The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-06-13
RIOT AND
BlOOOSHEO
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Chicago Streets In
Hands of a
Mob.

WIN uttt anu many tt
them barely able from exhaustion to
hold the reins In their hands. IS meat
wagons entered the main gate to the
Union Stock Yards tonight amid "a
shower Of stones, bricks, bottles and
sticks.
The wagons. guarded by fvc police
wagons filled with bluecoats and two
onnibuses crowded to the fullest capac-
tty with policemen. were on the return
from a delivery OF supplies to down
town provision houses after one of the
fierceet days In the strike of the beef
packers Transfers. Many of the driv-
ers. officials at the packing houses,
were cut and bruised from head to
foot The police were in even worse
condition. The wagon drivers had
been WORKING from 6 o'clock in the
morning. and their progress from the
stock yards to the business district and
back again had been contested bitterly
by mobs of strike sympathizers.
CHICAGO. June 4.-This was a day
OF riot In Chicago. The hospitals began
10 feel the effect Of the battling by the
increased number of patients, and the
police stations were scarcely able to
hold the rioters arrested One OF the
most serious riots broke out at Con-
gress and State and Harrison and State
streets. BY some mapeuver the strik-
ers succeeded In dividing the 3S-wagon
caravan lthe second one to leave the
yards today, 80 that the front of IL
lay at Congress street. on State. and
the rear at Harrison. While the van
guard battled with crowd which
hurled broken bottles. stale eggs and
other missiles, including spools Of
thread thrown by women sympathizers
in the crowd. the rear guard was called
upon to defend itself against a more
serious attack.
ASSAULT BY THE MOB.
At this place the mob made desper-
ate assault on the drivers. but was
compelled to turn it's attention to the
police. who came up OH the run. Twice
the bluecoats hurled themselves
against the infatuated 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 took clubs from po-
lcemen and used them against their
owners
Meanwhile several men had gained n
position OF advantage on the elevated
loop. from which they fired missiles at
the officers. In this way Officer John
Mcclure was hit on the head with a
horseshoe and 80 seriously injured that
ne had to be taken to a hospital. Off,
Ger John Linencurjal was less seriously
hurt. Gus Billings. one of the crowd,
was dubbed into insensibility by the
police. and ne, too, was taken to hos
pital In n serious condition.
After the two Intellectual rushes at
the crowd mentioned, the police man
aged to organize themselves in better
shape. and for the third time rushed
the mob. This time they were success
full. The caravan. after 20 minutes de-
lay, began to move, but not in peace,
tor the crowd followed closely. The
police, however, walked by the wagons
and confined their efforts to pulling
from the wagons men who tried to
climb into the seats, presumably to
pull down the drivers,
POLICE USE THEIR CLUBS.
The decision OF the police to confine
their attempts strictly to keeping in
vaders from climbing on to the wagons
did not long endure. From windows
along the routes missiles We're thrown
at them. At every street corner team
sters in sympathy with the strikers so
managed their wagons as to bri
about a blockade. With the continued
opposition, the bombardment, the
blocking and the jeers all stirring
them. the police lost their tempers and
dubbed Unfortunately. 1t was said
that several women and boys and one
helpless cripple received blows from
the batons of policemen. The street
through which the caravan passed by
noon had become n perfect maelstrom
of surging, excited humanity.
The persistent progress of the meat
wagons acted az goad to the temper
of the crowd. Patrol wagons were
kept busy rushing to the various lock-
ups with prisoners. AnIbulances hur-
ried to the nearest hospitals where
heads could be sewed up. but this did
not lessen the resistance of the strik-
tIrc he
Of new arrests and of newly cracked
skulls only whetted their appetites
They took the presence of the meat
caravan "a difficult thing to move UNI
der any circumstances through down
town districts) as a challenge.
Business on State street was in a
state of barricade several hours. Pick
cts Of the strikers persuaded sympa-
thetic drivers to drive into the thor
oughfare in order to check the advance
of the meat wagons.
BATTLE IN THE STREETS.
At Madison and State streets the vol
ley Of eggs. bricks, etc.. became Sc
thick and the street so congested that
the police were forced to charge upon
the crowd. Sympathizers in wagon
loads tried to drive into the squad OF
police, and many people were slightly
injured in the fracas. One cid mar
had his arm broken by blow from a
policeman's club. Women and children
we're panic stricken and fled crying
into side streets.
At Randolph and Clark streets the
mob. which was preceding and follow
ing the meat caravan, became r!otOus
again. From q coal wagon and from
standing produce wagons the CROWD
seized missiles and peited the drivers
of the packing house wagons. Here the
police charged the crowd again anC
again. driving them from the streets
and dOorways into side streets. A
Fifth avenue. near Madison. three Goa
wagons attempted to blockade the
street again. One teamster drew a re
voiver and threatened to shoot anyon,
who touched his horses. The polio,
pulled his team aside. however, but tn,
driver was not arrested.
The cavalcade had scarcely broker
through the coal wagons on Fifth ave
nue. when a more serious blockade fol