Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-03
MANY OUTRAGES
BY THE STRIKERS
FIGHTING IN CHICAGO FIERCER
THAN EVER
MINISTER VICTIM OF ASSAULT
Besides Attacks on Non-Union Men
Many Persons Having No Con-
nection With Trouble Are
Victims Of Hoodlums
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and their allies we're firmly bound to-
gether in the fight for supremacy
against the teamsters.
The Team owners association which
employs none but union teamsters,
fatty refused this afternoon to make
deliveries to any of the firms now in
volved in the strike when ordered to do
so by the employers association. When
the employers received this ultimatum
they notified the team owners that
unless they recognized the request that
no discrimination be made In deliveries
an effort would be made to have all
existing contracts between the Team
owners and the business houses and
the railroads cancelled. The railroad
men, contrary to the hopes of the MEM
bers of the Employers association, did
not exert the influence on the Team
owners that was expected. They took
practically the same stand, declaring
that the fight was something into
which the railroads did not purpose to
enter; that they had contracts with the
were at present being fulfilled to their
entire satisfaction, and they could see
no reason why the railroads should be
dragged into the struggle.
The Commission Team owners and
the Lake Transportation owners
association have also taken a similar
stand to that of the Chicago Team
Owners association.
One Thousand More Policemen
One thousand men will be added to
the police force tomorrow and will be
put on strike duty as rapidly as they
are needed. Nine hundred Of them will
be placed on State street alone.
Federal Judge c. c. Kohlsaat at the
request of attorneys representing
seven express companies, today issued
a temporary injunction restraining all
persons from interfering with the
wagons of the petitioners or the men
employed upon them.
The fighting today in the streets was
even more fierce and savage than that
of yesterday. The strikers and their
sympathizers attacked the non union
men al every opportunity, assailing
them with bricks, stones, clubs, knives
and any offensive weapon upon which
they could lay their hands. The fight
ing occurred in the heart of the busi-
ness section of the city, men being
shot down within 200 feet of the retail
cta of No e6o1 inIl O.
and clubbed nearly to death at the cor
ner 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 We're assaulted by
hoodlums who beat them first and
then later accused them of being
strikebreakers.
Minister Is Attacked
A notable instance of this kind was
that of Rev. w. X. Wheeler, pastor of
the Ninth Presbyterian church, who,
while passing the corner of Desplaines
and Adams streets on his way to the
Pennsylvania station, was attacked by
three men who knocked MIN down and
beat him numerically, until the timely
arrival of the police saved him from
critical injury. Mr.. Wheeler managed
to hold one OF his assailants until the
police could arrest him.
William Miles. colored waiter.
while at work in a lunch room at
Adams and Sangamon streets, half u
mile from any former scene Of rioting
during the strike. was accused of be-
Ing a strike breaker, was pounded on
the head with a 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
injured is much gnater than that
which it 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 as
sailed by mobs, they fired point blank
into the crowds and it is difficult to
see how the members of the mob
could escape many broken heads or
how the bullets fired should have gone
wild.
Victims Of Strikers
The dead:
CHARLES BEARD, struck on the
forehead in the fight near the Audi
torium hotel He died of a fractured
skull at Mercy hospital, where he had
been taken.
The injured:
Bruna Germain, New York city, head
cut.