The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-05-05
DAY WAS A BLOODY ONE
Strikers stop Customers from "struck"
Stores-Kough Work Everywhere.

Strikers stop Customers from "struck"
stores-Kough Work Everywhere.
The death of one man and the in
jury of scores of others was the imme.
date result of the days fighting be-
tween the striking teamsters and their
sympathiZers on the one side and the
police and the non-urion men on the
other. There were riots in all parts OF
the city Men were dubbed and stoned
almost to death within square of po-
lice headquarters, and five miles away
men were shot down in the streets. At
hundred places between these two
extremes of distance there were as
saults and fights in the streets. Blood
of the fashionable shopping district
and furious riots took place almost in
the doorways Of the leading hotels.
Non-union men were pelted with
stones, bricks, and every other con-
ceivable sort of missile. They were
dragged from their wagons, beaten,
dubbed and stamped upon. In many
instances men walking along the
streets who had no active connection
whatever with the strike were assault
ed. beaten first and later accused Of
being strike breakers. y notable in
stance Of this kind was that of Rev.
w. X. Wheeler pastor of The Ninth
Presbyterian church., who, while pa
ing the corner Of Desl planes and Nd
ans street on his way to the Pennsyl-
vana station was attacked by three
men, who knocked him down and beat
him numerically.
Another proceeding of the strikers
was to stop customers leaving the
"struck" stores and interfere with them
because they had "boycotted' goods
ia their arms. In many instances
those stopped were Indies and the city
authorities are determined 10 stop this.
As far as known but one man was
killed during the day. The list of in
iured is much greater than that which
ii is possible obtain. In many cases
the non-union men swung their clubs
with great effect, knocking men from
their wagons headlong into the street;
in other instances, when assailed by
mobs, they fired point blank into the
crowds, and il is difficult to see how
the members of the mob could escape
many broken heads or how any bull
lets fired during the day should have
gone wild.
Following is the casualty list: Dead
Charles Beard. struck on the fore
head in a fight near the Auditorium
hotel.
The njured-Charles Moody. beaten
on the head by strikers; John Blum,
non-unicn driver, struck in the side
with brick. rib broken; VIM. Miles,
colored waiter. head cut with billy,
and trampled on; Martin Garray, non
union man, head badly cut by strikers;
! w. y. Brown, non-uniOn teamster.
struck by bucket of cement. thrown
from twelfth story of building at Adj
ans and State streets, leg broken; PO-
liceman Edward Campion. struck on
head with a brick, severely cut; Hen
ry Shutz, shot in left side by non
union teamster, not serious; Louis Els
man, colored. struck on head with a
brick: William Davis, colored non-un-
ion driver. head cut: James Butler. col
ored non-union driver. arm broken;
Andrew Scott, colOred non-union
driver. head cut; William Riggs. col
ored non-union driver, head cut: Frank
Curry. leader of non-unior men. struck
in head by a stone; a. 5. Utely. floor
manager OF Montgomery Ward Il Co.,
attacked by sluggers; Daniel Cohen,
non-uniOn man. struck on head with Il
/ club: William Burke. right hand lacer-
ated by brick: William HILL head and
left shoulder cut by stones: y. Il.
Smith, non-uniOn man. face cut with
stone; Frank Emerson. non-union
man. right hand smashed by heavy
stone: James Smith. ron-union man.
struck in the back with Il stone; Al
bert McIlvaine shot in the back. not
expected to live; Lyde Mcdowell. shot
i'm the left hip: William Bass. shot in
the left leg below the knee: j. Erikson,
shot i'm the right arm above the elbow
Guy Dittinger. police officer. Knocked
down with a revolver and half Of his
teeth kicked out; Policeman John
I Howe, Knocked down by striker with
a club; Leonard Weber struck in the
head by flying bullet: George Jordan,
I colored non-union man. badly beaten
: by mob Tony Renbberg. union team
ster. taken for non-uniOn man. struck
in head with stone. seriously hurt: Po-
liceman John Wiley. cut about the
head. face and hands: Policeman John
Torch, cut about head, face and body;
Policeman Thomas keenan,, cut about