ten o'clock
Special mounted police were riding up and down the streets that paralleled the Burlington tracks , and ugly looking armed deputies were everywhere in evidence . The forced quiet that pervaded the opposing armies served only to increase the anxiety of the observing . Every man who had any direct interest in the contest seemed to have a chip on his shoulder . At ten o'clock the strike was to be extended to all connecting lines , the switching yards and stock yards . When the hour arrived the switchmen threw up their caps and quit . Now the different companies made an effort to replace the strikers and trouble commenced . The deputies , who had been aching to get a whack at the strikers for countless cursings which they had received , now used their guns unmercifully upon the unprotected heads of the men , and the police , who disliked and refused to associate with the deputies , used their clubs upon all who resisted them .