The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-04
CHlCAGO's RIOTS CONTINUE.
Some Hot Fighting esterday and
Several Badly Observation-Disclosures
store Transfers Join Strike.

Chicago, June 3.-Chicago's police
were given a strenuous life to-day by
the striking packing house teamsters.
From daylight this morning until long
after dark tonight the blue coats were
kept busy dispensing trouble makers,
who congregated along the streets and
in every conceivable manner placed OBJ
stacles in the way of the meat dealers
who endeavored to move their supply
wagons with non-union drivers. In
spite of the striking teamsters and
their friends, SO wagon loads of meat
were delivered from the stockyards to
downtown stations. Before the task
was accomplished, however. a score of
policemen and rioters were injured and
fully fifty persons had been placed
under arrest. Several of the injured
were in such serious condition that
they were taken to hospitals. Two of
the injured may die.
When the procession of wagons left
the packing house district they were
guarded by a heavy detail of police.
AS soon as the wagons emerged at
the entrance of the yards fully 500
enraged strike sympathizers made a
rush to overturn the conveyances. The
policemen drew clubs and after a hard
struggle succeeded in scattering the
mob. A fresh start was made, but be-
|. fore the wagons reached the down
town district the mob augmented by
hundreds of sympathizers made an at
tack. In the fight that followed re-
volVers were drawn. No person was
shot. instead the police used their
clubs Unfortunately and a dozen or
more people were injured before the
march could be resumed. When the
| central portion of the city was reached
clashes between the police and the
crowd became numerous. Street car
traffic was an impossibility and 1t was
| necessary for several squads of police
to charge the, crowds with batons be-
fore the wagons had reached the down.
town houses.
! To add to the burdens of the police
| department 1,300 drivers and their help
ers employed by the State street gen.
eral retail merchandise department
stores went on a strike to-day. An at
| tempt was made to deliver department
store goods in the downtown district
this afternoon with non-union drivers
under police protection, but so much
disorder developed that the attempt
proved futile. Before the project was
abandoned several rioters were hurt
and many arrests had been made.
A Riot ut the Fair store.
An attempt by the Fair store man
| agement to deliver goods this afternoon
after their drivers and teamsters had
struck, resulted in a riot, several in
| jured heads and bodies, a number of
arrests and finally the failure of the
| project. Bricks and stones were the
weapons used by the crowd and the
missiles were thrown with such effect
that after the fight was over dozen of
big show windows in adjoining build
ings were shattered.
In the attack which the police made
upon the crowd a dozen men were Sc
verely injured by the police. Several of
the strike sympathizers We're arrested.
Shots Fired i'm Riot.
An attack made tonight on William
KiSer, a non-union teamster employed
by Irwin Brothers, at Harrison street
and Michigan avenue, resulted in a
small riot in which several shots were
fired, and one man was severely
wounded by a stray bullet.
Kiser claims he fired the shots in
self-defenSe He was arrested