Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1894, Page 2

s THE OMAHA DAIEY« BEE: SUNDAY, had been through a battle when they dls- embarked at the Dearborn street station, Thelr uniforms were torn, hats gone, they were covered with dust and dirt, and many of them had been badly brulsed by flying stones. belleve,” sald Superintendent Atwater, “that at least a dozen men were killed. I #aw men strewn all over the tracks, and they were dead men, too. The mob was not far away when we began to fire, and for about three minutes the militia, the deputies and the police, who fought Ilike devils, were simply pouring lead into that .crowd. We were close enough and the mob was big enough, and I don't think many bullets went wide. There were more killed than we will ever know about.” The statements of Superintendent Atwater as to the number of men shot down are up- held by the milittamen and deputies, many men declaring that they had seen the strikers carrying away men who were elther dead or wounded. The injured men whose names are given were brought to the city by the police and placed in the hospital. The report of the fight occasioned great excitement at army headquarters, and the request of Police Inspector Hunt that several companies of regulars and a Gatling gun be sent out to the scene added to the fecling. The mob became quiet at evening, however, and the regulars and artillery were held at the depot all night. At 9 o'clock 8,000 collected noon's fight tonight a mob of 2,000 or at the scene of this after- They set fire to several cars and three or four were burned before the fire department reached the scene. The flames are now under control. A report was in circulation In the stock yards late this evening that some of the socialistic element among the mob assoclated with strikers have proposed to throw dynamite bombs Into the camp of the militia after the soldlers have retired to rest. This report has created considerable excitement. POLICE DRIVE BACK THE MOB. As the train with the military aboard pulled out fully 20,000 (people crowded about the handful of police left behind. From all des they rushed upon them, hurling stones d fron In thelr mad assault. ‘The men, alizing thelr position, drew their revolvers and backed up against each other, prepared for a desperate battle. The crowd halted for a moment, and Oficer Ryan, breaking _through, hurried to a patrol box and called the patrol wagon. Lieutenant Keleger and twelve men responded. In the meantime the crowd had closed again about the police, following them with a volley of stones, The work that had been done by the wrecking party was attacked as the police retreated. A car was sot on fire, the switch closed and broken and ralls torn up. An alarm of fire was sent in and with it a second call for police assistance. Loomis street, the heart of the anarchist settlement, was crowded by a howling, shrieking mob. The patrol horses were urged_through it, the crowd sullenly part- ing. Without flinching they clubbed thefr way through to their fellows and then all arted back against the crowd. At the eight of the reinforcements the crowd fell back. Bach officer evidently thought his life was In danger, and without any order they ralsed their weapons and fired as fast as possible directly into the crowd, which wav- ered and then -beat a retreat, first replying to the unexpected rain of siot with a shower of stones. As they retreated, leaving several on the ground, the police followed with clubs, showing no mercy. At every step they knocked a man down, and as they ad- vanced the crowd showered stones on them like hall. Rushing into nearby saloons, the mob barricaded the doors and made a stand, but were driven out through windows and back doors like rats, clubs descending on thelr heads at every jump. Windows in the houses adjoining ~were suddenly thrown open and a volley of shot was poured SUNDAY, JULY 8. 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The men shot by the troops and police lay about like logs. Hats knocked off and coats thrown off to lessen welght in the flight were scatterod about, while on the Loomis street crossing, where the elght police had made thelr stand, were fully 500 large stones that had been thrown by the mob. mons EARLY AT THEIR WORK Fires Started In the Burlington Yards a at Other Plac CHICAGO, July 7.—Chicago has taken on a very warlike aspect. What, with the fed- eral troops, the United States marshals, the militia and the police, the guardians of the peace are visible everywhere. On the lake front is a camp of regulars, with pitched tents and stacked arms and patroling sen- tries. Surrounding the postoffice Is another smaller camp with & half-dozen tents and a threatening patrol. Detachments of troops are marching and artillery and cavalry mov- ing constantly. The strike I8 everywhore, and all sorts of wild and possible stories are afloat. A large number of factories have been closed owing to lack of coal and Inability to ship goods, and this has thrown a vast horde of employes on the streets to swell the crowds and increase the disorder. Every one is on a tension and expecting bloodshed at any moment. Mobs gather every afternoon and attempt to stop the outgoing and in- coming trains, and as night goes on they grow bolsterous and begin rioting. They overturn freight cars to block the tracks, and as soan as darkuess sets in they start off In small squads, setting firc to the cars standing in long lines in the railroad yards, This s kept up throughout the night until early morning, when from sheer exhaustion they lie down in the streets and vacant lots and go to sleep. EARLY WORK OF DESTRUCTION. As a consequence the forenoons are usually qulet. Today proved an exception. The mob was up and at its work bright and early. In some places they began the attack at & o'clock. Today's incendlaries began in a brand new quarter, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy switching yards, just west of the Hawthorne race track. Fully a dozen freight cars in the yards were burned bright and early this morning. At daylight the destruction of the cars was complete, Serious trouble was looked for today at Forty-eighth street and the Grand Trunk tracks. ~ A mob that gathered there this morning threatened to burn the round house. The building was surrounded and a move toward the threatened