Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-05
EASTERN NEWS.
Frenzied Strikers Committing RiOtOuS
Acts in Chicago.
THE SITUATION APPARENTLY GROW
. ING WORSE DAILY.
Rioters Attempt to Hang an Officer
to Lamp-Post.
THE GREAT SOUTHWBSTSTRIKE
ENDED.
The Military Called Out in
Milwaukee.
ANOTHER CASE OF MURDER
AND SUICIDE.
ANOTHER CASE OF MURDER
AND SUICIDE.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Desperate Strik ers.

Desperate Strikers.
CHICAGO, May 4.-Shortly after 8 o'clock
a crowd of Socialists and others had
worked themselves into a frenzy of excite
ment, and started yelling towards the Nc
| Cormick reaper works, half q mile distant.
| The police were Immediately t~elephoned
for and soon arrived, and drawing re-
| ~volvers fired indiscriminately into the
crowd. The crowd scattered in all direc-
| tions. Five OF them being wounded were
| carried from the scene. None are re-
ported killed. The entire reserve force OF
police have been ordered to preserve order
in the vicinity of the trouble. The scene
at the Mccormick works is riotous in the
extreme. At least $50 policemen arrived
on the ground. The windows-of the fac
tory have been riddled with stones and
| bullets. Two of the wagons containing
| the policemen, while on the way, stopped
to dispense the crowd at the corner of Blue
| Island Avenue and Lincoln street. The
mob attacked them with stones, but the
| officers jumped from the wagons, and by
| the vigorous use of clubs they soon sent
| the rioters flying in all directions. They
| then turned and began driving the noisy
| crowds at the saloons of the neighborhood,
using clubs indiscriminstely. Inside OF The
fence OF the Mccormick works Officer Raj
ferty had q narrow escape. A rloter, who
had got inside, came up behind him and
was pointing a pistol at his head, not two
feet away, when Lieutenant Shepperd
struck him to the earth with Q club,
shivering it to pieces with the vigor OF the
blow. The police formed q hollow square,
inside of which they intend to escort Nc
Cormick's men beyond the mob's reach.
Soon after the police escorted Nc.
Cormick's men beyond Twenty-second
street without trouble, except from an 90
c~asional stone hurled from safe hiding
places. Four men we're found wounded
with bullets. Two were taken away ia
patrol wagon, and one was shot through
the hip and one through the leg. There
were many badly damaged heads. Officer
Casey nearly suffered an ignominous deatt
at the hands Of the infuriated Socialists
After the great mob had virtually dispersed
Casey, with three other policemen, carried
Joe Weddick, one of the wounded strikers
to his HON at No. 422 West Seventeenth
street. The patrol wagon was followed by
the angry crowd Of B~ohemisns, who yelled
loudly for revenge from the Wounds OF thu
fallen comrades, but when the wager
turned down Center Avenue to Seven
tenth street the crowd did not follow. Ii
silence they watched their countrymar
borne from the wagon into the house. an
the officers, after laying Weddick upon
bed, left, with the exception OF Casey, wit
remained behind to get q report OF tn
mans condition. While Casey was talking
l.. A. n1-nlal poavjd nifa MANY nf We
dicks s~ympathizers had pressed their wa,
into the house. The injured man wa
asked who shot him. Evidently misunder
standing the question, Weddick raised hi
hand and pointed at the officer. TIL
crowd inside of the house went into
frenzy. Selling Officer Casey, they dragged
him out on the sidewalk. Lynch him
Lynch him." they cried, and several o
their number ran for ropes. Casey ia
man of powerful frame, but was like an in
FAINT, hemmed in as he was by the mob
In the ensuing struggle he received fearful
bruises, and his clothing was nearly tori
from his body. A rope was brought, ant
one end was made fast to q lamp pos
in front OF Weddick's door. At the sigh
of tine improvised scaffold the mob shrieke(
with delight. Casey fought with the fur!
of desperation. As crowds passed
toward the gallows he gathered al
his remaining strength. and dashine
head foremost from his assailants h,
Jumped into the street, followed by the
hundreds, who at once began firing al
him, As he ran he was met by the pa
troll wagon, full of police, who, having
heard the trouble, were hurrying to hi
assistance. Casey clambered into thu
wagon, and fell upon the seat exhausted
The wagon was surrounded in a momen'
by his pursuers, but at sight Of the police
mems revolvers they quickly scattered.
While this was going on Casey recovered
sufficiently to point out among those
who were the last to turn. One OF thu
crowd who had been particularly oficiroui
in bringing the rope was arrested, and
he was Immediately driven to a station
He gave the name Of Joseph Hess.
The following dispatch WAS sent late las,
night TO John Swinton at New York: "W
are securing victory after victory for the
eight-hour day. To-day the packing
houses of the Union s~tockysrds all yielded,
and in many instances there was no reduc'
ton of wages. This affects 10000 men,
who are wild with joy at the grand victory
they have gained. We hope to see other
cities stand by Chicago. George A. Schill.
lDK, OuhIKuihu Va liz IibusrAiouA W.
tee OF the Chicago Trade Assembly"
The eye witnesses of the struggles be-
tween the police and the Socialists place
the number of the latter who were wounded
at ~. 1t Is not thought any were killed
outright. but the rapidity with which the
wounded we're carried away by friends,
and the secrecy maintained in regard to
any connection with the affair, make facts
difficult to obtain.
The Mccormack Reaper Works opened as
usual this morning, fully one-half Of the