Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-13
Chicago Has Another Big Rail
way Strike on Hand.
Scenes Of Disorder Last from Earl,
Dawn to Late at Night.
But Few Cars Run and Only Under
Police Protection.

suited, today, from the Inauguration of
a strike by the employees of one of the
two principal surface street railways
in Chicago. All along the lines wher-
ever cars were started, strike sympa-
thizers made desperate onslaughts on
the crews, beginning at dawn of day
and continuing as long as cars re-
manned on the tracks. The tie-up was
made complete.
A number of cars We're wrecked and
that no person was killed is no fault
of the rioters. One man had his back
broken and the first shot of the strike
was fired at Wentworth avenue and
West 69th street, where mob of sew
eral persons tried to hold up train.
Many persons, chiefly non-union street
car men, were injured by flying stones
or splintered glass. Two women were
among those hurt.
Excepting a few dozen passengers
600 daily patrons of the company were
get down and back.
With faces and hands bleeding from
the attacks of the strikers, motormen,
gripmen and conductors who tried to
run trains returned to the barns and
refused to go out again unless the
trains bore platoons of police or patrol
wagons alongside.
The police confined their efforts to
seeing that the passage of cars from
the barns was unobstructed and that
crowds and blockadeS in the streets
were quickly cleared. This was done
under orders from Mayor Carter H.
Harrison, whose announced purpose
was to preserve an impartial attitude,
taking sides neither for nor against the
strikers or the street car company,
which, though known as the Chicago
City Railway. is private corporation,
the lines of which extend through the
south side Of the city radiating from
the business center. Herman F..
Schcuttler was, today, appointed as
sistant chief of police and he will have
charge of the police during the strike.
Scheuttler has a remarkable record for
personal daring and aStuteneSS.
Possibilities of federal intervention
under certain contingencies are being
discussed. Postmaster Coyne said, to-
day, that If the mail cars We're serious
~ delayed he will report the matter to
Washington, and act on instructions
from the postal department.
Before nightfall, President d. G.
Hamilton and General Counsel Bliss OF
the Railway Co., after endeavoring tc
operate cars in defiance of the strike OF
it's trainmen, announced after a con-
ference with Mayor Harrison that the
attempt would be abandoned for the
day. The railway officials declare that
80 per cent. of their employees are loyal
and that if accorded sufficient protec-
ton by the police department. they will
be able to man and operate their cars.
A further effort to run cars, each car
accompanied by squad of police in a
patrol wagon, will, it is expected, be
made, tomorrow.
Bus lines, hacks and express wagons
with improvised seats did thriving
business in transporting people to and
from their places of business, today,
and the elevated and steam roads car
ried double their usual number of pas
sengers.
The company's stationary firemen,
who have also presented demands upon
to whom the trainmen looked for as
sistance. declined to go out, expressing
their belief, after a conference with
Gen. Mgr. Culloch of the Railway Co.
that he had not refused arbitration.
The committee representing the firemen
offered it's service to the company as
mediator. Whether or not the offer will
be accepted has not been decided.
Although the full list of the injured
in the street car rioting. today, is I'M
doubtedly large, the police secured the
names only of those whose wounds
were of Il serious nature. The most
serious cases probably are those of II.
S. Orion, the conductor who was beat
en- while trying to run a Cottage Grove
avenue cable train, and his motorman,
William Watson.
Besides being HIT with missiles, these
the rioters and beaten. orion may not
live. Albert Barren. a noa-i:i!icr 49,
torman on the Wcrtwot!l ave-r'H II"
was taken 10 his homc En"0nsf /, VI
from being hit on the head with brick
but will recover. Two men at the 77th
street barns had their heads cut and
were badly bruised by missiles thrown
by rioters. About Is arrests have been
made.
The attempt to run passenger trains
with non-union crews was abandoned
during the afternoon, and with the ex-
ception of the mail car service which
was carried out according to the reg
ular schedule, traffic on all the lines
controlled by the company was at p
complete standstill. Another effort will
be made by the management of the
road to break the strike.
Derogatory remarks regarding the
union by an armed non union employee
OF the company. caused a riot at Goth
and State streets. tonight. The man
was chased into the engine house near
by and before the police could reach
the spot mob of 1000 persons sur
rounded the place. bowling for the life
of the refugee. A squad of policemen
after great difficulty finally aue1led thu
disturbance and removed the man to