Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-04


 | compelled to duck their heads to escape in- l jury. When the last patrol wagon had emp l tied it's load at the factory Captain O'Donne1l ordered the streets cleared. The two hun drsd officers were drawn up in line and com
 handed to make the charge. In the midst and plunged right and left. Revolvers cracked necessarily and occasionally the loud report of blunderbuss or ancient shotgun loaded with slugs split the air. Four strikers dropped during this charge, two of them be- ing shot through the groin. They were picked up by comrades and borne away be- fore the police could overtake them. One of the victims boy. He was shot while in the act of throwing a stone. Five men caught him as he fell and bore him to the car barns where he called for drink of wa ter. It was given him and he moaned piteously and begged to be taken home. An express wagon was secured and the dying boy placed in it. Joseph Dorking, of 422 West Seventeenth street, was the other striker, who was shot in the groin. He was placed in patrol wagon and taken to his home. Officer Casey went into the house to learn the nature of the mans wounds and while there between three and four hundred excited men and women surrounded the house demanding the officers blood. The men in the patrol wagon grew nervous and drove the vehicle nearer the sidewalk. When Casey emerged from the house the crowd surrounded him and cried: "Lynch him! Quarter him!" Casey ran down the steps of the house and hurried toward the wagon. One man attempted to throw moose around his neck and forty others discharged revol- vers after him. Bullets whistled all around him and one cut the skirt of his coat Just as the mob was about to attack the officer a second patrol wagon came to the rescue. Joseph Hess, the man who tried to cast the lasso over Casey's head, was captured and taken to the station house. After the streets in the vicinity of the Mccormick works had been cleared the objectionable men employed there were marched out into Blue Island avenue and told they would be escorted to their homes by the police. They were pale and their knees knocked together as they walked. One hundred officers were placed on either side of tine men and in this position they marched toward the city. As they passed high board fence near the en- trance to the Mccormick yards an old man With gun crept to one corner of the barrier and dropped upon his knees. He took de- liberate aim at one of the officers and fired. The charge went wide of it's mark and tore a hole as large as mans hand in a board near the street. The aged anarchist then slunk out of sight. As the procession marched the walkers were Jeered in a most exasperating manner. Women with bare arms and red handkerchiefs tied about their heads screamed imprecations from windows; children hid be- hind chimneys and pelted pebbles and eggs and from time to time bricks and stones were hurled at officers and scabs by men secreted in the attics of the many small buildings on the line of march,
 When the procession reached the corner of Ashland and Blue Island avenues fully sixty thousand persons were massed along these thoroughfares and upon the housetops. The cry of rats and scabs was continuous and deafening. At times the officers were com pelled to charge to the right and to the left in nf1n hot f6a Two scabs hugged each other as though they expected to be swept away by some un- known agency. At o'clock the end of the procession reached the Blue Island avenue viaduct. But seven scabs remained the rest having been escorted home by details from the ranks of the officers. Those who re- mained were taken in charge by fourteen of feers and moment later were lost to sight among the buildings on Rebecca street Dur ing the fight five strikers were shot, two fatally. Four officers were seriously injured. Assistant Superintendent Bewby of the Mccormick works was hit with a stone in the face and badly hurt.
 After the demonstration of Saturday and the succeeding comparative quiet of Sunday the people of Chicago, where thirty thousand laboring men were striking the first blow of the long expected fight, awaited the events of to-day with apprehensions of alarm. The danger was supposed to be at the
 
 vertised in the papers yesterday and to-day that they would be ready to receive freight this morning, and grim determination was eyinced on the part of the manage ment to resume business at all haz- ards. At the Lake Shore yards 8 number of men were ready to go to work, but they were intimidated by | the strikers and after a while new propo. | sition was made by the strikers pending the l consideration of which work was resumed. 1 The Rock Island men went to work as usual | this morning, but after lapse of an hour 1 and a half large crowd of strikers gathered | at the freight house and became so demon strative that it was deemed prudent to sus- pend operations. The Wabash depots were l under the protection of the United States ! lnarshals and maintained it's business. The l officials say they will not treat with the | strikers. but will ill their places with new men. The freight business of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad is practically at | 3 standstill, while on the Grand Trunk little l or nothing was being done At the freight | house of the St. Paul road there were 150 i men from outside points who handled | all the freight under the protection | of six hundred armed men. A mob of | some four thousand strikers collected aJ the l yards and for time matters assumed a seri- i ous aspect, but the appearance of 8 strong | body of policemen had the effect of dispers- l ing the crowd without trouble, although the | outlook for to morrow is not peaceful. | The Pittsburg, Ft Wayne & Chicago fail l ed utterly in it's attempt to handle freight. l About twenty-five men were at work when | small force that it quit at once and the great | yards were closed and deserted. At the l yards of the Chicago & Alton there a l virtual tie-up, only ten men being on duty. | Despite it's effect the Chicago, Burlington 6 | Quincy was unable to handle any business 1 ita mo Ia taken at the branch on Sixteenth street. At | the Michigan Central freight house work 1 went on usual, although the | trikers marched by the yards | with the evident intention of the men, but the presence of sixteen armed men had the effect of defeat ing their plans. The employees of the Hi | nois Central and the Baltimore t2 Ohio were | at work, but have formulated request for an advance and other concessions to which l they expect 8 favorable reply. The out freight of the Chicago and Northwestern road was closed this morning, but the in-freight men kept at work. The strikers sent fifty | men to unload the milk trains.
 The strike of the lumbermen bids fair to work serious damage not only to the city but also to the lake marine. A number of men are ready to offer their services, but are in- timidated by the presence of the strikers.
 On the Evanston line Of the St. Paul road uodr NOTIu OuicdSo StdbIOn on GOOSe Island to-day the strikers spiked all the switches and laid old iron across the tracks. The local freight engine was run into the freight house and kept there. Forty or fifty strikers were hanging around the track.
 At 3 o'clock more than six thousand men, lumber showers, blaming mill hands and assembled at the Prairie, the Black Rod to hold mass meeting. The meeting was addressed by socialists who had the matter entirely in their hands. One speaker, German, created great enthusiasm. He said to the men: \
 Quit the Knights of Labor; they will never do you any good join the Central Labor union, which will help you to your rights and freedom. Anarchy is the only way for the workingmen to break the chains of slavery in which they bound by the capitalists. It is your only way to freedom. Cheer, yes, cheer my friends. With revolver in one hand and your knife in the other, and bombs in your pockets march on to revolver and freedom. Every workman must stand together and stand together for his rights.
 The Pullman company has the contract for the carpenter work on the New Union League club house. Saturday morning the men demanded through the foreman eight hours with eight hours pay. The returned word that the de-