The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-10-18
RI0TOUS STRIKERS.
Police and Workingmen Come to
Blows in Chicago.
The Striking Street Gar Men and Their
sympathIzers Attack the Car Barns
and are Repuised by Onioers
of the Law.
arRIors TROUBLE.

SERIOUS TROUBLE.
CHICAGO Oct. 10.-The first blood In the
street car strike was drawn yesterday, and
n-dozen barricades, score or more broken
Heads and half dozen arrests are placed
to the credit of the fourth day Of the strike,
while the feeling, not only among the
strikers, but on the part Of the laboring
CID YES generally, is so decidedly ugly that
D-unless there are developments In the In
terest Of peace and order within the next
tupnty-four hours-it Is more than prob
able that the scenes and history OF four
years ago will be more than repeated. In
the main this condition Of affairs is due to
the action Of the management OF the West
Side line in attempting to resume travel
yesterday afternoon. More than once be-
tween eight o'clock and noon II was stated
by Manager Parsons that no effort would
be made TO put the line into operation until
the trouble on the North Side had been ad-
justed. This was all that the strikers
wanted and they were content Within
two hours after these declarations had been
made, however a half dozen cars, manned
by imported men sent over from the North
Side were started out Of the barns. The
news that this step had been taken spread
like wild fire over the North and South di-
visions and the excitement among the
strikers and the unemployed who crowded
the streets was iniamed TO fever heat.
At every crossing along the route Of two
miles or more, large crowds had assembled,
and the appearance of the cars with their
loads OF police officers was the signal for
tempest of groans, Kisses and shouts Of
'Scab,n "Shame" and Rats but the OFF,
GERS, much TO their credit, and in total dis
regard OF the precedent set four years ago,
bore the attack with equanimity and simply
smiled at the exasperated throngs. The
cars proceeded down Madison street amid
this unpleasant chorus, but beyond one ar
rest at the corner of Fifth and Madison
streets the police were not called on TO act
When the cars had reached the Western
avenue barns on the return trip, however,
the trouble was resumed. Several hundred
strikers and ttheir adherents had congre-
gated in the locality and Superintendent
Nagel, who stood at the barn doors ready to
give admission to the cars, was singled out
as the especial object Of their wrath. Scent
ing danger, he rang up the patrol wagon for
the police, but he had hardly done so when
Jack Gleason, muscular switchman on
the Northwestern railroad, sprang forward
and struck him a severe blow in the face,
Telling him to the ground. This was the
signal for general rush Of the strikers TO
the barns and a. riot seemed imminent. For
tunately at this moment Captain Aldrich
with detachment of police appeared on
the scene, and Gleason, meanwhile fighting
like tiger, was dragged into the barn, the
officers clubbing him at every step.
In the meantime there was great irrita-
ton on the North Side, where the crowds
had been angered by the clubbing of women
and men by the police at the corner Of Gar
field avenue and Orchard street. Near the
car barns the tracks were covered with all
manner of distractions, and the four cars
which were running under police protection
were stopped every few feet until the tracks
could be cleared. The crowd kept up a con-
slant roar of epithets and vituperation, and
the imported men were evidently greatly re-
lieved when, after few brushes with the
crowd, the police cleared the way to the
barn and the cars were locked up for the
night. During the confusion man said to
have been attorney Furthman, the counsel
for the road, had narrow escape from be
| ing mobbed He saw little boy, about ten
years old, bending over the road, and jump
| ing to the conclusion that he was about 10
| pick up stone, the man sprang from his
| buggy and after lashing the child with his
whip dragged him into the buggy and drove
| off at furious pace, pursued for some dis
tance by the crowd
| At other times during the day four mer
| and two boys were arrested, charged witt
| melting to riot Last night large placard,
| distributed by the strikers, was displayed
| in store windows and in outdoor fruit
| stands, reading: "Protect Chicago labor
against Pennsylvania paupers; no Carnegie
| tactics for u.s."