St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-07
Hot-Headed Wage Workers
Engage in a Battle With
Duluth Police.
Many Leaden Messengers OF
Death Find Lodgment in
Human Flesh.
Three Persons Killed Out
right, and Dozens Injured
More or Less.
Authorities Will Adopt Rigor-
Gus Methods to Prevent
Further BloodShed.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, July 6.-Riot run its
mad race to-day, and its victims are
numbered by scores. The storm, which
has been threatening for the past three
days, broke at 4:45 this afternoon, and
for the space of an hour and a quar-
ter it seemed almost as though
the fury of red-handed anarchy
had broken loose. the more
terrible because unexpected by those
upon whose heads it was attempted to
be wreaked. Nine as brave policemen
as ever wore a star will carry marks OF
the encounter to their graves, while
probably three times as many of the
infuriated mob will carry bullet
marks as mementos of their awful
crime. The strike, which eliminated
to-day in a bloody riot, began last Tues
day morning, when $50 of the gas and
water company's employees, Without
word of warning or demand OF any
nature, threw down their picks
and shovels, and, forming into
line, marched to the works of
street contractors and demanded that
all other workmen join them. Par tly
by threats and intimidation 800 more
workmen Joined them for time. Yes
terday the 200 WOrkmen employed by
Wolf 81 TruaX were notified that the
wages they had asked for would be
paid, and it was in the prot ection
of these men that the terrible results
of to-day followed. Yesterday after
the men had gone to work, the
MOB TRIED TO INTERFERE
and were repulsed by the police after
a fight, in which the latter used their
clubs on the heads of the mob,
but fired their revolvers into the
air. Last night, quietly and secretly,
about 200 of the strikers secured re-
voIvers and cartridges, but this morn
ing when they met at an appointed hour
all loudly proclaimed that they meant
no harm and not interfere again with
those who wanted to work, no matter
what wages they were paid. Old leaders
were lOudest in denunciation of violence,
and said they would nave nothing to do
with men or measures that would be
likely to lead to trouble. Thus was SuS-
picion disarmed that the dastardly pur-
pose of the intriguers might be the
more easily carried out. Yet there
was an air of insincerity. threaten
ing looks and whispered menaces about
many which kept the authorities on the
lookout, and 1t is we'll they were. At 2
o'clock this afternoon the mob again
assembled in the vacant lot opposite the
of in
nish, Italian, and other foreign Ian
guages, took up their march to the
trenches at Rice's Point, where about 100
men we're at work and guarded by
squad of twenty policemen under Capt.
Thomas Mclaughlin. There was not
word of warning. The rabble had been
too well drilled to need that. Quietly,
in PAGES single, or by threes, fours and
half-dozens, the mob formed on thee
sides OF the twenty brave officers.
SUDDENLY A SHOT RANG OUT,
another and another, until they came
almost like hail from three sides. 1t
was only the work of an in
slant. Revolvers flashed in the
hands of the policemen, and stand
ing shoulder to shoulder the battle
of life and death was fought The
officers were cooler. and their aim was
best, for in almost in less time than it
takes to write it, they had the mob
scattered, and seeking hiding places,
whence, assassin-like, they poured their
volleys. For upwards of an hour
this was kept up, when Company *, M.
N. g., came double quick over the hill,
and the aSsaSsins took to their heels in
every direction, leaving behind trail
of blood. just how many were hurt,
or even killed, may possibly never
be known, but it is certain that two
were killed outright, and from thirty
to fifty more or less wounded. Nor
did the officers escape the deadly fu-
siIade unharmed, though fortunately
none were killed, but several are Sc
riously injured. Following is list of
the dead and injured:
ED JOHNSON, shot through the brain by
Detective Benson who leveled rifle at him
when he was retreatlng and half block
away. He was one of the leading strikers.
GEORGE PETERSON, beaten to death by
policemen after he had made an attempt on
the lite Of Officer Hayden.
INJURED.
GEORGE CoNLIN, shot in right shoulder.
He had just arrived two hours before from
Dakota; not fatally.
EDWARD CUMMINGS, bayonet wound in
groin; not fatal.
TOW FITzsIMMoNs, eighteen years old, shot
in abdomen: will die.
A. PALAToR street car driver, shot in head; /;
not fatally.
LOUIS Nelson, shotin calf of right leg; not
Nat Mack. shot through body, bullet pass
ing through right thigh bone and coming out
through left groin; will die.
SEVERN NELSON, bullet in head; will prob
ably recover.
MIKE OLSON, bullet through left leg above
knee and three through scalp on left part OF
head and another in right forearm; very ser1-
ously, but not fatal.
OLE STAMPRTD, fifteen bullet holes In
clothes, scratched; not seriously injured.
OFFICER WALKovIAK, shot through hip.
OFFICER KLGoRE, shot through shoulder.
JOHN SHAY, spectator, one finger shot Off
while carrying away the boy Fitzsimmons.
CAPT MCLAUGHLIN, shot in hip, not
seriously.
SERGEANT CLEMENTS, shot in hand slightly.
OFFICER DONOVAN, two bad Wonnds, one
of which is in the hip.
The police have arrested Charles Carl
son, - Hendlen, Joe Frank and Eric
NJ. Lundbreen, the four ring leaders in
the assault. They are incarcerated in
the county Jail. The militia is at the
barracks ready to be called out
at any moment. The entire
city is aroused tonight. and it
will 90 hard with the strikers If
any of them show their hands. Mayor
Sutphin, Chief Doran and the members