The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-05-07
too late to be covered by Brodstreets
RIOT IN CHICAGO.

men and keep them at work while we,
the bone and sinew of Chicago, are
forced to hear our wives and our chill
dren crying for bread. Arm your
selves and prepare for the worst"
Deafening cheers greeted each sem
tence of the speakers harangue. The
thousands surged nearer the car upon
which the hatless man stood and de-
tached it from the train.
A youth in a hickory shirt hurled q
stone at one OF the proprietors OF the
Hingdington planning mill who had
thrust his head out of the window to
learn the cause of the rumpus.
The multitude had no other signal.
Within three seconds thousand men
burst into the yard of the company
and swarmed around the building
from which the head had protruded.
A storm of stones and brickbats fell
upon the roof, and the windows were
demolished as though by an earth
quake.
After this work of destruction the
mob returned to the car, and listened
to young and fiery editor of the
Anarchists organ. While he was de-
livering a virulent attack upon capital
lists, the tolling of the bell in the dis
tant tower of the Mccormick Reaper
Works broke upon the ears OF the l2,-
600 men.
"Now for the scabs!" shouted man
with a red handkerchief knotted about
his neck. "Let's drive 'em out CT the
building and kill 'em !" roared broad
breasted moulder, as he took after the
heels of the man with the red handker-
chief The excitement was electric.
1t spread from man 10 man in the
twinkling of star. There were cheers
from thousand throats, and then the
noise grew into mighty roar son
to McCormick's !" was the cry.
AT 81 the mob spread over a large
grass plot in front of the Mccormick
works. Officer West who was on duty
at the big gate, warned the invaders
to leave. He faced the bowling
screaming horde and placed his hand
upon the handle of the revolver in his
hip pocket. Before he had time to
draw the weapon thousand stones
filed the air and fell about him like
hail. They crashed against the high
board fence behind him with terrible
noise, and sang warning as they sped
past his helmeted head. The storm
was too hot for the officer, and he
made his escape amid the flying mis-
sells.
Emboldened by the fight of the Off
Ger, the strikers surged up against the
walls of the factory.
''Kill the scabs y roared one of the
leaders, as he hurled boulder through
one of the windows where second be-
fore pale face ha0 been pressed.
"Tear down the blilding y shouted
another, who was waving huge club
in his hand. Almost instantly the
great factory was subjected to an omi-
nous siege. Stones crashed through
the windows, aud clubs carried away
the SASH Nothing escaped the fury
of the mob. When the windows of the
first three stories had been demolished
the storm swept through the gaping
orifces.
| The mob poured forward and were
about to enter the yard when wagon
with twelve officers appeared. The
dozen officers stepped toward the 90
900 angry people before them. Each
carried revolver in his right hand.
The mob remained firm.
''Disperse or we will fire y shouted
Sergeant Enright.
His reply was shower of stones
that whistled unpleasantly about the
little band OF blues. The officers
wavered for moment before the on
slaught, and then levelled their revo(v-
ers at the crowd. The barrels of the
weapons glistened in the sunlight.
There was flash, and then an explos-
ion followed thai startled the horses in
the Car barn two blocks away. The
first shot of the strike had been fired,
but nobody was hurt. The bullets
flew over the heads of the strikers and
buried themselves in the prairie to the
northward. Another volley was fired
by the officers with the same effect.
The strikers contested every inch of
ground until the officers reached the
sidewalk, where they retreated to the
roadway. There they made a stand
and hurled stones and clubs at their
antagonists. In this fusillade Officer
Tom Condor was hit in the back with
a brick. Enraged at the misfortune
of their comrade, the officers tell upon
the mob with revolver and club.
More officers were soon armed and
the strikers driven away.
| During the riot five strikers were
shot, two fatally, four officers were
slightly injured, and the Assistant Su
perintendent of the Mccormick works
was hit with stone in the face anC
badly hurt.
| RIOT AT MILWAUKEE,
| About 1900 trades unions men,
mostly Poles, made an attack on thu
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail
way company's shop aud drove all Of
the men out of the works. They mex
started for the st. Paul freight Office
Baked in this they went to the ma
chine shops of L. p. Altar IL Co. anC
made determined attack on the doors
which were barred. Clubs and stone
were used. A stream of water dispers
ed them for a minute, but they made
second rush, and a few succeeded il
gaining ar entrance, but were drivel
back by the employees. The mob thel
retired before the attack of squad o
police and then began to assail tn
works and police with stones Tn
police made charge aud captured fiy
Of the leaders, but they were all res
cued by their comrades, except on
who was laid out by blow from
policeman and afterward locked NJ
The situation was getting serious whe
the Central Station wagon dashe
down with reenforcements. The mo
then retreated sullenly, and finally dis
appeared southwark
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