Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.

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R,cAo.s Scenes Resulting From the strfk'
of the Street-Car Conductors and Driver
| The Police Almost Powerless ana tn
Roads idea Conforence.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 1.-The vicinity o
the Western avenue car barns was thu
battle ground between the street railway
company and Its striking employees thi'
morning. BY ave O'Clock q crowd o.
fully one thousand men had concentrated
near that point. There were also about
| two hundred police and Deputy-Sherini
| on hand. At $3.50 two cars were started
| from the Lake street door, but the crowd
surrounded them, blocked the wheels
and hurled stones through the windows
at the Deputy-Sheriffs, and the cars were
returned to the barn.
While this was going on, William NIL.
| Ter, newly employed driver, attempted
| to take a car out on the Western Avenue
Line, when the crowd began the same
tactics that it had employed on the Lake
street cars, Miller held on to the refns,
however, but John Hughes, the old dri-
yer of the car, knocked him senseless Dy
q blow on the head with a paving stone.
The police charged the crowd and ar
rested Hughes, and this car, too, went
back to the barn.
While the crowd was engaged with the
police three cars were rushed out on to
the Madison street line, but only got to
Halstead street, where they were ditched
BY the crowd waiting on the corner. The
company claims that the police are INSULT
cient. The strikers are jubilant. No
cars have gone through up to this hour.
At twelve o'clock three cars, with po-
lice and deputy sheriffs as the only pas.
sengers, started from the Western ave.
nue. barn on the Madison street line. The
trip down town, although slow, was with
out interruption, except for the hootings
of crowds at various corners, and on the
were met by mob of four or
five thousand at Jefferson street.
They followed the cars with boots and
yells to Union street. From thence on to
Halsted street the scene was of the most
riotous description. The crowd hurled
beer barrels, bricks, stones, and all sorts
of missiles at the cars, smashing the
windows and n early wrecking the cars.
Several arrests were made, but the po-
lice were almost powerless to handle the
mob.
During the riot at Halstead street,
Mayor Harrison appeared on the scene
and attempted to restore order. He ar
rested one rioter who was armed with a
pick with his own hands, and held him
until an officer secured him. The officers
charged the crowd with drawn revolvers.
One or two shots were fired, but nobody
was struck.
There was no fur Their trouble of a
serious nature until the three cars
reached Center avenue. There the last
car fell behind and was surrounded by
b4p 4xrI Ia oil 1
to abandon it, and it was thrown from
the track by the mob and upset in the
street. Skinner, the driver, was taken
into patrol wagon and his safety thus
assured. The horses were taken I'm
charge by one of the striking conductors
and led back to the barn.
A few minutes later q patrol wagon
was driven to the scene of the trouble,
when the upturned car was righted. 1t
was then fastened to the patrol wagon
and driven to the barn. Another patrol
wagon, filled with officers, guarding it in
the rear. The other two succeeded in
reaching the barn with little difficulty.
On the Halstead street line, four at
temPts were made late in the afternoon
to start out cars, but every time car
appeared q crowd of seven or eight hun
dred. composed mostly of sailors, iron
ore shovelers and other hardy sons of
toll, were in waiting The four cars
were picked up bodily and thrown on
their sides. No stones were thrown and
no firearms drawn. The company finally
concluded not to make any more at
tempts.
At three O'Clock in the afternoon Mayor
Harrison was waited upon by Superin-
tendent Lake, Police Chief Doyle and
Sheriff Hanchett for the purpose of hav-
ing thorough discussion of the situa-
ton, and about the best means to pre-
serve the peace.
t'Order must, of course, be main
tained," said the Mayor, in opening up
the conference, "but am not in favor of
putting the whole resources of the city at
the disposal of the company just for the
purpose of running a car or two"
The Mayor was unable to see how they
could do anything to protect the COM
pany's property without incensing not
keepers along the different lines as
we'll. He plainly intimated that public
sentiment seemed to be unquestionably
In favor of the strikers. The police
could clear Madison street, the principal
Their complications; or the street car
to avoid such complications,
might make concise statement to the
public, setting forth the reasons for the
discharge of the sixteen employees, which
was considered an umbrage BY the
strikers. Then the public could Judge
which side to take.
Everything was comparatively quiet
asst night, pending proposition to be
submitted by the railway officials to the
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