The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-08
CHICAGOANS MUST
POSTPONE DYING
For the Undertakers viii No
Send Out Their Heanses
Any More
CAUSED BY THE STRIKE
Seventy Five Funerals Were Held To,
day, the Mourners. Walking, but
There Will Be No More Till
the Strike Is Over.

Chicago, Dec. 22.-Skrinking from the,
espionage of union pickets and fearful
that funeral parties would be attacked by
striking livery drivers, many Chicago
families have refrained from publicly an
nouncing their bereavement.
In the vaults of several u~ndertakers lie
bodies Of persons about the death of
whom the utmost Secrecy lis maintained.
and whose funerals, will not be held until
after the settlement of the strike. In
other cases the stricken relatives have ar
ranged for evening funerals and private
burlals, of which no announcement is
made.
The disgraceful scenes tha attended
several funerals held on Saturday, when
union Pockets attempted to intefere with
the removal of bodies, have led the health
department officials to sanction the Sc
crecy tht Is being preserved. The under-
takers have been informed that unless
public safety demands 1t burials will not
be insisted on until such a time as fun
eral parties shall be safe from molesta-
ton.
Practically no attempt was made by
funeral parties yesterday to reach the
cemeteries, and the day was free from
disturbance.
Chicago. Dec. 22.-With nearly sew.
enty-five funerals to be held in Chi
Sh6o, Nv Is ~ sigh Ol peace between
the livery n hearse drivers and their
employees In a cold, drizzling rain the
relatives of those who We're to be buried
slipped along the ice and slush-covered
paVements. as in many cases the
mourners followed to the railway sta
lions. Walking was treacherous, but
there was practically no alternative.
No carriages We're to be had. The UNI
dertakers announced they would not
send out any hearses until the strikers
had been forced into submission, for it
would be dangerous to sen the costly
vehicles out of the Barns even if non
union men could be had.
The funeral of. Anna Week, whose
husband is in Jail charged with her
murder, was held today under guard Of
police, who were forced to use clubs to
disperse the crowds Of striking cab
men n sympathizers. The children
OF the murdered, woman were the only
attendants at the funeral. The corpse
was taken to the cemeterysin a wagon.
Another. Sample Difficulty 4
The funeral car, instead of a hearse.
as well as the police guard, was utilized
by Undertaken Blake to circumvent the
striking pickets, from whom; violence
was feared, at he funeral of. the year.
old daughter of Joseph Keefer. The
body was placed In a common UNDER.
taking wagon instead OF. d hearse and
driven to Th.rty-frst and Wallace and
put on a street car. The mourners
boarded a second car and the trip was
made to Oakwood cemetery. The
Keefer residence was surrounded at the
time of the funeral, pickets and police
present holding themselves, in readi-
ness in case of violence; but none'was
encountered. ~
Atp.ore serious phase of the strike
developed today in a threatened spread
of the tieup to include. stablemen and
stockmen. Should these go out the am
bulance service of the city would be
seriously crippled. Pressure is being
brought to bear Upon the men en-
oloyed in these departments to induce
hem to call a4sympathetic strike.