Evening journal., 1905-05-03
RIOTS
OCCUR IN CHICAGO
Non-union Men Attacked at
Every Opportunity by a
Mob
.ONF KILLED, FORTY INJURED

Chicago. May s.-The strike situa.
ton In Chicago has assumed a pecu-
liar aspect. and the interests which
haye been opposing the striking team
sters are not as united as heretofore.
The cause Of this slight dissension is
the Team Owners Association, which
has contracts with the railroads and
many of the large firms throughout
the city to transfer their merchandise.
II was supposed that the Employers
Association and their allies were firm
ly bound together in the fight for su-
premacy against the teamsters
The Team Owners Association.
which employs none but union team
sters, fatty refused to make deliveries
to any of the firms now involved In the
strike when ordered to do so by the
Employers Association. When the
employers received this ultimatum
they notified the team owners that un-
less the request that no discrimination
be made in deliveries were granted an
effort would be made to have all ex-
listing contracts between team owners
and the business houses and the roads
cancelled.
The fighting In the streets was more
fierce and savage than any that has
yet occurred, one man being killed
and 40 injured. many seriously. The
strikers and their sympathizers at
tackled the non-union men at every op-
portunity, assailing them with bricks,
stones. clubs, knives and any and ev-
cry other offensive weapon upon which
they could lay their hands. The fight
ing occurred in the heart of the bust
ness section OF the city. men being
shot down within 200 feet of the retail
store of Marshall Field & Co.. dubbed
nearly to death at the corner Of the
Auditorium Hotel in plain view of
hundreds of ladies who we're compelled
to run from the mob to save their own
lives. In many instances men walking
along the streets who had no active
connection whatever with the strike
were assaulted by hoodlums, who beat
them first and later accused them Of
being strike breakers. A notable in
stance of this kind was that of Rev.
w. X. Wheeler. pastor of the Ninth
Presbyterian church. who. while pass
ing the corner of Desplaines and Ad-
ans streets on his way to the Penn
sylvania depot was attacked by three
men, who knocked him down and beat
him unmercifully, until the timely ar.
rival of the police saved him from fur
ther injury. Mr. Wheeler managed to
hold one of his assailants until the DO
lice could arrest him.
William Miles a colored waiter,
while at work in a lunch room at Ad-
ans and Sangamon streets half mile
from any former scene Of rioting dur
ing the strike. was also a victim of the
strikers fury. although he had no con-
nection whatever with the trouble. He
was accused Of being a strike breaker.
was pounded on the head with billy.
knocked down and trampled on. Miles
was removed to the hospital. where
his injuries were pronounced severe.
As far as known, but one man was
killed during the day. The list Of in
iured is much greater than that which
il is possible to obtain. In many cases
the non-union men swung their clubs
with great effect, knocking men from
their wagons headlong into the streets:
in other instances. when assailed by
mobs, they fred point blank into the
crowds, and it is difficult to see how
the members of the mob could escape
many broken heads or how all the
bullets fired during the day should
have gone wild.
Charles Beard was struck on the
forehead in the fight near the Audi
torium Hotel. He died Of a fractured
skull at a hospital where he was
taken.