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Police Fire On A Mob

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, July . - Intent on destroying freight cars in the Monon yards at i Sixty-fourth street a mob gathered in that district at 5 o'clock this moraing. The rioters started for the yards ! and a cali was sent to the Englewood I pólice station for kelp. 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 and sevi eral shots were fired into the disorder ly ranks and the men fled. One oí their number vvas struck by a bullet from Serpt Bruton's revolver. The wound was apparently not serious and the man was hurried away by his friends. Serious trouble is expected to-day at Forty-ninth street and the Grand Trunk tracks. A mob that gathered there threatened to burn the roundhouse. The building was surrounded and a move toward the threatened destruction was expected. Col. Moulton and forty of the Second regiment were sent to the scène and will guard the building and yards during the day.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News