The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-04

the crowd. the police managed to organize
themselves in better shape. The third
time they were successful. A number OF
heads were broken but their owners IN
most cases escaped. 1t was Impossible
to obtain anything like complete list
ty minutes delay began to move, but not
in peace, for the crowd followed closely.
The police, however, walked blythe wa
CONS and confined their efforts to pulling
from the wagons men who tried to CLIMB
into the seats, presumably to pull down
the drivers. ..-
Some Very Fierce Fighting. e.
The decision of the police to confne
their attention strictly to keeping in
vaders from climbing onto the wagons did
not long endure. From windows along
the route missiles were thrown at them
At every corner teamsters who were IN
sympathy with tn strikers managed their
wagons so as to bring about blockade.
With the continued opposition the bonn
bardment, the blockading and the jeers,
the police lost theirs tenpers and clubpad
with apparsrt :,Sa 'aerimina ion. 1T was
said that several women and boys and one
helpless cripple received blows from the
batons Of the police. The streets through
which the cavalcade passed py noon nad
become maelstrorn of excited humanity.
The slowly persistent progress OF. the
meat wagons acted as, a goad to the
temper Of the crowd: Patrol wagons
were kept busy rushing to the various
lockups with prisoners; ambulances hur-,
ried to the nearest hospitals where heads
could be sewed up but the strikers and
their synpathizers did not lessen their
resistance. The sight Of new arrests
and bleeding heads stirred them on
Automobiles Smashed. -
An incident of the fights was the
smashing of an automobile in which we're
seated Charles Gates and companion.
The machine was caught in one of the
blockades and smashed to splinters. An
other machine, in which were two
women, was caught in similar pre-
dicament. The occupants were so fright
ened by the riot about them that they
were at the point of fainting when police
men rescued them. "r.
Business on State Street Stops. "
Business on State street was in a. state
of barricade several hours. Pickets for
the strikers persuaded sympathetic driv-
ers to drive int: the thoroughfare in or
der to check the advance of meat wagons.
At Madison and State streets the volley
of eggs, bricks, etc., became SO thick
| and the street so congested that the po-
| lice were forced to charge upon the crowd.
| Sympathizers in wagonloads tried to. drive
into the squads Of police and many people
were injured in the fracas. One old man
had his arm broken by the blow from q
policeman's club. Women and children
were panic stricken and fed into side
| streets. .. + .-. s,..-ss - ~.
At Randolph and Clark streets the moi
which was preceding and following the
meat caravan grew riotous again. From
a coal wagon and from standing produce
wagons, the crowd seized missiles an6
pelted the drivers of the packing house
wagons. Here the police charged the
crowd again and again, driving them iron
! the streets and doorways into side
streets. At Fifth avenue near Madison
three coal wagons attempted to blockade
the streets again. One teamster drew {
revolver and threatened to shoot anyone
who touched his horses. The police
pulled his team aside. however, but thu
driver was not arrested. z : Z