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was complicated by the tying up of the Fort Scott road, thereby Involving another southwestern line. The Pacific coast from which there are lief, and a significant Seattle, Wash., where the stevedores were called out by the Knights of Labor to pre- vent the unloading of a steamer from San rancisco, Indicating that Grand Master yorkman Soverelgn's promise to Debs to aid him In every possible way was not merely for offect. The day closed with no rift which overhangs the nation. The General Managers association this af- ternoon passed a resolution saying that it is ot a fact, as some of the state officials h tntimated, that the present stoppage of -rail- road traffic is due to a lack of trainmen in- stead of lack of protection by peace officers fThe resolutions set forth that 90 per cent of \he rallway employes of the Chicago lines are anxlous to work ,and are only prevented by the lawlessness of the mobs not yet sup- pressed. : Mayor Hopkins today sent a letter to Gov- ernor Altgeld formally applylng for state troops to restore the city to a peaceable condition SOVEREIGN IN CHICAGO. Grandmaster Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor arrived in Chicago today from Des Moines. He said e hid come to Chicago to render what assistance he could to the American Railway union, and he should do whatever the officers of that organ- fzation might determine would best serve the interest of the strike. He thought the ulti- matum of the movement was about reached, and it was important that every labor organ- fzation should put in its best blows to win the strike. He added: “This fs the most eritical period in the history of unionism in America. It is the time for every labor Joader to rally his forces and join in the struggle for existence. This ~will prac- tically be a battle for self-prote tion and for the future life of every work- ingmen’s body In_ the country. ~No one can overestimate the importance of winning this conflict. Defeat will mean not a tem- porary setback alone, but a pe rmanent and everlasting disadvantage to disorganized honor and honesty among the working peo- ple of the land. That is why I am here today. That s why I will do whatever the American Rallway union thinks best as re- ards the ordering of a strike. As regards a walkout on the part of the members of all trades unfons in the city, I will say that I think it might bring about great good. Cer- tainly it would force upon the people a stronger realization of the necessity of the settiement of (hese struggles and the populace would rise enmasse in a domand for arbitra- fon. Arbitration the laboring man fs not afrald of. The capitalist, though, will not gccede to it. Mr. Debs stands ready to ac- cept @ reasonable settlement. The general managers do not. Public sentiment will force the latter to change their tune. An attorney called on Mayor Hopkins to- day to report that strikers were trying to intimidate the firemen and engineers in the International Packing House refrigerator Plant. The stoppage of this plant means the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of meat. The mayor ordered forty-five men to protect the plant. Bishop Fellows of the Reformed church and Rev. P. S. Henson, Baptist, called on the mayor today and announced a mass meet- ing at Battery D Sunday afternoon. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss plans for settling the strike. Horbert, Letters, a striking Chicago, Bur. ngton & Quincy employe, was shot and in- l.lmf-tuy Killad this afternoon by Mrs. William Lehman, wife of a man who took the place of a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy fireman Who went ou on a strike. Letters met Mr. nd Mrs. Lehman and endeavored to argue man into jolning the strikers. A quarrel ensued, In which Lehman was gotting the worst of it, when Mrs. Lehman shot Letters. remains (n paralysis, no indications of re- note comes from in the pall VICTINS OF THE E UTIES. “Fweilives Taken in an Effort to Save an Illinols Central Milk Frain. CHICAGO, July 6.—Two strikers were killed outright, and others are thought to have been seriously injured in a riot in the Illinols Central yards at Kensington today. Mhe strikers began collecting on the tracks early, and at 10 o'clock 500 men were rush- g up and down the yards, overturning frelght cars, and blocking the tracks in every manner possible. A force of about 150 deputy “United States marshals and Cook county deputies were in the vicinity and charged the mob at various places, driving small squads of men from the yards. The strikers' forces were rapldly recruited, and by half past 10 1,000 frantic men were howling and throwing stones over a stretch of tracks a mile fn length. " At that time the Illinois Central milk train came steaming slowly up from the south, attempting to reach the city. The mob im- : SERIES 7. The Book of the Builders - HISTORY oF he.. . WORLD'S FAIR ‘D. H. Burnbam Chief of Construction, <0 AND BULT WS F. D. Millei m Director of Decoration. RING 6 coupons with 25 cents, or, sent by mail, 5 cents extra, in coin (stamps oot accepted). Address, Memorial Department, OMAHA BERB. ‘THE MEN WHO SERIES NO. 19, THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY. 4 200 Pagos, 250,000 Words INSTRUCTIVE AND USEVUL A Mine of Knowledge and a Mint of Usefulness. 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The crew had already fled, and the strikers, mounting the engine, carried it back a quar- ter of a mile, when, opening the throttle, they Jumped from the cab and the locomotive tushing forvard at full speed, dashed into the wreck and tore through the derailed cars until it was thrown upon its side. The erowd mounted the wreck with ultant cheers and held high carnival until the foree of deputies prepared to charge. As they came on the run they were met with a shower of stones and coupling pins, and halting, opened fire. For a moment the mob wavered as the bullets cut through their ranks, and then with a howl they charged the little force of deputies, which retreated to a safe dist e to await reinforcements, Police details were hurried to the scene, and | the rioters continued the derailing of cars while waltng for the expected attack, ca fully concealing the dead and injured men. FOUR MORE REPORTED KILLED. At 2:30 this afternoon a pasenger train on the Baltimore & Ohio which had been held in South Chicago all night was started for the city under the guard of several deputy marshals, At Forty-third and Ash strects it was-met by a mob, which fired on the train, and at the same time poured in volley after volley of stones. The trainmen and deputics at once re- turned the fire, and for three minutes a lively fusilade was kept up. Four of the strikers were hit and were carried off by their friends. None of the men on the train wer hurt, and the train proceeded to the | depot without