The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-05-05
Furious Battles Fought In Streets o:
Chicago by Strikers.
ATTACKING NoN-uNIoN MEN
Even Persons Not Connected With
Strike Assailed-Teamowne De.
sert Employers Combine-One Man
Killed and Scores Injured.


man and the injury of scores of others
was the immediate result of Tuesday s
fighting between the striking team.
sters and their sympathizers on the
one side and the police and the non
union men on the other. There were
riots in all parts Of the city. Men
were dubbed and stoned almost to
death within square of police head
quarters and five miles away men
were shot down in the streets. At a
hundred places between these two ex-
tremes of distance there were assaults
and fights in the streets.
Blood was shed in State street, in
the heart Of the fashionable shopping
district, and furious riots took place
almost in the doorways of the leading
hotels. Non-union men were pelted
with stones, bricks and every other
conceivable sort of missiles.
Wouldn't Obey Orders.
The teamowners' association, which
employs none but union teamsters.
fatty refused Tuesday afternoon to
make deliveries to any of the firms
now involved in the strike when or
dered to do so by the employers asso-
citation. When the employers received
this ultimatum they notified the team
owners that unless the request that no
discrimination be made in deliveries
were granted an effort would be made
to have all existing contracts between
teamowners and the business houses
and the railroads cancelled.
Yesterday the employers associa-
ton had informed Mayor Dunno AMI
Chief Of Police O'Neill that they in
tended to move today 1885 wagons,
owned by them and the. different ex-
press companies and manned by non
union men. This .necessitated a call
for the swearing in of 1000 additional
policemen, after the conference at the
Union League club, and employers
modified their plans and informed the
city hall officials that they would only
increase very slightly the number of
wagons over that in service Tuesday
Police Force Increased,
Although the plans have been
changed as to the moving of the wag.
ons, the new men will be added to the
police force ard will be put on strike
duty as rapidly as they are needed
Nine hundred of them will be placed
on State street alone. The large re-
tail establishments have announced
no al
The fighting Tuesday in the streets
was even more fierce and savage than
that of Monday The strikers and
their sympathizers attacked the non
union men at. every opportunity as
sailing them with bricks, stones, clubs,
knives and any and every other of,
fensive weapon upon which they could
lay their hands. The fighting occurred
in the heart of the business 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 were 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
Dra I'd oh hn Wh no
ing the corner of Desplaines and AID.
ans streets on his way to the Pennsyl-
vania depot, was attacked by three
men, who knocked him down and beat
him numerically until the timely ar
rival of a policeman saved him from
further injury. Mr.. Wheeler managed
to hold one of his assailants until the
police could arrest him.
Police Used Their Clubs.
AS far as known but one man was
killed during the day. The list OF in
jured is much greater than that which
1t 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 street;
in other instances, when assailed by
mobs, they fired point blank into the
crowds, and 1t is difficult to see how
the members Of the mob could escape
many broken heads or how all the bull
lets fired during the day should have
gone wide.
The dead: Charles Beard, struck on
the forehead in the fight north Of the
Auditorium hotel. He died Of frac-
tured skull at hospital, where he
had been taken.