destruction was ex- pected at any moment. Colonel Moulton and forty men of the Second regiment, Illi- nois National Guards, was scnt to the scene to guard the bullding and yards. At 11 a. m. it was reported that a mob was firing cars and other property on the Chicago & Northern Pacific raflroad near the western city limits. Five companies of United States troops from the lake front were at once or- dered to the grand central depot to take a train to the scene of the trouble. The troops were marching through the streets within ten minutes after the call, Serious rioting was reported about 11 a. m. on the Grand Trunk road in the vicinity of Elsdon. Deputies and police wero called for by the railroad authorities. Rioting was also reported to have ‘been renewed this morning on the Burlington tracks at the Western avenue crossing. The property of the railroad company, it was stated, was being fired right and left. A few moments after 11:30 this morning a mob numbering 500 tore up the maln tracks of the Panhandle road at Fifticth streot. The police charged them, but were met with a volley of pistol shots. The police refrained from returning the fire, but succeeded by repeated charges in dispersing the crowds. The Second regiment went to Forty-seventh strect to act as a guard for the Panhandle tracks.: ONE MAN WAS WOUNDED. Intent on destroying freight cars in the Monon yards at Sixty-fourth street, a mob gathered in that district at 5 a. m. today. The rioters started for the yards and a oall was sent to Englewood police station for help. Forty officers were sent to the yards. Their appearance did not frighten the strikers and they continued their march. Orders to disperse had no effect upon the men and several shots were fired into the disorderly ranks and the men fled. One of their number was struck by a bullet from Sergeant Bruton's revolver. The wound was apparently not serious and the man was hurried away by his friends. Symptoms of disorder were frequent today at all points between Forty-ninth and Fifty- fifth streets, in the Stewart avenue district, Police officers, detalls of militia and federal troops wera scattered along the line. At Brighton Park a squad of polico were on guard under command of Lieutenant Walsh with orders to shoot at the first attempt of the rioters to destroy property. About 8 a. m. a mob of about 500 strikers captured a Baltimore & Ohio wrecking train at Fifty-ninth street. The train crew fled. IT WAS AN ACCIDENTAL KILLING. Richard Zeef, a Baltimore & Ohlo em- ploye, also a United States deputy marshal, was killed at the Grand Central depot last evening by the accldental explosion of a gun. William Martin was seriously wounded at the same time, Before 10 a. m. officials of the Grand Trunk telephoned the police that large mobs of men were moving down their tracks in the direction of thelr shops at the crossing of the Panhandle tracks at Forty-ninth strcet. They expressed the beliet that the mob intended burning their shops. Chief of Police Brennan ordered Inspector Hunt to the scene with a force of men. Halt an hour later a message came from the Northern Pacific and the Baltimore & Ohio roads that mobs were gathering at Forty-seventh and Fifty-ninth streets, where these companies have wrecked trains. Fear was expressed that the strikers intended burning these wrecked trains in order to prevent the clearing of tracks. Inspector Hunt was also notified to atiend to this trouble. Along the Burlington tracks scenes of vlo- lence were enacted today for the first time. At West Fortieth and Twenty-fourth streets a mab gathered and upset several frelght cars. The -rioters were dispersed by police from the Lawndale station. DESTRUCTION AT THE STOCK YARDS. Today at the stock yards brought no receipts of live stock and no prospect of shipments. The paralysis of the ratiways and packing houses continued complete, A survey of the scene at the yards this mori- ing showed that the devastation by fire along the line of the Panhandle railroad extends over at -least three miles. BEyerything perishable was destroyed, including cars, switch houses, signal towers and exposed frelght, The fires are still burning and now and then break out in a new center. Policemen closely guarded the Lake Shore, Fort Wayne, Western Indiana and Pennsyl: vania tracks at the yards all last night, and today preparations were being made to start meat trains eastward. Tracks were this morning slowly cleared of obstruc- tions with the intention that as soon as this was accomplished switching would be- gin. In many instances the obstructions were so Ingeniously and firmly fixed that it was almost impossible to remove them. It was stated that when the trains were ready to move all the military and police force available would be exercised to prevent interference. Thore were no crowds of the idle and viclous men at the yards this morning to interfere with the work of clearing the tracks. A large number of strikers slept in the vacant lots adjacent to the Link Belt Machinery company's plant last night, but they showed no disposition at an early hour to resume thelr unlawful operations of the previous day. Chief McDonald of the stock yards police said: “The people who were out raising Cain last night are at home and asleep. I have made the rounds of all the tracks, and beyond a few groups standing idle around there is nobody to be seen. They will wake up pretty soon, but we are ready for them. 1 nev w such cenes of disorder as were to be found on every hand here yesterday and last night." Nelson-Morris, Swift and Armour have all sworn in several hundred speclal oficers to guard their property. They fear incendiaries more than the train wreckers. No attempt was made in the stock yards to move tralns, and nothing will be done, it I8 expacted, until Monday. The packers fear violence tonight, but no demonstrations were made today, It Is sald the strikers will not the topic of conversation im- attack private houses, but will confine thelr depredations to corporation property. LAKE SHORE RAN PASSENGERS. The Lake Shore road sent out (hirty-six passenger trains this morning, two of them | promptly on time. All incoming trains ar- rived at the depot on time. The Rock Island road fs still completely tled up. The office force within the city has been tempo- rarfly laid off and no business transacted at the general