Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-11
STONES AND BULLETS
Frenzied Mobs Running Riot
 in Chicago Streets.
A DAY OF wILDEsT EXCITEMENT.
Strikers Obstruct the Tracks and Pelt the Cars, Drivers and Police with All Sorts of Missiles-Many Heads Swollen by Po- lice Batons-Rash Company Officials.

of Missiles-Many Heads Swollen by Po-
 lice Batons-Rash Company Officials.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 11.-There were large number of collisions between the police and the crowds of people surrounding the car barns and on the streets yesterday, and the temper of the strikers and their symrathizers is evidently becoming more irritable. All day long the tracks on the north side were covered with Instructions which were re- newed as fast as removed, and the policemen guarding the cars were forced, every few yards, to charge and disperse the crowds which gathered in front of the cars and as sailed the 'scab" conductors and drivers with Gll sorts of abuse.
 The first serious trouble on the north side occurred during the fifth trip made by the Garfield avenue cars. They had proceeded as far as Indiana street without serious diffi- culty when they encountered a crowd of per haps GOO people who had piled Instructions on the track
 A gang of railroad laborers were set tG work to clear away the debris when a fusi- Jade was commenced by the crowd Rocks clubs and missiles of every des ription flew through the air, and when the police, after repeated charges, succeeded in dispersing the crowd 1t was found that three of the laborer< were seriously injured. They were: Mike
  August Anderson, struck with brick and face badly smashed, and Nate Crime, struck in several places by flying bricks They were removed to the hospital
 More trouble was experienced at about the same spot at 5:30. The crowd on the street had been augmented by persons returning from work, and at the hour named probably 5000 people were packed in the block on Clark street between Illinois and Indiana streets.
 A number of Garfield avenue cars came on their down trip, but were stopped at this point, where the dsorderly element of the crowd was throwing Instructions on the tracks. Some bold sympathizers of the strikers got some cedar blocks from a neigh boring street and, piling them on the tracks poured tar on them The mass was then set on fire. The police endeavored to disperse the crowd, but the throng so dense that their efforts were unavailing, and, realizing that an attempt to force the cars through would probably result in bloody outbreak they were ordered to return to the barns No further efforts were made after this t. run cars on the north side.
 On the west side all was quiet until about ? o'clock, although large crowds had gathered around the Western avenue barns. At tha hour Messrs. Gubbins and Carson, two off cials of the railway company, drove out ot the barn i'll buggy. Their appearance ex cited the wrath of the crowd and they were met by shower of stones. Both men i'm mediately drew revolvers and fired into the crowd, which became excited to the point of frenzy
 The horse became frightened by the noise, and started to run, with the strikers in pur suit. The buggy dashed across the street and Gubbins and Carson again fired into the crowd which fell hack onS alIoIxoJ +Lo,,, %o escape. No one was hit by the flying bullets, but Gubbins and Carson were captured by the police at Oakley street and locked un
 The most stubborn encounter of the day however, occurred at 1 o'clock when an at, tempt was made to run a car over the Mad. ison street line, Five thousand persons were crowded around the barn at Western avenue when the car was run out, and they greeted its appearance with yell, The crowd had been thoroughly eXasperated by the shooting atfray two hours previous, and it was evi- dent that it meant business. The car had not proceeded ten feet before the cannonade began. Stones and bricks rained upon the fast and furious. Police Captain Aid. rich, who was riding in his buggy alongside the car, was struck by brick and had his scalp laid open. The driver of the car, a man named Huxter, was twice knocked from the platform by we'll aimed missiles, and none of the policemen and reporters in side escaped without some bruises
 Matters were getting critical. Capt Aid. rich was covered with blood; so was the driver of the car The mob was vellina wildly, Kill the scabH H"Shoot himr Hang | him!n ''Smash his face.' Bricks and stones were flying thick and fast. The police ap- peared to be total y unequal to the crowd and for time there were reasons why the attempt to take the car down Madison street might have been prudently abandoned, but it was not Fighting their way foot by foot : the police gradually made way against the [ crowd, which fell away by degrees as the car proceeded eastward, until by the time Oak ley street was reached nothing harder than curses were being hurled at the vehicle and it's occupants.
 The trip down town was accomplished without interruption, but when Ashland avenue was reached on the return trip the trouble began again. The turbulent crowd encountered when the car first started out was again met, and the mob contested every 1 inch of the ground. Lieut.. Shea had to orde, | charge, and the police did some more club bing. Another charge had to be made al Western avenue, and finally, clubbing right and left, the officers succeeded in running the car into the barn.
 The railway officials wanted to run oui another car, but Capt. Aldrich, in view ol the coming darkness and the evident baG temper of the mob, decided that such an at tempt would be unwiSe, and the barns were locked up for the night A large crop oI broken heads resulted from the trip, but it is not known that any were dangerously hurt
 A conference was held last night between Mayor Roche and committees representine the north and west side strikers, with a view to a settlement of the strike. Mayor Koch, declined to say what had been done. Tn, street car men said that they would report the result of the conference to the meeting, of the strikers, who were waiting to hea, ! from them, but declined to say anything fol publication.
 i A large number of extra police have been sworn in, and distributed at points where tn. greatest trouble is anticipated this afternoon A,othar NRopu,,a,,+ .A