further interruption. It was reported later that at least four strikers wer killed in the strike, and several others injured. DEPUTIES SHOOT TWO MEN Two deputy United States marshals almost created a riot at Thirty-third street and the Panhandle last night, two men being shot and painfully wounded. About 12 o'clock two deputie Eugene Keick and Michael McCann, went into a saloon at 3322 Western avenue to get a drink. There was quite a crowd standing around the place at the time, and the deputies were hoot When they came out some one began throwing rocks at them, and the deputies pulled their revol- vers and began firing. At this time thero was a large crowd around, and Henry Rohrer and August Boes received bullets in the arm and leg. The shooting attracted the atten- tion of the police, and the two men were ar- rested. By this time the crowd was thor- oughly enraged at the action of the deputies and there were threats of lynehing them. They were guarded, however, by the police, who finally took them to the station. Fifty empty freight cars were burned on the Illinois Central tracks at Burnside this morning. STONED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, Between midnight and morning the rioters at the stock yards continued their attempts at destruction of railway property. Several freight cars were fired, but no serious dam- age was done. About midnight the rioters cut the eleceric light wires near Forty-sev- enth street, plugged the fire alarm boxes and_ did_everything possible to impede the work of the department. Whilo working over one fire at Forty-ninth street the fire- men were stoned but not injured. Patrol- man Burke went to the police box to call the officers and was shot at. The interference with the fire and police alarm system was a new and dangerous feature of the riot today, and the officers were ordered o arrest any one caught in that kind of work. As yet the damage to the wires is not serious. Freight cars were upset in all’ pofnts of the stock yards during the night. Before 11 a. m. today, notwithstanding comparative quiet earlier, a_message was sent to General Miles arning him that the situation promised to grow more scrious today than it was yester- day. The idle mob resumed its work of destruc- tlon at the stock yards this morning. In the vicinity of Halstead and Ashland ave- nue cars were overturned, switch shanties burned and switches tampered with. The police and deputies effected little restraint upon the lawless doings. There were no federal troops in the neighborhood. A mob broke open three cars loaded with general freight on the Wabash tracks at Forty-fifth street early today and were raided by the policemen. Eleven rioters were arrested. RIOT AT THE UNION D] ox- OT. Cars Overturned, Trains Stoned and Wrecks Made by the Infuriated Men. CHICAGO, July 6.—The day opened threateningly and ominous signs were visible everywhere in Chicago. At an early hour the mobs began to assemble about the junc- tion points of the railroads, and before 9 o'clock it was evident that a great battle for supremacy was on. Mayor Hopkins tele- graphed hastlly to the governor asking for five regiments of militia to aid him in pre- serving the peace. Thousands of people gathered at Kensing- ton, a suburb adjoining the town of Pull- man and the junction point of the Michigan Central and illinois Central lines. There were no troops there, but the tracks were guarded by a small company of United States marshals. Very soou a milk train arrived on its way to Chicago, and was the signal for hostilities to begin. The mob began an assault and were met with great vigor by the marshals, who began firing al- most instantly. Two of the rioters were killed outright and a number were wounded. A mad frenzy seized the peoplo and they rushed in, seized the milk train and began tipping over the cars. They detached the engine and ran it offt~a half. mile down the track, stopped it, reversed it and opened the throtile wide and drove it back into the mass of overturned freight cars, scattering the debris far and wide and rendering the track impassable in any direction. A fran- tic appeal was at once sent to Chicago for assistance and troops were dispatched to the scene. RIOT AT THE UNION DEPOT. A riot s in progress at the union depot. A mob s trying to ditch a train. The Union depot_is used by the Alton, the Burlington, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Pennsylvania, At 1 o'clock a mob appeared in the yards of the Chicago & Alton road and commenced overturning cars. The police were immedi- ately called for. A mob attempted this afternoon to over- turn some cars on the Panhandle road at Brighton Park. They were resisted by dep- uty sheriffs and one of the strikers named Charles Foote was shot In the neck by a deputy. The wound is believed to be fatal, The engineer of the Rock Island road who was reported stoned to death this morning is said to have had several ribs broken, but to be still living. His name is Goeghegan. His engine was under a fusilade of stones while running from Forty-ninth to Thirty-Fifth streets, , One of the fien arrested when the Rock Island train was stoned was a son of ex- Judge Moran, _ He and another prisoner were locked up. They were there, but there is no evidence the arrests were not a mistake on the part of the police. A serious riot is reported in progress at Fitty-first street and the Rock Island tracks, The mob is sald to be a big one. Twenty-one frelght cars are reported burned on the Fort Wayne tracks at Fifty- fifth street by the mob. WILL TRY AND RUN TRAINS. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern officials at 2 o'clock this afternoon announced tho resumption of the passenger service on their road. The tracks had been cleared of obstructions and patrolled by the police and guarded by the military, and it was thought trains could be put through with safety. Orders were jssued to make up the regular trains and start thom on schedule time. Military headquarters were established In the city hall today very soon after the militls was ordored out. DBrigadier General all callers were excluded while the two looked over maps and outlined the work for state troops, An attempt was made by the strikers to burn Armour's plant at the stock yards. Some one set fire to a carload of coal stand- ing back of the fertilizing works, and a biaze was soon started. An alarm was turned in nd an engine and hose cart were soon on thelr way to Armour’s. The department had no difficulty in subduing the flames after they got on the grounds. This act of in- cendlarism was denounced on all sides. At Burnside. a station three miles nearer Chicago than Kensington, fifty empty frelght cars were standing upon the tracks. The mob set fire o these and they were all prac- teally destroyed Very few northbound roads attempted to dispatch trains and wers waiting anxiously for developmerts, whils