office o trains are running on the Baltimore & | Ohfo north of South Chicago. The com- | pany expects to send out this afternoon from South Chicago a speclal train carrying teach ers destined for Asbury Park. Those from the west who expect to go over the Baltimore & Ohio road will take the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern belt line, while those going from the y will be taken out on cable and elevated trains, One train on the Chicago & Alton road due last night reached the depot this morning. ~ No other trains came In and none went out The Panhandle is completely tied up. A little business was done by the Chicago Central, the southern branch of the North- ern Pacific, but the Burlington, Milwaukee & St. Paul ‘and Northwestern roads were operating their passenger trains as in times | of peace. | SHOTS BXCHANGED WITHOUT HITTING Police officers encountered the rioters at Fiftieth street and the Grand Trunk tracks this morning. Shots were fired on both | sides, but no one was hit Five freight cars standing on the Burlin ton tracks between Wood strest and Weste avenue were fired this morning by a crowd | of women and boys. In the 4,000 people the percentage of men was small. The fire was extingulshed without Interference. DEBS AND WICKES CONFER. Puallman Company Not Willing, However, to | Concede Arbitration. July 7.—~The Daily News will issue at 7 o'clock an extra containing the | following important information, and it vouches for its correctness in every particu lar: Late this afternoon President Debs of the A. R. U. informed a Daily News reportor that he had received a message from E. rence, vico president of the First Na- | al bank, saying that Vice President kes of the Pullman company was will ing to see him. Mr. Debs thereupon told Mr. Lawrence that he was perfectly willing o meet Mr. Wickes. Vico President Wickes, when seen later at his office, said: *Th morning Mr. Lawrence called on me and asked me if I would be willing to meet a ccmmitteo of our ex-employes. I told him 1 would gladly meet such a committes and have always been willing to meet such a delegation at any time. The position of the Pullman company, however, is unchanged. I do not expect that committee will coms to me intending to discuss arbitration. Ir they desire to discuss the situalion, as I said, T am ready and willing to see them. The' conference will be held ‘tomorr»w at my office, but at what hour I am unable to state.” Later this evening Mr. F. Lawrence sald: “There bas been no talk whatever ¢ a meeting between Debs and Wickes, or be- tween Debs and any representative of Pull- man’s company. There will be no meeting between these people. There has been talk of a meoting between Mr. Pullman and a committee of his ex-employes, but whether this will come to anything or not I can- not say. NORTHWE! CHICAGO, STERN MEN CONSULT DEBS. May Result In Another Tie-Up that Rond. CHICAGO, July 7.—Fifteen conductors on the Chlcago & Northwestern met Vice Pres- | ident Howard and three directors of the A. R. U. in secret session at Uhlich’s today for the purpose of deciding upon another walkout of Northwestern employes. At present that road is running all its trains on time and many nonunion hands are at work. Many of the old men have been replaced and the sit- uation is a discouraging one for the men. It is the wish of the leaders to initiate a second tie-up on the Northwestern system, making it complete and absolute, and then fight it to a finish. By this scheme, the men who, have been deprived of their places may regain‘them, It is'said, and the union workers who quit at the first call will not lose so heavily for having gone into the sympathetic movement. The Stewart avenue district, between Thirty-ninth and_Fifty-ninth streets, was distinguished by frequent scones of disorder today and officers and soldiers swarmed there. At Englewood a mob of several hun- dred rioters jeered at a detachment of sol- diers and a squad of police, inviting a col- lision, and finally fired several shots at the blue coats. The fire was returned by two or three officers and a charge was ordered which temporarily dispersed the mob, though further and serious trouble in that quarter is feared. FEDERATION AN OUTSIDER. on President Gompers Says Thoy Havoe Present Idea of Striking. NEW YORK, July 7.—No action has yot been taken by any New York labor organiza- tions looking to active participation fn the great strike. The representatives of (he A. R. U, who have been here for a week or more, have had exceedingly poor success in their efforts to gain supporters, President Gompers of the Amerlcan Federation of Labor was requested to go to Chicago to confer with Mr. Debs regarding the situa- tion, but declined to do so on account of pressing engagements in New York. Mr. Gompers said today that the A. R. U. had as yet made no request for help and that the federation had not held a meeting and had made no arrangements for holding any meet Ing to consider the situation. The federation Is not very strong in steam railroad circles,” continued Mr. Gom- pers, “‘nor is there any general in_the east that is very strong.’ Mr. Gompers said Tie knew nothing of the proposed visit of Mr, Debs to New York. Through the efforts of the emissarles of the A. R. U. a meeting of delegates from the varfous local unfons of the city Is to be held tonight to see if it may be possible to ar- range for a mass meeting of the strikers to be held in this city carly next week. No PULLMANS NOT NECESSARY, y Are Not an Essentinl Part of Mail Tralos. LOS ANGELES, July 7.—This afternoon the following communication was Issued to James Johnson, chief clerk of the rallway mail service, by the government attorney in view of the fact that there is some com- Plaint that the Southern Pacific was not making the proper effort to transport the mails: Sir: 1 have the honor to request that you will immediately notify the proper offi- cials of the Southern Pacific company that they are required to transport the mails of the United States upon all local tralns run- ning out of San Francisco and Oakland and that such trains are expected to be run in a reasonable manner and as often as the ordinary business of ~commerce requires, Your attention is further called to section 3,964, revised statutes, making all railroads postroads of the United States. In this con- nection I beg leave to say that it may not bo practicable for sald company to operate trains carrying Pullman cars at the present time, but this does not excuse that company from carrying the mails of the United States on all other trains. “GEORGE J. DENNIS, 'United States Attorney. A. R. U, MEN SURPRISED, Refusal of the Federated B Strike Dis rd to Favor & arages Them. CHEYENNE, July 7.