Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-10-12
GO AS YOU PLEASE.
The Denizens of the Windy City Still
Indulge in a Free.tor-All
Walking Match.
The West Side Men Per Agreement
Leave Their Cars and Join
Their Striking Brethren.
A Riot Takes Place and the Festive
Copper fakes a Hand With
Clubs For Trumps.
Scenes and Incidents.

Scenes and Incidents.
CHICAGO, Oct. "a spectacle witnessed
in this city to-day was that of 100000 peo-
pie reduced to walking to whatever point
they might desire to reach. This uncom-
Portable and unprecedented state of affairs
was the result Of the strike of the street
car drivers OH all the lines in the North
and West divisions. The North division
strike was inaugerated for an advance in
wages and rearrangments Of the hours of
labor and the West division strike was be-
gun this morning out of fear that President
Yerkes would ultimately reduce wages.
Five hundred men are engaged in the for
mer and 1900 in the latter. In both divis-
ions when the strike began it was stated
on behalf OF the strikers that no violence
crowds which congregated along the lines
where the cars were being run Oh the
North Side contented themselves with
hOoting and f1inging opprObriOus epithets
at the new men. 1t was renewed with in
creased violence this morning and this af
ternoon it developed into the, placing of
with the police. AT Garfield avenue and
Larrabee streets the first obstruction was
placed by number of boys. A large
plank was laid across the car tracks and
fastened securely by iron spikes. The
strikers themselves
TOOK NO PART
in the work but did not interfere with the
lads. When six Garfield avenue cars came
from their down town trip they were stop
ped by the obstacle. The police got out of
the patrol wagon but did not offer to re-
move the obstruction. The strikers i'm
mediately surrounded the vehicles and
commenced their appeals. Under these
influences three old drivers left the cars
and went over to the strikers. The Sc
ceders were borne on the shoulders of the
crowd to saloon where their pockets were
filled with cigars. The success of this ac-
tiOn led others to follow the boys example
and riot resulted at the corner OF Gar"
field avenue and Orchard street. The
streets were jammed with a bowling mob
Some employees of the road and officers re-
moved the debris but as fast as taken away
it was replaced. The mob became so great
that the sergeant in command of the men
ordered a charge. The officers, aggravated
somewhat, responded with will. They
made a rush and
UsEDTHEIR CLUBS FREELY.
Men and boys were hit, and hit hard too,
and women were not spared. A woman
named Wide who was particularly demon
strative against the new men was badly
wounded by severe blow. Three men
eae and ooEed kkg n faf Aoseter s aSe
fifteen cars were run at irregular intervals
on the North Side during the day. Every
where new drivers and conductors We're
greeted with Kisses from the crowd. The
women and children in the outlying dis
tricts were particularly free in the use of
a voluminOus vocabulary of epithets. Very
few people rode on the cars which were
run. One of the cars on the North Side
come near
GOING INTO THE RIVER
were women. There is a steep down grade
leading to the State street bridge. just as
the car started down this incline the bridge
began to turn to let a vessel through. The
driver became panic stricken and forgot
the use of his brake and the car moved
with accelerating speed toward the open
draw. The women screamed and tainted
and some of them fell off the car. The
structure run into by approaching vessels
closed the draw as quickly as possible but
only in time to catch the descending car
which was on the brink.
WEST SIDE RIoTING.
Disturbances more serious than that on
the North Side marked the ending of the
trip of the West Side cars this evening.
A dense mob obstructed a laden car
on the down trip after passing Halstead
street. At. Western street the crowd
surged around the conveyance in such a
compact mass that it was impossible for
the horses to move. A platoon of police
with clubs forced a way for tn leading
car but the one following was brought to
a stop with lurch. A wooden wedge had
been suddenly inserted in the Western
avenue switch by some person in the mob.
Superintendent Nagle was the driver of
the disabled car. He seemed to De All OBJ
ject of special dislike from the strikers and
their sympathizers. In a moment tEt. vi
cinlty was 4 pandimOnium. Stones and
sticks were hurled at the car and the air
rang with yells and curses. Atlying brick
caught the superintendent in the stomach.
Uttering All oath he
PULLED A REVOLVER
and turned menacingly toward The c,,.Wd.
Conductor Harris followed quickly III, rx-
ample. of the superintendent. The sharp
click as the two cooked their weapons was
the signal for an unexpected incident.
Police Lieutenant Shaw was seen t,,igrasp
Nagle and by main strenvi 'or,. Il iii.
pistol from him saying: "Yo,, d i-.l tot,