The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
STRIKERS ARE
 BE. ZEN BACK
 <s Chic7y Police Use Their ! f Clubs: FIRST TRIED REvOLvERS Fists and Sticks More Eff1-
 caci0uS, However. Kellogg Company Announces That It Will Continue to Send Out
 Freight, and Strikers arc
 as Equally Determined.
FIRST TRIED RHvOLvERs

Chicago, July 16.-Desperate fighting be- tween the police and the strikers of the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Com- pany took place this afternoon and even ing, when the company attempted to send freight to some of the railroad depots. In one instance the police opened hre with revolvers, and although the fusilade was continued for several minutes, nobody was injured. Later there was nsnt in which no revolvers were used, and tne nolice beat down a number of men some of whom were left in the street until their friends came back to pick them up.
 The first fight occurred when a truck loaded with freight. escorted by police men. hound for the Burlington depot, was passing the corner or HarrIson gnu Peoria Streets A bowling mob Of thousand men and boys was following close on the police and pelting them with stones and sticks.
 Caused a Blockade.
 Teamsters, who sympathized with the strikers, managed to get their wagons Tn the way of the Kellogg Company's wagon as 1t reached Peoria Street and occasioneo a blockade. The police were endeavoring to clear the street when the workmen on A building showered them with bricks. The officers at once drew their revofvers and fired at the workrnen who hastily fled to the interior of the building. The police kept up their fire through the windows and drove nearly all the "orK- men from the place.
 The route to the depot was then taken up and although there were several blockades the wagon reached the depot and delivered the goods.
 The second fight occurred when the po- lice were escorting a wagon load or freight to the warehouse of the Terminal Transfer Company at ogden Avenue and Twelfth Street. A mob fully 5000 strong, followed this wagon, and although the police were outnumbered one hundred to one, they took the wagon safely to the depot The mob had greatly increased by the time the wagon was ready to make the return trip and for half mile pur- sued the police, applying to them all sorts of epithets and pelting them with sticks and stones, without. however, in- turing any persons seriously.
 Shot Inf1amed Mob.
 The climax came at Congress Street and ogden Avenue, where a private watchman, who had no particular call to mix in the trouble in either side, fired at one of the mob. The shot went wild, but 1t inhamed the mob to the highest de- gree and with shouts and yells they charged on the police. The latter were waiting for the crowd and when 1t ar rived the officers went at 1t with fists and clubs. The patrolmen were greatly out numbered, but they fought well together, and in less than three minutes every member of the mob who could use his feet was doing so to the best of his abll- ity.
 Fully dozen men with bruised heads were left lying in the street where they had been knocked by the clubs of the officers. Some of them were loaded into the wagon and taken to the/police station, as were a number who were not quick enough in beginning their retreat. About twenty arrests were made during the day.
 The Kellogg Company announces that 1t will continue to send out freight every day and the strikers say that they will use ever means to prevent their doing so.