—(Special Telegriam to The Ree)—The action of the federated board of Union Pacific employes in refusing to order a general strike on the system meets the hearty approval of a large ma- fority of the members of the organizations represented. It Is a great disappointment, however, to the members of the A. R. U., who believed that the trainmen would foin with them in the strike and considered it a death blow to the strike In tho state. Union Pacific officlals and citizens generally are much pleased with the conservative ac- tion taken, and It Is earnestly hoped that it will bave a bemeficlent influence in causing all employes to return to work. Tacoma Grand Jury Charged. TACOMA, Wash., July 7.—Instrueting the wrand Jury empaneled in the United States \ district court, Judge Hanford directed them to inquire 1t "’ law of the United States had been violated by the strikers in this district. In contThding his charge, the court sald: "T|mr5")'§"f..mn the air rumors and reports of cdmbinations and organizations by IndividuaM, wetuated by determinations to proceed tojthe extent of actual resistance to the lawfuly, constituted authorities of the United States government, resistance to the court and-its ‘officers and deflance of tho nation itself. 'Any such resistance, partici- ted In by a'¥ofistderable number of peoy means Insurrectibn against the government. ON THE UNION PACIFIC, tratioh at' Rock Springs t to Naught. When thettwd kections of train No. 7 on the Unlon Pacific passed through Rock Springs Friday night a crowd of 1,500 people, made up of miners, strike sympathizers and the unemployed of almost every nationality, gathered about the depot and began a cru- sade on Engineer Smith of the first section. While no attempt at viclence was made tha mob showed visible signs of restlessness and used language that was hardly fit for a par lor, Smith being given to understand that it he came through Rock Springs again it would be regarded by the mon as a challenge to fight. The pas- sengers were greatly frightened and the first tion delayed but a few minutes at the Springs By the time the second section arrived at the depot the crowd began to show additional signs of hostility and Engineer Hit tel was shamefully abused by the mcb, who needed but a leader to comm!t some overt During the howling and hooting and exeltement some one of the mob dropped a nut in the guide of the engine and on the first stroke the cylinder head was forced out, which necessitated some delay in coupling the side. It was this threatening aspect at Rock Springs which caused Assistent Socretary Orr to wait on the military authoritics at the Paxton at midnight, and later on Gen- eral Brooke at his residence, not for the purpose of asking for troops as alleged, but to appri: neral Brocke of the situation that he might give instructions to Captain Quinton in command of the company of federal troops at Rock Springs, which has been stationed there since the riots of 1884 Beyond the firemen having gone out at Pocatello there i little change in the situa- tion on the Unfon Pacific since Friday. General Manager Dickinson stated that not a wheel was being turned west of Cheyenne, and having cleaned up the passengers as far as Evanston it had been decided not to tempt* to move any mora passe traing west of the Wyoming capital. ins are running through to Denver and Cheyenn on the “Overland,” ‘but the travel is exceed- ingly light. At Northwestern headquarters it nounced that the company has resumed taking perishable freight for all points, with the exception of the Union Stock yards, Chicago. All,traius on this road re- ported on time, No. 5 arriving this ing on the dof, which is also true of the Mifwaukee and_Hurlington. Owing to the threatening condition of affairs on the Union Pacific, overland trains 1 and 2 have been abandoned for thq reason that there 1s little business. The completg tie-up on the Union is playing hob with theatrical com; quite a half dozen heing blockaded along the line of the “Overignd” at Denver, Ogden, Pocatello, Laramie.and several other points, while there arg,a number of companies in California making, every efiort to get through to the Atlzntic seaboard. Everything was quiet about the Webster street yards yesterday, Missouri Pacific, Omaha, Sioux—City & Pacific, and Elkhorn trains leaving and arriving almost on time. The Omaha brought in 100 cars of cattle for South Omaha yesterday from points along the line between Omaha and Sioux Clisp The general mavager's office of the Union Paciflc presented a buy appssrance last night, the leading ofic’als being in con- sultation with officials on other portions of the system as to the most expeditious way in which to accomplish the mobilization of United States troops. In the group about the general cfiice were Superintendent of Tolegraph Korty, Superintendent of Car Servico Buckingham, General Attorney W. R. Kelly, Ass'stant Secretary Orr and eral stenographers, It was decided, after having recoived word from General Brooke, to accomplish the movement of troops from Fort D. A. Rus- sell to the polnt in Wyoming desigoated. As fast as possibla equipment will be pro- vided for other troops to be moved to scenes ot disturbances. While everything was reported quiet along the western division of the Un'on Pacific the greatest fears are entertained that riot- ing and rapine will cecur today, and it in preperation for these prospective hap- penings that troops last night were on the move toward terminal points cn the sy tem. But the Union Paclfic is not aione invalved of the transmissouri roads in a tie-up, From what is believed thoroughly reliable sources it fa learned that the firemen on the west ern dl jon of the Missouri Pacifi the di- vislon between Omaha and Kansas City, will go oat this morning For several days Superintendent has been afrald of this movement, and so expres.ed himself to several railroad men. The engineers, on (he contrary they will remain loyal to the company, but will not work with green hands, which is anothor way of saying that “scabs” cannot shovel coal for them:. Last night the local officers of the A. R U. were in receipt of another telegram from Eugene Debs :tating that it was abso- lutely necessary that the two local unions, Nos. 12 and 195, stand by the main body of the A. R. U. on strike, as a crisis had been reached which needed the heip of every man to successfully overcome. t Came aver was an- were morn- Pacific Rathbun has Santa Fo Gets Out a Train. LOS ANGELES, July 7.