Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-29
STRIKERS RIOT At
SOUTH BEND, IND.
Militia Are Ordered to Be Ready
for Call.
CANCEL PASSENGER SERVICE
Attempt 10 Made to Deraii Grand
Grand Trunk Train Filled
With People-One Man
10 Shot.

South Bend. Ind. = Captain Charles
B. Calbert, company F, Third in
fantry, of this city. has been ordered
by Governor Marshall to mold his
troops in readiness to assemble at
moments notice. The superintendent
of the Grand Trunk in this city tele-
graphed Governor Marshall to send
troops here to protect railroad prop
erty, as the local authorities seemed
powerless to cope with the situation.
Grand Trunk oficials announced
that no attempt will be made to move
any passenger trains through South
Bend, orders having been issued to
cancel all passenger service to or
from the city.
Strikers, or their sympathizers, at
tempted to deraii east-bound passen-
ger train No at divers, tho first sta
ton at which Grand Trunk trains stop
when entering South Bend. The
engineer saw the thrown switch just
in time to bring his train to stop
and prevent heavy loss Of life.
]. 1reel of South Bend was serious
ly wounded by John Peck, Q detective
Of Battle Creek, Mich, who with
Eldridge Graham and William Mercy
holds, also of Battle Creek, are under
arrest. Freel was shot In the back
and is at Epworth hospital. A mob
burned two cabooses and attempted to
destroy several freight cars but the
arrival Of police and fire department
foiled the plan.
A freight train OF so cars was
stalled for seven hours by some one
cutting the air hose and taking the
couplings, and It tied up five passen-
ger train. The police are authority
for the statement that the stalling OF
the freight may not have been the
work of strikers but of men In the
employ OF the company, the police
about as part Of plan to get state
troops in the field and thus break the
backbone Of the strike by turning
public sympathy away from the
strikers.
A crowd OF 1900 to 1000 men and
boys Monday night made an effort to
burn a refrigerator car that had
been switched on a crossing west of
divers station. The city fire depart
ment succeeded in quenching the
flames after the car had blazed for 20
minutes or more.
, It was evident that the trouble was
brewing early In the evening for the
mob began to congregate at the juno
ton of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad and the Grand
Trunk. AS the crowd increased in
size it moved west from divers Sta
ton and when freight train Of seven
cars and caboose appeared on the
scene an hour later it was greeted
with shower of stones. spikes and
coupling pins.
AS soon as the train was stopped at
the west end of the yards the engine
crew was attacked by several foreign
ers, but the arrival of Assistant Chief
of Police Chapel and squad of po-
licemen routed the rioters for the time
being. Mayor Charles L. Goetz Of
South Bend and Sheriff Willard F.
Kerr Of ST. Joseph county instructed
D. Crombie, Montreal, first assistant
to Grand Trunk chief of transporta-
ton, who has been in the city, that
all local police protection would be
withdrawn from the railroad yards
unless every Pinkerton detective was
removed from the city. The private
detectives were Immediately with
drawn and the local officials are now
in complete charge of the situation.
Anticipating the possibility Of trou-
BILE In the yards. Governor Marshall
took time by the forelock and ordered
the four companies Of the First bat
talon, Third infantry. Indiana Nation
al Guard, located at South Bend, Ply
mouth, Warsaw and Elkhart under
command of Maj. George W. Freyer-
hmuth OF South Bend to hold them
selves in readiness to move on to
South Bend at so minutes notice.
! The governor ordered Gen. Will ].
Mckee, commander OF the state mi
hitia. who Is In the city, to remain In
South Bend and keep in close touch
with the strike situation The battalion
nor the most part consists of expert
enced men. the officers with very few
exceptions having been In tho service
for from five to ten years. The
strength is about 200 men.
!. Their Twentieth Baby Born.