Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-05
VIOLENCE marks
chicago STRIKE
FOUR MEN SHOT AND MANY
OTHERS ARE INJURED IN
STREET BATTLE.
POLICE UNABLE TO
PREVENT CLASHES

PREVENT CLASHES
Mob Attempts to Lynch a Negro, But
Officers Save Him-Mayor Calls
for 900 Special Men to Assist in
Preserving Order
Chicago, May 3.-Shooting, smuggling,
an attempt at lynching and nearly
every other kind of violence of which
mobs are capable or which they may
incite turned nearly every down town
Chicago street into battlefield Tues
day, resulting in four men being shot
down and nearly forty others being
more OF less severely injured.
1t was the first day of actual terror
Since the great teamsters strike be-
gan, and 1t spread so rapidly and with
such spontaneity that before noon the
police had been overwhelmed in their
efforts to prevent the hundreds of in
dependent drivers imported into the
city from being beaten or to prevent
the Independent workers, frightened
out OF their wits by mob attacks, from
drawing revolvers and magazine piss
tolls and shooting at their frenzied tor
mentors.
The most furious clashes came at
Harrison street and Wabash avenue,
Congress street and Wabash avenue,
West Jackson boulevard and Halsted
street and Market and Madison streets.
In each of these encounters many
shots were fired and three or four men
were shot 30 severely that the recovery
OF one is considered impossible, while
the others have only fighting chance
to live.
Police Fail to Prevent Battles.
Not since the great railroad strike
OF 1884 have the police had such
furious struggles to preserve order
and the police failed in their desired
purpose. They could not prevent
clashes between the union and indie
pendent toilers because of the widely
scattered points at which the belliger-
ents met.
There was not conflict in which
one or more heads were not broken or
bruised, and in nearly every instance
there was more or less shooting or dis
play of firearms.
The kfngpin of it all, from the en-
ployers' side. was Frank Curry, whose
reputation as strike breaker is ma
tional. Curry had come boasting what
he intended to do, and he found a big
task cut out for him. However, de-
spite the fact that he is only an in
dividual, he seemed to be everywhere
at once directing the hundreds of in
dependent men he has brought into
the city or found ready to help him
when he arrived.
Try to Lynch Negro Drivers,
A determined attempt was made to
lynch colored Independent driver at
noon to-day on Jackson boulevard be-
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strike, in which several shots were
fred, and many persons injured by
bricks, glass and clubs.
Frank Curry, leader of the non
union forces, was himself in the thick
hour. It began at the old Parmelee
barns, jackson boulevard and Frank
Ain street, now non-union teamsters'
headquarters, and extended along Mar
ket street to Madison and back again
to the barns. The lynching Of the
negro would have been accomplished
except for the struggles Of three police
men who were protecting the man.
One Of the union teamsters had a rope
on his wagon, and the rioters made re-
peated attempts to get it about the
terror-stricken negro's neck. The po-
lice finally escorted the man to safety.
The trouble began when Frank
Curry sent twenty negroes in wagon
to get load of heavy oak canes from
4 cane establishment on Market
street, near Madison. The canes were
to be used as clubs by the independent
men. When the wagon reached Madi-
son street it was stopped by band of
union teamsters, whose headquarters
are on Madison street, near Market.
The wagon was attacked, the harness
cut from the horses and the negroes
dragged from the vehicle and as
ssulted.
/ The State street department stores
will resume retail deliveries Wednes-
day. A number of the merchants called
on Mayor Dunno and informed him Of
this move They asked for police pro-
lection for 1885 wagons. Mayor Dunno
ordered Chief ONeill to draw 800 spe-
cial policemen from the ciyil-service
commission list The mayOr ordered
that copies of his proclamation, issued
Sunday, be pasted in conspicuous places
throughout the city. 1t calls on the peo-
pie to refrain from violence and from
assembling.
Employers Assume Hostile Front
The employers have assumed more
decidedly hostile front and are taking
aggressive action. Hundreds of indie
pendent workmen are being brought to
Chicago from the east. south and west.
ard the strikers are being shown no
compromise. Eleven hundred and fifty
policemen are assigned to strike duty.
Attorney Levy Mayer has applied to
the federal courts for injunctions in
Lshalf OF the seven big express COM
I.i.ies. These injGncticns will be in
t4g,si,:al oats, as the companies are rot
,a!atcd.
!. uies i.a..di.o{i asl1 ifty wagons were
.5 OFT z',icss.ay &. The Employers
.lesz.iag ao-aIa.S. The express COM
pa..es aaat out Ito.
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