—The Santa Fe road dispatched @u overland train for Chi cago this morning. %he train had a Pull- man attached alid “fitty regulars were on board. The troops Wil go as far as The Needles. By a Clever ruse strikers and idlers were all draywp from the Santa Fe depot. It had gep, anmounced that the Southern Pacific \wowld send out a train for San Francisco afff aftér the crowd had con- gregated at the St thr.x Pacific depot the Santa Fe train rajleli;out of the yards. No Southern Pacifle fralf went out. It s reported that the tracks were torn up on the Santa fy near Summit, a most dangerous setion gt phe road. Later in the day' trliins began to move on Pabifi¢’ on schedule time for Santa Ana, Saned’ Monica, Santa Barbara and Colton, Locmliirains were also sent out over the Sintaofe. Nonunion crows manned all these frains. The Southern Pa- cific train to Colton:was the first over that line -for ten days. The case of Conduetor Heartt, who refused to take out a Southern Paclfic traln and was arrested for violation of the noninterfer- ence injunction of Judge Ross, Is still pend- ing. Judge Ross statéd this morning that thd question was such a welghty one and he was so busy with other matters that he would defer making his decisoion until later on. Much Interest has been manifested over the pending decision, as It Is a new question, and whatever decision Judge Ross makes will be a precedent. All morning attorneys for the men arrested for obstructing the passage of the mails and violating the pro- visions of the Interstate commerce act were Interrogating members oft he United States grand jury on the state of mind they were in when they found the Indictments. One of the grand jurors, named Sweet, it was developed, had made remark that the only way (0 treat the strikers was to fll them the Southern | tonight is the raisin of lead. Sweet tried to explain this, witnesses were produced and testified that Sweot had sald this in thelr presence and hearing. Another grand juror was dis- covered to have been a train spotter for the railroad. This invalidates the indict ments. The matter was argued from ening of the session at 2 o'clock this af- ternoon, but BLOCKADE AT SAN FRANCISCO. Mort Melng Made to Move Tralns Thers or Sneramento FRANCISCO, July 7.—The only re of the railroad situation in California of the biockade at Los trains began running this morning on the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe roads, and from which point an and was dispatched out over the Santa Fa route. In northern California the block ade 1s more complete tonight than it has been at any time since the inception of the trouble. Out at Oakland and Sun Francisco not a train is running. The two companies of state militia have made no effort to over- como the strikers at San Jose. At era- mento there has been no further trouble, neither the United States marshal nor the state militla having made any efforts since the riots of Wednesday to assist the company In moving trains, The Southern Pacific man- agers have apparently thrown up the sponge until a settlement of the trouble shall be ar- rived at In the east. The strikers at S a mento are as determined as ever. Many of them are heavily armed with Winchesters and openly threaten to resist any efforts to move trains. The strikers have established a soup kitchen near the depot They are also soliciting the people of Sacramento for funds for the support of the more needy families. Money and provisions have been donated. An afternoon paper that the labor organizations of san Francisco are quietly organizing militia companie: nd arranging to assist the strik- ers In the event of a conflict here or In Oak- land. No SAN foat Angeles, where local NO ARRESTS WITHOUT WARRANTS. Denver Men Will Resist the Attempts of United States Marshal Israel DENVER, July 7.—The order of Unite States Marshal Israel to his deputies to arrest without warrants strikers, especially leaders, for merely counseling men not to work on railroads in the hands of receivers, has created great excitement among the labor organizations. The strikers declare that no deputies will take them without warrants unless they kil them. President Heberling, who is directing the strike here, sald: “I have advised all the men to in no way offer violenco to officers, but we will fight and resist any arrests that are made without the process of the courts.” Besides endorsing the A. R. U. strike, the state labor assembly denounced Marshal Israel for the arrest of citizens without warrants ““for no graver offense than talk- ing, advising or consulting as citizens about the common welfare,” and unanimously re- solved: “That if the laws cstablishing the courts of the United States clothd them with power to render the executive and judicial authority of the state nugatory, then, indecd, have we cause to repudiato the centralized govornment which the money power has invested for thirty years. Labor, whether organized or unorganized. must not, ind by the etornal shall not, be crushed by legulized greed, nor the natural and equal rights of man before the law be ignored, Natural and equal rights of man before the Jaw have been ignored or destroyed and the hope for Posterity blighted.” PRACTICALLY ENDED IN Actlon of the Federated Board and Con- ductors Brothe od Settled It. DENVER, July 7.