The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-04
fRy the Associated Press.)

press Wagons.
(By the Associated PreSS.)
Chicago. Nav 2-The death of one
man and the injury of scores of oth-
ers was the immediate result OF to-
days 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 between these
two extremes of distance there were
assaults and fights in the streets.
Non-union men were pelted with
stones, bricks and every other con-
ceivable sort of missiles. They were
dragged from their wagons, beaten,
dubbed and stamped upon.
Negroes Quick on Trigger.
In return the non-union men, al
though hopelessly outnumbered in
every struggle fought desperately. In
several 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 We're quick with
their weapons. Large numbers OF
the non-union drivers carried heavy
clubs and they swung them with ter
rifle effect throughout the day. AS
far as can be ascertained tonight the
list of injured numbers in the neigh
borhood of forty, but it is far short
of being accurate.
The outlook for tomorrow is for
more fighting, and there is not the
slightest evidence of the approach
ing end of the strike.
Employers Less United.
The strike situation in Chi
cago assumed peculiar as
pect today and the employers who
have been opposing the striking
teamsters are not as united as here
tofore. The cause of this slight dis
sension is the team owners associa-
ton, which has contracts with the
railroads and many of the large
firms throughout the city to transfer
their merchandise. Until today it
ISOLATION and their allies were firmly
bound together in the fight for SUI
premacy against the teamsters.
The Team Owners Association,
which employs none but union team
sters fatty refused this afternoon to
make deliveries to any of the firms
involved in the strike. when asked to
do so by the employers association at
a conference at the Union League
Club. When the employers received
this ultimatum they notified the team
owners that unless the request that
no discrimination be made in deliv-
be made to have all existing con-
tracts between team owners and the
business houses and the railroads
cancelled.
New men will be added to the po-
lice force tomorrow and will be put
on strike duty as rapidly as they are
needed. Nine hundred of them will
be placed on State Street alone.
Judge C. C. Kohlsaat of the United
States Circuit Court. at the request
of the attorneys representing the
seven express companies, today issued
a temporary injunction restraining
all persons from interfering with the
wagons of the petitioners or the men
The Fighting Fiercer.
The fight today in the streets was
more fierce and savage than that of
yesterday. The strikers and their
sympathizers attacked the non-union
men at every opportunity, assailing
them with bricks, stones, clubs,
knives and any and every other Of
fensive weapon upon which they
10 forI1t inc
occurred in the heart of the business
section of the city, men being shot
down and 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 con-
nection whatever with the strike.
were assailed by hoodlums who beat
them first and later accused them of
being strike-breakers. A notable in
stance of this kind was that of Rev.
w. X. Wheeler, pastor of the Ninth
Presbyterian church, who, while pass
Ing the corner of Dies PLANES and
Adams streets on his way to the
Pennsylvania depot, was attacked by
three men, who knocked him down
and beat him numerically. until the
lliiely diIlVdI oI the ponce .SaVeC
him from further injury. Mr.. Whee-
Ter managed TO hold one of his as
sailants until the police could ar.
rest him.
William Miles, a colored waiter
while at work in lunch room a
Adams and Sagamon streets. halt
mile from any former scene of rioting
during the strike, was also a victim o
the strikers fury, although he had ha,
no connection whatever with tn
trouble. He was accused of being
strike breaker. was pounded on tn
head with a billy, knocked down an,