The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-03
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STREET COMBATS
Strikers, Strike Sympathizers and
Strikebreakers Battle Around
Wagon Caravans.
EMPLOYERS CALL ON
STATE FOR TROOPS
Hundreds of Extra Police Sworn.
While Teamsters Spread the
Strike to New Fields.

bat with striking teamsters and their
sympathizers
Pitched battles again today mark the
struggle In the downtown streets.
Bloodshed occurs hourly, and i'm the
shopping district of Chicago is fire.
quently the vortex of these riots.
Meanwhile the employers are girding
Tor mlghtier resistance, and the team
STEERS unions have started a big strike
defense fund
Chief of Police o'Neill has sworn in
hundreds OF extra police, and Cook
Upon the success or failure of the
police today, hangs appeal to the fed
order.
Secretary F. W. Job of the Chicago
Employers association announced this
afternoon that a representative of the
ASSOCIATION was on his way to Spring
field to ask Governor Deneen to order
out state troops at Chicago.
Brutal Fight and a Panic.
Brutality in the strike today began
with fight and panic in a crowded
street car. Two men who, it is said.
were mistaken for strike breakers, were
assaulted and so severely beaten that
they were taken to the county hospital.
The affair occurred on Twenty sixth
Stewart avenue. When the fight began
the passengers stricken fed from
the car.
One Of the men hurt was Edward
Boswell, a colored medical student. His
companion was W. Jameson, also col
ored. The men who committed the as
sault escaped before the police arrived.
First Shooting Of Day.
The first shooting today occurred at
Franklin and Madison streets. cara
van manned by colored drivers and
guards was attacked by a big crowd.
The negroes opened fire at once. Harry
! William and Fred Smith, white men.
| seated on wagon, loaded with paper at
the entrance to an alley, narrowly es-
| capped death. A bullet passed thru Will
ilams' coat and another thru Smith IS
hat. After the shooting the caravan
proceeded on its stormy route.
Non Union Man Shot.
| While driving wagon loaded with
coal from the Edwin f. Daniels Coal
company at Franklin and Madison
streets today, Joseph Scott, a non-union
colored teamster was shot in the right
shoulder. Notwithstanding his wound,
street conditions were obviously too
dangerous for Scott to leave his wagon
until he had reached the Randolph
street vladuct, nearly mile from
where he was shot. The negro was then
taken to a police station, where his in
jurles were dressed.
] Curry Seriously Hurt.
/ Strike breaker Frank Curry. the
man with the "Iron nerve,' was to-
day reported definitely out of the fight
ing: He did not appear at the Employ
min Il
was said that in all probability Curry
will not be able to take further part in
the strike. His injuries, while not
fatal, are exceedingly serious. and his
associates say that he will lose the sight
Of his left eye. The blow which caused
the injury came from a cobblestone.
He has cut directly beneath the eve
and the eyeball is affected Curry also
has deep cash, two inches long, be.
hind the right ear.
Struck Down in Combat.
Curry was injured during running
: tight between negroes and the mob in
Michigan street, the negroes attemptino
to make their way to their lodging quar-.
ters on tt the north side of the Chicago
Ilver. The negroes. massed together,
kept. their formation and pushed on.
ward until Rush street bridge was
reached. On to the bridge poured the
negroes, followed by the mob. Car.
rlages and pedestrians were caught in
the, swirl and menaced by the crowds.
, Among the vehicles was an open car.
rage occupied by H. H. Kohlsaat. Mr.
Kohlsaat was compelled to sit in his
carriage and witness the fight of the
negroes against their assailants. The
strikebreakers fought on until the North
Side was reached. There they were met
by police and taken to the Northwestern
Storage company's warehouse, where
;. the battered and weary strikebreakerl
were safely housed.
5 Fierce Rioting Around Caravan.
Fierce riotipg today attended a cara
: ployers Teaming company from {
= = stable in Armour avenue. The troubl,
! started in Franklin street, near Harri
! son. Walter Schultz, strike sympa
> thizer, hooted the non-union drivers ant
: was promptly knocked down and badl,
: beaten by two colored guards.
The negroes, with their heavy hickor,
! canes, hammered him almost into insen
. sibility, but were in turn obliged t
9 fight their way for mile thru crowd
Of white drivers and sympathizers
> Volleys of stones were thrown and man.
= Of the colored men riding in tn
! wagons were injured.
- At Madison street big Jam Of team
= effectually stopped the caravan and 70
I ten minutes battle ragged at the COZ
= ner. The colored men in the WACO
: drew revolvers and fred a dozen shots
Police broke the blockade of team
e and enabled the caravan with tn
!; strikebreakers to egress east in Mad
II son street.
!, Battle Downtown.
The fighting continued on Madiso
street all the way to Michigan avenu'
Near the Montgomery Ward store til
crowd gathered where an old buildin
is being torn down and pelted the mol
n union drivers with bricks and otht
a missiles
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