Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-04-04 | Page 30 | Chicago is Terrorized by Election Rioters

CHICAGO IS ISBY TERRORIZED BY ELECTION I RIOTERS By United Prose Press CHICAGO April 3 Chicago's 3 municipal municipal mu mu- campaign closed dosed tonight in a veritable carnival al of or riots and red tire fire mass meetings incipient street fights tights and saloon brawls pink teas tea and parades Voters go to the polls poll Tuesday Only finishing touches wilbe will wil willbe be put on the campaign Monday ronday Twenty-five Twenty thousand men rioted for tor twenty minutes at Clark and Randolph streets lato late this afternoon when a a. for William Halo Hale Thompson Republican snatched a banner bearing tho the name of ot Robert Rober M. M Democratic candidate for tor mayor from a a. machine before the tho elt city hall ball Several men were re removed removed removed re- re moved to hospitals after police had hac stopped the rioting by free tree use o ot of clubs Shortly before the city hall ball riot one ono thousand and or more adherents adherents ad ad- stormed into a a. monster mass mas meeting meeting- at Cohan's grand opera house houss The pandemonium became s so great the meeting was postponed Several women and a number o omen ot of otmen men were bruised in the crush Mounted policemen had to gallop into a mob in front of ot the Union hotel when and an Thompson forces clashed over an attack madon made mad on an auto bearing a n Thompson ban ban- ner There were many bloody noses nose s sand and split lips before this particular riot was put down At State and Randolph streets where a section of ot the tho Thompson parade comprised of ot a wild West Wes show led lcd by William F. F Cod Cody wen went by another nother general fight tight was pre pre- rho Tho rioters crowded Mary Man under a street car She was badly injured and rushed to Iroquois 1 She ma may be an Invalid for life A pie pic wa wagon on got in the way o ot of several hundred street fighters who clashed as tho the Thompson parade passed State and Dearborn streets The vehicle was overturned and its contents proved far more effective in stopping tho the rIMing than were the police reserves who had been called out Each side tonight claimed victory by at least