Evening star., 1922-07-11
300 Bullets Fired
Without Harm at
Bloomington, Ill.
ADDITIONAL TRAINS
FAIL TO OPERATE
Signalmen Refuse to Go
Out-Disorders Occur
in Many Places.
Nv the Associated Press.

8v the Associated Press.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, July 11.-More
Than 800 shots exchanged by state
guardsmen and snipers marked the
first nights control of the chicago
and Alton shops by troops. Two men
hidden in a gulley north of the snops
Tired twice at sentries shortly pc
fore 8 am. Three hundred ROUNDS
from automatic rifles were poured
into the gulley. At daylight the place
was searched, but no trace OF the
enipers found. Shooting was resumed
at 7:15 this morning. when snlpers
fired on a sentry at the northeast edge
Of the shop yards.
No one was wounded on the SOL
iliers' side during the night.
It was unofficially reported at the
guard camp this morning that two
more companies of troops would ar.
rive today. 1t is also understood
that non-union workers Will arrive
from Chicago today.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made to
meet their train with two companies
Of troops to escort them to work.
Four Companies in Shops.
Four companies, including the Dele
VAN and Danville machine gunners,
were stationed in the shops last night.
while the Springfield company patrol
ed the Union depot district.
The entire night was succession
of alarms. At midnight, three shots
were fired at sentries near the north
end of the plant. A lieutenant and 2
detail investigated and set up ma
chine gun covering grocery store
where fifteen to twenty-five strike
pickets were congregated. The lieu
tenant then told the pickets the gun
was trained on them and advised
them to leave.
Several shots were fired at o'clock
from the direction of an elevated
roadway a block north of Seminary
avenue. which bounds the northern
side of the shops. The sentries re-
sponded with no indication that any
one was hurt.
Spies EIude sentries.
At 2:45 Maj. L. w. Roszell re-
succeeded in slipping past the sentry
line into the shops on a spying ex-
pedition and had made their escape.
The north end of the shops is
vast open trail, filled with piles of
lumber, freight cars and small build
1ngs- The strikers, knowing every
foot Of the ground, are able to slip
through by-paths undetected. Sem
tries were doubled and second ma
chine gun company called out to re-
Then, Just before 3 o'clock, two
shots hummed past sentry's ears.
They apparently came from a weed
patch in little gulley just north
of Seminary avenue.
Three automatic rifles sprayed the
patch with 900 rounds of bullets
and there was no further firing from
there during the night. Daylight
failed to reveal any trace that any
one had been hit.
is in charge of the guards in the
shops, predicted this morning that
today will be the decisive day. After
q round of the sentry posts at am.
ne said last nights sniping was
merely to test out the mettle Of the
soldiers and see what they would do
under fire.
Prepare for Attack.
with non-union workers expected
today, the troops are preparing to
resist an attack in force.
Col Albert L. Culbertson, command
ang the both Infantry, spent the
hight at his headquarters in the Union
depot.
crowds which gathered around the
shops and depot early last night and
appeared threatening, were driven
away at 10 O'Clock by heavy down.
pour of rain. Only the shower, off,
GERS said, prevented serious disorders
last night.
At o'clock last night there were
more than 1000 people along the
west and north sides of the shops, and
several hundred more around the
depot. The crowds jeered and hoot-
ed the sentries. and at the west en-
trance to the shops. where a mob en-
tered last Friday night and ran non
aInion workers off the property, the
Situation became tense. The crowd
backed the deadline, and as fast as
the company property. At every
Turn of their beats the sentries were
forced to bring their rifles into play,
preld horizontally to force the jeering
throng.
Strikebreakers Arrive.
Nlnety,four non-union workmen ar
rived this morning. They were
searched by the troops and a gun was
found sticking out Of one mans sock,
it was confiscated.
Col. Culbertson has issued orders
that all workmen going into the
shops be searched for weapons and
liquor.
IF there Is any fighting to be done
we will do it," the colonel said.
Crowds or strikers and strike SYM
Hathizers began crowding around the
shops this morning and at 10 o'clock
guns covering every entrance
Report Three Shots Fired.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July 11.-Col.
ALBERT l. Culbertson, in command of
The state troops at Bloomington, Ill.
5n an official report to Adjt. Gen.
Black this morning. said that only
three shots have been fired at the
Chicago and Alton shops at Bloom
angton, one from outside the military
tines and two from inside, one of
which was accidental.