The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-11
RIOTOUS STRIKERS,
Chicago Strikers Leading a HOwIing
NJ b for Destruction.
Distractions of vary Kind Placed on
the Tracks tOImpeds Travel.
Hand to Hand Encouats S Wlthout
Any Serious Damage.
Some of the Nsw Msn Join the
Strikers this Morning.

CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-The cable strikers
have begun to become troublesome.
This afternoon an obstruction was
placed on the track at Garfield and
Laribee streets by a number of boys.
A large plank was
LAID ACROSS THE CAR TRACK
and fastened securely by iron
spikes. The strikers themselves took
no part in the work but did not inter
fere with the lads. and when the six
Garfield avenue cars came from down
town they were stopped 10y the obstacle.
The police got out patrol wagon but
did not offer to remove the obstruction.
The strikers Immediately surrounded
the vehicles and commenced their ap-
peals. Under the influences three of
the drivers left the cars and went over
to the strikers. The receders were
borne on the shoulders of the crowd to
a saloon where their pockets were filled
with cigars. The success of this action
led others to follow the boys example
and riot resulted at the
banner of Garfield avenue and Orchard
street. The streets were jamned with
a bowling mob and the tracks were
covered with distractions. Some en-
ployes of the road and the officers re-
moved the debris but as fast as it was
taken away 1t was replaced. The mob
became so great that the sergeant in
command of the men ordered a charge,
and the officers
AGGRAVATED SOMEWHAT,
responded with Il will, they made d
rush and used their clubs freely; men
and boys were hit aud hit hard too,
and the women were not spared. A
woman named Wide who was particu-
larry demOnstrative against the new
men was badly wounded by severe
blow. Three men were caught
spiking the rails at HaIstead
| street and were locked up. Altogether
about fifteen cars were run at irregu-
lar intervals on the north side during
the day, everywhere the new drivers
| and conductors were greeted with
] misses and epithetS from the crowds
which filled the streets particularly at
| the terminus, women and children in
| the outlying districts were particu-
| larly free in the use of voluminous
verbiculary epithets.
| The strikers also continually appeal
| ing to their successors; sense of the
brotherhood of men and to their love
| OF money by offering them bonuses
| and return tickets home if they would
quit work. In several instances they
we're successful. Very few people rode
on the cars which were run.
Alderman Reyth, of the Twenty
third ward took part in a delay
which occurred at Garfield avenue and
Burling street. At this corner water
pipe was being placed under the tracl
and the horses had to be'unhitched anC
taken to the other side OF the excsva
| ton. The blue coats showed the frs
car over and the policemen on the
| second car were about to do the same
when Reyth stepped forward, "by-
DON T TOUCH THOSE CARS"
yelled the alderman. ''let every
officer, keep his hands from
them and let the scabs rur
these cars. Stay right on the car!
officers and don't make a move to helE
them. If Mr. Yerkes intends to ruI
this road he has to get up early in TIT
morning.
The strike in the west division wa:
| without special incident during the day
as soon as the men had run their car!
into the barns at the end of their las
| trips most of them went home. Dur
ing the forenoon Manager Parson is
sued card to the public saying the
strike was without just cause, as the
men in his division were paid better
than were paid any where else in thS
country and placing the blame for the
public Inconvenience on them. SubSe
quently he stated that no effort would
be made to run until Thursday, but ht
changed his mind and late this after
noon few cars were sem
over the principal lines un
der police guard, both in the NORTH
and west divisions at the request OF
Mayor Roche all special policemen have
been withdrawn and the property OF
the companies is guarded by city po
hcemen. y large number of men have
been sworn in but on patrol duty while
the regular force is held in reserve fol
emergency. One of the cars on the
north side
CAME NEAR GOING INTO THE RlVEH
to-day with its load of passengers
most OF whom were women. There is
a steep down grade leading To STATE
street bridge and just as the car start
ed down this decline the bridge began
to turn to let d vessel through. The
| driver became panic stricken and forgot
to use his brake and the car moved with
accelerating speed toward the opeI
| draw, the women screamed and tainted
and some of them fell off the car. The
bridge tender at the risk of having the
structure run into by the approaching
vessel, closed the draw as quickly as
possible, but only in time to catch the
descending car which was on the
brink.
A matter of peculiar interest is the
character of the localities through which
a number of Yerkes car lines pass
Not few of the neiehborhOods tray.
ersed have become noted throughout
the country as the strongholds of the
socialists and anarchists. The exact
spot where the Haymarket bomb fell
is scarcely ten yards from Mr.. Yerkes
tracks on Randolph street. An
archist Parsons doorway open.
directly out on Milwaukee,
avenue. One of the chiefs of the syn
dicates thoroughfares, the equators Oi
mile distant Oh this same street, An
archist George Engel could easily have
peered through his dingy store Windows
and if alive to-day, hurled bomb dowr
on a passing street car loaded will
police On the Lake street line are tn
halls scattered along less than a blocI
apart where the Lehr and Weir Verei.
held their secret drills with rifle ant
dynamite. Halstead street and Blu
| lStaEd avenue, both through streets O
the erkes system, are lined for mile
with almost unbroken rows of saloons
Clybourn avenue is famous in the his
tory of the anarchist trial as the stree
along which Louis Lingg marches
with satchei full Of bomb
the night of
THE HAY MARKET SLAUGHTER.
and was only restrained from throwin
them into patrol wagons and polio
r stations through the cunning an,
e cowardice of the infoTmer Seliger. |
] was in saloon near Division stree
{ another of the Yerkes streets tia
: Lingg's bombs were distributed and q
i. hour later moved down whole rank
d of police The list OF stirring in
3 citlents is suggested by the names q
3 many OF the Yerkes streets might b
Q stretched out almost interninabIy.
II A disturbance more serious tina
D that on the north side marked the emo
t ing of the trip on the west side j
s dense mob INSTRUCTED the police-lade
{ cars on Halstead street but nothing :,
V rioHs happened until the ears were ri
e preaching the western terminus on til
4 return
4 THE CROWD SUR6ED
9 around the cars in such compact mas