Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-05

attention strictly to keeping invaders from
climbing onto the wagons did not long
endure. From the wagons along the route
missiles were flung at them. At every
street corner teamsters in sympathy with
the strikers so managed their wagons as
to bring about a blockade. With the
continued opposition, the bombardment, the
blockading and the ieers all stirring them,
tho police lost their tempers and dubbed
with apparent DISCRIMINATION. II was
said that several women and boys and one
helpless cripple received blows from the
batons Of the police.
Mass of surging Humanity.
The streets through which the cavalcade
passed by noon had become a perfect mael-
strom OF surging, excited humanity. The
slowly persistent progress Of the meat
wagons acted as a good to the temper
Of the crowd. Patrol wagons were kept
busy rushing to the various lock-
ups with prisoners, ambulances hur-
ried to the nearest hospitals, where the
heads Of their occupants could be sewed
up, but never did the strikers and their
sympathizers lessen their resistance. The
sight Of new arrests and OF newly cracked
skulls whetted their appetites for more.
They took the presence Of the meat cara
van, a dif1cult thing to move under any
circumstance through downtown dis
tricts, as a challenge.
Business on State street was in a state
OF barricade several hours. Pickets for the
strikers persuaded sympathetic drivers to
drive into the thoroughfares In order to
check the advance Of the meat wagons. At
Madison and State streets the volley of
eggs, bricks. ETC., became so thick and the
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forced to charge upon the crowd.
Sympathizers in wagonloads tried TO drive
into the squads Of police and many people
were slightly injured in the fracas. One
old man had his arm broken by a blow from
a p%oliceman's club. Women and children
were panic-stricken and fed crying into
side streets. At Randolph and Clark streets
the mob, which was preceding and follow
ing the meat caravan, grew riotous again.
From a coal wagon and from STANDARD
produce wagons the crowd seized missiles
and pelted the drivers Of the packing house
wagons. Here the police charged the crowd
again and again, driving them from streets
and doorways into side streets. At Fifth
avenue, near Madison, three coal wagons
attempted to blockad the streets again.
One teamster drew a revolver and threat
ened to shoot anyone who touched his
horses. The police pulled his team aside
however. but the driver was not arrested,
Battle with Negroes.
A pitched battle occurred between a
crowd OF negroes, imported from st. Louis
to take the places of the striking yards
teamsters, and toughs and strikers al
Forty-ffth street and Center avenue today
in which six negroes were badly injured
two possibly MORALLY. The substitutes were
driving wagons when they were assaulted
Many Of their assailsnts were armed with
ice pick poles they had seized from ice
wagons. and in the fight the negroes were
badly lacerated by these weapons. One mar
had his thigh broken and another was in
iured internally. The imported negroes
numbered about fifty.
AT 9 o'clock an imposing caravan o
thirty-eight loads Of beef, interpreted
with five buses containing policemen
came out Of the stock yards amid boots an
cries of derision from the crowd. 1
looked not unlike a well-guarded wagon
train of some small army. OF the wagons
sixteen belonged to Swift and Company
three to schwarzchtld & sulzberger, min
to Armour & Co., FIVE to Nelson Morris 4
Co., four to Libby, Mcneil & Libby an
one to the Anglo-American company.
The large meat caravan reached tn
Illinois Central depot at Twelfth street a
10 o'clock, accompanied by a constant.
Increasing crowd. During the unloading
Of meat at the depot the mob showed IT
ugly temper by throwing coal and bricks
but the well-armed police guard served t
check more serious demonstrations.