The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-05-03
ANOTHER DAY OF R|O1|NG
ONE MAN KILLED AND FIFTY I'M.
JuRED IN CHICAGO STREETS.

ONE MAN KILLED AND FIFTY IN
JURED IN CHICAGO STREETS.
BREAK IN RANKS OF EMPLOYERS
Team Owners Cut Loose From Asso-
citation and Stand by Union Drivers.
Are Sustained in Their Position by
the Railroads.
Chicago, May 3.-The death of one
man and the injury III scores of others
was the immediate result of the fight
ing between the striking teamsters
and their sympathizers on the one
side, and the police and the nonunion
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 headquarters
and five miles away men were shot
down in the streets. At hundred
places between these two extremes of
disturbance there were assaults and
fights in the streets. Blood was shed
on State street, in the heart of the
fashionable shopping district, and flu.
rious riots took place almost in the
Goorways of the leading hotel. Non
union men were pelted with stones
bricks and every other conceivable
sort of missiles. They were dragged
from their wagons, beaten, dubbed
and stamped upon. The mobs that
followed the wagons on which they
rode were ugly in the extreme. But for
the splendid service rendered by the
police force, the list of dead would be
twenty, instead of one.
Nonunion Men Fight Desperately.
In return the nonunion men, although
struggle, fought desperately. In sew
eral instances they drew their re-
volvers and emptied them into the
crowds that pressed around their
wagons, pelting them with stones and
| threatening their lives. The colored
drivers especially were quick with
| their weapons. Large numbers of the
| nonunion drivers carried heavy clubs,
and they swung them with terrific eff
feet throughout the day. AS far as
can be ascertained, the list of in
| jured numbers in the neighborhood OF
fifty, but it is far short of being accu-
late.s Many men who were in the
mobs that attacked tie wagons went
down before the clubs of the police
end Of the wagon guards, but they
were carried away by their friends.
Charles Beard was struck on the
forehead in fight near the Auditor
irm hotel and died of fractured
4 skull in the hospital.
1 Four Shot in Riot.
Four men were shot at Polk street
and California avenue as the result Of
an attempt of an expressman to de-
liver goods on the far West side with
our police protection.
During a riot at Halstead and Erie
streets, which lasted for an hour, and
in which fully 1000 people were en-
4 gagged, three policemen and three non
un.cn men were injured and twice as
many rioters were dubbed.
j Men walking along the streets, who
had no active connection whatever
with the strike, were assaulted by
hoodlums, who beat them first and lat
er accused them of being strike break
ers. A notable instance of this kind
was that of Rev. w. K Wheeler,
pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian
church, who while passing the corner
of Desplaines and Adams streets on
his way to the Pennsylvania depot,
was attacked by three men, who
knocked him down and beat him I'M
mercifully, until the timely arrival of
the police saved him from critical in.
Jury. Mr.. Wheeler managed to hold
one of his assailants until the police
could arrest him.
The outlook is for more fighting
= and there is not the slightest evidence
OF the approaching end of the strike
!. The strike did not spread in any
ri degree. No more men were called
: Cut and from present appearances
there is no immediate prospect that
!. any more teamsters will strike.
First Round for Strikers
The strike assumed peculiar aspect
and the interests which have beef
: opposing the striking teamsters arr
i lot as united as heretofore. Thu
: cause of this dissension is the Team
d Owners association, which has con
G tracts with the railroads and many o
J. the large firms throughout the city, t,
/ transfer their merchandise 1t wa
supposed that the Employers associa
: ton and their allies were firmly boun,
q together in the fight for supremac
- against the transfers. The Team
Owners association, which employ
none but union transfers, fatty re
If fused to make deliveries to any Q
> the firms now involved. in the strike
l. when ordered to do so by the Employ
IS ers' association. When the employer
J. received this ultimatum they notifie
the team owners that unless the
10 recognized the request that no di
81 elimination be made in deliveries a
le effort would be made to have all e,
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