The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
CHICAG9'S DEAD BURIED /
WITH MUCH DIFFICULTY
OWING TO BIG STRIKE
Mourners Had to Walk Through
Snow and Slush for Lack of
Carriages.
IIEARSES ALL TIED UP
Funeral Directors Forced to Use
Wagons Even in the Cases of
Prominent Persons.
CITY is STRIKE-RIDDEN
All Union Livery Drivers Are Out
Protection Demanded by
Employers.
CITY is STRIKE-RIDDEN

Employers.
CHICAGO. Dec 19-There seems to be no
peace even in death. at least in Chicago.
Strikes are becoming the bane OF nearly
ell citizens. Strikers may cut off the in
fant's food supply. may deprive the boy or
man Of work and may prevent him being
taken peaceably TO the grave when he dies
The bodies of seventy i've PERSONS were
buried to-day under difficulties. owing TO
the strike OF livery and hearse drivers. In
cold. drizzling rain the relatives of those
who were TO be buried slipped along the ice
and slush covered pavements, as in many
cases the mourners followed to railway
stations the businesslike dead" wagons of
fhe undertakers. Walking was treacherous,
but there practically alternative.
No carriages were TO be had.
In nearly every instance the funerals
were watched by union pickets. who were
there to see that no livery carriages formed
part OF the funeral professions The most
prominent funeral of the day was that OF
Judge Jonas Hutchinson, for fifteen years
on the bench of the Superior Court. The
body of Judge Hutchinson was taken to
lakewood Cemetery in an undertaken
wagon. while the private carriages of per-
SOHdl iTlen0S were uScO IOT anu
immediate friends OF the family.
HOOTED AND JEERED.
Some disturbances were caused at the
funeral OF Mrs. Anna Week. who was MUIR
dered three days ago by her husband. The
funeral was held in St. Procopius Church.
and a large crowd gathered on the outside
of the building. When Undertaken Anton
Linhart drove up the church with a
wagon he was hooted and jeered, but no
violence was offered. The fact that the pO-
lice used their clubs to press back the
crowds gave rise TO false report that they
had been compelled to use their clubs
suppress disorderly persons.
Police protection against strikers, for fu-
OF Police O'Neil this evening by a com
mittee from the Joint Livery Association,
He ordered police inspectors to AFFORD every
protection IN their power, but refused 10
allow the officers to be seated on. or TO
Interference with the burial OF the dead
Is the meanest bit OF business the police has
had to cope with. to my knowledge" the
chief said. Il do not know how the thing
could be carried any farther" What the
liverymen and undertakers desired most
was protection for their barns. Men are
willing and anxious to work. they said
IL given protection. Threats TO inJure the
men are said TO have been made frequently
No attack has yet been made on ambu-
lances bearing the sick. but the under
takers expressed fears that such attacks
would soon be made. Chairman Perrigo
said teamsters have threatened 10 drive the
police of their trucks through aabulances,
but thus far they have not carried out the
threat.
Particularly in case Of deaths due to diph-
liberia and scarlet fever. In which burial
must occur within twenty-four hours or
before dark OF the day following death,
the strike is expected 10 have grave re-
suits. Interferences with burial OF such
bodies might result In epidemics.
HAn1 uraQ nv n n
Undertaken Perrigo, returning from Grace
land Cemetery after a burial, was pursued
whose union driver attempted to ram the
undertaking wagon with the pole OF his
wagon. Lashing his horses into a gallop
young Perrigo escaped.
A POLICE GUARD.
funeral car instead of a hearse. as well
as a police guard. were utilized by Under
taker Joseph Blake to circumvent striking
pickets from whom violence was feared at
the funeral OF the one-year-old daughter of
Joseph Keefer. president OF the Worlds
Fair Tea Company. The body OF the child
was placed in a common undertaking
wagon instead of a hearse. driven to Thirty
first and Wallace streets and put on street
car In waiting. The mourners boarded
second car and the trip was made TO Oak
wood Cemetery. The keefer residence was
surrounded at the time OF the funeral by
themselves in readiness in case OF violence,
but none was encountered.
Permission TO move sick from their homes
10 hospitals was denied i'm several instances
by striking livery drivers Underwriters
John Mclaughlin and Frank Kurmerow
were each summoned by emergency calls to
remove Catholic clergymen To hospitals.
They sought permission from the strikers
but were denied. Mclaughlin, accompanied
by clerical associate of the sick priest,
finally drove the carriage himself. Although
some OF the pickets threatened. no violence
was attempted Undertaken Kurmerow also
took his patient 10 the hospital.
THREAT OF a DOCTOR.
While strike sympathizers surrounded
the home of DIR. o. w Lewke. coroner's
physician, the doctor told his friends that
he would drive the hearse that bore the
body of his wife to Waldheim Cemetery
al will have a loaded shotgun across my
knees and will shoot the first man who
tries to interfere with me-" he is said to
have declared to his friends. Or. Lewke
tried TO secure a street car 10 take the
body to the cemetery. but was not able
20 do So Then. after much trouble, he Sc
cured a hearse after promising to drive Ii
himself
For the first time in years surpliced
choir went from "A Catholic church to take
part In funeral services at private resi-
dence. Owing I'd the inability 10 secure a
hearse and carriages. the obsequies of the
father of Assistant States Attorney Grove
were held in the family residence instead OF
IA church. Father Gailigan took the entire
choir To the house and conducted mass
there.
New hearSes without glass windows will
be secured by the undertakers IL the strike
r. not settled before Monday. The UNDER
takers declared that the only reason they
do not drive the hearses themselves at this
time is that they do not wish 10 have the
glass DESTROYED
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