The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-07
Over a Thousand Wagons
To be Sent Out.
BARRETT IN CONTROL
If He Together With His Deputies Can.
not Enforce Order He Will Call
Upon Dineen for Troops and
They Will be Sent at
Once,
CRy the Associated Press. }

Chicago, May 5.-A crisis in the
teamsters strike is expected to come
tomorrow. state Street retail mer
chants have decided to send out 1,100
wagons to make deliveries in all parts
of the city. AS far as possible these
wagons are guarded by deputy sheriffs
and in some cases by policemen. 1t
will be impossible for all of the
wagons to be guarded by deputy sher-
ifs, but it is the intention to place
two officers on each wagon as FAR as
the number of deputies already sworn
i'm will permit Sheriff Barrel had zoo
deputies in service tonight and said
that he thought this number would
be ample for the work outlined for
tomorrow. If it is not, it is said he
will conclude that the sheriffs force
and the police are not able to control
the situation and a request Will be
made for the State militia.
Governor Dineen has said that he
will order out the troops If q request
is made by Sheriff Barrett and on the
failure or success of the attempt al
retail deliveries tomorrow depends
the coming of the troops. Fifteen
wagons were sent out today by the
large drygooodS and department stores
and all of them made deliveries with
little interruption. On each of the
wagons rode two deputy sheriffs. 1t
was the success of this attempt at de-
livering goods that prompted the
stores to decide to send out tomorrow
nearly their full force of wagons.
Less Rioting Yesterday.
Either because of the threatened
appearance of the troops or because
of the addition to the police force in
the shape of deputy sheriffs there was
much less rioting and fighting in the
downtown streets than on any day
this week.
Express wagons, each one of which
carried a guard armed with a rifle or
a double barrelled shotgun, went to
and fro between depots and express
Offices without interruption other than
that of an occasional stone thrown
from the sidewalks or of some missile
hurled from a window. There was lit
tie of this, however, and the wagons
were almost Cnmolested.
An order issued early in the day by
Chief of Police O'Neill directing that
all persons should be prevented from
following wagons as they went
through the Streets had much to do
with the absence of rioting.
There were numerous assaults COM
mitted in all parts of the city remote
from the principa business center. In
several cases the drivers were beaten
and their wagons overturned and the
goods stolen.
In other instances the drivers escap.
ed injuries only by the fleetness of
their horses. Three coal wagons. after
making q delivery at the factory of
SELF Schwab IL Company, at Ohio and
Kingsbury streets, late this afternoon
were attacked by a crowd, which pur-
sued the men for more than half a
mile, raining stones. bricks and bot
ties on the police officers and drivers
One woman was seen to throw several
bricks and glass tumbler from
window of a factory.
Women Urge Strikers On.
As the wagons continued down Ohio
street they were targets for persons in
the windows of all the buildings and
for the crowd which continued to fol-
low them 1t was composed almost
entirely of young men and women, the
latter taking an active part in the
rioting and urging the men to further
violence.
Sheriff Barrett tonight expressed
the belief that the crisis of the strike
was over and its backbone was broken
A Fire Breaks Out.
Fire tonight broke out in the coal
yard of the Peabody Coal Company
at 2Sth street and the PENNSYLVANIA
Rail road tracks. A large crowd gath
cred, but no one would turn in an
alarm because of the feeling against
the coal company which is q strong
factor in the teamsters strike The
blaze was seen from a distance by a
policeman who called the fire depart
ment. The police declared that the
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