the majority of the THE OMAHA DAILY 1B®RE: SATURDAY, JULY 7, 18914 United States troops were ealmly resting in camp on the lake front, waiting for the arrival of additional troops from Fort Brady and Fort Lafayette, These came In about 11 o'clock and marched to the lake front and went into camp The situation s better at St. Louls today, but more threatening at Denver. There is a general strike at Cleveland and the Cleve- land & Pittsburg road is tied up along its whole length. The Big Four is tied up everywhere, HARD TIMES FOR THE The Baltimore & Ohlo mail Chicago at 6:40 p. m. last nearing Thirty-ninth street, by a howling mob of 500 or more, who showered stones and other missiles upon it All the windows in the train and the cab of the engine were smashed in and the mob atened to kill the engincer. They also rned box cars over on the tracks ahead of the train and drove it back to Seventy- fifth strect, from which point it finally re- ceded to South Chiea The crew on train No. 12 yesterday were held up at Brighton park and notified that if they attempted to bring the milk train in this morning the mob would kill every man of them The train leaving here at 6:45 p. m. was obstructed by an_overturned frefght car near Thirty-seventh street. The crew and passengers pluckily cleared the track, al- though greeted with a shower of stones and weveral shots from strikers, and the train proceeded, the mob following and overturn- ing cars onto the track behind it, blockad- ing both tracks of the Panhandle and Rock Island between Thirty-ninth street and Forty-ninth street, and later on they burned some of them. The company had to dis- charge the passengers from a train at South Chicago and they reached the city by elec- tric and other city lines. The malls were held at South Chicago. This morning the company succeeded in getting one track clear and started two trains from South Chicago for the city, having on board a strong guard of United States marshals and poli with hopes of getting through, and it will attempt to send out trains for the east from the depot. The local mail train was started from South Chicago this morning. A short time after this train had arrived at the depot the through train for New York pulled out and was compelied to stop at Thirty-ninth_street by long lines of blazing cars, which had been fired by the mob. Sev- eral cars had also been thrown across the track and were set on fire. The train was compelled to return to the depot. BLOCKADED BY THE STRIKERS. All trains on the Illinois Central blocked by wrecks at Kensington. suburban service from Randolph street Grand Crossing have been running on time. The Western Indiana is open for traffic, but there are large mobs along the lines of the tracks stoning trains as they pass. The L., N., A. & C. abandoned its train service between Chicago and Englewood. Through trains stop at Englewood and start from Bnglewood temporarily. At 6 o'clock this morning the switchmen on all lines in Cleveland struck. This in- terrupts through traffic on the Lake Shore, New York, Chicago & St. Louis and the Big Four. Rioting on the Rock Island road at Fifty- first street was reported at noon. A com- pany of the Fifteenth regiment was sent to the scene. This morning three mail trains on the Fort Wayne road were sent through the district between Forty-eighth and Fifty-fifth stree where the blockade existed yesterday. Dur ing the night the freight cars that had been dumped on the tracks were removed and the trains were sent out without trouble. Part of the mob charged a gang of workmen en- gaged in icing meat cars at Forty-fifth street under supervision of Alderman Carey. He showed the men a permit from Debs allowing such work to be done and the rioters left. The attempt to move the meat train that caused so much trouble yesterday was re- sumed this morning. STONES AND PISTOLS USED. An_incoming milk train was attacked on the Fort Wayne tracks near Fortieth street and the stock yards today and the crew driven off with stones. The deputies charged on the strikers and the mob dispersed after several shots had been fired by the: police. A report gained currency that the engineer had besn storied to death. 'The rumor seems unfounded. Two rioters were caught ,with stones in their hands and were arrested. B. & O. train due at night, when was attacked are The to STOCKYARDS MOVEMENTS ABANDONED Rallroads Give Up Attempts to Move Trains in the Packing House Districts. CHICAGO, July 6.—Chiet Deputy Don- nelly, who was In charge today of the United States marshals at the stock yards, tele- phoned that comparative quiet prevailed there this afternoon, but that no attempt was being made to run trains. The chief deputy said the military force at the stock yards was not sufficient to protect trains, and that the railroads would not try to do anything until the force was increased. Evidences today of the work of the mob at the stock yards yesterday and last night were visible everywhere. In the railroad yards cars lay on their sides and tops on nearly every spur and siding. On the main lines of the Rock Island, Fort Wayne and Lake Shore roads smoking embers showed that the mob had not been content with derailing cars. From State to Halstead and Thirty-fifth to Forty-third streets a network of rail tracks was strewn with dismantled cars, wrecked switchmen’s shanties, railroad ties and other obstructions. The tall signal tower at Fortieth stteet and the Rock Island tracks was about the only thing left. The police managed to defend that against the mob. The crowd made threats this morning that they would burn every railroad shop in the city, the cars and all the property oi the companies It the officials should try to mo trains without their heip. As early as o'clock this morning men began to gut about the railroad tracks. The crowds thickest about the derailed cars, and every token of railroad loss was gloated over with genuine enjoyment. Men who participated in the destruction of the property told how it was done and were applauded by the crowd who listened. The work of dectruction at the stock yards was resumed this morning. At least 35,000 worth of railroad property was destroyed at Forty-third street and Ashland avenue, Cars and switch shanties were set on fire and the flames spread to a hay barn at Forty-niuth and Loomis streets and 400 tons of baied hay were destroyed. The work of the firemen was Interfered with by the mob. It was prac- tically impossible to extinguish all the fires that were started by the mob. Cars belong- ing to the Swift and Armor companics, standing on the tracks at Forty-ninth and Aberdeen streets, loaded with meat, were set on fire this morning. or ULARS, MILITIA AND POLICE, ed to Sweep Down on the Mabs. CHICAGO, July 6.