Washington, July 22.
Sensational allegations were made to-day in the report of the Senate committee of inquiry into the steel mill riot in Chicago on May 30.
The report declared that the Police bad used excessive force and hat shown "the most careless indifference to human life and suffering" in breaking up.the strike, The police had attacked without warning or provocation, beyond abusive language, and had "dragged seriously injured and unconscious men along the ground as if they were common drunkards."
The crowd was mot generally armed, the report stated, and any evidence that shots were fired from the demonstrators was discredited, Many of the clubs, stones and pieces. of scrap iron, which the police alleged had been carried by the strikers, "were actually collected by the police themselves, after the clash, from a nearby dump heap."
The riot, which was the culmination of a strike affecting 80,000 steel workers, took the lives of ten demonstrators. Sixty-three strikers were injured as well as 23 policemen. The clash broke out in the southern district of Chicago.—Reuter,
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