The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-09
Three Men Fatally Injured in
Chicago Yesterday
MANY MORE BADLY HURT
State Street Stores Are Able to De-
liver Goods on Almost Normal
Basis-Strikers Are
Augmented.

strikers claim gains in the teamSterS
strike today. The employers declare that
they have gained a considerable average
in the number of wagons sent out and
the amount of business transacted. The
strikers claims based on that fact that
250 drivers for the various furniture deal
ers in the city will strike tomorrow MORN
ing, and also $50 paint workers employed
by the Heath & Milligan Co. The strike
of the furniture dealers drivers was fore
shadowed on Saturday, when in con-
vention of the Furniture Dealers asso-
citation it was declared that their men
must make deliveries irrespective of
strike orders They today ordered their
men to carry goods to boycotted houses,
and the strike tomorrow will be the re-
suit.
The paint workers of Heath & Milligan
are the first members of any union not
member of the teamsters' organizations
to go on strike in support of the team
sters They have walked out because of
the delivery of goods by non-union team
sters
Business Is Almost Normal.
The State sreet department stores and
large drygoods houses sent out nearly
their complement of delivery wagons this
morning, and throughout the day trans
acted business on almost normal basis.
On the wagons of Carson, Pierre, Scott
& Co. ample preparations were made for
possible trouble. All of their wagons
were guarded by at least two represen-
tatives of the law, either police officers in
buggies or deputy sheriffs, the latter be-
ing in all cases armed with rifles. The
deputies sat in the rear of the wagons
and held their guns in positions to use
at to first sign of disturbance. The big
department store of Rothschild & Co. for
the first time since the strike began load
ed their wagons this morning, using po-
licemen and deputy sheriffs for protec-
ton. When II was found that they,sconld
rot be supplied with the necessary num-
ber of deputies, numbers of their en-
ployes were sworn in by the sheriff. This
procedure was adopted by many of the
houses, and the sheriff by night had 1150
deputies at work.
Fifteen hundred wagons manned by nom
union men were moving on State street,
and the number will be materially in
creased tomorrow. No more colored men
are being hired, either by the State
street stores or by the Employers Team
ing company, and as rapidly as possible
those now at work are being supplanted
by white men.
The rioting today was of sharper
character than that of Saturday. Three
men were fatally injured. and a number
of others badly hurt, although the num-
her of the injured is not nearly so large
as on some of the days during last week.
The fatally hurt:
Three Persons Fatally Hurt.
John Fruen stabbed by colored man,
who resented the epithet of strike-brealxer
Richard Fruen, brother of John, stabbed
by same colored man.
Albert Enbers shot in the abdomen
and left hip by William ODay, colored
teamster, whom he had attacked uled
late tonight.
Others injured are: Wade Crowder, col
ored, teamster, assaulted by mob and
beaten about face and head in an alley
back of the Olympic theatre
John Pitkin. colored, teamster, cut
about the head at the same time and
place.
William D. vandyke, shot in the right
leg by Harry Cunningham a guard en-
ployed by the Adams Express company.
Emil Kimber, union teamster, shot in
the arm during saloon row over the
strike.
Albert Mckay, colored badly beaten
bv several strikers while standing on the
platform of the elevated road at state
and Vanburen streets
The majority of the ARRAYS occurred
during the early part of the afternoon.
Enbers was shot tonight by O'Day, col
ored teamster. O'Day was driving soutr
in the alley west of Stewart avenue, be-
tween Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
streets. when he was attacked by En-
hers who struck him with a heavy
stone. ODay drew revolver and fired
twice. Both bullets took effect in Enber $
body. O'Day was arrested. The Hansen
Alcock company ODay's employers, are
not involved in the teamsters strike, and
there was no occasion for Enber's at
tack.
Civic Commission Is In Bad.
The civic commission appointed by
Mayor Dunno to investigate the strike
commenced operation today. 1t did little
but organize for future work. however
and the promise for the successful per-
fornnance of its mission does not seem to
be bright IT has no power to summon
witnesses, and must therefore rely upon
volunteers testimony. Tonight the mem
hers of the Employers association de-
clared that they had received no official
notice of the creation of the commission
and would have no dealings with its until
they had been properly notified of Its
existence. President O. Dold of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor declared, for
tho labor men, that none of them would
annear before the commission and give
any evidence whatever, unless its sessions
were omen to the public. and it inves-
tigated not only the causes of the present
taomsters' strike but those leading up tC
The strike of the garment workers oil
Montgomery Ward & Co. last January
II was in support of this strike. foul
months after It's inception, that the team
sters went out in sympathy
The members of the mayors commits
sion isued a statement late this Afternoon
declaring that they would hold private
sessions daily in the city hall. 1t was
announced. moreover. that no announce
wont of the proceedings would be made
until the hearing was entirely completed
and a decision reached. The action OF tht
labor men in declaring against the secre
feature of the rearing practicaliy nnilihee
tba attention of the commission sooI
as announced.
The efforts of the attorneys of the labor
leaders to protect their clients from an
svering questions in connection with th'