—There are now massed on the lake front five companies, 185 in- fantry, from the various regiments of Fort Leavenworth and two from Fort Brady, troop K, Seventh cavalry, and battery E, First artillery—about 600 officers and men. A second detachment of troops, Captain Leo commanding, arrived from Fort Brady at 9 a. m. today. Mayor Hopkins has sent a message to Governor Altgeld to call out five companies of militia to aid him in preserving the peace. Three are located in Chicago, Governor Altgeld ordered out the First and Third brigades of the state militia, com- manded by Brigadier Generals Wheeler and Weleh, Chief of Police Brennan was at his office unusually early today, and at once began making preparations for trouble, which, he expressed the bellef, would probably reach its climax today. “I shall go at once to the First precinct station on the Lake front,” said the chief, “and swear in 300 extra policemen. That will make the total of the police force about 3,300 men. The new men will be armed and sent out where most needed. It will be al most impossible to uniform them, but tl strikers will know they are poticemen. Under instructions given me by the mayor last night the police will prevent, if possible, the gathering of crowds, not only mear or o rallroad progerty, but everywhere in the pub- lic streety® Their instructions are explicit on this point, and they have been ordered 1o arrest any man who refuses (o ‘move on’ when ordered. We will, if possible, give such protection that every raflroad company desiring to move tralns may do mo." TROOPS NOT DOING POLICE DUTY., When asked for a statement of-the situa- tion from the position of the United States army, General Nelson A. Miles today said: RE Forees in “It the order mf out there will, y bpinion, be no further trouble. It «d plain and unmistakeable order to the police to suppress all rioting, disperse all rmch,lml to stop the destruction of property, —If the police do this, and I belleve they tbangdthere will ‘be no further trouble anywhere #n the city.” “Do you antielpate that this be carried outd'— “‘Most cortatmig, 1 belleve that not only has Mayor Hopking taken the right step, but he will b ebeyed, and the police will use all their qower to quiet these disturb- ances. We are jcortainly not doing police duty for the city of Chicago, and until the police fail wé cdnnot be expected to dis- perse these ohd,” except when we cowme in contact with® them in protecting moving trains. Our action now depends upon the raflroads, and our troops a these trains, when the. move we are ready to protect them ON THE VERGE OF DEATH General Miles, speaking of the destructive tactics of the strikers and their sympa- thizers at the stock yards and rallroads, sald: “Those men do not seem to realize how close to death they are every time they attempt to stop a train and harass the troops. That bloodshed has not yet taken place is due to the extraordinary coolness of the men and their wonderful self-control. They have taken the jeers and sneers of the crowd with great forbearance, and have submitted to indignities and insults in a re- markable manner. They will avold any overt act and resist by physical force the pushing of the crowd before they will use their guns. If a shot is fired, or an assanlt Is made upon them while in the discharge of their duty, they will meet it, and when I contem- plate that, I cannot help repeating that they do not know what they are dolng.” General Miles said today that the mobil fzation of federal troops on the lake front wis prompted by a belief that their pres- ence near the business center of the city was ne The idea was to forestail a conc movement on the part of strikers against prominent down town build- inga, Captain McGunnible, company F, Fifteenth United States infantry, who came into the city with his command’ from Grand Crossing today, said: “This affair has ceased to be a mera lot of skirmishes, and from today on it is in my opinion a campaign. I apprehend that the time for argument is over. It Is the stern business of war now.” order will MEN ARE STILL MASTERS, Blockade of the Southern Pacific ns Effect- ive rs Ever. SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.—The strikers at the Oakland yards and along the mole and on the narrow gauge lines effectually main- tain the blockade on all lines running down the mole. Wherever the strikers find a live engine they promptly take possession of it, rake the fires, blow off the steam and leave it dead on the tracks. There were no acts of violence done. The sheriff of Alameda county arrested a man found engaged in the act of killing an engine. The man was re- leased on his promise not to interfere with raliroad property. The strikers have no fear of the militia. They s: not a man now in the armory will obey an order to fire or use the bayonct. Their authorities for this state mént are the boya in blue themselve: From present imdications the company will make 1o effort to’ résume local and suburban trafic for somie’ titme to come, 5o the only means of bay travel will be by the creek route. Bastern and foreign mails and mails from southerd’ California and Arizona are being sent out by steamers north and south to connect with rail routes not affected by the big strike. ‘On the coast divisions mails are sent out In a' baggage car, all of the mail cars being tied up at the other end of the run. WOMEN HELPING THE STRIKERS. The women jof ‘@akland have organized a woman's auxiljary league and will help the strikers in every possible way. The officials realize that so far as their interests are concerned a very serious blunder has been committed in sendng federal troops to Los Angeles and § the ! iutional guardsmen to Sacramento,. Had the plan been reversed the situation today, might be reversed. While the railroad was sfriving to recofer its lost ground, the 'strikers made the important play of seizing the ferry system: To send federal soldiers to Sacramento now will leave Oakland without protection and the com pany's officers are at a loss what to do. There is little doubt that the United States authoritios have telegraphed the condition of affairs to Washington and have urged that the federal troops be called out. Every- thing therefore is dependent upon the action of President Cleveland. One of the most interesting problems dis- cussed In Oakland last night was the in- Junction Issued against the railroad company by the United States district attorney of the southern district of California. The injunc- tion places the railroad upon the same foot- ing as the strikers, so far as the mails are concerned, and all are asking if the attorney has acted upon instructions from higher au- thority. If he has, the district attorney of this dfstrict knows nothing of it and will not take action unless he is ordered to do so. AVAILABLE TROOPS IN CALIFORNIA. In case President Cleveland should call upon the federal troops to quell the riot at Sacramento, he will have about 1,000 soldiers in California at his command. These com- prise