The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-06-15

.opT1nKueAO ana ~ once began O pei
opa1sinqniry int0 lsbir tr0nbles exist
ing along the drainage canal and which
resulted In Fridays flow Of blood.
The governor listened attentively
to the stories of twenty or more
persons who were either witnesses Is
Fridays battle or were among those
who were wounded. The investigation
e;bs,a!;s sRs e.. Pa1 ! ! mis-
lowina m sos Gs&
II received message late Friday night
signed BY the sheriff Of Win county. the sheriff
ri Du Page county and by Mr. Gilbert, tie
'1hertf Of Cook county, evidently aent from
Gilbert's once In Chicago, stating that there
was riot here, that . number OF men had been
killed, that sherin,a deputies were not
ehle 10 MAINTAIN neaee Ii 1do order ana
protect nfe and property. and th3t
mob Of about 5000 strtkers was threatening
violence, and that they called on mo To order
out the militia Ia protect life and property. i
telegFaphed to the ahert4 Of WIN county ana
to Gilbert asking how many deputies they
bad sworn tnraaa sVhethers ANY, ono had been
hurt other than the Fstrikora. The shertn
e M s0sa.S sspsa 1has NE e Ass ssoa. g,
Saturday. Believing the telegram signed by
the three ssherfrs STATED the facts eeorreG5y
ordered out the Second and Third regtnaea u,
and one company from another, and ut the same
time Adjt Gen Orenff6rt with Ia aide, started
for Joliet This was about midnight and byI2
S'eleek Saturday NEST Of she troops we've on
the ground: and VIM say responded with r.
" arrived here shout b; 20 Saturday afternoon
and have been making Inquiries. learned
from the deputy sheriff of Cook rcounty that In
fact up to the time the Telegram was sent there
were no deputies for Cook county and that the
sheriff sent down twelve special and eleven
regular deputies I have talked with men who
claimed to represent the contractors and sent
word toIesch that would like 10 meet him and;
get his version. went down to the scene Of
the shooting and talked with number Of men
pot interested and especially ssome railroad
men working on the tracks d the Santa BE
railroad, who saw what took place and gave me
foll account ct the Affair." oass of their mum:
1.-The information get thus far tends to show
that there has beeq, no, Fioting OF serious dis.
turbance' here for week until F flday, 'and the
only VIOLENCE used was by number Of men.
both colored and white. who hsd been brought
here by one OF the <pdttractors from
him with rifles and who opened fire upon
some strikers who swere val king along the tow.
path OF tho old canal, and were not making any
demonstration, and were not going in the direc-
ton In which the new work Is being done. The
moment the Hiring began the men on the tow
followed by these men with rifles for the
distance OF about mile, and they,
kept shooting the entire distance, kill
ing and sounding from fifteen to
twenty men. g. - claimed. These men were
shot all the way along this distance 9f mile:
Among others MORALLY wounded was Q laborer
on the Santa Fe railroad. who was quietly eat:
ing his dinner when he WAS shot BY the side Of
the track nearly, mile north Of and away from
the point where the shooting first began
I'm .short, the only men who seem to have
violated the law Frtday and that q cold blood,
were the men who had bsen, armed by this con-
tractor and Who did theshooting.s have been
other side Of the Story. that the con-
tractors jclatm that some ct the strikers
had Qrea over at Them, iThis Is mot
IN harmony ~ With the statement made
by the railroad people, and a. am
now advised that no contractor. claims there
was any necessity OF following the men who
were running and shooting them down after.
they had run mile. Iexpeot to make further
inquiry, and will do what I thinh~th law re-
Quires at my hand II, after looking more fully
into the situati l conclude that the law re-
quires me to keep troops here shall do so; II
not they will be taken off, ~ t"l
Gov. Altgeld went to Joliet, where he
summoned the various contractors, and
q conference was held on Sunday with
a#view to getting at the bottom of the
trouble. A committee of the strikers
was also present. The contractors all
said that their men had made 40 de-
mand fog s.aps gipcrease in wages
and were willing to work If. the
quarry strikers could fbe kept away,
The strikers asserted, that the contract.
ors Disseminated against local men in
giving employment. This the contract
ors all denied and said they had fsvored
the local men. 800 III = .,E-1EtSsssfss5.
Four men are reported dead fandsthree
others will probably die. Gregor Kilka,
a married man who came to this place
week ago, died at s. NJ; at his home on
Stevens street. Kilka had done no work
here, Friday h. was forced to accom-
'pahy the strikers against his will. A
bullet of large ca]iber struck him in the
head and he was brought to Lemont in
dying condition. ofg
It was learned at noon that xnother.
body had been fonnd near McCormick's
camp. The party of Poles who found
the'corpse saythat itsissthe body of Ig-
natz Asst. aged 20, and tresident of Lee
mont Asst WINS Shot through the head
The oofticials are positive that the
body of an unknown man is lying in
the canal near Romeo. This man,
with Kilka, Asst and the ualxnoxsn man
killed near Romeo FridaN co5pleted
the list of those kns wnsto desd.
Supervisor Wein4r Aasamad prep
arations to send three Of the badly
wounded men to the Cook county hos
pital, where they can feceivsbetter at.
tention than there: ! 1hese three men
are: Michael Boyer, shot through the
liver Michael sJaslsa<t shot sils left
lung, and Thomas Meteleski. siYot in
lungs. Aside from. the dangerously
wounded men above MENTIONED the ins'
jured are resting easily and the doctors
steesrS obEmre fats litiss tameng fhs list.
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