The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01
4 N4lt!d Terror in San Francisco.
The "Hoodlums' on the War
Path.
Attempts at Incendairism.

SAttempta at Incendairism.
SAN Francisco, July 1910 p.
M.-The Citizens COMMITTEES began
to assemble at I. p. NJ, at Hortieul-
| turaI Hall, and the building was soon
, filed. About 8 O'Clock W.. 4. Cole
man, President, called the meeting 10
orJer, and had scarcely done so when
. message was received that o IRE
had broken out at the Pacific Mail
tiDock. It was aeon ascertained that
the FIRE was in o large lumber yard
near the dock. One hundred Of the
committee, armed with clubs, were
at once despatched to the scene, fol-
lowed soon after by o hundred
more. The remainder of the COM
mittee were then told of in compaa-
les by wards, and, with the exception
of about two hundred, proceeded to
THE City Hall to await orders from
the Chief of Police. Sixty were de-
3s2atched to Sixth and Howard streets
to dispense the GRO .sd collected there
smashing Chinese houses. All the
members Of the committee were arm
ed with clubs in addition to the peck
CT firearms carried by nearly all.
Muskets will soon be issued il neces-
sary. The fire at the lumber yard
is now raging fercely, and a crowd
of several thousand people are col
lecsed there. A heavy force Of vigi-
lants and police are standing guard.
News has just been received OF a
man detected cutting the hose being
shot down in his tracks. The vigi-
lan:s have closed the streets leading
to the scene of the FIRE.
A fire alarm has just been turned
in from the corner of Stockton street
and Broadway, and a party Of vigi-
lants has been despatched to keep
order. All is quiet in the central
portion of the city. No call has yet
been made on the military.
President Coleman says be has
5000 vigilants on hand. The princi-
pal streets are quite full of people,
but there are no signs of disturbance,
except as above mentioned.
III p. M.-The FIRE at the corner of
Stockton street and Broadway has
been extinguished, and order is re-
stored in tina: neighborhood. At the
Mail Steamship Company's dock and
vicinity the excitement and disturb
anee are increasing. The FIRE is still
raging and appears to be under con-
troll in the direction Of the mail dock
but is spreading to the northward
along the city front in the lumber
yards, and westward along Front
street.. The mob is becoming more
and more demonstrative, and is with
difficulty held in check. They are
attacking the police and vigilants
with stones. One policeman was
crippled by a stone, and two vigi-
lants reported shot. The force charg-
ed on the crowd with clubs and pis-
tolls, firing about fiftv shots, and tore
ed them back. Gen. Cobb, in charge
of the vigilants, reports the riot in
creasing, aud bat the military be
despatched to his assistance, but
Chief of Police Ellis declines to have
troops ordered out, except as a last
resort. R~einforcements Of vigilants
have been despatched to the scene,
and now there are between three
hundred and four hundred on duty
there besides the police.
July 26.-l A M.-The latest re-
ports frcm the vicinity o tLe Pacific
Mail dock are that the crowd has
mostly dispersed. The Ere is under
.coutrol, though it is still burnin, aud
the police and citizens are masters of
the situation there. The FIRE alarm
from the corner Of Stewart and Mis-
sion streets proved to be unfounded.
As far as al at present be gathered
the fire near the Mail dock was Of il.
cendiary origin, the evident intention
being to involve the Company's prop
erty in its spread. On the arrival of
the first detachment Of citizens q
crowd numbering about 10000 had
gathered. The wharves, lumber and
coal yards in which the fire was
were surrounded on the land
side by q fence running near the
of a steep hill leading up to
St. Mary's Hospital. On top of this
hill a crowd had gathered. While a ,
of them attempted to set fire {
to the fence, the police and citizens ,
attempted to drive them of, and were ,
met by a shower of stones from the !
bill. Toe bill was then stormed 10 /;
the face Of q ho: fusilade of stones, and ;
the mob began firing pistols. The !
answered with a volley, and
to close quarters used their +,
clubs with telling effect. :
In the charge q young man, the !,
note teller 10 the London and San |;
Bank. fell, probably fatally ,
wounded. Another citizen is report !
ed shot dead, and a great many were !
wounded more or less seriously by :
stones and pistol shots. 1t is i'm :
to ascertain the loss of the :
Several are reported killed !
and wounded, but nothing is definite !.
known. At least one hundred /,
shots were fired into the mob. About :.
dozen are lying in the drug store !
the scene Of action more or less /,
seriously injured This charge broke y
he courage Of the mob, many of
whom we're captured, and long chain
,eing stretched across in front of the t
Nail dock, they were manacled to it S
or the present fer safe keeping. The il
mob at 10 time obtained access v
o the Mail dock, which was closed, o
guarded. and several cannon Il
commanding entrance. In o
he meantime the fire had burned i'm T,
nense quantities of Lumber, mostly a
belonging to Simpson Brothers, Nc 9
Donald, Mills Il. Co. and Starbuck i.
I Goldstein ; also the wood yards Of Il
)'Connell and Higgins Il Co'lius. v
md q great deal Of similar property a
'wned by various parties. The ships b
It the wharves were hurriedly lowed o
O places of safety TIE fremen after n