Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-04
IN A PITCHED BAT TIE
Imported Colored Men and
Strikers Clash at Chicago.
MANY RIOTS In CITY
MOB DESPERATELY ATTACKS
DRIVERS OF MEAT WAGONS.
Blue Coats Hurl Themselves Against
Infuriated Men and Twice
Are Repulsed.


CHICAGO, June "A pitched battle oc-
CURED between a crowd of negroes i'm
ported from ST. Louis to take the places of
the striking stock yard teamsters, and
toughs and strikers at 45th street and Cen
ter avenue early today.
Six negroes were badly injured, two posi-
bly, mortally.
The substitutes were driving wagons when
they were assaulted. Many of their assail-
ants were armed with ice pike poles they
seized from ice wa gons, and IN the fight
the negroes were badly lacerated by these
weapons.
one man had his thigh broken and an
other injured internally.
The imported negroes number about fifty.
An Imposing Caravan.
At O'Clock an imposing caravan of
thirty-eight loads of beef, interspersed with
five buses containing policemen, came out
Of the stock yards amid boots and cries of
dersion from the crowd
1t looked not unlike well-guarded wagon
train of some small army.
OF the wagons sixteen belonged to Swift
& Co. three to SchwarZschiid & Sulzberger.
nine to Armor & Co, five to Nelson Morris
& Co., four to Libby, Mcneil & Libby, and
one to the Anglo-American Company.
The large meat caravan reached the Hi
nois Central depot, at 18th street at 10
o'clock, accompanied by constantly in
creasing crowd. During the unloading of
meat at the depot the crowd showed its
ugly temper by throwing coal and bricks.
Policemen Draw Revolvers.
Disturbances due to the teamsters' strike
increased in ferocity and freeuerce today.
Policemen in a number of instances had
to draw their revolvers to protect them
selves, and several of them had their clubs
not only taken away from them, but used
against them.
The hospitals began to feel the effect of
the battling by the increased number of
patients, and the police stations were scarce
ly able to hold the rioters arrested.
One Of the most serious riots Broke out
at Congress and State and dIarison and
State streets. BY some rntneuver the
strikers succeeded in dividing the thirty
eight wagon caravan (the second one to
leave the yards todayl so thai The front of
it lay al Congress street orr State and the
rear at Harrison.
While the vanguard battled with a crowd
which hurled broken bottle, stale eggs and
other missiles, including sp0ois of thread
thrown by wemen sympathizers in the
crowd, the rear guard was called upon to
defend itself against a more serious at
tack.
Twice They Are Repulsed.
At this place the mob made a desperate
assault on the drivers, but was compelled
to turn its attention to the police, who came
up on the run.
Twice the buecoats hurled themselves
against the infuriated men, and twice they
were rebuffed and crowded back.
1t was the most desperate clash the police
have had with citizens in years
In several instances the strikers and their
sympathiZers wrenched clubs from the po-
licemen and used them against their OWL
ers. Meanwhile several men had gained a
position of advantage on the elevated loop
from which they fired missiles at the Of
ficers.
Number of Heads Broken.
In this way Officer John Mcclure was hit
In the head with horseshoe and so seri-
ously injured that he had to be taken to a
hospital.
Officer John I.inencurJal was less serious
ly hurt.
Gus Billings, one Of the crowd was club
bed into nsensibity by the police, and he,
too, was taken to hospital in a serious
condition..
After the two Intellectual rushes at the
crowd mentioned, the police managed to
organize themselves in better shape and
for the third time rushed the mob.
This time they We're successful.
number of heads We're broken, but their
owners in most cases escaped.
Several arrests were made.
1t was impossible to obtain anything like
a complete list of the injured.
Caravan Moved Finally.
The caravan, after twenty minutes delay,
began to move, but not in peace, for the
crowd followed closely. The police, how
ever, walked by the wagons and confined
their efforts to pulling from the wagons
men who tried to climb into the seats, pre-
sumably to pull down the drivers.
The decision of the police to confine their
attention strictly to keeping invaders from
climbing onto the wagons did not long
endure.
From windows along the route missiles
were flung at them.
At every street corner teamsterS In SYM
pathy with the strikers SO managed their
wagons as to bring about a blockade.
With the continued opposition the bonn
bardment, the blockading and the 5eers all
stirring them. the policesaest their 'tempers
and dubbed with apparent indiscfhnnation
1t was reported that several wemen ana
boys and one helpless cripple received blows
from the batons of the police.
Patrol Wagons Busy.
The slowly persistent progress lsof the
meat wagons acted as goad to the tenn
per Of the crowd.
Patrol wagons were kept busy rushing
to the various lockups with prisoners; am
balances hurried to the nearests hospitals
where heads could be sewed up but never
did the strikers and their sympa thizers les
sen their resistance.
The sight of new arrests and Of newly
cracked skulls whetted their appetites for
more. They took the presence of the i'm
mediate caravan "a difficult thing to move
under any circumstances throagh down
town districts) as a challenge.
An incident of the fights was the smash
ing of an automobile in which were seated
Charles Gates and a companion.
The machine was caught In one of the
blockades and smashed to splinters.
Another machine, In which were two wo-
men, was caught in a similar predicament.
The occupants were so frightened by the 4
riot about them that they were at the
point of fainting when policemen rescued
them.
Charged Upon tl,e Crowd.
Busy State street was IN state of bar
ricade several hours. Picisets for the strik-
ers persuaded sympathetic drivers to drive
into the thoroughfare In, ord err To check the