—The strike in Colorado is practically broken. The action of the Federated board of Union Pacific employes and that of the Order of Railway conduc- tors, togethér with the Santa Fo conductors and the Denver & Gulf engineers having been sworn in as deputy United States mar- shals at their own request, practically set- tlen the matter. The same is true of all the territory between here and Salt Lake. To- day General McCook notified the authoritios at Washington that all lines in his terri- tory were open for the railway companies to run trains, Immediately after- wards Judge Ilallet of the United States district court issued _ an injunction against, . V. Debs, the A. R. U. et al, restraining them from interfering with the passage of United States mails or the provisions of the interstate commerce act. Two hundred more deputy United States marshals were, however, then sworn In and arrangements made to send them to the troubled points the first thing tomorrow morning. A train will be kept in readiness to move troops to points where they may be necessary. More trains have moyed in Colorado today than any day since the strike. although not a train_except one on the. Midland has moved at Grand Junction. At Las Vegas the Santa Fe engineers and conductors agreed today to go to work. COLORADO. IMPROVIY AT SIOUX CITY. Hany Striker: Returning to Work and Mob Violence Ended SIOUX CITY, July 7.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—The strike has not been de- clared off yet, ‘but it might as well be. Many of the strikers are returning to work today and all railroads were running trains regu- larly, including both freight and passenger trains. Fully 2,000 men have been idle this week, but today 1,200 employes of packing houses and wholesale firms that were laid oft have gone back to work. There are probably not to exceed 300 railroad men out on the stiike now. Men who stayed by the railroad companies during the strike are being given the preference now. There are still prospects of trouble should the militia be withdrawn, and it is not probable they will be before Monday. There has been no conflict today and no attempts to prevent trains from running. Twenty-seven members of company M of Cherokee are in the military hospital be- :ause of tin poisoning from eating canned tomatoes. Two militiamen are laid up from injuries inflicted by strikers throwing stones Seven additional arrests of strikers who helped blockade mail trains were made by the United States authorities today, making eleven in all, while ten warrants still re- main unserved. The loss to business as a result of the strike falls heaviest on the packers and stock yards interests, and on the wholesalers and railroads it is hard to esti- mate, but probably amounts to $500,000. TALK AT LINCOLN, Alleged to Have Been Cause Trouble There JOLN, Neb., July 7.—(Special to The Bee)—It is sald that Grand Master Work- man Sovereign of the Knights of Labor was in the city yesterday making an effort to have the Burlington switchmen and en- gineers go out. It was understood that it the engineers and firemen would go out there would be a local strike. They did not go out, and there was no strike.” The master mechanic of the B. & M. has been extending an invitation to any of the en- gineers with the Burlington (o go to work for the Santa Fe In place of the strikers, but none so far have accepted. All the ticket offices in the city closed today. FIREMAN BALD STRTE Efforts Made to LIN/ were LY BEATEN, e Crew of an Overland ain at Ogden, Delayed train No. 3 on the Unlon Pacific, which was hung up at Green River Friday, reached Ogden yesterday morning about b o'clock. The temerity of the employes of the Overland in running a train into Ogden o exasperated the mob that they jumped on the fireman, John Hamilton, and pounded him unmercitully, so viclously indeed that his life was despaired of last night, The engineer was permitted to stay on his en- gine, but was the reciplent of the worst kind of epithets from the mob, the sym- pathizers of the Debsites warning him never to show his face in Ogden again. Mob Assaults © Conductors Stand by the Company. DENVER, July 7.—At a speclal meeting ot Denver division No. 44, Order of+Rallwsy Conductors, resolutions were adopted which have a bearing upon the big strike. The resolution states that the order will sustaln the | new | all ity members, whether they be acting as brakemen or switchmen, and advises them to continue to perform ali work required of them and customary in such positions, The resolution conclades: “The Order of Rall way Conductors has contracts with each and overy raflway company in this sta and not having any grievance, certainly should not be the first to violate such con traot Tho resolution Ig attested by D. A. Clark chief conductor SITUATION IN THE EANT. Every Effort Belng Made to Biring the Men Out at Some Pol PITTSBURG, July 7.-All 1 ployes wero working here today feeling prevailed that a strike might be ordered at any moment. At last night's meeting held In the interests of the A. R. U. Organizer Naylor stated that the strike would surely reach here. even meetings of railroaders have been called for tomorrow and upon the result of their deliberations depends the movement of passenger and freight trains in this city. Tho situation is regarded as serious, as every endeavor s befng made by populists and “ex-labor leaders to induce the men to quit work, although many are not inclined to do so. R. B. Frye, editor of the Industrial, states that he has had information from authentic sources that the strike would reach here tomorrow and would not be confined to rail- roaders. District Master Workman Vincent of the Knights of Labor says he has received no orders regarding the strike. He admits that the Chicago situation has been discussed by the general executive board, but refused to say anything further ERIE SWITCHMEN STILL CLE ND, July 7.—Although it was announced late last night that the striking Erle switchmen, some 600 in number, would return to work this morning, not a man ap- peared, and the freight business of the road is tied up more completely than yesterday. The passenger trains are running about on time. The Lake Shore succeeded in get ting throu stbound meat train bound for New York. Yardmaster Mitchell and an sssistant attempted to move some ars loaded with stock in the western yards this morning, but a crowd of :trikers drove them away. Traffic on the Big Four Is practically at a standstill. The same state of affairs ex- fits on the Cleveland & Pitstburg, the Jleveland, Akron & Columbus _and the Clevelind, Canton & Scuthern. The Nickel Plate is making very little headway in handling traffic. MICHIGAN CENTRAL TRAINS STOPPED. DETROIT, July 7.