ANARCHY IN AMERICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2764, 5 July 1894, Page 2

ANARCHY IN AMERICA.

AUTHORITIES SEIZED BY THE STRIKERS.

RAILWAYS DESTROYED. A MEAT FAMINE IS FEARED. THE WHOLE OF THE FEDERAL ARMY AVAIL IBLE. . (PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, July 3. The strikers captured a posse of 250 marshals and 75 BherifPe deputies, who had been sent to Blue Island to resoue captured trains. WASHINGTON, July 4. The strike is acute in tbe Western States, and, despite the active efforts of the troops to raise a blockade, the railway strikers occupy the strategic points of the railway system in Pittaburg and the Western Pacific, and forbid tbe moving of trains. The strikers have wrecked many cars, and have destroyed a considerable length of permanent way. A meat famine is imminent in towns on tbe Atlantic seaboard, as the grain and cattle trades are at a standstill. Many factories are closing for want of coal. The strikers are endeavoring to j involve the Eastern States in the present dispute, bo as to secure the universal stoppage of traffic. The whole of the Federal army has been placed at the disposal of the judges in order to enable them to enforce order.