The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-13
CHICAGO TROLLEY STRIKE
COMPLETE TIE-UP MARKED BY
 SCENES OF DISORDER.

Murderous Mood-One MRn's Back
 Broksn-sTany Persons, Chiefly Non-
 Union Men, Injured by Flying Stones
 spIintered Giass-Attempt to Oper-
 ate Cars Abandoned for the Present.
 Chicago, Nov. 12-Constant scenes of disorder over a district approximately fifty square miles in extent resulted to- day from the inauguration of a strike by the employees of one of the two prin- cipal surface railway companies in Chi cago. All along the lines wherever cars were started strike sympathizers made desperate onslaughts on the crews be- ginning at dawn of day and continu- ing as long as cars remained on the tracks. The tie-up was made complete.
 A number of cars were 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 Sixty ninth street, where mob of sev- eral hundred persons tried to hold up a train.
 Many persons, chiefly non-union street car men, were injured by flying stones or splintered glass. Two women were among those hurt.
 Excepting few dozen passengers who had to flee from the cars, the three hundred thousand daily patrons of the company were forced to all sorts of other methods in order to get down town 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 were 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 TOT against the strikers or the street car company, which, though known as the Chicago City Railway, is a private corporation, the lines of which extend through the south side of the city radiating from the business center
 Herman F. Schuettler was to-day ap- pointed assistant chief of police and he will have charge of the police during. the strike. Schuettler has a remarka- bIe record for personal daring and as- tuteness.
 Possibilities of federal intervention under certain contingencies are being discussed The situation in this, Post master Coyne said to-day, that if the mail cars were seriously delayed he will report the matter to Washington and act on instructions from the postal de- pertinent.
 Before nightfall President D. c. Ham ilton and General Counsel Bliss of the railway company after endeavoring to operate cars In defiance of the strike of it's trainmen, announced after con- ference with Mayor Harrison that the attempt would be abandoned for the day. The railway officials declare that 30 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 a squad of police in a patrol wagon will, it is expected, be made tomorrow.
 Bus lines, hacks and express wagons with irnprovised seats did a thriving business in transporting people to and from their places of business to-day 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 the company for increased wages, and to whom the trainrnen looked for as- sistance, declined to go out, expressing their belief, after a conference with General Manager McCulloch of the railway company, that he had not re- fused arbitration. The committee rep resenting the firemen offered it's ser- vices to the company as mediator. Whether or not the offer will be &C., cepted has not been decided