Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-08

Bloody Fight Is the Result.
DULUTH, July 6th.-The laboring mems
strike, which has been in progress several
| days, eliminated this afternoon in 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
the street and sewer Improvements at 81 so
per day till last Tuesday, when 500 struck
for an advance of 25 cents per day. The
contractors refused to accede 10 the de-
mand. The strikers had many recruits
each day, the mob finally increasing TO
| nearly 5000.
PREPARED FOR TROUBLE.
There have been ugly rumors as to the
determined attitude of the strikers all day,
and preparations had been made BY the
police department for any emergency. All
day long men had been at work on the
Fifth-street contract, but about o'clock
the strikers compelled them to desist At
$50 the crowd OF strikers had reached Third
| street and Tenth avenue west, where the
shadow of the trees and the known deter
mlnation of the police at Garfield avenue
| decided them to wait. About 4:30 O'Clock
the mob, headed by 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 the
situation.
THE ATTACK.
Half an hour later they made rush for
the Gordon of police. The police drew their
clubs and revolyers. Seeing that there was
no use to bother with the clubs, they fired
into the angry crowd volley, and one
striker lay dead, while seven more were
| wounded, some most seriously One
policeman was shot in return 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 firing is not known. As
the strikers made the rush a single shot
was fired; then crack, crack, crack went
the rifles, followed by iusilade from the
strikers revolvers. After the first fire came
an awful hush. as the combatants were
| appalled, at the result of their work.
On the walk in front lay a man shot
through the head. Several more were
bleeding from CHASTITY wounds.
THE FIRING RENEWED.
The strikers then stationed themselves
around buildings in different parts of the
block between Garfield street and Eight
eenth avenue, and poured in a steady fire
on the police, who were stationed near the
sewer ditch. From 4 O'Clock until the
horrible work went on, and the battle did
not withhold its fury long enough for the
wounded TO leave the field.
1t was after o'clock when the last shot
was fired, and terrible, indeed, has been
the result. Over thirty-five persons are
known to be wounded, some fatally, and
two are killed.
At $40 o'clock Company X of the State
militia arrived, and with fixed bayonets
drove the crowds from Michigan street.
The Mayor then made a speech, ordering
the crowd to disperse. The police and
militia then drove the crowds from all the
streets. At o'clock the strikers had dis
persed.
THE CASUALTIES.
The following is a list of the dead and
some of the wounded: One striker, shot
through the heart; Tom Fitzsimmons, shot
through the back, died tonight; Alfred
Anderson, a striker, shot in the chest, will
probably die; George Pelletier, a street-car
driver, shot in the head Edward Cum
mings, striker, stabbed in the groin with
bayonet; York Castigan, a striker, dan
gerously shot in the shoulder Hoken
Benson, striker, shot in the upper part
of the leg, may die.
OF the police force the following were
wounded; Captain Thomas Mclaughlin,
shot in the hip; Sergeant Clements, in the
hand Officer O'Donnell, abdomen; Smol-
let foot; Harrigan. thigh Hayden, arm
Donovan, face and hip; Walkoviah, face
and thigh kilgore, shoulder.
The police have arrested Charles Carlson,
Hendler, Joe Frank and Eric NJ. Lund-
green, the four most prominent ringleaders
in the assault. They are incarcerated in
the county Jail.
The militia are at the barracks, ready to
be called out at any moment.
AN ATTEMPTED MURDER.
MILWAUKEE, July 7th.-Last night the
strikers made desperate attempt to muir
der Joe Wolf, of the firm of Wolf & Knox,
who have been particularly obnoxious to
them. While Wolf was driving to the
West End he was surrounded by the
strikers and stones thrown at him. There
was ditch on one side and rock on the
other. Wolf jumped and escaped just as
the police came up, but his wagon was
overturned and demolished by the strikers.
One of the officers of the force it is found
had received serious injuries on his leg by
stones thrown by The strikers.
The friends of Carlson claimed he had
nothing to do with the strike, although he
leader. Captain Mclaughlin aimed at him
twice at close range, but the shot did not
take effect.
The affair quieted down last night, but
there were fears of an outbreak again this
morning. The air is still thick with ugly
rumors, but with the hundreds of well
armed special policemen it is believed the
authorities, with the assistance of the
militia, will be able to withstand any at
| tack. The militia is prepared to move at
moments notice, and the police are de-
tailed in the neighborhood of yesterdays
disturbance.
Mayor Gibbon issued orders to disperse
all assemblies promptly, and the contrac-
| tors will resume work tomorrow morning
under police protection at the former rate
| of wages. 1t is difficult to get at the true
| facts concerning the dead and wounded
| among the strikers. Many were taken
away during the battle and could not be
traced to their homes or boarding places.
From what can be learned in the hospitals
and prominent boarding houses, fair esti-
mate of the wounded will be twenty-five,
and several more seriously injured.
1t is not positively known that more than
one man is dead-Ed Johnson, aged 25.
The death of Matt Mack, aged 35, and Tom
| Fitzsimmons, aged 81, is nomentarily ex-
pected, and it is probable that all the others
will recover. OF the police all are doing
well, and several have returned to duty
limping slightly or carrying an arm in a
sling.
The action of the police is unanimously
commended. 1t is settled to the satisfac-
ton of everybody that the strikers were
the sggressors, the police not having fred
until charged upon by the strikers. Late
this evening, as an additional precaution,
| the Sheriff swore in thirty eYtra IDENTITIES
and the army now numbers nearly 200 de-
| termined men.
A servant girl of the Sheriff on returning
home from church to-day overheard some
strikers planning incendiary fires. As a
result the officers are on the watch for
them. Just at dusk this evening Sergeant
Frank Clements and a fireman discovered
a box, 16 by 10 inches, full of dynamite
cartridges and fuse.
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