Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-10
IN THE NORTH DIVISION.


Police.
In the meantime matters on the north
side were not much improved The com
pany got out a score OF cars on three differ
eut lines, and ran them pretty steadily until
dark. loaded with police the few passeu-
gers il is claimed, being mostly strikers who
got aboard to "work' on the new men. They
did not have so much success yesterday as
they did Monday, only succeeding in getting
half dozen, perhaps. to weaken As the
day wore on the strikers got more excited,
and proceeded to more vigorous measures to
stop the traffic, and the time of the conduc-
tors and drivers was largely taken up in re-
moving Instructions placed on the track by
the strikers and their friends. At one point
on Garfield avenue some curb stone layers
took hand and rolled curb stones on the
track, but they came to grief quickly, for
they were observed by the police, and
promptly marched off to the station.
The first blood was shed on this street at
the corner of Orchard A num-
Der of cars were passing on
Gar field avenue The streets were
jammed with bowling mob, and the tracks
were covered with distractions. Some en-
ployes of the road and the officers removed
the debris but as fast as it was taken away
it was replaced The mob became so great
that the sergeant in command of the men or
dered a charge. The officers, aggravated
somewhat at the stubbornness of the strik-
ers, responded with a will, They made
rush and used their clubs freely. Men and
boys were hit, and hit hard, too, and some
women who were, if anything, more demon
Isfra Fhar, ha A
named Wide, who was particularly demon
strative against the new men. was badly
wounded by officer 544, who gava her Sc
| we're blow.
| This, of course, raised the excitement to q
| higher pitch and up toward the harms the
| few cars that were run were stopped by bar
ricades at nearly every square. Carloads
| of stones were upturned on the trucks, ash
barrels empiied Of their contents, filled with
stones and rolled in front of the horses as
they approached, and bill boards torn down
and thrown across the tracks. Some of the
children from the public schools, infected
with the excitement of the moment, second
ed the efforts OF the strikers, and in piping
voices adjured the reporters to tie
| sure and mention that the Toys OF
their school-giving its name-were
in the fight agaiut the "scabs.
and even more demonstrative thar
the men, and denounced the drivers and con
ductors in vigorous epithets and almost il
the same breath begged them TO "act like
men" and quit their cars But the presence
OF the police caused their appeals total upon
deaf ears, and after the last of the obstruc
tions had been removed by the officers tbs
cars were driven into the barn.
While this was being done there was al
incident which might have caused one mar
to be strung up TO a lamp-post had the mad
dened crowd been a little quicker in it
movements, A little boy hardly IL year
old was bending over the track-whether &c
pick up stone not could not be deter
mined-when two men in a buggy drove up
One of them, who is reported to have beel
ex-Asslstant States Attorney Furthman
who came into temporary prominence dur
ing the Anarchist trial and is now counse
for the road, jumped from the vehicle an
commenced to horsewbip the little fellow
He screamed with anguish, the crowd set u
an unearthly yell and Furthman, drag
ging the little fellow into the buggy, drov
away at a breakneck speed,
No attempt was made to run out cars afte
dark and the excitement measurably dimir
ished. Four men and two young boys wer
arrested during the afternoon and booked o
the c. arge of melting to riot. Last night
large placard, distributed by the striker
was displayed in the windows of hundreds
stores and private residences and on out-dot
fruit stands in the north and west division
1t reads: protect Chicago labor again
Pennsylvan paupers. No Carnegie tacti
for u.s."