St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-26
CLUBS PROVE TRUMPS.
The Striking Switohmen at Chicago CONF
into Personal Collision With Pink
erton's Police,
And Retire From the Contest With
Several Broken Heads Three Of the
Leaders Arrested.
The ar-Long Nai1er's Strike at
Ptttsburg Finally Brought to
an End.
The strik,ue switchp,en,


CHICAGO, June 25.-At the Root street
morning the police on duty numbered
thirty, which included every available off
Ger on the Town of Lake force A carload
of switchmen reached Chicago at about
midnight from Toledo, and it was thought
they would be put to work. At about 9
o'clock, the imported swltchmen were taken
out to Forty-third street in charge of Supt
Amsden. They remained in the car and
had not, up to $3.50 o'clock, been expostu-
lated with by the strikers, The imported
men numbered about twenty-five, and i'll
cluded many of those brought to Chicago
during the last strike. Shortly before 10
o'clock the officials. with the assistance of
the police, succeeded in attaching an engine
and caboose to a waiting freight train.
Beyond the expostulationS of the crowd.
no trouble was experienced until after the
caboose was attached 20 the train. The
latter consisted OF ten cars destined fol
South Bend.
THE CROWD
grew in proportions momentarily, and were
threatening. The police and the railway
employees were cursed and threatened with
violence. In the meantime the small force
was divided between the train and in guard
ing the switches to prevent the latter being
turned so as to make impossible the free
movement of the train. Finally, respond
ing to the cries of several leaders, the crowd
rushed for the police and turned the
switches In spite of the latter. The police
had their clubs drawn and used them in a
few instances, but the officers were either
so thoroughly astonished or overawed by
the crowd that they could make no success
full resistance. A portion of the crowd at
the same moment surged toward the train,
which had commenced to move out. but
which, passing upon the open switches,
was
THROWN FROM THE TRACK
the engine and all the cars being derailed.
10 complete the wreck the coupling pins
were Withdrawn and thrown away. Dur
ing the melee the police succeeded in max
ing two arrests. One of the men arrested
is a member of the executive committee of
the Switchmen's union. At IL o'clock the
crowd about the switching yards was still
very large and constantly growing in num-
bers, despite frequent rain showers. A
passenger train approached the scene soon
soon after the attack on the freight train,
and one of the rioters, picking up
coupling-pin, flung it at brakeman stand
ing on platform. 1t caused no damage,
however. No other demon stration of any
kind was made against the passenger train
operatives or the passengers.
At o'clock this afternoon
FIFTY PINKERToN POLICE
appeared at the Forty-third street
accompanied by thirty switchmen.
The strikers still remained in tn 9
vicinity in force, an when an attempt was
made to take an engine from the round
house the crowd made an effort to run box
car on the track. The police charged them,
however, knocking two men down with
their clubs, who were placed under arrest.
The third man was also arrested, who was
active in the efforts to cause blockade.
The crowd then retired a ways, and the
train abandoned In the forenoon, heavily
guarded, was successfully made up and run
north to Thirty-eighth street, where it
passed upon the main track. Guarded by
fully 100 police it again proceeded south,
and passed out of the city.
This evening train of thirteen fiat car:
was rushing along the Rock Island track
which are parallel to the Lake Shore, anG
was boarded by several hundred Of the mob.
The officers saw nothing significant about
this proceeding. but it proved to be part OF
CAREFULLY LAID PLAN
On the part of the strikers. At Forty-sixth
street five fat cars were uncoupled and
thrown diagonally across the track over
which the Lake Shore freight should pass.
At Fifty-fourth street seven box cars were
uncoupled and likewise thrown over
the tracks of the Lake Shore This was all
done SO quietly the fact was not discovered
until some time later and had train csme
along at moderately good speed would in
evitably have been wrecked. Rock Island
officials were finally telegraphed for and
came on in a wrecking engine with force
of men who were put to work clearing the
tracks. The regular wrecking crew of the
Rock Island refused to come out But
slow progress was made and at late hour
the men we're still at work. All traffic,
passenger as well as freight, meanwhile is
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