Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-05
CHICAGO RIOTERS
Give the Police All They Can
Conveniently Handle.
Scores Injured and the Hospitals Are
Taxed to Utmost.
Many Arrests Made-conferenc With
Hopes Of Settlement.

Chicago, June 4.-Driven by men
covered with dust and blood, many of
them barely able from exhaustion to
hold the reins in their hands, Sc meat
wagons entered the main gate of the
Union stock yards, tonight, amid a
shower of stones, bricks, bottles and
sticks.
The wagons. guarded by five police
wagons, filled with blue coats and two
omnibuses, crowded to the fullest ca
paclty with policemen were on the re-
turn from a delivery of supplies to
downtown provision houses, after one
of the fiercest days in the strike of
the beef packers transfers. Many Of
the drivers who are officials at the
packing houses, We're cut and bruised
from head to foot. The police were
in even worse condition.
The wagon drivers had been working
from O'Clock in the morning and their
progress from the stock yards into the
city's business district and back again
had been contested bitterly by mobs
of strike sympathizers.
AT the very entrance of the stock
yards, tonight, after all seeming dan
ger had passed, George June, an en-
ploye of the AnglO-American Packing
Co., was struck by a baseball bat and
Knocked from his wagon seat. He was
picked up in an unconscious condition.
and, it is believed, he may die.
Many others were struck at the same
time by shower of stones, but the
police were too worn out to offer re-
sistance.
More than a dozen battles were
fought during the day between the
rioters and the police. and the hos
pitfalls, tonight, are overcrowded with
the injured.
The fiercest battle of the day took
place. this afternoon, at 10th and
Michigan avenue. The rioters stood
on the viaduct and hurled rocks at the
meat wagons passing underneath.
The throng was the most formidable
in numbers and in daring of any of
the crowds that gathered during the
day. Before this mob could be dis
persed the police were compelled to
use revolvers.
More than so shots were fired, the
bullets passing over the heads Of the
| crowd, which finally became fright
| of the rioters and policemen had suffer-
| ed serious injuries.
A conference was held, tonight, be-
| tween representatives of the packers
and the teamsters, looking to a settle
ment of the strike. President F'reder-
lex w. Job. chairman of the State
| Board of Arbitration, brought about
the meeting. A settlement of the
strike of the drivers of the delivery
wagons of the retail State street de-
/ nc - mt Off tn, <la,.
formed the basis on which the oppos-
| ing elements hoped to effect compro-
mise.
Disturbances due to the transfers
strike increased in ferocity and fire.
quency today. Policemen in a number
of instances had to draw their revol-
lvers and fire to protec: themselves;
several of them had their clubs not OIL
~ taken from them but used against
them.
i One of the most serious riots broke
out at Congress and State and Harri-
son and State streets. BY some
maneuver the strikers succeeded in di.
viding the SO wagon caravan (the sec.
ond one to leave the yards today sc
that the front of it lay at Congress
street on State and the rear at Harri.
, son. While the van guard battled witt
a crowd which hurled broken bottle:
and other missiles. including spools o.
: thread thrown by women symrathizerl
in the crowd the rear guard was calle1
upon to defend itself against a NOR,
, serious attack.
Il At this place the mob made a des
/. perate assault on the drivers but wa
compelled to turn its attention to tn