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Show I RIOTING IN CHICAQO. 8lfc Yards the Scene of Bloodshed aa Result of Strike. fnaitlng wildly In the darkness, a ye of panic stricken strike breakers, 'ltd by Swift A Co.. spread conster-"bon conster-"bon through the stick yards In Chi-rar Chi-rar on Tuesday Itlot 1 alls were sent tothe police atid the armed garrison nl I'Vklng town turned out in full force, "sieving that the sinkers had mado organized attack under cover of "rkneas. falling to discover any strikers, the Police arrested the strikebreakers, all colored. Tho prisoners numbered a 'loten. They told of seeing suspicious I'wsons lurking In tho shadowa of lbs "Siblings. Their revolvers were of huge caliber. Ml the Mire tried to learn where th "ajroea had obtained a number of navy '"pons. It was denied that Swift , Co. had armed the men. The pollei took the view that the colored men had hot to rreato a disturbance, and held tas prisoners for arraignment lu court Two thousand peraons saw one ol lbs moat brutal rases of slugging and We of tho poorest marksmanship ol lbs policemen since the stock yard! trlke began. A atrlke breaker, Joho Mulloy, had Just led the yards when UVeo men attacked him. Mulloy wat knocked down and nearly killed. Flvt policemen Interfered, whereupon tht trio run. The poiico followed the men. fling tholr revolvers. Apparently every kut was aimed to hit, hut all missed. Juhn Doody. one of the men. however, as raptured. Lines of vigilant policemen guarded the entrance to the stock yards all day sod night, but despite this precaution disturbances were numerous and two of them enden with fatal results. While an attack waa being made on colored strike breakers aa they were leaving the stock yards, John Blokes, one of the strikers, waa shot and fatally fatal-ly wounded by one of the negroes. Stokes, together with fully a hundred companions, It is said, rushed un Hie negroes, and one of the latter drew a revolver and Itrcd Into the crowd, bitting Blokes. The police were clos- at hand and succeeded In scattering the rioters after much difficulty. During another riot within a hundred hun-dred feet of the asme plare and less thsn an hour after the one In which Btcikra wss Injured, a strike breaker was shot and killed. The rioter escaped es-caped before the police arrived on the scene and It la not known who la responsible re-sponsible for the shooting. In tho restsurunt tif Armour A Co., Swift ft Co. and Nelson. Morris A Co., til the dining room girls quit. The presence of ne.'Mo cooks was tho reason rea-son they gave, but It Is believed they desired to aid In the sympathetic itrlko. The belated sanction of the teamsters team-sters Joining their brother workmen In tho general atrlke has been given ty the oincera u( the International fr-wmirs' unton. and the 7ou driver emp.oyed In the packing Industry In I Chicago have quit work. |