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There Is No Let Up

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicaoo, July 9. -Por the first time since the great strike of 1877 the btock yards are under military rule. Soldiers are on every hand in abundance and calvarymen on horseback dash through the streets. The Pifteenth regiment, with two companies of infantry and Troop 15 of the cavalry camped in Dexter park, were reinforced by a large number of cavalry and infantry. Major Russell, in command of Battery 1) aud Troop A of the cavalry, arrived at the stock vards at 1 o'clock this morning. 11e reported, with his command, to Capt O'Neill of the Nineteenth precinct pólice station and then went to the Transit house, vvhere General Superintendent Ashby of the Stock Yards company was staying and reported to him. After much delay the cavalry and artillery men went into camp. When the sun came up this ïnorningthe clarión notes of mauy bugles aroused the sleeping soldiers, who, after breakfasting, spent the forenoon in cleaning up camp and readingmorninp papers. Last night was one of awful suspense to p-operty owners. Flames from burning raihoad property illumined the sky tor miles around and fire engines clattered over the pavements all night to calis from every quarter of the stock yards district Mobs of people, Hoticeable among whom were women, stood around the railroad tracks and watched the box cars burn with exultation. All night long the people staid around the tracks and would not leave until the sun appeared. Every railroad track for miles around was packed with crowds and pólice officers by the htindred charg-ed on the mobsinavain attempt to disperse tliem. The work of destruction, which was commenced by an incendiarv mob day before yesterday on the Grand Trunk tracks, was carried on all night Every piece of railroad property, including box cars, tooi and flag shanties, semaphore poles and tower houses, from ILtlsted street west to Ashland avenue on the Grand Trunk tracks had been destroyed, and last night the mob continued its depredations west of Ashland avenue Commencing at Fifty-first sti-eet were the Elsdon yards of the Grand Trunk road. This yard was filled with box cars and the mob started in to destroy as many of them as possible and with great success. The fire engine horses were fagged out Firemen were disgruntled and the supply of water was short, all combining to raake the efforts of the lire department vain to check the flames. Everything along the tracks as far as Sixt3Tthird street was burned. While the mob was at work on the west end of the tracks another mob started at Halsted street, and rnoving west, tore up large sections of tracks, broke switches or spiked them, leav-' ing the tracks perfectly useless. Another mob carried on destructive work along the l'anhandle tracks two miles west of the stock yards. Box cars were burned, after they had been overturned and split up. The tracks are a long way from a pólice station and the mob had plenty of time to get in its destructive work before Capt. O'Neill of the Nineteenth precinct heard of it and sent a squad of officers to the scène. A million dollars wül not begin to cover the loss to the Pan Handle and Grand Trunk roads by the destruction wrought by the mob.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News