Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-10
RIOTS IN CHICAGO.
TRANSFERS STRIKE CAUSES DIS
ORDER IN THE STREETS.
Meat Caravan Is Mobbed and Police
Escorts Are Forced TO Draw Revolt
vers = Sympathetic Transfers OBJ
struct Packers Wagons.

Police were compelled to draw revolv-
ers and use their clubs freely "Wednesday
to clear the way through thousands of
strikers and sympathizers in the Chicago
downtown district in order to allow the
clerk-drivers of wagons for the packers
to make deliveries of meat Every .nch
of progress was marked by stubborn re-
sistanee by the rioters. At times bricks
and missiles were hurled through the air,
periling the lives of the bluecoats as well
as the stock yards men. From Twenty
second street and Wabash avenue TO
South Water street. where the last loads
were delivered, jeering, shouting. dis
orderly mob blocked traffic and hindered
the progress of tbs caravan of wagons.
In spite of the fact that riot calls were
sent to the police and officers did every
thing III their power. except to shoot down
the resisting mass of humanity. the task
of making an avenue for the meat train
was well nigh impossible
Progress was hindered not a little by
drivers of other vehicles, who deliberately
brought their teams into the way. and in
one instance it was necessary to heat
such ar offender into insensibility before
he could be taken in charge.
IN Michigan avenue several automo-
lies, one of them containing women,
we're caught in the jam. and the crowd
threatened for a time to not only demol-
ish the machines, but to do bodily harm
TO the women. -
Gable trains along the route and troll
leys We're blocked and hundreds of per-
sons sought the vantage ground of the
roofs of cars, from which place they hurl-
ed missives and when their stock of
stones or whatever they happened to have
gathered from the streets gave out they
contented themselves with taunting the
protectors of the meat men.
As the wagons drew toward South
Water street the crowds became more
enraged and police were practically pow
erless to cope with the throngs. Near
Randolph and Dearborn streets there was
a ton of coal on the walk waiting deliy-
cry, but when the wagons had forced a
way past the place there was not sign
of the coal where it had been. Hundreds
of persons seized it and for a time it lit
orally rained coal. Officers We're struck,
but no one was seriously injured.
From the elevated structures and from
windows along the streets men and wom-
en- burled anything they could find at the
caravan. In many instances bottles We're
thrown, and it was a mystery that the
glass did not severely cut some of the
crowd. Hundreds of persons suffered
broken heads, but We're hurried away by
their friends before the police could as
sist them.
Platoons of policemen stood at every
n II rpis on
streets ON State street, and fought the
crowds to allow the packers to deliver
meat The police formed a hollow square
in front of the retail markets. and with
clubs fought the crowds. The latter threw
stones and bricks as the packers attempt
ed to unload their meats. Two hundred
policemen charged the rioters in State
street under orders from Inspector Hunt
to BEAT them down with CLUBS. No
shots were fired