The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-11-23
CHICAGO POLICE LOSE PATIENCE
AND OPEN FIRE AND SEVERAL
ARE BADLY WOUNDED.
MOB CHOKES UP CABLE
SLOTS WITH DEBRIS
Violence All Along the Street Car Lines
Where the Police and Strikers Wage
Hand-to-Hand ConfIicts--Scores
Are Beaten Nth Clubs.
ny ASSOCIATED rRrss.

Chicago, ILL.,. Nov. a5.-Whilc prcpara-
tons were being completed today for the
opening of the State street cable line, not
heretofore operated during the strike of
the employees OF the Chicago City rail
way, rioters were engaged i'll trying 10
put out OF commission the four lines
which the company has been operating on
a limited scale. Trolley wires were cut
in half dozen places OF llalsted street
and the cars on that line were delayed
over an hour while repairs were being
made under police protection.
An effort was made also 10 blockade
archer avenue, where it was apparently
believed cars would be run today Guam
titles of rocks were found TO have been
hauled in wagons and dumped on the
tracks. In policing the four branches
opened last week as well as the state
street line, patrolmen were stationed only
at street intersections except where
trouble was thought most likely to occur.
Fewer Officers Out.
Fewer policemen were detailed to ride
on the street ears today than during last
week.
Five trains were put in operation on the
State street cable line. While this move
was being taken, the board Of directors Of
the railway company were busy formula
ting reply TO the latest proposition Of
the strikers.
a serious riot occurred at I5orty-frst
and State streets when the trains arrived
at that point. Many shots were fired by
the police and one man is believed to have
been hit by a bullet. while several were
knocked down by the officers.
The cars encountered obstacles all along
the line. After removing spikes from the
cable slots at I'ifty-seventh and Fifty
first streets the first train was blocked at
Eorty-hrst street by iron rails placed
across the tracks The crews began to re
move the Instructions when from behind
fences a volley OF stones came. The po-
lice charged the rioters with revovcr5
drawn. a running fight ensued in which
the police fired upon the mob
Police Charge Repeatedly.
BY this time a crowd had collected about
the cars and another charge by the police
was made upon them before the obstruction
could be removed.
At Twcnty-ninth street another mob
blocked the cars and threw stones. The
police charged, beating many persons Sc
vcroly with their clubs.
More trouble was encountered by the
State street cable trains on the return trip
near A3d street While the trains were
down town the mob systematically choked
the cable slot with stones and scrap iron
and blockaded the tracks with heavy steel
rails Hundreds Of men, women and boys
then awaited the return Of the police with
stones ready TO hcaye at the trains.
Police Used Clubs.
Men and women were reported To have
been Knocked down in their own doorways.
Scores Of rioters and bystandcrs were
wounded by the clubs Of the police.
Woman in Thick OF It.
During the thick OF the fight at Forty
first street, Mrs. Charles Lott "A passenger
on the first car, jumped from the car and
Drawing the revolver shots and all kinds o;
missiles ran, thoroughly frightened, to a
place Of safety. Windows had been
broken near where she sat and her face
was cut by glass.
Conductor j. r. Premier, in charge Of
the first car, drew a big magazine revolver
and fired shot after shot in the direction
OF the fleeing mob until his weapon was
empty.
At Thirty-nnth street the police re.
sorted to strategy and drove a crowd Of
men into saloon. They then suddenly
surrounded the building and allowed none
to leave until the trains had proceeded.