four troops of eavalry, nine batteries of artillery and eleven companies of infantry. In a communication addressed to the Chroniele, General Manager Towne of the Southern Pacific says he daily papers are censuring the Southern Pacific company for Its alleged refusal to run any trains be- cause the strikers now in control of the road at many points refuse to permit trains with Pullman sleepers to be moved. From the beginning of the present troubles the com- pany has been willing, is now, and will in future be willing, to run all of its trains. It prevented by physical force or otherwise from running trains whien require Pullman cars for the accommodation of ordinary daily traffic, it will nevertheless, it permitted to do so, run all freight trains or passenger trains which do not require sleeping cars.” Tonight the Southern Pacific company seems {0 be no nearer (o the management of its raliroad in California. The striking A. R. U. still controls the situation. Several newspapers today published reports that the ccmpany had weakened and that Pullman coaches would be withdrawn from all lines within the state and freight and mail trains started if the strikers would agree not to molest such trains. This afternoon A. N. Towne, vice president and general manager of the. company, stated that such reports were unfounded, and that the company would positively not recede from its position. In other words, the road will run Pullmans or none. The present outlook indicates no trains. One passenger left Portland, Ore., for San Francisco this morning, but it is not believed It can reach-this point without delay. An occasional tain I8 also running out of this city on the cowbtudivision. A force of 100 policemen kep®/the ‘strikers out of the rail- road yards here and trains are made up on that ilne withont,much hindrance. Outside of San Francigco, pounty the situation is different, The San Luis Obispi train was stalled this moriiiig just across the river. A crowd of striket gdihered there and stopped the train. The firaman was taken off and the engineer was ‘compelled to return to the yards, Traffic 8 the coast division has also been blocked at'Sanose by the crowds gath- ering on the '¥fack’ and refusing to move, Company D, Pifth' regiment, state militia, was ordered ow® this afternoon and left for San Jose to digpersp the crowds. At Oakland the txackmln is still complete, not even suburbah and ferry trains are running. SRR STRIKERS WILL NOT ARBITRATE. At Sacramento,, where the situation s thie most serious, HOt a wheel is turning. There has been n travel there today, how- ever, no furtueér éffort has been made to move trains. Tha strikers there are con- fdent. They not only insist that Pullmans must be withdrawn from the Southern Pa- clfic, but today -thelr leaders went further and declared that the men would not re- turn to work untll fheir wages were re- stored to the scale of 1893. A committee of strikers went amoug the business men of Sacramento this morning and collected over $2,000 for the maintenance of the fam- ilies of the poarer strikers. A . committee of city trustees and business men of Sac- ramento walted wpon. the leaders of the strike today to propose arbitration. The men absolutely ‘refused to consider this proposition, and declared that the Pullmans must be withdrawn and wages restored @overnor Markham,” who Is In southern California, is desirous of returning to Sac- ramento. Today his private secretary walted upon Harry Knox, the leader of the strikers, and Knox wired the governor at Los Angeles ayor Hopkins Is carried l that he wonld be allowed to come through on his special train provided a union erew could be obtained. CLEVELAND ROADS TIF A in Al the Yards Tracks Blocked. CLEVELAND, July 6.—After an all-night session of the members of the A. R. U., in which e road running into this city was represented, it was decided at an early hour this morning to tie up every line centerir in Cleveland. By 7 the Big Four yards were reported dead with the exception of an occasional passenger train. The night force had quit and the day men failed to appear for duty. A like condition of affairs prevailed on the Cleveland, Canton & South- ern road, where work ceased at an early hour and the yards were silent as the grave. As 500 as the long sesison of the A. . U came to an end, numerous committees were started out in all direction to notify the men in the various yards to cease work At 8 o'clock the Lake Shore men struck Out of forty-eight yard crews and engines on that road in this city, only one engine was working and the men on that said they had not yet been notified. One or two passenger traing arived and departed during the early morning hours, but as long freight trains were being constantly pulled into the yards and deserted on the main track, It seemed probable that a blockade would soon re- sult. The Cleveland & Pittsburg men promptly stopped work when notified to do so by the committee, and at 8:30 o'clock a. m. only one crew out of thirty was at work. The men who struck are exclusively switchmen and passenger trains will only be affected by freight blockades. WILL ASK FOR AN INJUNCTION. The engineers, firemen and road trainmen will not go on ‘a strike, but the road men said they would not even couple up their own cabooses to trains that might be made.up. In other words, they would perform none of the duties of the striking switchmen. United States District Attorney Colonel A. T Brinsmade was aroused early this morn- Ing and informed of the morning’s news. He said: “I have received instructions from the attorney general of the United States to file a bill praying for an_injunction, if absolutely necessary. 1 had hoped there would be no occasion for any proceedings in the United States courts here. However, it appears that measures have been adopted by the A. R. U. In this city during the night looking toward the prevention and obstruc- tion of the passage of the United States mails and the Interstate commerce laws are being violated. I shall therefore file a bill in the circuit court here in obedience to my In- structions from the attorney general at once, or as soon as the names of the parties re- sponsible can be learned.” NO VIOLENCE HAS OCCURRED. By 9 o'clock all the switchmen in the Brie yards had been notified of the strike promptly deserted their posts enger trains at that hour were still going and coming, but as in the case of other ronds freight trains, which were left standing on - the main tracks, threatened to_blockade all traflic in a short time. The Valley (Baltimore & Ohio) switchmen went out carly in the day, and the. yards of that road are practically dead. The Nickel Plate men had not ceased work up to 9:30 o'clack, and the yardmaster said that work in the yards was progressing as usual. It was evident, however, t owing to the large territory covered by the Nickel Plato yards the notification commit- had not succeeded in getting word to a great majority of the switchmen em- ployed by that company, and hence they had not quit. At 10 o'clock every road leading into the city, with the single exception of tho Nickel Plate, had felt the effect of the strike, and freight traffic on all lines was more cr less congested, and the suspension ot passenger traffi in’ many cases seemorl imminent.” The Nickel Plate has generally abandoned passenger trains for the west in consequence of the tie-up on the western end of the road. So far as learried no violence of any kind has occurred up to this_hour. DELAWARE, 0., July 6.