The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-11
4 DAY OF BLOODsHED.
4 Score of Strikers Killed by the
Troops and Police.


Troops and Police.
CHICAGO, July THE strikers and
the state of Illinois came together this
afternoon and a pitched battle was the
result. The number Of killed and wound
ed will never be known, as the mob car
ried off a number Of men who were seen
to fall, and whether they were dead or
wounded. or how many of them fell. it
is impossible at this time to ascertain.
As far as known the casualties were as
follows:
Dead:
JOHN BURKE. striker. killed by a
bayonet thrust through the abdomen.
Wounded:
Lieut.. HARRY REED, company F,
Second regiment. l. n. c., struck on
head by stone; condition critical.
THOMAS JACKMAN, shot in back;
will die.
JOHN KoNDER. stabbed with bay
onet will die.
JOSEPH RHINEBERG, three bayonet
wounds, may die.
ANTON KOCNIINSKI, shot in the
right side.
JOSEPH SZCEPAUSKI. shot in shoul-
der.
Unknown boy, shot in left leg.
Unknown boy. seventeen years old,
shot through abdomen; will die.
Tony Gajeuski. shot in right arm.
Henry Williams, shot in left arm.
John Kerr. shot in hip.
Annie SiegleT, shot in right leg;
amputation was necessary.
Unknown man, shot through liver; will
die.
In all forty-one shot and bayoneted
were taken to the drug stores at the cor
ner of Forty-elghth and Loomis-sts.
There a field hospital was improvised
and the wounds OF the least hurt were
dressed.
The fight occurred at the intersection
of Forty-ninth-st and the Grand Trunk
tracks, a locality which has always had
, an evil name and which can produce any
day two toughs for every square yard of
territory within radius of a half-mile
Serious trouble was expected there early
this morning.
Before o'clock in the morning a mob
had gathered and made threats Of burn
ing the Grand Trunk roundhOuse. Aid
WAS asked from the authorities and COM
pany F of the Second regiment. 1. n. c.,
thirty-eight strong, commanded by Can't
Kelley. was hurried to the spot The
militia was reinforced by a number Of
deputies and the mob was pressed back
from the roundhOuse. The mob gathered
again at Fiftieth-st. and began to turn
over freight cars and tear up the tracks
Police Attack the Mob.
A squad of police under Lieut. Duffy
attacked the mob and several shots were
/ fired on both sides, but nobody was hurt.
The mob then went back once more to
Forty-ninth-st. and while a portion of
the crowd, which by this time was fully
5000 strong occupied the militia and the
deputies, others ran freight car into
the pit of turlftable and made the ma
chine useless. Superintendent Atwater
and Yardmaster Mckee of the Grand
Trunk with gang of men set to work
to remove the obstruction, while the mob,
which had now grown to be very ugly
stood around bowling and hooting and
occasionally letting fly stone at the
soldiers. This condition of affairs pre-
vailed for two or three hours, the militia
behaving with excellent spirit and show
ing good discipline.
Finally the mob, encouraged by the
fact that the troops did not fire, began
active hostilities--a crowd of men pushed
a freight car from a siding on to the
track, where the train which had brought
the militia to the scene was standing,
with the evident Intention Of block
ing the tracks so that the militia would
have no line of retreat.
Capt Kelly conferred with Superin-
teedent Atwater and concluded that 1t