Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1919 — STRIKE RIOT AT HAMMOND [ARTICLE]

STRIKE RIOT AT HAMMOND

Six Killed and 20 Wounded There , Yesterday Morning. Rolla Gates, who has been employed in Hammond for some time but who moved his family back to Rensselaer last Sunday, expecting to remain in Hammond for awhile yet himself, telephoned down yesterday that when went to breakfast he found 1,000 strikers from the Standard Steel works lined up on Columbia and Highland avenues and 200 strike-breakers on Calumet avenue. As the day police came on duty the strikers tried to take their away from them, but the police opened fire on the mob and killed six of the strikers and wounded 20 others. One of the Matter had three bullets in his head. This action on the part of the police had a quieting effect on the mob, and the wounded were picked up and taken to the hospital.