—The Big Four shop and yardmen struck here carly today. Not a car moves. Yard engines are all idle. Frelght Traine n the City o'clock MAY QUIT DOING BUSINESS. Union Pacific May Follow Rock Island and Close Its OfMces. Not since 1877 have railroad men been called upon to guard their properties o zeal- ously as during the past week. It has been a week of tension and Sunday will be wel- comed with Joy and thankfulness, as was In- dependence day, for it will mean a day of comparative rest for many who have had but from two to four hours' sleep in every twenty-four. The clesing of the Rock Island offices yesterday afternoon brought realza- tion to"the clerks and subordinate officials that the situation on their road was one of the gravest peril. But not satisfied with merely laying off the clerks, city passenger agent, freight solicitors and others connected with the city office, a bulletin was received closing the local freight house in Council Bluffs and refusing to allow a pound of freight put on the platform, efther in Council Bluffs or Omaha consigned to parties on the Rock Island. Freight Agent Snyder and the telegraph_operators are the only people left unaffected by the order, Northwestern Pas- senger Agent Kennedy also excepted. This condition on the Rock Island will undoubtedly extend to the Unjon Pacific it the situation does not materially change in the next twenty-four hours, although the officials are very loathe to admit that such will be their policy. But the fact remains that not a pound of freight has been re- ceived from points we:t for nearly four days, and when there is no business nothing is left for the company but to go out of businegs temporarily. There has been little change in the local situation in the past efghteen hours, the Overland” having successfully reached Zvanston with a train of coaches, baggage cars and Pullmans, but the blockade in the Ogden yards will hold the train at Evans ton until the hoycott is lifted. Late last evening a new difficulty con- fronted the officials of the Omaha line, when a number of the firemen, who went out Tuesday and resumed work Thursday, de cided to go out again, and without any dis- play left thelr engines in the care of the engineer. It handlcapped the officials for a time, but they,managed to send out the passenger trains on time, having decided to abandon the attempt to get out freight train No. 18, as announced in the afternoon pape The situation was practically unchanged on the other roads. A telegram was received last night from R. B. Morris, chief of the Brotherhuod of Locomotive Engineers on the Nebraska di- vision of the Omaha line, stating that the engineers were willing to take out trains as usual. This encouragement leads the company to hope that it may be able to get its trains through Sloux City today without interruption. Information was recelved by Pacific last night that the Pocatello had voted to quit. the Union firemen at AT HEADQUARTERS YESTERDAY. ‘What the Sitaation Was on the Lines Run- niug Into Omah; Following the lead of the general offices in Chicago, the Rock Island office in this city closed its doors at 1 o'clock yesterday, all the clerks being ordered out, and it looks like a Sunday about the freight and passen- ger department of the road at this point, It s understood that all the clerks have been suspended without pay until further notice. This action was taken after a conference of officlals yesterday, made additionally imperative by the threatening condition of affairs In the city by Lake Michigan. The Union Pacific was able, with the help of United States marshals, to get out of Laramle two No. 78 consolidated. At Rawlins there was consierable excitement as the traln pulled through the yards, and at one time it looked as if a rlot could not be avoided, but the presence of deputy marshals at the doors of the cars and on the platforms had a salutary effect on the mob, and the train passed through without molestation. The officlals decided to abandon the train at Ogden on account of the blockade in the Ogden yards, and until the blockade is lifted will not attempt to enter Ogden No. 4 left Green River Thursday and ar rived In Cheyenne yesterday without In- cident. General the successful Thursday from Manager Dickinson stated that manipulation of the train Laramle pretty generally | | | disposed of passengers held at varlous points by reason of the boycott, and he thought with help from the government the Overland would continue to get some trains through at least With the Sioux City & Pacific and the Chieago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha conditions looked much mo orable yes terday than for several days paat, passenger trains generally running about on time. At headquarters of the Omaha line It was | stated that guletness reigned in Sloux Cit and that the operating department would a tempt to get out freight train No. 13 at night If there was any business to handle. toneral Manager Holdrege of the Burling ton stated that beyond the trouble at Kansas City Thursday fn the Haonibal & St. Joo nditions on the Burlington wers about the samo. Trains are running in and out of Chicago practically on time, but they have almost given up the idea of transport ing freight to Chicago, It being fmpossible to get trains fhrough the crowds that I the tracks. Owing to the jam of peopie about the local freight depot of the “Q" in Chicago it s an impossibility for wagons to operate in unloading freight and this has had a tendency (o shut down frelght busi- ness except to points known to be entirely free from strike influences. With the oxception of Little Rock and Memphis the Missouri Pacific s in better shape than for several days, although as for passenger business there lsn't any as people will not travel under present condi- tions of unrest. Yesterday tho Mis souri Pacific brought twenty-five cars of cattle to Hammond from Kansas City. The Rock Island officials state that No. 1 arrived at noon, having been detained at Bluc Island some time and also in the Chi cago yards. The Milwaukee train arrived in Omaha about twenty minutes late, due to detention in the Chicago yards. The frelght depart ment of this rond is practically refusing all freight for points east of the Mississippi and is