Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-04-07 | Page 9 | Bedstead Plant Ravaged by Fire

BEDSTEAD PLAHT RAVAGED BY FIRE CHICAGO, April 7. Following by only a few hours a vicious attack by union pickets on two employees of the Art Bedstead company, the plant of that concern at Thirty-seventh place and Rockwell Street has been ravaged by fire. The ames wrecked the entire south half of the plant and caused a loss estimated at $100,000. A score of families living Jn cottages along the two. streets .'were driven out, though their homes were not damaged. .' For four weeks a strike has been on at the plant, and non-union workmeu frequently have been harassed by pickets. pick-ets. - The blaze started with a series of explosions ex-plosions in the shellac department The first blast hurled Watchmen George Hardy and Matthew Grinalk across a room adjoining the shellac department painfully bruising both. ; A tew hours before the fire started a dozen men who had been watching the plant attacked Peter and Problus An- drews, brothers, who are employed by . the concern. ! Both men were knocked down, kicked and beaten, and were unconscious when the police arrived. -The assailants assail-ants escaped, n