Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-24
POLICE SHOOT INTO MOB WHICH
DELAYS CHICAGO STREET
CAR TRAFFIC.
MUCH TROUBLE TODAY
Opening of the State Street Cable
Line Brings Out Big Mob-TroIIey
Wires Are Cut and Wagon Loads of
Stone Dumped on Tracks.

Chicago, Nov. % While prep
arations were being completed
today for the opening of the
State street cable line, not heretofore
operated during the strike, striking en-
ployes of the Chicago City Railway Co.,
alo the rioters engaged in trying to
put out of commission the four lines
which the company has been operat-
ing on a limited scale.
Trolley Wires Are Cut.
Trolley wires were cut in half doz-
en- places on Halsted street. Quantities
of rocks were hauled in wagons and
dumped on the Archer avenue tracks.
Patrolmen We're stationed today on
that street and its intersections where
trouble was thought most likely to oc-
cur.
Police Charge the Mob.
At Twenty-ninth street another mob
blocked the cars and threw rocks.
The police charged, beating many per-
sons severely with their clubs
Ore Man Wounded.
Five trains We're put in operation on
the State street cable line. A serious
riot occurred at Forty-first and State
streets when the first cars arrived at
that point. Many shots We're fired by
the police and one man is believed to
have been wounded, while several were
knocked down by the officers.
Rioters Draw Fire.
The cars encountered obstacles on
/ the track and when the crews began to
remove them they were pelted will
! I, f,,, ;nf
charged the rioters with their revol
Iyers drawn and running fight ensuet
! in which the police hred upon the
I moo.
Rocks in Cahie Slots.
When the State street trains reaches
the down town district the mob hat
systematicaliy ebstructed the cable
| slots with stones and scrap iron ant
iblockaded the tracks with heavy stee
trails
Men and Women Hurt.
Hundreds of men, women and boy:
awaited rhe cars on the return trip
near Forty-third street with rock
Iready to heave at the trains. Men ant
women are reported to have beer
1 knocked down in their own doorway
\ Scores of rioters and bystanders wer
Wounded by the clubs OF the police.
Big Meeting Yesterday.
/ With the city railway strike as al
4 immediate issue and with municipa
ownership as their battle cry, 1900
union labor leaders and sympathizer
yesterday afternoon joined in a dem
Ionstration OF support to the men VIII
are ON a strike. Five thousand mel
Iparaded down State street with band
Iplaying and banners flying. The oh
i iective point was Tattersall's, ,Sixteentl
and State streets.
i Talk From Barrels.
/ Ten thousand men and women from
all sections of the city had hurried t
1.-THE big hall without joining the process
i sion. BY 3 o'clock the building wa
iammed and hundreds were turne
away. The overflow crowd swept ou
Into Sixteenth street, where men wer
hoisted on barrels and boxes, from
which they argued in support OF tn
strike and in favor of municipal owner
ship of street railways
Strike Breakers Shot.
Chicago. Nov. 23-Two nonunio
men who applied for work at the plar
of the American Hide & Leather Co
where strike is in progress wer
shot and seriously wounded by tw
members of a crowd of strike symp;
thizers today The men who did til
shooting eScaped