofrofvi -
by the arrival at that town last night of
the Third tattalion. First regiment IUi
nbis National Guard , was hatched yes- i
terday at a ; meeting of the carriage
xnmmers umon at ieprs hall, which
became f ambus as the headquarters of the
Anarchists.. Accordinc to thia fArv in- -
cendiary speeches were made and reso
lutions denouncing a number of capital
ists of this citv and th
lives and property. ; 1
center, Colo.,. July. 7. -Meetings "
were held to-dav bv different lndM
railway employes to discuss the railway
situation and the j result In every case
was a decision to cAntimiA nt
Rio Grande men at Salida havA tptwaWaH
for duty. At Trinidad several engineers
were arrested who refused to take out
trains. The first mail in eieht davs left
Santa Fe this morning. Two troops 'Of
tne i&econd cavalry are en route from
Fort Wingate to Raton.
night Governor. Waite-violently assailed
te8. urtJThe.4narshal .
afid his deDUties. and 100 nrm mn urn-'
at the county jail j to-night m anticipa
tion of a possible attempt to release the
Trinidad prisoners held there awaiting
tnai. . m - . -1
Chicaoo, July 7. The general man
agers of the railroads this morning re
ceived a larg number of telegrams from
eastern stocichoLders and presidents of
the companies represented by the asso
ciation, approving the" course they have
taken in the strike and giving them cor
dial support j One telegram from the
head of one of the great systems between
Chicago and the Atlantic Seaboard said
simply this : Stand firm if you sink the
entire system." I One president tele-
'graphed: 'Compromise at this time is
oniy; another; name for surrender and
worse evils in the near future than yon
have yet seen" ' , -
. Chattanooga, Tenn. , July 7r The
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
road to-day closed its freight depot and '
gave notice, that it would take no freight
for shipment anywhere. I All passenger
trains are leavmg and arriving on time,
but there is a feeling of uneasiness about .
the railroad yards and depots. There are
American Railway union agents in the- -city
trying to induce the men here to go
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; Crawfohdstille, Ind., July 8. -This ,
evening in Crawf ordsyille several large
military companies were organized by
Gen. Lew Wallace in view of the threat- .
ened trouble by strikers. Gen. Wallace
believes that unless the strikers are put
down at once civil war wijl ensue. He
organized his companies to offer them to-
the service of the State should there be
any call for them. Qentral Indiana, and!
especially; in the rural districts, and the.
towns, are bitter against the strikers. , '
I Union Stock Yards, ills.. Jury 7.
The fire bugs continued their destruc
tion work in this district until long after
midnight. At 9 o'clock they fired an
empty box car on .the Grand Trunk
tracks at Loomis street, close to the spot
Iwhere a' car was destroyed an hour pre
vious. Cars were lighted in a dozen dif
ferent places and the firemen are com
pletely exhausted from responding to the
alarms that have been sent in at the rate .
of over six every hour, 1 Since
7 o'clock I to-night no less v than
twenty-three alarms had been received in
the stock yards district Although the
packing houses are surrounded by
pickets of State troops, vfire bugs got into
f. . J l i.t 1 m 1 A A .
tne yarus buwuj uciure v u uim; w
night and set fire to the big hay and feed
barn of Kelson, Morris & Co. An alarm
was sent out and the firemen had a hard
struggle to succeed in quenching the
flames. . There was no wind blowing at
the time, otherwise nothing could have-'
prevented the destruction of the im
mense packing houses which stood close
to the fire. The loss will probably
amount to $6,000.
. Chicago, July 8.-41:15 a. m. A fire
which broke out shortly before 1 o'clock
this morning in the boot and shoe store
at 515 Thirtieth street, near Indiana
avenue, has. already destroyed a dozen
frame buildings,- some of them stores,
and is not yet under , control. A
strong breeze is blowing from the
west, carrying the flames toward
Prarie avenue, and it is almost certain. ,
the fire will burn through to the street
Most of the buildings burned were dwel
lings and little if : anything was saved,
from them, the families barely escaping;
in their night clothes.
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