Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-08-05
STRIKERS IN RIOT
GRAND TRUNK PASSENGER SERV-
ICE ABANDONED AT SOUTH
BEND, IND.
ORDr1 TROOPS TO BE READY
One Man Shot and Three Detectives
Arrested-Attempt to Derail Train
Is Frustrated by AIertness of En-
gineer.

gineer.
South Bend, Ind-Governor Mar
shall Sunday night ordered Capt.
Charles B. Calvert. Company F, Third
infantry. of this city. to hold his
troops in readiness to assemble at
moments notice. There was spas
modic rioting in the Grand Trunk
yards all day by mobs of strikers and
their sympathizers.
Grand Trunk officials 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. Advices from all along
the Grand Trunk system Is to the eff
feet that strikers are quiet at all
points except at South Bend.
Strikers, or their sympathizers, at
tempted to derail east-bound passen-
ger train No. at divers, the 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.
j. Freel of South Bend was serious
ly wounded by John Peck, a detective
of Battle Creek, Mich, who with
Eldridge Graham and William Mercy
nolds, also Of Battle Creek, are under
arrest. Freel was shot in the back
and Is at Epworth hospital mob
burned two cabooses and attempted to
destroy several freight cars but the
arrival Of police and fire department
foiled the plan.
freight train Of SO cars was
stalled for seven hours by some one
cutting the ar hose and taking the
couplings, and it tied up five passen-
ger trains. 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
believing that the move was brought
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, sympathizers. made an effort
Monday night to burn a refrigerator
icar that had been switched on
lcrossing west of divers Station. The
lefty fire department succeeded in
Iquenching the flames after the car had
lblazed for 20 minutes or more.
: 1t was evident that the trouble was
;brewing early in the evening for the
mob began to congregate at the june
jtion of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad and the Grand
Trunk. AS the crowd increased in
size it moved west from divers Sta
ition and when a freight train of seven
cars and a caboose appeared on the
scene an hour later 1t was greeted
with a shower of stones, spikes and
coupling pins.
; AS soon as the train was stopped at
Grew was attacked by several foreign
ters, but the arrival of Assistant Chief
Iof Police Chapel and a squad of po-
aicemen routed the rioters for the time
being. Mayor Charles L. Goetz of
South Bend and Sheriff Willard F.
Kerr of st. Joseph county instructed
%. Crombie, Montreal, first assistant
to Grand Trunk chief of transporta-
tion, who has been in this city, that
hll local police protection would be
withdrawn from the railroad yards
unless every Pinkerton detective was
removed from the city. The private
detectives were withdrawn.
!; Anticipating the possibility of trou-
Die 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 to Maj. George W. Freyer-
muth of South Bend to hold them
selves in readiness to move on to
South Bend at 30 minutes notice.
, The governor ordered Gen. VIII J.
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
for the most part consists of expert
enced men, the officers with very few
exceptions having been in the service
for from five to ten years.
Mayor Goetz issued a proclamation
urging all inhabitants to refrain from
gathering in crowds on the streets and
to assist in preventing order.