The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-11-13
VIOLENCE AGAIN
IN CHICAGO WAYS
STREET CAR RIOTERS - D POLICE
CLASH AND A NJ 5 GR OF
PEOPLE ARE II :. RED.
MAIL CARS ARE MTOUcHEO
Rioters Are Careful to Do Any.hino
to Bring FEEDER roops Down
on Them % Rush.

Chicago Nov. 4. Worse tioting today
than before was the expectation OF both
sides ~ the big street railway strike this
morning Lines OF union pcl,cts were
thrown ont AT various points. especially
III Wentworth avenue. while the non
union employees were assembling at the
barns OF the Chicago Railway company.
Crowds OF strikers began to gather At
the more prominent crossings. Several
hundred police and dozen patrol wagons
were masscd a, the southern terminus ot
one OF the main electric lines Al Seventy
ninth street and Cottage Grove avenue
early ~ the morning and Al O'Clock
the wagons started toward the business
district, leaving squads of police AZ inter.
walls along the line where trouble Was an
tieipalcd.
Pickcts posted II, the strikers were also
on hand ~ numbers At The various barns
and sullenly watched the preparations
bing made to move cars Patrol wagons
filled with police made ready 10 proceed
beside the ears.
Did Not Bother Mail Cars.
While the crowds were on tip toe oi
expectation along rhc Wentworth avenue
line two mails cars were started ou one
of the principal through cable routes, Cot
tapc Grove avenue. which Is a direct
parallel al Wentworth avenue but hall
"A mile distant to the east. The mail cars
made the entire trip from the outskirts OF
the city 70 The business ccntc, aud re
turned without the slightest interference.
Considerable interest attached Ia the
movement OF the mail cars, for the reason
that any application to a federal tribunal
would probably he to prevent the mail
service being interrupted 10y acts ol vio.
lcncc.
The state courts, on the other hand
would be appealed 10 II. leaving out any
question oi the mails. an Injunction should
be sought solely Ia prevent interference
with non union traction employees en-
deavoring TO rc-ostablish passenger ser
vice.
Two ears on Wentworth avenue left the
Scventy-ninth street barns III charge OF
Police Captain George w. Shppy. Fiji
teen policemen were on board each car.
Captain Shippy's plan was said To be
10 carry on the cars any persons arrested
for committing violent acts thus making
the alleged disturbers equally with the
police the target for bricks and stones
meant for the non-iinion train crews.
Police Protection Good
Precautionary measures by the police
today were apparently much more com
plcie than during the tcamsters' strike
some months ago, when the cly's traffic
was more than once brought almost to a
sstandstill.
BY 0.I5 n. m. the cars, under command
OF Captain Shippy, had passed Forty third
street, running slowly between dense lines
OF strikers and their sympaihizcrs, who
tried 10 keep pace with the patrol wagons.
No stones were thrown, but there were
jecrs and cat calls for the police ana train
men.
There were cries Of Garter Harrison
will never dare face the South Side
again.
The presence Of police Oh the cars cyi-
dcn,ly with the approval Of Mayor l,ar-
rison, appeared to greatly excite The anger
OF the crowds
Ten cars in all started on the trip toward
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