The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-01-06
CHICAGO STRIKERS . RIOT
Police Disperse Mobs---To Protect
Funeral Parties.
RICH AND POOR SUFFER ALIKE

Coroner's Physician Has; to Ride on an
Undertaker's Wagon to Protect His
wife's Body on tho Way to tho Ceme-
tsry-Livery Drivers and Relatives and
Mourners Insulted.
Chicago, Ill.-The bodies of Judge
Jonas Hutchinson, of the Superior
Court, and Frederick r. Otis were car
ried to cemeteries in the plain black
wagons of undertakers, position and
wealth being unable to secure more
'dtting conveyances, owing to the strike
Of the livery drivers. Neighbors came
to the relief Of the families by Offer
Ing private vehicles for the use of the
mourners. '-.- ..
The strikers carried on their fight
against the dead, and in several cases
the police were called upon to pro-
tect funeral parties. In one case there
was an actual riot.
Livery owners met and decided to
hire an attorney and take steps to hold
the city responsible for any damage
done by mobs.
Policemen dubbed a crowd of 300 or
400 persons, many Of them strike SYM
pathizers, while a priest was saying
mass over the body of Anna Week, who
Is said to have been murderd by her
husband. The police were forced to
charge the crowd to prevent it from
committing violent assaults upon An
ton Linhart, undertaken, who drove the
plain black wagon in which the body
was taken to and from the church.
When the crowds had been dispersed
and the mass was over the policemen
acted as pallbearers. The body Of the
woman was placed in wagon and
driven rapidly to the Bohemian Ma
t1onal Cemetery. The children were
not allowed to so to the cemetery to
BEE their mothers burial.
A funeral car, instead of hearse, ac-
companied by police guard, was util-
lied by Joseph Blake, an undertaken, to
circumvent striking pickets, from
whom violence was feared, at the
funeral Of Elsie Keefer, the one-year-
old daughter of Joseph Keefer, Presi-
dent of tea company.
Livery stable owners and undertak-
ers say they can hire all the men they
need to fill the place Of the strikers,
but they dare not send out their We
hicles for fear Of violence and riot,
While strike sympathizers. sur
rounded the home Of DR.. o. w. Lemke.
Coroner's Physician, the doctor told
his friends that he would drive the
hearse that bore the body Of his wife
to Waldheim Cemetery.
For the first time in years sur
pliced choir went from a Catholic
church to take part in funeral services
at a private residence. Owing to ina.
bility to hire hearse and carriages,
States Attorney Grove was held in the
family residence instead Of church.
Father Gallighan took the entire choir
to the house and conducted mass there.
Permission to move patients from
their homes to hospitals was denied in
several instances by striking. drivers.
John Mclaughlin and Frank ku' y
merow were summoned by emergency
calls to remove Catholic clergymen to
hospitals. They sought permission
from the strikers, but were denied. Mr..
Mclaughlin. accompanied by a clerical
associate of priest, finally drove the
carriage himself. Although some Of
the pickets threatened violence, none
was attempted. Mr.. Kummerow took
his patient to the hospital, accompanied
BY the attending physician and a priest.
A. B. Perrigo, who has an ambulance
service, says pickets have surrounded
bis place and prevented his answering
calls to the relief of those needing
surgical and medical attention.
Stablemen in many Of the barns quit
work. Few Of them are unionized, but
they fear to incur the displeasure of
organized labor.