Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-17
MILITIA CALLED
OU1 k DUBUQUE
Mob of Strikers and Sympa-
thizers Parades the Streets
and Terrorized City
BARNS ATTACKED BY RIOTERS
BARNS ATTACKED BY RIOTERS
Every Window Broken and the Com
pany's Property Damaoed-LocaI Mi
iitia Called Out to Stop Rioting-
Three Other Companies Now on Their
Way to the City to Preserve Order.
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Dubuque, June l7.--All is quiet today
inter a night of terror during which
time the strike sympathizers formed
great mob which paraded the streets
and later stoned the power house and
car barn of the Union Electric Com
pany. The mob was dispersed al mid
night by the local militia company.
There have been no outbreaks since.
Three companies of the National Guard
will arrive in the city tonight. They
will come from Waukon, Independence
and Maquoketa. 1t is believed the cri-
sis has passed and there win be nc fur
ther trouble.
Last evening about 6 o'clock the stu
alton became such that the sheriff of
the county called out Company A. Fiji
ty-second regiment, of this city, to help
cope with the strikers of the street car
company and later appealed to Adju-
rant General Byers for more troops.
The trouble has been brewing for
weeks past. The strike of the street
car employees has been on for a long
ing last Friday the company has been
unable to run any cars. On that day
ncn-union men were secured and cars
operated. but there has been trouble
every day between the aon-union and
union men.
Yesterday afternoon about 4:3O
mob of 1000 or 1900 men and boys was
collected in the upper part of town and
creating disturbance. The sheriff and
his deputies, together With the marshal
eBd police force. attempted TO disperse
the frantic men. who were yelling
a-Sinst the "scab' workers. but their
ea-rts amounted TO but little. The
sheriff then called out the local mill
tia company and Appealed for more
After supper the trouble broke out
worse than before and a bowling mob
of 1000 or 5000 men and boys, many
OF them boys, paraded the streets of the
city, shouting and yelling. The mob
gradually found its way to the offices
of the street railway company and an
attempt was made there 70 destroy the
property. The militia was drawn up
here, however, and prevented any dam
age.
Evade Soldiers.
While the soldiers were attempting to
bold back the thousands around the
offices of the company, several hundred
of the strikers and their sympathizers
detached themselves from the main
body and went to the power house OF
the company, two blocks from the Of
fees.
The soldiers were busy with the mob
a. the offices and the meI at the power
house, all armed with bricks, broke
every window in the building, and
broke In the doors and window casing.
In all it Is estimated that the mob threw
a thousand bricks into the power house.
The machinery was probably not in
iured much, but the building is nearly
demolished.
From the power plant the mob
marched to the car barns. where 1t
broke into the building. and before the
militia could reach the scene had
wrecked the windows in all the cars
ard partially wrecked the cars. When
the troops arrived the mob ceased its
/. work of destruction. After lining up
the soldiers Captain Thrift addressed
the mob. While he was speaking sew
eral bricks were thrown from the rear
OF the crowd over the heads of the SOL
diers Thrift ordered tie soldiers TO
load and get ready to fire. This order
awed the mob which then dispersed.
One of the motormen in the employ
Of the company before the strike com
pnenced started a row which occurred
last evening as the last car was being
brought into the barn. A big crowd was
ir attendance and many cries and
threats filled the air as the non -union
men came into the barn. AS a motor
man stepped to the ground he INDUCED
in some back talk, which resulted IN
James Paxton and himself coming to
blows. The company's man was hit in
the face and in return struck Paxton SO
seriously on the head that it was cut
cpen as he was felled to the ground.
Police stopped the quarrel and held the
crowd in check. so there was no further
violence. No arrests We're made.
Proceedings have been commenced in
the district court against l.. b. Allen,
one of the striking motormen for vio-
lation of the injunction. Papsrs We're
filed yesterday by Hurd, Lenehan
& Kiesel, asking to have Allen pr2duc-
ed in court Friday morning. The at
torneys would not state the reason for
taken on account of Allen being the
man who swore out informations in
Squire Carney's court yesterday morn
ing fo:- the arrest of seventeen motor
men for carrying concealed weapons.
Rubbish on Tracks.
Yesterday noon men at Chicago Great
Western tracks boarded one of the cars
as it was rounding the curve at the
I: - 81 rNlr 4, No
grip pin from the motorman. Old iron
and other rubbish was also thrown on
the tracks, which stopped the progress
of the car and threw it from the rails.
AS soon as the police We're notified of
what was happening, men We're sent to
the scene to prevent further disturb
ances.
Byrne Bros. yesterday commenced
hauling passengers and baggage again
Tor the Hotel Julien. The proprietors