The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-26
A HOT TINE
IN THE OLD TOWN OF CHI.
CAGO WHEN THE
SECOND STRIKE BEGAN
Four Men Badly SIugged
in the Rioting.

Chicago, July 22.-Four men were
slugged and badly injured and dozens
suffered scratches and minor injuries
In riots. in which thousands were en-
gagged, in the stock yards district this
afternoon.
Street cars were stoned, strike
breakers were mobbed and the po-
lice clashed with the yelling crowds
Mt half dozen points.
The men seriously injurede were:
Frank Miller, worked as strike
breaker at the yards; attacked by
crowd struck down and beaten; re.
moved to hospital.
julius Ontario, strike breaker at the
Armour plant; dragged from Thirty
ninth street car, severely beaten.
Lawson Ford, colored. dragged from
q Halsted street car at Thirty-sixth
Street; had tried to secure employ
ment at the yards; chased by crowd;
head cut open by brick.
Randolph Bolden, Springfield, ILL.,,
companion of Ford, chased for Ave
blocks; head cut by brick and beaten
Severely; rescued by the police.
AS the leaders started for the con-
ference riot broke anew at the yards.
At Forty-sixth street a negro
strike breaker from the Morris plant
sought to escape from the yards. The
crowd saw him.
Catch the strike breaker" yelled
the throng as one man. The negro
climbed to the top of car on the
Lake Shore tracks. The crowd fol-
lowed raising cries of lynch the
strike breaker" The man was finally
rescued by the police and taken back
to the Morris plant for safety.
At Root and Halsted streets crowd
of 5000 strike sympathizers stoned a
car with five negro strike breakers,
rushing from the yards and boarded
and then stormed the stock yards
gates
There's more of them inside"
yelled one man who climbed up on
wagon. There's more of them in
there and they want to get out"
Yelling. uttering oaths and demand
ed these men, The crowd charged the
gates. A riot call had been turned
in but the police fought this mass
of humanity to little avail Then the
bluecoats were massed at the gates
and by use of clubs, succeeded In
keeping the crowds back, the colored
men within trembling and pleading
for some way to get out of the yards.
At Forty-sev eventh street and Ash
land avenue another riot broke out
Joseph Younicbs. a strike breaker at
the Morris plant, was injured by a
falling beam. He was taken to the
office of DR.. p. j. Sullivan in Ashland
avenue, by an ambulance. A crowd
followed.
Lynch the strike breaker. Hang
him up" was the roar set up again and
again. Sergeant Mulligan sent in a
riot call and the arrival of police
stopped the trouble.
At the Armour plant stockades
were thrown up and preparations
made for resistance.
An army of police. hastily rein
forced, fought with the crowds that
swarmed the streets of packing town.
At Forty-third street and Ashland
avenue crowd of strike sympathi-
zers captured two colored strike
breakers from the plant of Swift &
Co. and dragged and hustled them for
four blocks. shouting and yelling,
while the police fought to avert riot
and to save the men from injury.
A big force of police was detailed
throughout the strike district and fur
ther rioting was stopped, but there are
grave fears for tomorrow, as the men
are in a fighting mood.