Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — TROOPS TO HELP HILL [ARTICLE]

TROOPS TO HELP HILL

SENT TO RESTRAIN STRIKERS FROM VIOLENCE. United States Regular* Take a Hand !n the Greats Northern Trouble Bridge* Have Been Burned -Kuinor that the End Is Near. Must Not Stop the Mails. Federal troops and United States marshals are scattered along the line of the Great Northern Kailway to guard trains and other property against violence by strikers. Several companies of regulars from Fort Snelling have been started westward, and at vaiious points along the line Uncle Sam's soldiers are prepared to oppose interference with t. e mail service. A special train Ixjaring four companies of United States troops arrived at Grand Forks, N. D., and immediately went into camp with a guard about the train. There are 2JI men in the detachment, under the command of Major J. H. Patterson. The companies are A. B, D, and G of the Third Hegiment, stationed at Fort Snelling. They were rationed for ten days, and will make Grand Forks their headquarters for the pre ent. The train met with no accident, although there were several missiles thrown at various points. At St. Cloud one soldier was hit in the head with a b -ick, and another was hit in the pit of the stomach with a coupling pin. At Crookston someone fired a shot at the engineer that flew wide of its mark. The train carried a pile-driver and two bridge crews to rebuild burned bridges west of Minot. As soon as these are repaired it is expected the train SHll ba sent through to the coast. Serious trouble is feared on the Montana Central and possibly at Devil’s Lake, N. D. A special from HiAckley, Minn., the junction point of the Great Northern and its branch, the Eastern Minnesota, to Duluth, says that a mob of 200 men is waiting to prevent any train from going through, and trouble is feared there. Very little progress has been made in the attempt of the Twin ( ity business men's proposal for arbitration. The strikers seem unwilling to consent to arbitration in any form. President Debs declares that he has inside information to the effect that the management • will soon yield. President Hill, however, denies this and talks as firmly as ever. President Debs claimed to have receivedinformation from both firemen and engineers that they would stay by the union notwithstanding the raise in wages promised to the brotherhood committee, but the company claims to have telegrams from the engineers and firemen along the line announcing their determination to stand by the company.