The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-12-25
CHICAGOANS MUST
POSTPONE DYING.
For the undertakers vii, \.
Send Out Their Hearse,
Any More
CAUSED BY THE sTRixe
seventy.Fiv Funerals Were Hail :.
day, the Mourners Walking, b..
There Will Be No More Tin
the. Strike is Over.

Chicago, Dec. 22.-Skrinking FROM
espionage of union pickets and me
that funeral parties would be atta cta a, ~
striking livery drivers, many Ch,ua W
families have refrained from public,, sa y
%nouncing their bereavement. ~
In the vaults of several undertake.. y
bodies or persons o the death ~
whom utmost secrecy is maintains
and who's funerals Will not be held ,s.n
after the settlement of the strike o',a
other cases the stricken relatives haSo .
ranged for evening funerals and nri,s ~
burials, OF which no announcement :
made.
The ~disgraceful scenes that a,tena,s
several funerals held on SATURDAY rssu
union p.ckets attempted TO intefsra , n.,.l
the removal of bodies, have led tho hos,.l
department officials to sanction tha NV
crecy tht is being preserved. The ,Indss.
takers have been informed thar ,,nIaa.
public safety demands it burials viii no,,
be INSISTED on until such a time as fin.
eral parties shall be safe from mo,ssta
ton.
Practically no attempt was mas H..
funeral parties yesterday to reach ~
cemeteries, n the day was free from
disturbance.
Chicago, Dec. 22.-With nearly sav,
enty-five funerals to be held In rhi.
caso, there Is no sign of peace between
the livery and hearse drivers and their
employees In a cold, urizzling rain tho,
relatives of those who were to be buried
slipped along the ice and slush-coyered
paNements, as in many eases the,
mourners followed to the railway sta.
tons. Walking was treacherols, but
there was practically no alternative
Nh n ~ vvto xrIae, rryn,,a -. I~ 49, nv, ~
dertakers announced they would not
send out my hearses until the strikers
had heen forced into submission. for Il
would be dangerous to send the costly
| vehicles out of the barns even il non.
| union men could be had.
The funeral of Anna Week, whose
husband is in Jail charged with her
murder, was held today under guard Of
police, who We're forced to use clubs to
dispense the crowds of striking cab.
men and sympathizers. The children
of the murdered woman were the only
attendants at the funeral. The corpse
was taken to the cemetery in a wagon.
Another. Sample Difficulty.
The funeral car. instead of a hearse,
as well a s the police guard. was utilized
by Undertaken Blake to circumyent the
striking pickets, from whom violence
WIS 4edieNp Ut INC luIeTa Oh the year
old daughter OF Joseph Keefer. The
body was placed in a common Under
taking wagon instead OF a hearse and
driven TO Thirty-frst and Wallace and
put on q street car. The mourners
boarded a second car and the trip was
made to Qakwood cemetery. The
keefer residence was surrounded at the
time of the funeral, pickets and police
present holding themselves in readi-
ness In case of violence: but none was
encountered.
A more serious phase of the strike
developed today in a threatened spread
OF the tieup to include statlemen and
stockmen. Should these go out the am
bulance service of the city would be
seriously crippled. Pressure Is being
brought to bear upon the men en-
ployed in these departments to induce
them to call a sympathetic strike.