Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
NEITHER SIDE
READY TO YIELD.
INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN CHI
CAao GROWS MORE INTENSE.
FuTHER RloTINo OCCURS
A Number Of Persons Injured
Strikers Threaten Tie-Up of
the Street Railway
System.


System.
Chicago, May 6.--Fear of complete
tieup of the Union Traction company's
system was augmented Friday by the
discovery that of the IL power houses
of the company which supply power
to the North and West side lines, six
at least will run out of coal within q
very few hours.
Pickets, on duty all night at the
power houses Of the company, have re-
ported that the situation is becoming
more strained every hour, as the coal
was rapidly giving out. In many OF
the power houses the bins had been
swept to secure the last shovelful OF
coal from them.
The Peabody company, which has
the contract to supply coal to the
power houses, was at the end Of its
resources. the teamsters said, and
could not, with the wagons then in
operation, supply coal fast enough to
keep the power houses working.
Chief o'Neill Orders Arrest.
! Chief OF Police O'Neill sent out
general order to all commanding
officers to-day instructing them to
cause the arrest OF anyone who fol-
lowed wagons driven by non-union
teamsters, whether they were strike
sympathizers, hired roughs or curiosity
seekers.
Deneen Refuses Troops.
Governor Deneen will not send state
troops to this city until the civil Off
GERS find it impossible to cope with
the strike situation. While the mobs
IN the suburbs were sweeping every
thing before them Friday, hurting
rocks and bricks with murderous aim
the places of strikers, the governor,
from his Office In Springfield, sent out
word as his final determination, that
he would take no further official cog
nizance Of the Chicago strike situation
unless SO requested by Sheriff Thomas
Barrett. The governor said he had
consulted the attorney general, and
had thoroughly posted himself on the
trend Of affairs in this city.
Riots Spread.
r, Chicago strike riots, which the labor
union chieftains declared should cease
II state troops were not ordered out,
have spread over larger area Of the
city than any day since the strike be-
gan. The battles between the police.
deputy sheriffs and non-union men on
one side and the strikers and their
sympathizing friends on the other, ex-
tended as far south as Hyde Park, and
from the lake to Wentworth avenue.
The most desperate struggle of the
early part Of the day took place at st.
early part Of the day took place at
st. Lawrence avenue and For y-sixth
street, where q mob consisting OF nun.
Greds attacked delivery wagon from
Marshall Field & Co.'s big store. The
rioters gathered around the vehicle.
threatening the driver with death, and
threw hundreds of rocks and bricks.
demolishing every particle of glass in
the wagon and wreclling Its woodwork
generally.
Blood Flows in Riot.
= The first serious disturbance of the
Dearborn street, near Nineteenth
where bricks, baseball bats, knives and
broken bottles were used with blood.
letting effect.
Nearly score Of negroes, all non
union men, employed by the Employ
ers leaning company, were preparing
to take out wagons to transfer goods
for various big downtown establish
ments when they were attacked by a
mob of strike sympathizers. Several
men were hurt, one very severely. The
worst sufferer is Harry Jameson, {
bystander, whose head was cut opeI
with a baseball bat welded by sym
pathizer of the strikers.
Jameson, who lives at 519 Nineteenth
street, was taken to hospital, where
surgeons said he had little chance te
recover. A squad of policemen, with
swinging clubs, descended upon the
rioters and dispersed them after beat
ing many men over the heads.
a,,ic3da ~ Man and Wife