Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-07
A RIOT In DULUTH.
Bloody Encounter Between Strikers
and Police.
SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Scenes Of Slaughter Frighttul to
Behold.
PISTOLS. STONES AND CLUBS.
They Are Used With Fatal Effect
By the Combatants.
PISTOLS, STONES AND CLUBS.
A MOB OF SEVERAL THOUSAND.
The Militia Ordered Out and Quiet
Finally Restorcd--List of
the Dead and In.
jured Men.
Desperate Strikers.

DULUTH, July 6'-The .laboring mems
strike, which has been in progress several
days, eliminated this afternoon in a bloody
war between the strikers and policemen.
Thirty determined policemen were pitted
against 5000 desperate strikers armed with
pistols, stones and clubs. Four
thousand men were employed on
street and sewer improvements at $1.50 per
day until last Tuesday, when fifteen
hundred struck for an advance of 25 cents
per day. The contractors refused to accede
to the demand. The strikers had many re-
cruits each day. and the mob finally increased
to nearly three thousand. There had been
ugly rumors of the determined attitude of
the strikers all day, and preparations had
been made by the police for any emergency.
All day long men have been at work on
the Fifth street contract, but about o'clock
the strikers compelled them to desist At
$3.50 o'clock crowd of strikers had reached
Third street and Tenth avenne west, where
the shade of trees and the known determin-
alton Of the police Mt Garfield avenue
decided them TO wait About 4:30 q mob
headed by a number of hot-headed men
rallied and started back for the sewer
trench. They were infuriated by the pres
ence Of the police and their control
OF uuC SltuuulOu. Hal AL uOuT
later they made rush for
the Gordon of police The police drew
their clubs and revolvers. Seeing there was
no use to bother with the clubs, they fired
into the angry mob. A volley, and one
striker lay dead, while seven more were
wounded, some most seriously. One police
man was shot through the jaws. Three
men are dead and twelve or fifteen wounded.
The strikers started from Twentieth
avenue, while another body came down
from Third street by Fifteenth avenue
and made a rush with clubs and rocks. The
police stood their ground. Who did the first
firing is not known. AS the strikers made
the rush u single shot was fired, then crack,
crack. crack, went the rifles of the police,
followed by fusilade from the strikers re-
volvers.
After the first fire came an awful hush, as
the combatants were appalled, at the awful
result of their work. On the walk in front
lay man shot through the head. Several
more were bleeding from CHASTITY wounds.
At 545 company X, of the state militia, ar
rived, and with bayonets drove the crowds
from Michigan street. The mayor then made
speech, ordering tho crowd to dsperse.
The police and militia then drove the crowds
from all the streets. AT o'clock the strikers
had dispersed. Following is list of the
dead and wounded:
One striker, shot through the heart; Tom
Fitslmmons, shot through the back, died to-
night; Alfred Anderson, u striker shot in
the chest, will probably die; George
Pellitier street car driver, shot in
the head; Ed Cummings, n striker, stabbed
in the groin with bayonet; York Castigan,
striker, dangerously shot in the shoulder !;
Hoken Benson, a striker, shot in the upper
leg may die.
OF the police force the following were
wounded
Captain Thomas Mclaughlin, stab in hip ;
Sergeant Clements, shot in the hands; Oficer
O'Donnell, abdomen; Smallet, foot; Harri-
gan, thigh; Hayden, arm; Donavan, face
and hip; Walkoriah, face and thigh; Kill
gore, shoulder.