The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-24
CHICAGO MODS
ENGAGE IN RIOT
Effort Made to Prevent Street
Cars From Running.
HARD DAY FOR TIE POLICE
MANY MEN CLUBBED AND oNE
SHOT.

n HICAGO, Nov. 23.-While prepare
tons were being completed today
for the opening Of the state street
cable line, not heretofore operated dur
ing the strike of employees of the
Chicago City Railway company. riot
ers were engaged in trying to put
out of commission the four lines
which the company has been ope-
rating on a limited scale. Trolley
wires were cut in a half-dOzen. places
on Halstead street and the cars on
that line were delayed over an hour
while repairs were being made under
police protection.
Rocks on the Track.
An effort was made also to block
ade Archer avenue, where il was APP
parently believed cars would be run
today Quantities Of rocks were found
to have been hauled in wagons and
dumped on the tracks.
IN policing the four branches opened
I last week, as well as the State street
line. batrOlmen were stationed only at
street intersections, except where trOu-
bic was thought most likely to occur
Fewer policemen were detailed TO ride
on the street cars 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 formulating a reply to the latest
proposition of the strikers.
Many Shots Fired.
A serious riot occurred at Forty
first and state streets when the trains
arrived al that point Many shots were
4 fired by the police, and one man is
Z believed 10 have been hit by a bull
I let, while several were knocked down
/ By the officers. The cars encountered
/ obstacles an along the line. After re-
/ moving spikes from the cable slots at
I Fifty-seventh and Fifty-frst streets,
/ the first train WAS blocked at Forty
( first street by iron rails placed across
the tracks The crews began TO re-
( move the Instructions. when from be-
/ hind fences a vOlley of stones came
The police charged the rioters with
I TevOlvers drawn. A running fight en-
sued in which the police fred upon
J the mob.
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.
Stones and Clubs.
At Twenty ninth street another mob
1 blocked the cars and threw stones. The
ip0liec charged. beating many persons
l severely with their clubs.
More trouble was encountered by the
( state street cable trains on the return
trip near Forty third street. While the
/ trains were downtown the mob syste-
matically choked the cable slot with
stones and scrap iron. and blOckadeC
the tracks with heavy steek rails. Hun
dreds of men. women and boys theT
awaited the return of the police. with
stones ready to heave at the trains
1 Men and women were reported to have
1 been knocked down in their own door
ways. Scores of rioters and bystand-
! ers were wounded by the clubs of the
police.
Ran For Her Life.
During the thick of the fight at For.
ty-frst street Mrs. Charles Lett.
/ passenger on the first car. jumped from
1.-The car and, Drawing the revolver shots
and all kinds Of missiles, ran, thor
/ oughly frightened, 20 a place of safe
ty Windows had been broken near
where she sat and her face was GU
~ CLASS.
Conductor ]. p. Premier, in charg,
of the first train, drew a big maya
zine revolver and fired shot after sho
i'm the direction Of the fleeing mob un-
iii his weapon was empty.
At Thirty ninth street the police re-
serted to strategy and drove "a GROVE
of men into a saloon. Then they sud
I denly surrounded the building and al
! lowed none to leave until the train.
had proceeded.