Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-11
GUARDS ON Duty
AT ALTON SHOPS
RETURN SHOTS
Bloomington, ILL.,, July l.-(By the A. P.)-
More than 300 shots exchanged by state
guardsmen and snipers marked the first control of
the Chicago and Alton
shops by troops.
Two men hidden in a

shops by troops.
Two men hidden in a
gully north Of the shops fired twice
at sentries shortly before a. m.
Three hundred rounds from auto
matte rifles were poured into the
gully.
At daylight the place was searched
but no trace of the snipers found
Shooting was resumed at 7:15 this
morning when snipers fired on SEN
try at the northeast edge of the shop
yards.
No one was wounded on the
soldiers side during the night.
1t was unoflicially reported at the
guard camp this morning that two
more companies of troops would ar
rive today.
1t is also understood that nom
union workers will arrive from Chi
cago today. Arrangements have been
made TO meet their train with two
companies of troops to escort them
to work.
Four Companies on Duty.
-Four companies, including the
Delavan and Danvile machine gun
ners, were stationed in the shops last
night, while the Springfield company
patrolled the Union depot district.
The entire night was succession
of alarms At midnight three shots
We're fired at sentries near the north
end of the plant. A lieutenant and a
detail investigated and set up
machine gun covering a grocery store
where ID to 25 strike pickets were
oongregated, The lieutenant then
told the pickets the gnn 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
Ave, which bounds the northern side
Of the shops The sentries respond
ed, with no Indication that any one
was hurt.
At 245 Major L. w. Roszell re-
ceived a report that four men had
succeeded in slipping past the sentry
line into the shops on spying ex-
petition and had made their escape.
The north end of the shops is vast
open tract, filled with piles of lum
Der. freight cars and small buildings.
The strikers, knowing every foot of
the ground, are able to slip through
bypaths undetected Sentries were
doubled and a second machine gun
company called out to reinforce the
one ON duty
Shots Fired at Guards
Then, just before 3 O'Clock, two
shots hummed past sentrys ears.
They apparently came from a weed
patch in a little gully just north of
Seminary avenue.
Three automatic rifles sprayed the
patch with three hundred rounds of
bullets, and there was no further
firing from there during the night.
Daylight failed to reveal any trace
that anyone had been hit.
Lieutenant Col. Chas W. Nunan,
who is in charge of the guards in the
shops, predicted this morning that to-
day would be the decisive day. After
a round Of the sentry posts at Z a. III.
he said last nights sniping was mere
ly, to test out the mettle of the
NblUItlS anu see Nltal llltS Nouid uo
under fire,
With non-union wOrkmen expected
today the troops are prearing to re-
sist an attack in force.
Colonel CuIbertson in Command.
Colonel Albert l.. Culbertson, com
the 130th infantry spent
the night at his headquarters in
union depot
Crowds which gathered around the
shops and depot early last night and
threatening were driven
away at 10 o'clock by heavy down
pour of rain Only the shower, of
orders last night
At 9 o'clock last night there was
more than 1000 people along the west
and north sides OF the shops and sew
eral hundred more around the depot.
The crowds ieered and hooted the
sentries, and at the west entrance to
the shops. where mob entered last
Friday night and ran non-union work
ers off the property, the situation be-
came tense.
The crowd packed the deadline
and as far as the sentries passed
Overtlowed onto the company proper
ty at every turn of their beats the
sentinels were forced to bring their
rifles into play, held horizontally. to
force the ieering throng back.
Import Non-union Workmen.
Ninety-four uon-union workmen ar
rived this morning. They were
searched by the troops and gun was
found sticking out of one mans sock.
Ii was ConiiScated.
Colonel Culbertson had Issued