Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-15
TROUBLE ON STREETS
NOnunion Teamstsrs Set Upon and One
Severely Beaten.
DISTURBANCES ARE SEVEN IN NUMBER
-Four Occur in North Part of Town and Three
in the South.
POLICE HAVE MADE THREE ARRESTS
Man Accusod nf D. .,.-.. .L . T-..Al
'TURBANCES ARE SEVEN IN NUMBER
Police HAVE MADE THREE ARRESTS
Men Accused Of Participating in the Trouble
Held at Jail.
AID FOR LOCKED OUT MEN is COMING
Tenmsters, WALTERS and Laundry
Workers All Receive Funds 20 Sup
port Members Pending n Set
tlement of Troubles.

port Members Pending n Set
tlement of Troubles.
The first serious disturbances of the strike
began about o'clock yesterday morning
and continued throughout the forenoon or
| until the regular police and the special
| deputies under the command OF Chief
DonahUe were scattered throughout the
city with orders to disperse AL crowds
ana arrest all offenders. lumber OF
nonunion drivers were stopped la various
parts of the city. their teams unhitched
and wagons overturned and in one case the
driver was severely beaten.
The most serious disturbance occurred at
Twenty fourth and Parker streets, where
a team OF the Carpenter Paper company
was stopped and the driver, l.. l.. Flint.
was pulled from the wagon and given n
severe beating. The load of rubbish on the
wagon was dumped into the street. ana
when the assailants OF Flint thought they
had chastised him sufficiently they ran
away and escaped arrest. Flint was able
to resume his work. although he bears
many bruises.
Wagons Overturned.
About 1890 one of the agons of the
Cady Lumber company was stopped at
Twenty y-second and Leavenworth streets
and its load OF planks was scattered about
the street as tho horses were being un=
hitched. A mob OF about 100 gathered.
but only about half dozen mon partici-
pated in the wrecking OF the lumber cargo.
A hurry call was sent for the police, but
before the officers arrived the crowd had
dispersed.
About the same time wagon of
the Sunderland company was stopped at
Twentieth and Poppleton avenue. The
horses were unhitched and the driver ran
away from the mob. At Twenty-fourth
and Franklin streets another coal wagon
was intercepted and its load was dumped
into the street.
Another load OF COAL this one belonging
to the. O. w Hull company, was dumped
onto the pavement In front of 2Ol5 North
Twentieth street. One of Hayden Bros
delivery wagons was overturned at SD
South Twenty-second street. but in this
case, as In all the Others the trouble
makers got away before the arrival Of
the police
Four Men Arrested.
Just before noon the nrst arrests were
made on North Sixteenth street by Cap
tain Haze and Sergeant Gibbons, who
gathered in J. f. Brewer, Bert Wineinger.
george TOlanQ anu I1dtupLOut VINO
had been pointed out to them as some of
the men who mad been raising the dis
turbances Brewer, Wineinger and Poland
are striking teamsters, the first two having
been employed by T. c. Havens previous
to the strike Hampton's occupation is
not known by the police.
In the afternoon Detectives Drummy and
Davis arrested Charles Stevens OF Twenty
third and Pacific streets and Jim Holger-
son of 2SO3 Miami street, charged with being
suspicious characters. The occasion for
their arrest was the interference with a
wagon at Lake and Sherman avenue, which
was laid at the door of these teamsters.
The horses were detached from the wagon
and the nonunion driver forced to leave
his team.
President Crews and Treasurer Wilcox Of
the local teamsters and their international
first vice president. T. A. Coleman. went
TO the police station in the afternoon and
tried in vain to get their men out on bail.
The chiefs orders 10 allow none to go on
bond were strictly complied with
George Donnella.' living at Fifteenth and
Center streets was arrested yesterday
evening as a suspicious character, and
later identified by w. ]. Coler of the Ex-
pressman's Delivery company as the man
who assaulted him at Seventeenth and
Chicago streets. Clyde Pond of 1918 EN-
met street was also taken In charge under
suspicion of being one OF the men con
cerned in dumping coal from wagons dur
ing the morning. James Pape of 2S76
Binney street, who was near the patrol
box when the arrest was made, was also
taken in charge for being drunk and in
terfering with the oficer.
what the ChIef Says.
At II o'clock chief Donahue said: Since
o o'clock this morning my telephone has
been bringing me messages pf disturbances
in the residence districts. No trouble in
the down town district has been reported
and It seems that these depredations were
planned for places where police interfer-
ence would not be likely. / am satisfied
that the work is being done by some of
the younger members OF the teamsters'
union, foT am informed that they held a
meeting last night and appointed a num-
her OF wrecking committees The out
breaks occurring in different parts OF the
city at the same time ,ubstantiAte the
theory that they were deliberately and
systematically planned. l don't believe
the older members OF the teamsters' union
sanction this sort of work
81 notified President Crews OF what is
going on and told him l would hold him
responsible He said IL was all news to
him and he would get in his buggy and
make a tour Of the city to stop all union
men from participating I'm disorderly acts.
Violence of this kind will be stopped II
we have to swear in every man in town
as a special policeman"
No Serious Damage DOne.
Inquiry at the Carpenter Paper com.
pany. Hulls and sunderland's disclosed
the fact that except for the injuries sus.
tained by l.. L. Flint the driver for Car
penter's, none of the other men were hur
and that none Of the property was seri
ously damaged. The Hull and Sunderland
companies were put TO the trouble and ex.
pense Of reloading their coal and lumber
that had been dumped out on the street
The Sunderland driver who encountered
the crowd at Twentieth and Poppletop
owned the team he was driving and had
load Of lumber from the Chicago lumbe,
yards.
He was set upon by hve strangers.
said ]. A. Sunderland, "and chased from
his wagon. He may be running yet for al
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