Milford chronicle., 1905-05-05
FIERCE RIOTTNG
in CHICAGO
Non Union Men Attacked at Every
/ Opportunity by Strikers
ONE KILLED, FORTY INJURED

Chicago. May 3.-The strike situa,
zion in Chicago has assumed a pecu.
liar aspect, and the interests which
have been opposing the striking team
Gters are not as united as heretofore.
The cause Of this slight dissension is
Ghe Team Owners Association, which
has contracts with the railroads and
many of the large firms throughout
the city to transfer their merchandise.
The Team Owners Association,
which employs. none but union team
gters, fatty refused to make deliveries
90 any Of the firms now involved in the
strike when ordered to do so by the
Employer Association. When the
employers received this ultimatum
they notified the team owners that un-
less the request that no discrimination
be made in deliveries were granted an
effort would be made to have all ex-
bsting contracts between team owners
and the business houses and the roads
cancelled.
The fighting in the streets was more
ferce and savage than any that has
yet occurred, one man being killed
and 40 injured, many seriously. The
strikers and their sympathizers at
tackled the non-uniOn men at every op-
portunity, assailing them with bricks,
stones, clubs, knives and any and ev-
cry other offensive weapon upon which
they could lay their hands. The fight
ing occurred in the heart of the busi.
ness section of the city men being
shot down within 200 feet of the retail |
store of Marshall Field & Co., dubbed |
nearly to death at the corner Of the |
Auditorium Hotel in plain view of |
hundreds of ladies who were compelled
to run from the mob to save their own
lives. In many instances men walking
along the streets who had no active
connection whatever with the strike
were assaulted by hoodlums, who beat
them first and later accused them Of
being strike breakers. A Aotable in
stance of this kind was that of Rev.
w. K. Wheeler, pastor of the Ninth
Presbyterian church. who, while pass
ing the corner of Desplaines and Ad-
ans streets on his way to the Penn
sylYania depot, was attacked by three
men, who knocked him down and beat
him numerically, until the timely ar
rival of the police saved him from fur
ther injury. Mr. Wheeler managed to
hold one of his assailants until the Do
lice could arrest him.
William Miles, a colored waiter. {
while at work in a lunch room at Ad- I,
lms and Sangamon streets, half a mile
from any former scene of rioting dur
ing the strike, was also a victim of the ;
strikers fury, although he had no con-
lection whatever with the trouble. He
vas accused of being a strike breaker, ;
vas pounded on the head with a billy.
Knocked down and trampled on. Miles
vas removed to the hospital, where Fl
lis injuries were pronounced severe. "
AS far as known, but one man was n
illed during the day. The list of in h
ured is m6eh greater than that which r.
is possible to obtain. In many cases T
he non-union men swung their clubs o1
nth great effect, knocking men from m
heir wagons headlong into the estreets; th
4 other instances, when assailed by at
lobs, they fired point blank into the to
rowds, and it is difficult to see how nc
le members of the mob could escape
Iany broken heads or how all the
ullets fired during the day should -,
ave gone wild. r.
Charles Beard was struck on the NJ
rehead in the fight near the Audi ~.
rium Hotel. He died of a fractured -
Iull at a hospital where he was ~,
ken. -