The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-24
PEACE PLANS AND RIOTS
BOTH OCCUR AT SAME TIME IN
 CHICAGO.
While Committsss Are Conferring With the Object of EReoting a settlement Police and striker. clash-CluB. Used and shots Firsd-s.atsment That sn Agrssment Has Been Reached.

Chicago, Nov. 2s.-Fierce fighting in which the police used their clubs freely and twice their revolvers. marked the opening of the State street cable line, by the Chicago City railway to-day. As far as can be ascertained nobody was seriously injured, althogh there were many broken heads among the rioters who came in contact with the clubs of the police If any members of the mob were injured by the bullets or the police and non-union men on the cars they were carried off by their friends. While fighting was going m streets the usual conferences were in progress and propositions and counter propositions were passing back and forth between representatives of the company and it's former employees.
 Later in the afternoon it was said by Mayor Harrison, President Mahon of the street car men. and the attorneys for both sides, that an agreement had been reached, but little definite was known concerning it's nature.
 Late tonight the street car men locked themselves in room on the eleventh floor of the Ashland block, and the companies officers were III room on the ninth floor, and the con ferences were again in full blast It was predicted that the strike would be declared off by tomorrow morning, but nothing was given out from either meeting to make such an assertion cer- ton certain.
 The hardest fighting of the day took place at Forty-first street and State street, where mob hiding behind a fence stoned the cars. which were guarded by officers.
 The police were over the fence at once and fired several shots over the heads I of the fleeing strikers Many of the mob who were slow of foot were over taken by the police and soundly rapped V with clubs. Fey arrests were made, the officers contenting themselves with scattreing the crowd
 Conductor I. P. Premier was 1T charge of the train which was attacked and when the stones commenced tt whiz pasth is head and smash the win, dows of his car, he promptly drew re yolver and firedf at the crowd until ths cartridges in his weapon were exhaust ed. The cars were attacked at tht same point on the return trip and z number of shots were fired, the mol scattering like flock of chickens.
 All day long on State street the com pany was hampered by the work of tn, mob, which piled obstructions upon th' tracks, drove pegs and spikes into th' cable slot and cut trolley wires in man, places The Archer line was badl!
 damaged early in the day and required
 several hours work of the repair mel
 who were heavily guarded by the police
 No attempt has been made to run car
 on this line since the commencement 0
 the strike.
 The opening of the State street lin
 to-day gave the company five lines ol , which cars were run. The service however, is not of a character to b
 useful to the public.
 Midnight: Although no announce ment has been made of the results Q to-night's conferences, 1t is now sai that the company and the strikers ar so far apart on several propositions tha there is little prospect of peace in tn ' immediate future, unless somebod changes front.