The Red Cloud chief., 1905-05-05
RIOT n BLOODSHED
ONE MAN KILLED AND FIFTY IN
JURED IN CHICAGO STREETS.
Team Owners Cut Loose From Asso-
citation and stand by Union Drivers.
Are Sustained In Their Position by
the Railroads.

citation and stand by UNION OriVers.
Are Sustained In Their Position by
the Railroads.
Chicago, May 3.-The death OF one
man and the injury VI scores OF others
vas the immediate result of the fight
ing between the striking Transfers
sd their s%ympathiZers on the one
side, and the police and the %nonunioI
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
aud five miles away men were shot
sCwn in the streets. At q hundred
places between these two extremes or
disturbance there were assaults and
sights in the streets. Blood was shed
On state street, In the heart or the
fashionable shopping district, and fu.
rious riots took place almost in the
coorways of the leading hotel. Non
union men were pelted with stones.
bricks and every other conceivable
sort Of missiles. They were dragged
lrom their wagons, beaten. dubbed
md stamped upon. The mobs that
followed the wagons on which they
rode were ugly In the extreme. But Tor
the splendid service rendered by the
police force, the list of dead would be
twenty. instead of one.
Nonunion Men Fight Desperately.
In return the nonunion men, although
hopelessly o~utnumbered in every
struggle, fought desperately. In sew
eral instances they drew their re-
volvers and emptied them into the
crowds that pressed around their
wagons, pelting them with stones and
threatening their lives. The colored
drivers especially were quick with
their weapons. Large numbers of the
nonuniOn drivers carried heavy clubs,
and they swung them with terrific eff
Eect throughout the day. AS far as
can be a~scertained, the list of in.
iured numbers in the neighborhood OF
tfty. but it is far short of being accu-
ate 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.
Charles Beard was struck on the
forehead In a fight near the Auditor
tkull in the hospital.
4 Four Shot In Riot.
. Four men were shot at Polk street
and California avenue as the result OF
en- attempt of an expressman to de-
liver goods on the far West side with
Dut police protection.
During a riot at Halstead and Erie
streets, which lasted for an hour, and
n which fully 1000 people were en-
gagged, three policemen and three non
union men were injured, and twice as
many rioters we're dubbed.
Men walking along the streets, who
had no active connection whatever
Nth the strike, were assaulted by
huodlums, who beat them first and lat
er accused them of being strike break
was that of Rev. w. X. Wheeler
pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian
church, who while passing the corne
Of Desplaines m Adams streets OF
els way to the Pennsylvania depot
vas attacked by three men, VIII
nercifully, until the timely arrival @
she police saved him from critical In
sury. Mr.. Wheeler managed to hoi
one of his assailants until the polio
could arrest him.
The outlook is for more fightin,
and there is not the slightest evidenc
vi the approaching end of the strik'
The strike did not spread In an
degree. No more men were Gale
rut and from present appearance
there is no immediate prospect tn;
IN more teamsters will strike.
First Round for Strikers.
The strike assumed a peculiar aspe
End the interests which have be,
opposing the striking transfers a
not as united as heretofore. ri
cause of this dissension is the Tea
Owners association, which has &C
tracts with the railroads and many
the large firms throughout the city,
transfer their merchandise. 1t W
supposed that the Employers assoc
tion and their allies were firmly bou
tDgether in the fight for suprema
against the teamsters. The Tei
owners association, which emplO
none but union teamsters, fatty
the firms now involved in the stri