Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — FIGURING ITS COST. [ARTICLE]

FIGURING ITS COST.

Itullrmd Losses, in Chicago Alone, Caused »*r the strike May Ke-ieli 58.000.000. One of tbe General Managers in speaking of the cist of the great strike t > the rail in Chicago alone said that the lo ses to the loads might go as high 1 s 0 <‘,COJ. The loss occasioned by suspended traffic will be the largest item, but the destruction of p o| erty will be by no means a small one. > early CO i Panhandle cars were .destroyed in one blaze, an 1 of this number ninety-eight contained merchaadi e It will be ' necessary to learn what the e cars contained before anv computation! of loss can b: mode. With the city limits tower houses have h en burned and tracks been Ur i up. Damage has been done in many railroad shops, and enormous ! ki.ms ex ended in delonding the roads

against rioters. What the railroad companies will do in the way of demanding: financial redress from the county and city has not been determined by the General Managers* but many suits are expected. The commission men of South Water street wi.l meet to formulate a plan of action in regard to claims against the railroad companies, ft was estimated that the claims would aggregate $590,000, and that the losses of the commission men would not be less than SI, T 500.000. In Chicago and vicinity, including Hammond, eight or, indirectly, ten live-! were lost, the victims being killed outright or afterwards dying of their injuries, while the number of wounded, as lar as reported, was fortyone. At east nine, and probably ten, lives have been lost throughout the West outside of Chicago. This dce3 not include those killed and injured by the explosion of the caisson o;i a Chicago boulevard.