Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-07
RIOT AT DULUTH.
Battle Between Police and
Strikers.
BLOOD, BULLETS AND BAYONETS.
Ihe LabOrerS' Strike Results Tragic.
ally-Militia Called
Out.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

Associated Press Dispatches In the Hpp.1nJ
DULUTH, July 6.-The laboring mems
strike, which has been in progress sew
eral days, eliminated this afternoon in q
bloody war between the strikers and
policemeH. Thirty determined police
men were pitted against three thousand
desperate strikers, armed with pistols,
stones and clubs. Four thousand men
were employed on street and sewer i'm
provements, at 81 so per day, until last
Tuesday, when fifteen hundred struck
Tor an advance of twenty-five cents per
day. The contractors refused to accede
to the demand. The strikers had many
recruits 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 department for any
emergency. All day long men had been
at work on the Fifth.street contract. out
at about O'Clock the strikers compelled
them to desist. At 8 80 o'clock crowd
OF strikers had reached Third street and
Tenth avenue, west, where the shadow
OF the trees and the known determine
ton OF the police at Garfield avenue de-
cided them to wait
HosTILITIEs BEGUN.
AT about 80 o'clock the mob, headed
by number of hot headed men, rallied
and started back for the sewer trench.
They wero infuriated by the presence of
the police and their control of the situa-
tion; half an hour later they made a
rush for the Gordon of police. The police
drew their clubs and revolvers seeing
there was no use to bother with clubs.
they fred into the angry mob volley,
and one striker lay dead, while seven
more were wounded, some most seri-
ously. One policeman was shot in re-
turn. 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 rush single shot
was fired, then crack crack crack went
the rifles, followed by fusilade from the
strikers revolvers. After the first fire
were appalled, at
THE AWFUL RESULT
Of their work. On the walk in front Law
a man shot through the head. Several
more were bleeding from ghastly
wounds. The strikers then stationed
themselves around the buildings in diff
ferent parts of the block between Gar
field and Eikhteenth ave. Ne md poured
in steady fire on the ponce, who were
stationed near the sewer ditch. From
O'Clock until 5 O'Clock 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
8 O'Clock when the last shot was fred.
and terrible indeed had been the result.
Over thirty-fve are known to be
wounded, some fatally, and two killed.
At 545 Company X, of the
state militia, arrived and with
liked bayonets drove the crowd from
Michigan street. The Mayor then made
speech, ordering the crowd to disperse.
The police and militia then drove the
crowds from all the streets. At O'Clock
the strikers had dispersed.
| THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Following is list Of the dead and
wounded:
One striker, shot through the heart.
Tom Fitzsinmons, shot through the
back, died tonight.
Alfred Anderson, striker, shot in the
chest; will probably die.
George Pollitier, street-car driver, sho
in the head.
Ed. Cummings, striker, stabbed in the
groin with bayonet
York Castigan, striker, dangerously
shot in the shoulder.
Hoken Benson, striker, shot in thet
upper leg; may die.
OF the police force the following are
wounded: Captain Thos. Mclaughlin.
shot in hip; Sergeant Clements, in hand !:
Officer O'Donnell, in abdomen; Smollet.
In foot; Harri gan, in thigh; Hayden, in
arm; Donavin, face and hip; Walko-
wick, face and thigh; Kigare, shoulder.
RINaLEADERs ARRESTED.
The police have arrested Charles Carl
son, - Hendle, Joe Frank and Eric M.
Lundbreen, the four most prominent
ringleaders in the assault. They are in
carcerated in the county iail. The
militia are at the barracks ready to be
called out at any moment.