Show chicagoans MUS street cars prevented from running by striking employed Emp loyes constant scenes of disorder over a district approximately fifty square miles in extent resulted reul ted thursday from the inauguration of a strike by the employed emp loyes of one of the two prin cipal surface street railway companies in chicago all along the lines how ever cars were started strike sym made desperate onslaughts on the crews beginning at dawn of day and continuing as long as care cars remained on the tracks the tie up was made complete A number of cars were wrecked and that no person was killed Is no fault of the rioters one mans back was broken and the first shot of the strike was fired at wentworth avenue and west sixty ninth street where a mob of several hundred persons tried to hold up a train many persona persons chiefly nonunion non union street cannen carmen were injured by flying splintered glass two women were among those hurt excepting a few dozen passengers who had to flee from the cars the patrons of the company were forced to all other sorts of methods to get down and back |