handling little western business Officials of the Union Pacific have had considerable difficulty in caring for needy passengers blockaded at western points along that system, and many nice points have arisen as to just how far the company was liable for detention of passengers given to the Union Pacific by other roads. But in all cases the company has done the humane thing and taken care of those who have had no money to tide them over the blockade. Quite a few second class pas- sengers have been in want and when thejr condition was made known to General Pas- senger Agent Lomax the matter has been turned over (o the operating department, who at once went to the relif of the needy. There are a number of passengers at Coun- cil Blufts, held there by the strike on the western division of the Union Pacific, and will be kept there rather than allow them to go forward with the possibility of being stopped at Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins and other towns between Cheyenne and Ogden. They are now being kept at the expense of the company, and everything is being done to make their condition easy during the fight. OMAHA SOLD) in This I mrtment Move on Short Notlce. The officers of the Department of the Platte were unable to add any information to the military feature of the situation Adjutant General Schwan stated yesterday that several days ago a request was made upon the department for troops from Fort Russell to protect Union Pacific prop- erty at terminal points in Wyoming, This request was repeated Thursday, but as vet no orders have been received from the War department to comply with the ro- quest. With the exception of two com- panies of regulars sent into Colorado from Fort Russell the Department of the Platte has not been called upon to furnish troops. General Brooke returned from Chicago yesterday. He paid a high tribute to the patience and forbearance of the regulars now on duty in the city on the lake. The mob stoned the troops, spat upon them, insulted them with opprobrious epithets and leaped upon them every indignity conceiv- able, and yet not a soldier resented the treatment accorded him. Not a shot was fired, not a man was injured, not even a rioter pricked with a bayonet, and_this, too, under circumstances that almost scemed to justify resentment. The efficials at the department headquar- ters in The Bee building feel confident that there are not enough regulars in Chicago to successfully cope with the mob. The rioters give way to the troops readily enough, but another mob is quickly formed One of the officers stated that it was very much like driving a small boat through an angry flood of water. The boat passes through unharmed and the waves part to give it passage, but after the boat has passed the water closes up again and in an instant is as turbulent as ever. The situ- ation s being watched from headquarters with keen anxiety, and everything is in readipess for prompt action when the neees- sary orders come. gulars Ready to OMAHA'S COAL SUPPLY. Big Consumers Took the Precaution to Get n Large Stock Ahend The Increasing seriousness of the railway situation has excited some little apprehen- sion of a coal shortage here in Omaha, but up to the present time no difficulty has been experienced in securing all the fuel that is necessary while the daily supply is being hauled into the city with its usual regularity. The two leading consumers of coal in Omaha, outside of the railroads themselves, are the American Water Works company and the Omaha Street Railway company. Superin- tendent Hunt of the former company stated yesterday that the coal strike a few weeks ago gave him a little forexight and he laid In a surplus of elghty cars as a measure of precaution. These eighty cars are now here, thirty-eight of them being already unloaded at Florence and the balance in the yards here in the city. This would enable the company to maintain its works for thirty days if further supplies were cut oft altogether. But in addition to this sur- plus the company is receiving its usual supply daily. The reserve will be used only when daily shipments cease. At the office of the strect rallway company no apprehension is felt whatever. The com- pany Is receiving all the coal it needs and is experiencing no dificulty in doing so up to the present time. Of course, if the supply should be shut off altogether the situation might become embarrassing. No trouble is feared in securing all the coal needed to keep the motors running with their customary six-minute regularity. ENGINEERS HAVE A GRIEVANCE, Lake Shore Men to Chicago to See Presi- dent Newell. CLEVELAND, July 6.—It fs learned today that the grievance committee of the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Englueers on the Lake Shore road went to Chicago last night for the purpose of obtaining a conference with President Nowell, who s now in the latter city, The engineers' grievance lies in con- nection with the rule, which was some time ago put in force, virtually holding engineers responsible for any pecuniary loss resulting from accidents in cases where (he company consider the engineer negligent in duty. The engineers will ask to have this rule re- scinded. The result of the conference is awaited with much interest, as it may have an important bearing on the present strike. NGINEER AND ¥ ear Ottumwa aud o Lald to Strikers. OTTUMWA, Ia, July 6.—The Fort son passenger train going east last struck an obstruction, ditching the engine and killing the engineer and fireman. It is believed to have been the work of strikers. KILLED REMAN. Tealn Ditched the Madi night Chicage Ridicules Altgeld. CHICAGO, July 6.—The Inter Ocean, com menting on Governor Altgeld's protest against the wuse of federal troops in Illinols, says “Just at this juncture neither the president nor the mayor seems to care much for the governor, and each has full power to act. The Tribune says: “In times like these some Idea may be gathered of the Infinite distange that yawns between John P. Altgeld and Dick Yates.” Diba WAL Pull the St CHICAGO, July §.—During afternoon President Debs sent out a large number ot telegrams to varlous labor organizations and assemblies of the A. R. U, urging them to stand firm for at least twenty-four hours , longer. Tt by that tims the strike aitua- tlon" has not fmproved for the -better, Mr. | Debs announced organized labor ‘il over | the country will be called out without any ‘ reservation whatever. OLNEY GIVES GOVERNMENT PLANS. Twenty Thousand Soldiers Can Mo Be Thrown Into Chiengo If Ne, WASHINGTON, July 6.