The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-04
FIERCE RIOTING GOES ON
IN CHICAGO STREETS;
POLICE ARE ASSAULTED
Heads Are Broken and Blood Flows FreelyHospitas Full
of the Wounded and Police Stations Crowded With
Prisoners-Awfu Scenes of Violence and Bloodshed
in the Streets-Popular Fury at High Pitch.

Chicago, June At was on Fifth avenue
the first shot of the day was fired. 1t gave
rise to a report that the police had fired
upon the mob. An officer was hit with
pop bottle by a man standing on fire
escape ladder. The officer, unable to
reach his assailant, fired two shots. The
man escaped. The shooting created great
excitement and soon one of the worst
riots of the day was in progress.
Chicago, June 4.-The strike of the
drivers for the ten State street depart
ment stores was settled at conference
held this afternoon and the men, 1900 in
ALL returned to work. The terms were not
given out.
Chicago, June 4.-Disturbances attend
ing upon the packing house teamsters'
strike broke out afresh early to-day when
q wagon belonging to former Alderman
Duddleston, driven by non-union man,
tried to land a load Of hams and bacon
at the station of the Chicago & North
Western railway at Kinzie street. A
crowd of toughs and strike sympathizers
set upon the driver, overturned his wagon
and stole his meat. The driver, after be-
laboring some of his assailants with a
club, ran from the scene, and when a
patrol wagon full Of policemen with a
number of officers on foot arrived, the
crowd scattered.
Early in the morning cara
van Of six wagons-two from Armours,
two from Swift's and one each from Nell
fs' md otr S,,lo
berger's plants-started under the escort
of a patrol and fifteen policemen toward
the downtown districts to supply stores
with meat.
A pitched battle occurred between a
crowd Of negroes, imported from St.
Louis to take the places of the striking
yard teamsters, and toughs and strikers
early to-day, in which six negroes were
badly injured, two possibly mortally
The substitutes were driving wagons
when they were assaulted. Many of the
assailants were armed with ice pike poles
they had seized from ice wagons, and
many were badly lacerated by these
weapons; one. man had his thigh broken
and another was injured internally. The
imported negroes number about fifty.
At 9 o'clock an imposing caravan of
thirty eight loads of beef irterspersed
with five buses containing policemen
came lout of the stockyards amid the
boots and cries of derision from the
crowd. 1t looked not unlike an army wa
gun train. -
The Rioting Grows.
Disturbances increased in ferocity and
frequency. Policemen in a number of in
stances had to draw their revolvers to
protect themselves; several Of them had
their clubs not only taken from them but
Thn fol hoo
to feel the effect of the battling by the
increased number Of patients and the po-
lice stations were scarcely able to hold
the rioters arrested
One of the most serious riots broke out
at Congress and State and Harrison apG
State streets. BY some maneuver the
strikers succeeded in dividing the thirty
wagon caravan (the second one to leave
the yards today so that the front of i
lay at Congress street on State and the
rear at Harrison. While the vanguard
battled with a crowd which hurled broker
bottles, stale eggs and other missiles, in
GLIDING spools Of thread thrown by womel
sympathizers in the crowd, the rear guart
was called upon to defend itself agains
q more serious attack.
At this place the mob made desperate
assault on the drivers but was compelled
to turn it's attention to the police VIII
came on the run. Twice the bluecoat
hurled themselves against the infuriate
men and each time they were rebuffe
and crowded back. It was the most des
perate clash the police have had wit
citizens in years. In several instance
the strikers and their sympathizer
wrenched clubs from the policemen an
used them against their owners. Mean
while several men had gained a positio
of advantage on the elevated loop fror
which they fired missiles at the off
GERS. In this way Officer John McGuir
was hit In the head with a horse shoe an
SO seriously injured that he had to b
taken to a hospital. Officer John Linen
curjal was less seriously hurt. Gu
Billings, one of the crowd, was clubbe
into insensibility by the police and h,
too, was taken to a hospital in seriou
condition.
After these two Intellectual rushes a