New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-03
CHICAGO MOB RIDDEN.
MANY SHOT IN STREET.
Strikers Riot in Heart of City
Split in Employers Ranks.

Chicago May 2-The death of one man and
the injury of scores of others was the imme-
date result of to-day's fighting between the
striking teamsters and their sympathizers on
the one side and the police and the non-union
men on the other. There were riots in all parts
of the city. Men were dubbed and stoned almost
to death within a square Of police headquarters.
and five miles away men were shot down in the
streets
At a hundred places there were assaults and
fights in the streets. Blood was shed in State-st,
in the heart of the shopping district. and furi-
Gus riots took place almost in the doorways of
the leading hotels. Non-union men were pelted
with stones bricks and every other conceivable
sort of missiles. They were dragged from their
wagons, beaten. dubbed and stamped upon. The
mobs that followed the wagons which they rode
were ugly in the extreme. and but for the splen-
did service rendered by the police the list of
dead tonight would he twenty instead of one
In return the non-union men, although hope
lessly outnumbered in every struggle. fought
desperately In several instances they drew
their revolvers and emptied them into the
crowds that pressed around their wagons, peIt-
ing them with stones and threatening their lives
The coIored drivers especially were quick with
their weapons. Large numbers of the non-union
drivers carried heavy clubs. and they swung
them with terrific effect throughout the day.
AS far as can be ascertained to-n night the list
of injured numbers in the neighborhOod Of forty,
but it is far short of being accurate. 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 their friends and there is no chance Of learn
ing their names or of even guessing at their
number.
The outlook for tomorrow is for more fight
-f{-l oF
the approaching end of the strike.
The strike situation assumed a new aspect
to-day, and the interests opposing the teamsters
are not as united as heretofore. The cause
of this slight disse ton is the Team
Owners Association, which has contracts
with the railroad companies and many Of the
large firms throughout the city to transfer their
merchandise. Until to-day it was supposed
that the Employers Association and their allies
were firmly bound together in the fight for su-
premacy agaist the teamsters.
The Team Owners Association which employs
none but union teamsters, fatty refused this af-
ternoon to make deliveries to any of the firms
involved in the strike, when ordered to do so by
the Employers Association. When the employ
ers received this ultimatum they warned the
team owners that unless the request that no
discrimination be made in deliveries were
granted an effort would be made to have all
existing contracts between team owners and
the business houses and the railroads
ceued.
Yesterday the Employers Teaming Associa-
ton sent word the large team owners that
they desired to know where they stood in the
present fight Many of the members of the
Employers Association have contracts for the
delivery of coal with the team owners. who
have so far failed TO make any deliveries since
the strike.
The team owners yesterday would not give
definite reply as to what could be expected OF
them. This afternoon at the Union League Club
a meeting was held between representatives OF
the Employers Association and the large team
owrars. 1t was the desire OF the members of
the Employers Association to bring much
pressure to bear upon the team owners as posi-
BILE, and with this view they had invited to the
conference representatives of the railroads en-
tering the city. The team owners stated their
position exactly They would not attempt TO
deliver coal to any firm where a strike is now
in progress giving as reasons for their refusing
that their own men would he called out and
they would be involved in the trouble. with
which they considered they had no direct con-
Germ. They were informed that if they would
not make deliveries their contracts with the
business houses. amounting 10 millions of dol
lars annually would be cancelled. This did not
change their attitude, however, AIN lhey per
sisted in their refusal take part in the strike
An exception to the general attitude OF the
Team owners Association was made by the
Central Supply Association, a large concern
which employs 3SO teams. The officers Of this
company declared that they would make de-
ltveries wherever their contracts called for them
irrespective of strike conditions The Commits
sion Team owners and the Lake Transportation
Team owners associations have taken similar
stand.
ONE THOUSAND MORE GUARDS.
To-day the employers informed Mayor Dunno
and chief of Police O'Nein that they intended to
move tomorrow 1855 wagons owned by them
and the different express companies and manned
~, ron-union men, This made necessary call
for tbe swearing in OF 1000 additional police
men but after the conference at the Union
League club the employers modified their plans
and informed the city Han officials that they
wouId only Increase very slightly the number
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