—The strike of the fire- men and switchmen on the Michigan Cen- tral tied up the rond for the night, but this morning passenger trains are again run- ning, though :ome were late. The mail train on the Wabash, which was made up to move th's morning, is still in the yards unable to get a crew. The other ronds ara moving passenger (rains without interfer- ence. BUFFALO, N. Y., July 7.—No strike had taken place at 1 p. m. PHILADELPHIA, July 7.—There indications of a railway strike here. THE 8M ilroad em- but the ON STRIKE. are no CLOST LTER. Railroad Tie.Up Has Shat (Off the Supply of Ore. One of the first serious results of the rail- road tie-up, as far as it affects the city of Omaha, will be the closing down of the Omaha & Grant Smelting works. Those works will be obliged to shut down for want of ore to work upon. There is a sufficient quantity to run a day or so, but after the supply on hand is exhausted it will be nec- essary to draw the fires Manager Nash sald yesterday that the company was very reluctant to close down, although business had been extremely duli for some time. The railroad strike has shut of the supplies of ore and the works will be closed indefinitely within a day or so. The exact hour for closing down has not been decided upon, but the works will hardly run more than two days longer. “When the works are once closed,” said Mr. Nash, “they will not be reopened for some time. The company Is carrying about 500 men on its pay roll, but al of them have not been employed on full time. During the dullness of the pust few weeks an effort has been made to divide the work among all the men, so that all can work a part of each week. About 200 are kept at work all the time and these of course would be com- pelled to seek other work or remain idle. A letter recelved from the president of the smelting works at Denver stated that the works there would not be closed untll next Tuesday morning. OFFERS A THOUSAND MEN. Pollce Chief Seavoy Soes a Solution of thé Strike Prob) n. As president of the National Chiefs of Police association of the United States, W. S. Seavey of the Omaha force has taken a hand in putting down the strike in Chicago. Yesterday he telegraphed in his official capacity as president to Superintendent Brennan of the Chicago force stating that in his opinion_police could handle the mob much more effectively than the militla or the regulars. With this idea In view he offered to furnish 1,000 uniformed officers from the different cities in the assoclation, providing their expenses were pald. In discussing the matter, Chiet Seavey sald that there were seventy-eight metropolitan cities in the association, fncluding all of the largo cities of the United States, with tho exception of New York and Buffalo, His idea was to take extra details from each of these cities and land them in Chi- cago, all at about the same time. Belng frequently thrown in contact with rioters and mobs, he was of the opinion that police officers were the proper parties to solve tho problem. Later in the day Superintendent Brennan replied to Chief Seavey, thanking him for the offer of 1,000 men, saying that they were not needed at present. LAW AND ORDER LEAG Spokane Citizens Tender Thelr Services as Deputy Sheriffs Without Pay. SPOKANE, Wash., July 7.—The citizens' movement for law and order has assumed very large proportions. At 10 o'clock this morning an adjourned meeting was held in the United States court room. Sherift Pugh was In attendance. George Turner presided. Several members of the city council were present. The committee appointed the pre- vious evening reported, recommending that all good citizens tender thelr services to the sheriff without pay, and asking the sheriff to appoint them deputies. This was adopted. The sherift immediately swore in 160 of the best citizens of the town, and before night the list had been increased to over 400. A signal was agreed upon and places of m ing selected. The entire force under Sherift Pugh Is prepared to act as one man. The bold steps taken by the cltizens have overawed the rioters, and today Deputy Ben- son was able to make a number of arrests of rloters who took part in Wednesday's melee without resistance. : FORMED, MILES WILL CHARGE THE MOB, Willing to Do Anything He Can Consistent with His trt lons. CHICAGO, July 7.—General Miles held a long conference with Mayor Hopkins this evening, after which the mayor said: “General Miles informed me he had just been in conference with the president over the teleplione. He sald his instructions were to protect government buildings in Chicago; to protect the subtreasury and the postofice, and the other government edifices; to see to the moving of the mall tralns and to the moving of trains under the Inter- state commerce law. He sald he would not charge upon mabs or rioters unless re- Qquested to do s0 by the mayor. He sald he would do 80 if requested by the mayor. This makes a sort of unity of action between the state and government troops possible. He expressed a willingness to do all he possibly can under his lastructions from the presi- dent.” i g Al Quiet ut Hawlins. RAWLINS, Wyo., July 7.—(Special Tele- gram to The Bee)—All Is quist here. A train of three cars, made up at Green River, deputy United States mar:hals hers who remain quietly at the Railroad hotel, Members of the different organizations ropresented by tho fedorated board of the ilh!-n Pacific system held a meoting here | tonight in which It was decided the action taken at the Cheyenne meeting was uncon- stitutional as to articles of federation, ai the matters considered wero referred to thelr respective chief executives. 1 VIOLENC AT MOBERLY. Passengor Teain ' T. LOUIS, July play of violence in The first decided dis- inection with the rail- road strike in Missourl was made at Moberly Just after midnight, when a mob of 200 or more strikers and sympathizers surrounded the Wabash passenger train which left there last evening and drove the crew from it. The fireman was especially badly treated by the mob, suffering a number of brulses and cuts, As s00n as tho facts were made known at the road’s headquarters officials took the mate ter before the United States officials hes by whom a warrant was issued for A, O, Burdock, leader of the mob, and also 200 blank informations to he filied out on the ground by deputy marshals and then served. These papers were sent (o Moberly at once by spectal train The local situation shows a little change for the better. little more wheat is being handled and even a little more could be han- dled but for the interruption at other points. No perishable freight is being touched on the st efde. On the west side such freight in betng handled in a small degr The pas- senger service shows improvement in the number of trains and In the making of time approaching schedules. The Wabash west is perhaps in the worst shape. The employ- ment of men to take the places of strikers continues, but no effort has as yet beem made to put them at work. The rallroad yards are patrolled now by United States deputy marshals as well as local police and the force of the former fs being increased in anticipation of an effort to run trains with new men. DENVER ROADS RUNNING TRAINS, Blockade on Some of Is Partinlly Broke DENVER, July 7.