The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-05

authorities have determined to put an
effectsal stop to all such practices.
Judge G.. G. Kohlsaat of the United
States circuit court at the request of
Che attorneys representing the seven,
express companies during the day is
sued temporary injunction restrain
ing all persons from interfering with
rhe wagons of the petitioners or the
men employed upon them
The fighting during the day in the
streets was even more fierce and say
age than that of Monday. The strik
ers and their sympathizers attacked
the nonunion men at every opportunity,
assailing them with bricks, stones,
clubs, knives and any and every other
sort of an offensive 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 hun
dreds of ladies, who were compelled to
run from the mob to save their own
lives.
In several instances men walking
along tho streets who had no active
connection whatever with the strike
were assaulted by hoodlums who beat
them first and later accused them or
being strike breakers. A notable in
stance of this kind was that of Rev.
W. K Wheeler, pastor of the Ninth
n. hn
ing the corner of Des PLANES and
Adams streets on his way to the
Union depot was attacked by three
men, who Knocked hiss down and beat
him numerically until the timely ar
rival of the police saved him from
critical injury.
Mr. Wheeler managed to hold one
of his assailants until the police could
arrest him.
Only One Man Killed.
But one man was killed during the
day. The list of injured is much
greater than it is possible to obtain
In many cases, the nonunion men
swung their clubs with great effect, in
other instances, when assaulted by
mobs, they fired point blank into the
crowds and it is difficult to see how
the members of the crowd could es-
cape broken heads or how the bullets
fired during the day had gone wild.
Charles Beard struck on the fore
head in the fight near the Auditorium
hotel, died OF fractured skull, at the
Mercy hospital, where he had been
taken This was the only death re-
ported during the day.
There were rioting in all parts OF
the city. One man was dubbed almost
to death within a square of police
headquarters, and four miles away men
were shot down in the streets. At a
hundred places between these two ex-
trepes of distance, there were as
saults and fights in the streets. Blood
was shed on State street in the heart
of the fashionable shopping district
and furious riots took place almost in
the doorways of the leading hotels of
Chicago. Nonunion men were pelted
with stones, bricks and almost every
other conceivable sort of missiles.
They were dragged from their wa
CONS, beaten, dubbed and stamped
upon by the mobs that followed the
wagons on which they rode and but
for the splendid service rendered by
the police force, the list of dead would
be twenty instead of one. The nOn-
union men, although hOpeleSsly out
numbered in every conflict, fought
desperately. In several instances they
drew their revolverS and emptied them
into the crowds that pressed around
their wagons pelting them with stones
and threatening their lives. The col
ored drivers, especially, were quick
with their weapons.
Nonunion Men Carried Clubs.
Large numbers Of the nonunion driv-
ers carried heavy clubs, and they
swung them with terrific effect
throughout the day. AS far as can be
ascertained the list of injured num-
berS in the neighbOrhood of forty, but
it is far short of being accurate. Many
men who were in the mobs that at
tackled the wagons went down before
the clubs of the police and of the wag
on guards, but they were carried away
by their friends and there is no chance
of learning their names or of even
guessing their number.
Four men were shot late in the after
noon in riot at Polk street and Cali
fOrnia avenue. This trouble was the
result of an attempt of an express
company to deliver goods on the far
West Side without police protection.
During a riot at night at Halsted
and Erie streets, which lasted for hour,
and in which fully 1000 people were
engaged, three policemen and three
nonunion men were injured and twice
as many rioters were dubbed.
Although it was announced Monday
night that the teams of the express
companies and the employers associa
ton would be handled by men armed
with rifles Tuesday, nothing of the
kind was attempted save in the case
Of fifteen drivers employed by the
Scott Transfer company.
The strike Tuesday did not spread
in any degree. No more men were
called out, and from present appear
ances there is no immediate prospect
that any more transfers will strike.
The outlook is for more fighting and