The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-05
Another Blow is Dealt
the Packers.
RIOT BREAKS OUT
Police and Strikers in a Desperate En-
counter at the Stock Yards. Brick
Bats Against Clubs. Twenty Eight
Men Arrested by the
Police.
(By the Associated Press. }


Chicago. August 3.-The threatened
spread of the stock yards strike to
outside industries came tonight when
an order was issued by the Transfers
Union prohibiting drivers of ice wag-
ons from making any deliveries to re-
tail merchants who since the packing
house teamsters went on strike have
been hauling meat from the yards in
their own wagons. AS the refrigera-
tors in the meat markets do not hold
enough ice to last longer than forty
eight hours if the order cutting off
the supply of ice can be enforced it
means that the majority of people in
Chicago will be compelled to go on
short rations as far as meat is con-
cerhed. The officials of the Transfers
Union have appointed picketS to watch
the meat markets all over the city,
and these men have been instructed
to see that the boycott is carried out
TO the limit.
Outside of the decision of the Strik-
ing unions to extend the strike TO the
ice men there was little change over
yesterday in the situation at the stock
yards today.
Riots at the Yards.
In a riot which broke out at the
yards IL o'clock tonight two police
men were injured and twenty-eight
rioters were arrested after having
been beaten into subjugation. The
trouble started when five strike break
ers from one of the machine shops in
one of the packing plants were leaving
the yards, and tried to board street
car to go to their homes. Despite the
signals of the breakers, the mo-
tormen on twelve cars refused to stop,
and a crowd nearby seeing good OPP
portunity to get revenge on the non
union men, commenced hurting stones
at them.
Two policemen who were guarding
the entrance went to the assistance OF
the non-union men, but the rioters by
this time had grown in numbers SO
rapidly that fully a thousand angry
men were trying to get at the strike
breakers.
Retreating into the machine shops,
the policemen sent iTra riot call for
achievements. When the additional
policemen arrived "a charge was made
on the rioters. The crowd was armed
with bricks, and stones and when the
policemen started forward every man
who could not find rock enough threw
a brick.
Two of the bricks went true to the
mark and two policemen dropped in
their tracks, having been hit on the
head. They were picked up by their
companions and taken inside the ma
chine shop, where it was found that
one of the men, Patrick Ryan, was
suffering from fractured skull. The
other policeman was not SO seriously
hurt
Seeing the condition of their COM
paniOns the policemen made another
charge on the crowd. This time the
onslaught was in earnest, eight clubs
being swung from right to left with
all the muscle that each man could
muster. Every time club descended
1t landed on mans head and fully
fifty of the rioters were beaten to the
pavement in this manner before they
showed any signs of scattering.
AS soon as the policemen saw that
they had the mob on the run they
turned their attention to those who
were lying on the ground and succeed
ed in arresting twenty eight of them
before they could scramble to their
feet and get away.