—The policy of the rall- way managers at this point not to antagonize the organizations among their employes mora than necessary is beginning to bear fruit. The feeling among the men Is becoming dis- tinetly more favorable toward the companies from day to day. Comparatively few Denver & Rio Grande employes in this city have struck. The road Is tied up west of Pueblo on account of the strikers at Pueblo and Salida. Trains were run today as usual be- tween Denver and Pueblo. The Santa Fe and the Gulf are running both passenger and freight trains. The Unfon Paclfic is still tied up w of Cheyenne. The Rock Island is running trains between Denver and Iowa points. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen decided by a close vote not to order a strike on the Denver & Rio Grande In support of the A. R. U. Many of the firemen, how- ever, have already struck and are joining the A. R. U. In consequence of the decision of the Colorado branch of the A. R. U. not to order a strike on the Colorado Midland the members who were in favor of striking have applied to President Debs for a new charter. B ANN ARBOR ¥ Lake Shore Men Want the Discl Reinstated Now. TOLEDO, July 7.—The Lake Shore en- gineers and firemen held secret meetings at noon today. This was not on account of the A. R. U. strike, but to formulate de- mands that the Lake Shore company shall reinstate the engineers and firemen dis- charged during the Ann Arbor trouble a year ago, as they deem the time propitious for the success of the demand. Representatives were present from all divisions of the road. Efforts have been made for several days past to tle up the Lake Shore, Michigan Central and Wabash here, but the A. R. U. has not enough local members to make it effective, and hence every endeavor is made to get the other labor unions to join in the tieup. Meetings are scheduled for tomorrow to consider this question, and the strike, I one is decided upon, wiil not occur before Monday. The Lake Shore is getting its freight business straightened out at this point. Last night ffty-eight loaded freight cars, which had been lying here, were gotten out for the west and forty-five cars more will go out this afternoon. orado Lines RENEWED, rged Mom MINERS LOOT A STORE, Starving Men and Women at Spring Valley, 11, Help Themselves to Food. SPRING VALLEY, Ind., July 7.—A mob of Lithuanfans, men, women and children, gathered in front of the coal company’ store last night, 1,000 strong, and com- menced to hurl stones through the windows. This was soon followed by the breaking in of the doors. Every one took all the goods he could carry away. The store coutained a stock valued at $40,000 and there was not a dollar's worth left at midnight. The police made no resistance, as the pcople were in dire need of food and the men would not hesitate to murder any one attempting to resist them. The Lithuanians have taken an active part in the A. R. U. strike by running the night road walkers off the Rock Island and have threatencd to tear up the tracks should another train try to pass the town. SPRINGFIELD, T, July 7.—The sherlft of Bureau county reported the trouble and asked for troops, which the governor refused on insufficient grounds for sending them there. All the state militia are now in the fleld except fourteen companies held in re serve. WILL RIKERS, ood of Tralnmen and Conductors t the Debs Walko NEW YORK, July 7.—An afternoon paper says: The chiefs of the Brotherhood of Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conduc- tors announce that members who have gone on strike on the order of Debs will be ex- pelled from the order and the charter taken away from any local lodge that refuses to expel the strikers. CHICAGO, July 7.—Grand Master Wilkin- son of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, in an interview, sald: “This Is a bad state of affairs and I am glad that our organization has no part in it. We have no grievance with the railways and are under contract for a certain length of time. While we sympathize with the men at Pullman we could find in that no justifiable cause to go out.’ SCHOFIELD ORDERS ROADS OPENED Brother citio—Simis e, eneral Schofleld, Soldiers to Clear the Northorn £ Iar Order for the Unlo WASHINGTON, July 7.- commanding the army, has sent orders to jeneral Merritt at St. Paul and General Otis at Vancouver Barracks directing them to use their force to open up communication throughout the entire length of the Norths ern Pacific road. The position taken Is that this road Is & military and mail line. Similar orders will shortly lssue covering the entire Unfon Pacific lines. Representative Black of Chicago called on Attorney General Olney today and warmly commended his course regarding the strik Senator Palmer also called at the Depar ment of Justice and expressed his approval of the course being taken by the government in the present crisis Santa Fo Ruuning a Fow Freights. KANSAS CITY, July 7.—~The Santa Fe got out several frelght trains today under & guard of deputies. There was no opposl ton. The other roads remaln about the same as yesterday. The Memphis has closed its shops here and at Springfeld, throwing out about 600 men. The road Is prage tically suspended. Will Try to Impeach Oluey. PHILADELPHIA, July T.—8Becretarys Treasurer John W. Hayes of the Kuights of Labor says that counsel for the knights has been instructed to prepare articles of ime peachment sgalnst Attorney General Olney mall, express and coach, pessed east at 12 o'clock last night. There are about sixty for his alleged breach of the law in his aee