—Attorney Gen- eral Olney todsy questioned as to his views of the Altgeld letter to the president. Ho sald: “It Is hardly worth while to dis- cuss at length the false promises and the flogleal nonsequiturs of the Altgeld mani- festo. As a campalgn platform 1t 1s a safe prediction that the author will be found to ba the only to stand upon it. The soll ot the soil of the United States, and for all United States purposes the United States is th e with its courts, its marshels and its troops, nct by license or comity, but of right e paramount duty of the president of the United States iy Lo sce that the laws of the United States aro falthfu exceuted, and in the dis- chargo of that duty he is not hampered or ippled by the necessity of consuiting any chiel of police, mayor or even governor. In the present instance nothing has been done and nothing ordes Which the most captious critie 1 coudemn as any In- vivion of state rights. The action of the nitional executive has been simply and ex- clusively directed to the enfore ment of the United § the execution of orders and of United States courts and the pre of any obstructions of the United ates mails. The notion that the torritory of any state is to; sacred to per- mit tho exercise thercon the United States government of any of its legitimate functions never had any logal existence, and as a rule of conduct became practically l\’v.lm’( at the close of the vivil war." The attorney general was not disposed to further discuss the matter, but he said with certainty that the fact that the riotous strik- ors in Chicago continued to obstruct the trafic of the railroads and resist the execis tion of the laws has not in the least shaken the government's purpose to enforce the laws at all hazards and at whatever cost, The fact that the riotous demonstrations cope tinue only shows that the conduct of the troops in not responding with ball and by, net to the insults and assaults of the strik- ers was of a most forbearing character. PROPOSES TO CRUSH THE STRIKE, The government realizes it is unfortunate that the troops from interior posts are not immediately available, owing to the Broat distances to be traveled and the prosent difficulty in getting transportation. Never- it found necess, w force will be In Chicago sufficient to crush the o n single blo¥. There will be emporizing, no compromisin, v the strikers The railroad Q?Ji.'f panies must be _permitted to cons duct their business unmolested if the cntjre army has to be brought to bear. General Miles will be supplied with all necessary force to carry out his orders, and if reintorce- ments are necessary they will be forthcom- Ing. Even now, in anticipation of such a necessity, preparations are making te strengthen his command immediately upon call, this time by troops from the cast, for those remaining at western posts are bee lieved to be absolutely nceded to protdet government property neral Schofield ha such implicit confiden, in the discipline and splendid organization of the New York Na-« tional Guard that he would feel safe in with. drawing all of the United States regular troops now stationed in that state and send« ing them to Chicago. This will not he done, of course, except In case of absolute neces. sity, for there is overy disposition on the part of the executive fo permit the militlg of Tlinofs to quell the disturbance if it 1y able to do so without needless show of United States forces. The troops was | person Hiinofs s aws, no likely to be called for ta reinforce General Miles upon demand are the garrisons at Fort Niagara, N. Y., whera there are three companies of the Twénty- first infantry, and at Madison barfack: Sacketts Harbor, where there are Seven companies of the Ninth infantry. Thesa ten companies could be placed in Chicago oh a day's notice. Should this force be insuf- floient in connection with the Tllinols Nae tlonal guard, the next move probably would be to call out a considerable part of the mil- itia of New York and Pennsylvania for servs ice in Illinols, which may be done unde™ section 5,298 of the Revised Statutes. TWENTY THOUSAND MEN AVAILABLE. It Is estimated that 20,000 of these men, the pick of the militia of the Unitod States, can be thrown into Chicago on short no- tice. They would be used purely for militia duty, guarding property and so on, thus freeing the regular troops for offensive op- erations. The president, it is said, has full and com- plete authority under the constitution and statutes to call for such levies of militia, and he may also, by virtue of the constitution, assume command of them and also of the Na- tional Guard of Illinols, without reference to any governor. It can be stated authorl- tatively that there is no Immediate prospect of a declaration of martial law by the presi- dent as to Chicago or the state of Hinois. The principal purpose of such a declaration would be to suspend the issue of writs of habeas corpus, should the judiciary seel to obstruct the executive, but there is no dan- ger on that score just now and every otber power desired, it is stated, is already within the reach of the president without regard to extreme measures, New York Central Flyer Abandonel. ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 6.—From 4:30 yesterday morning up to 3:40 this after- noon no mail arrived. At 6:40 the Chi- cago mail arrived, since which time com- munication has again ceased. On the West Shore the trains, with one exception, wera running from one to four hours late. 'Train No. 4, the Lake Shore flyer, has not comg in since Wednesday morning. At a late hour tonight the local passenger agent of the Central and West Shore issued notice that commencing tomorrow and until fure ther notice the eastbound Chicago limited on the New York Central will be abandoned, owing to the labor troubles at Chicago, Three carloads of nonunion men, bound for Chicago from Boston and other points, passed through on the Central this morn- ing. 5y Buifalo’s Turn Next, BUFFALO, N. Y., July 6.—The employes of the Erie and West Shore railroads have informally expressed their willlngness to go out when Debs gives the order. Present ins dications are that Buffalo is selected by Mp. Debs for the next objective point to tie up, With two such railroad centers as Buffalg and Cleveland embarrassed, traffic betweek the west and east would be serlously Ims paired. The organlzation here Is not very stron ble. (Special Teles alry, stac ort Meado Frepared DEADWOOD, 8. D., July 6 gram to The Bee)—The Eighth (Continued on Third Pa Hood’s Is Wonderful “# At harvesting time I took a severe cold which settled in my lNmbs, and ina short time doveloped lnto o= fummntory Rhous wam e Aller spends ing & good sum of mon- ey for different ren dies and suffering all winter, I became so erlppled that T had to walk with tho ald of crutebes, By the kind advice of a friend I was S\ prevailed upon to buy isix bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla. 1 took the I medicine and it has ful- Mr. A. W. Couley, Iy restored me to health Clifford, N, D, and 1 think It Savdd T will chieerfully auswer all who may wish to correspond about my afliction or state- ment." Ly, Clifford, North Dakota. Be Sure to Get Hood's “Haad's Piils eus