Evening star., 1901-07-11
DELUGE FOR DOWiEITES
EvANsTON.s FIRE BRIGADE TURNED
on THE ZIONISTS.
Several of Them Arrested for Block
ing Street and Refusing
to Move On.

CHICAGO, July Incorporation Counsel
Paden of Evanston, upon whose advice
Mayor Patten acted when he directed the
hose turned upon the Dowieites, said:
"The Dowieites were~arrested not because
they came here to preach, but because they
blocked one of the streets with their meet
ing and refused to move on when told to
do SO. They clearly violated a city ordi-
nance
There were nine persons so seriously in
jured as to require professional attendance.
Many others were also more or less hurt.
When the Dowieites who had been arrested
by the police reached the court room they
broke out into song in spite of their plight
and continued shouting their exhortations
so that those who had collected on the out
side could hear them.
Overseers Piper and Specher were put
under bonds to insure their appearance July
II before Justice Ely to answer charges of
disorderly conduct and refusing to clear
the streets.
Chief of Police Knight guarded the march
to the depot. Before the train pulled out
the crowd again became boisterous and
missiles were thrown. but Chief knight
saved the Dowieites from further harm.
The Clash Last Night.
A dispatch from Chicago last night says:
another attempt to convert citizens of Ev-
anston tonight and failed, as on former oc-
casions. They visited the place in greater
force than ever before, there being fully
200 of them, but their increased numbers
only brought them a greater defeat
One-half the Dowieites were followers Of
Zion and the remainder were members
of the paid bodyguard which Dowie MAIN
tains. The guards were intended to pre-
vent any interference with the meeting
and when it commenced they formed
around the Dowieites to hold back the
crowd of fully 1,50O people which gather
ed rapidly as soon as it was known
that another Dowie meeting was in prog
ress. AS on former occasions eggs and
vegetables were quickly evident in the pro-
ceedings, and Dowie guards and those
whom they were trying to protect were
soon spattered with yolks and battered
with old vegetables
Several fights resulted between the
guards and the people, with damaging re-
suits to the guards The entire police force
after the chief of police had ordered, the
Dowietes to withdraw and had met with
refusal he ordered his men to charge
them. The police did not use their clubs
and the guards held them back by sheer
weight and force of numbers.
Crowd in Ugly Mood.
The crowd meanwhile was growing ugly,
unless something was done quickly people
would be seriously hurt and possibly killed,
ordered out fire engine The steamer at
once turned a four-inch stream on the
Dowieites and they went over like tenpins.
Women as well as men We're thrown down
by the stream and sent rolling in the mud.
The people of Evanston danced and hooted
with delight as the firemen steadily .ad-
Vanced, driving the Dowieites before them
In utter rout. The work was done with
impartiality, and whatever Dowieite was
dllatory in movement was washed along by
the four-inch stream.
AS the Dowietes fed the dry method Of
attack came once more into favor, and
the bombardment Of eggs and vegetables
was resumed and aided materially the
purging Of the town from the presence of
the DoWieites.
Elder Piper Of Dowie's church, who had
been in command Of the small army, was
arrested on a charge Of disorderly con-
duct. While he was being led to the sta
tfon men and boys armed with syringes
containing dirty water and other liquids
more Objectionable made him an object Of
especial attention. and he was in a sorry
condition when the station doors closed
behind him.
About twenty other DowieItes were taken
into custody, more to save them from the
crowd in the streets than for any other
reason.
The Dowieites say they will return in
greater force, and the people Of Evanston
declare 1t will only make the next riot
Just SO much the larger