, 1888-10-11
IHE-STRIKE.
Another Riot Occurs in the
Streets of Chicago.
The management Refuse to
Give In
And More Trouble is Expected
To-Day.

CHICAGO, Oct. 10.-The strike of the
street car men in the North and West
divions continues with no indication of a
speedy settlement. During the night
some tracks in the sympathetic districts
OF the North division were INSTRUCTED by
being filled with all sorts OF household
refuse and such other movable things as
came to hand. A few cars were run out
on this division to the usual accompani-
ment of jeers. No attempt has been
made, as yet, to run cars in the West
division.
Appearances indicate that the company
will not make any general effort for the
resumption OF traffic till matters are quiet
ed down somewhat. The strikers in this
division, who have been through TWO or
three successful strikes, exhibit an uglier
disposition than those of the North Side.
They declare that cars will not be permit
ted to run, and that if an attempt is
made they will be tumbled into the
bitches.
The first trouble of the day on the
West Side occurred this afternoon, when
a man named Gibbons, who drove one of
the cars yesterday, drove out of the
Western avenue barn. The strikers
stopped him, but a shot from his revolver
scattered them. Three times he was
stopped, and only succeeded in getting
past by indulging in a lively fusilade.
Nobody was hurt.
The tracks or Center street in the
north division presented a peculiar sight
this morning. For a mile or more they
were covered with paving stones and
every other kind of debris o~btainable.
This was done during the night. This
morning men and boys were again at
work on Center street near Orchard.
Under the very noses of the police curb
ing stones were piled on the tracks and
the officers merely laughed at the work
of b~arricading. At Halstead and Center
streets four rails were torn up and placed
crosswise on the track. The same thing
was done at Center and Sedgwick streets.
The company put a force of fifty men on
the street, cleared away the debris and re-
laid the tracks. Cars we're run out and
made a trip down town without being in
terfered with, but on the return trip the
Center street line was found So INSTRUCTED
that 1t was tound necessary to go up Clyd-
bourne avenue.
In anticipation of a renewal of the
trouble a large force of new men was
sworn In this morning as special officers.
A RIOT.
An attempt to run a car on the West
Side this afternoon resulted in a serious
riot. AS the car was pulled out of the
Western avenue barns, guarded by half a
dozen policemen headed by Capt. Aldrich,
a crowd stood twenty deep on both sides
of the car and the policemen were ar
ranged on the inside of these walls of
frantic men. Astone crashed through a
car window before it had proceeded twenty
feet. At the second shower of stones a
brick struck the driver on the temple.
Capt. Aldrich was hit and his scalp cut
open.
The car advanced to the intersection of
Madison street, and there the police
caught a striker in the act of throwing a
stone. The man was arrested, but in less
than a minute a hundred strikers had
piled IN the policeman and rescued the
prisoner.
The car now turned the corner and
started down Madison street, the infu.
rated mob following throwing stones, At
Leavitt street the mob rushed out TO the
street and boarded the car, attempting to
drag the driver from his position. There
was a patrol wagon load of police both in
front and behind the car. They dis
mounted and charged on the crowd.
This time the maddened strikers held
their W and threw stones at the police
men. One man struck Lieut.. Shea and
the officer, pulling his revolver fired, but
the bullet missed and the strikers scat
tered in every direction.
A conference took place in the mayors
office this afternoon which was attended
by his honor and committees of the strik.
ers of the North and West division. 1t
lasted six hours. 1t is understood that
they had made certain concessions based
on contingencies and the probable APP
proval OF their associations and the &C.
ceptance of President Yerkes. Steps
were taken to convene Immediately a gen
eral meeting of the strikers.
1t was in the small hours when the con.
agreement and the nights work was
worse than fruItless.
The report that President Ylrkes had
gone to the mayors office at midnight
was erroneous. Mayor Roche before mid
night had a conference with Mr.. Yerkes
at the Union League club, presumably
laboring to bring'that magnate to a com-
promise. Mr.. Yerkes, however, was
utterly unbending. The best he would do
would be to reinstate the West Side men
in a body if they would resume work i'm
mediately.
What the nature Of Roche's subse
quent talk with the commission was at
the past midnight meeting can perhaps
be guessed from the message that Luke
Coyne, president of the West Side car.
men u association sent to the hall where
the men were waiting expecting news OF
! a compromise. The message was Tell