The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-16
Who PeIt n Small Force Of Police
woke a Revolver FusilIade.
DOZEN HEADS ARE BROKEN
AND ABOUT TWENTY ARRESTS ARE
MADE BY THE LAW GUARDIANS,
who Finally Put 5000 Rioters to
Flight, Though Outnumbered
Thirty TO One.

CHICAGO, July 15-Desperate fighting
between the police and the strikers Of the
kellogg Switchboard Company took place
this afternoon and evening. when the COM
pany attempted TO send freight TO some OF
the railroad depots. In one instance the
police opened fire with revolvers. and al
though the fusillade was continued for
several minutes. nobody was injured. Later
there was fight in which no revolvers
were used and the police beat down aum-
ber of men. some of whom were left In the
street until their friends came back TO
pick them up.
The first fight occurred when a truck
loaded with freight, escorted by policemen.
bound for the Burlington depot, was pass
ing unfinished building at the corner OF
Harrison and Peoria streets. A bowling
mob of thousand men and boys was
following close on the police and pelting
them with stones and sticks. Teamsters,
who sympathized with the strikers. man.
aged to get their wagons i'm the way of the
Kellogg Company's wagon as il reached
Peoria street and occasioned a blockade.
The police were endeavoring 10 clear the
street, when the workmen of the unfinished
building showered them with bricks. The
officers at once drew their revolvers and
fired at the workmen. who hastily fed TO
the interior of the building. The police
kept up their fire through the windows and
drove nearly all the workmen from the
place. The route to the depot was then
taken up and although there were several
blockades, the wagon reached the depot and
delivered the goods.
The second fight occurred when the police
were escorting a wagonload of freight TO
the warehouse of the Terminal Transfer
Company at Ogden avenue and Twelfth
street. A mob, fully 5000 strong, followed
this wagon, and. although the police were
outnumbered 100 to one, they took the
wagon safely to the depot. The mob had
greatly increased by the time the wagon
was ready to make the return trip. and
for half mile pursued the police, applying
to them all sorts of epithets and pelting
them with sticks and stones, without, how
ever, injuring any person seriously. The
climax came at Congress street ard Ogden
avenue, where a private watchman, who
had no particular call TO mix in the trou-
BILE, on either side, fired at one Of the mob.
The shot went wild, but IL infiamed the
mob to the highest degree and with shouts
and yells they charged on the police.
The latter were waiting for the crowd, and
when ii arrived the officers went at Il with
fists and clubs. The patrolmen were greatly
outnumbered, but they fought well together.
and in less than three minutes every MEM
Der of the mob who could use his feet was
doing so to the best of his ability. Fully
dozen men with broken heads were left
lying in the street where they had been
knocked by the clubs OF the officers. Some
of them were loaded into the wagon and
taken TO the police station. were a num-
Der who were not quick enough in beginning
their retreat. About twenty arrests were
made during the day.
The Kellogg Company announces that IL
will continue to send out freight every day.
and the strikers say that they will use every
means 10 prevent their doing so.
At all of the depots where freight was de-
livered to-day the freight handlers refused
to unload any OF the wagons, and the work
was done by special men employed by the
company.
The strike, which has now been in prog
ress for a month, was ordered by the unions
because the company refused 10 sign an
agreement TO employ union men exclusively
The questions of wages and hours were
agreed on by both sides, but the company
refused TO force its nonunion men into the
organizations.