The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-05-06
DEATH AND MANY BROKEN
HEADS AND BONES OUT
COME OF THESTRIKE.
Mobs Pursue Transfers Battle
Near the Auditorium Dssper-
ate Negroes Turn on As
sailants and Shootand
s. Club Them. s

OF sObu6rS were LQBs lLuu16ulaGe result
of today's fighting between the
striking teamsters and their SYM
5pathizers on the one side and the
police and nonunion men on the,
|other. There were riots in all parts
of the city. Men were clubbed and
stoned almost todeath within ID
equare Of police headquarters and
five miles away men were shot
down in the streets. Alta hundred
places between these Two extremes
there were assaults and fights in
the streets. Blood was shed onl
State street, in the heart of the
fashionable shopping district, and
| furious riots took place almost in
! the doorways OF the leading hotels.
| Nonunion men were welted with
]stones, bricks and every other con-
ceivable sort of missile. They
! were dragged from their wagons,
beat, dubbed and stamped upon.f
4 The mobs that followed the ewagons
on which they rode were ugly in
ftbe extreme and, but for the splend-
i'd service rendered by the police,
the list Of dead would be twenty in
fstead of one.
In return, the nonunion men, al
though hopelessly outnumbered in
levery struggle fought desperately.
In several instances they drew their
Irevolvers and emptied them into
1.-The crowds that pressed around
! their wagons, pelting them with
stones and threatening their lives.
Z The negro drivers especfaf1y were
i quick with their weapons. Large
numbers of the nonunion drivers
carried heavy clubs and they swung
them with terrific effect Throughout:
the day.
AS far as can be ascertained to-
night the list of injured numbers
40, but it is far short of being &C.
curate. Many men who were In
the mobs that attacked the wagons
went down before the clubs of the
police and of the wagon guards
but they were carried away by theil
friends.
Roting near the Auditorium
broke out afresh this afternoon a
Peck place and State street, wher
coal wagons for the Edwin f. Dan
iels company, driven by two ne
groes and guarded by 40 others
were attacked by crowd of 300'
persons. The wagons were withou
police protection. ALI along Stat
street the negroes experienced trou
ble, but they were able to protec
themselves with their hickor,
clubs. Whenever the crowd al
tempted to rush at the wagons, th
: negroes would use theircIu BIS, maui
j ing the strike sympathizers unme,
cifully. The mob finally made
determined assault on the negroe
and overpowered and beat ther
savageIy. One negro broke hi
/ (stick across a small boys should
Iers. The negro was immediatel
jumped on and given terrif
humping. He managed to draw.
revolver and fire five shots while h
assailants fed. Persons driving j
carriages and automobiles had
narrow escape from the bullets.
I response to riot call, the police a
! rived at the scene and rescued tt
l negroes. Hugo Weber, passerb,
4 was assaulted by Seven negro'
- with canes and his head was spl
open.
A boy was taken away by the p
ge lice who was shot by bullet from Il
negro's revolver. When one of Il
MS negro guards was told to move alor
- - by one of the detectives the neg
d, stabbed him in the right hand. II
y. crowd rushed for the negro and b
ag fore 20 policemen on the spot coul
- rescue him he had been beaten in
b insensibility.
th1 The cordons of union pickets ST.
to toned on the curbing in State sire
E and Wabash avenue have been SUI
plemente1 greatly in numbers, vii
the result that, In spite Of the vi
ge ilanee of the police, carriages ar
hacks are stopped and drivers ar
their fares warned against attemp
ing to carry purchases home fro
:" the boycotted stores.
nd Store employees burdened wi
bundles are stopped and their pa