The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1905-05-05
MORE FIERCE
| AND SAVAGE E
MUCH BLOOD LETTING ACCOM-
PANIEs CHICAGO STRIKE.
ANOTHER MURDER ADDED
Scores Injured by Frenzied Mobs-
Men Shot Down in Heart of
City.


ito in Chicago assumed a peculiar as
pect today, and tonight the interests
which have been opposing the strik
ing teamsters are not as united as
heretofore. The cause of this was
slight dissentions in the Teamowners
association, which has contracts with
the railroads and many of the large
firms throughout the city to transfer
their merchandise. Until today it
was supposed that the Employers as
soclatlon and their allies were firmly
bound together in the fight for SUI
premacy against the teamsters.
The Teamowners' association,
which employees none but union team
sters, fatty refused this afternoon to
make deliveries to any OF the firms
now involved in the strike, when or
dered to do SO by the Employers as
sociation. When the employers re,
ceived this ultimatum they notified
the team owners that unless they rec
ognized the request that no discrimi.
nation be made in deliveries, an ef-
fort would be made to have all exist
ing contracts between the team own
ers and the business houses and the
railroads cancelled.
Railroads Take No Part.
The railroad men, contrary to the
hopes of the members of the Employ
ers' association, did not exert the in
ttuence on the team owners that was
expected. They took practically the
same stand, declaring that the fight
was something into which the rail-
roads did not propose to enter; that
they had contracts with the team
owners; that these contracts 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 AMI
the Lake Transportation Teamowners'
associations have also taken sim.-
lar stand to that of the Chicago
Teamowners' association.
Police Force Is Increased.
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. G. 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.
Fighting Grows Fierce.
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 at every opportunity, as
sailing them with bricks, stones,
clubs, knives and any other 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 6 Co., and dubbed nearly to
death at the corner of the Auditorium
hotel, in plain view of hundreds OF
ladies', who were compelled to run
from the mob to save their own lives.
A Preacher Is Assaulted.
In many instances men walking
along the streets who had no active
whatever with the strike
were assaulted by hoodlums, who
beat them first and then later accused
them of being strike breakers. A
notable instasnce of this kind was
that of Reverend w K Wheeler.
pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian
church. who, while passing the corner
1f Desplaines and Adams street on
lis way to the Pennsylvania station,
was attacked by three men, who {
lnocked him down and beat him un-
nercifully, until the timely arrival of
he police saved him from critical in.
Jury. Mr.. Wheeler managed to hold
one of his assailants until the police
,ould arrest him. =
William Miles. a colored waiter,