The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-18
shot BY PINKERTONS.
FIVE Unoffending Persons DAN
gerously Wounded.
BLOODY RIoTINc IN ALBANY.
Bob Pinkerton, in Command of the
Thugs, Ju titles Them.
The Hired Killers Attack Policemen
Vice-President Webb will Not Nego-
tiate With Powderly-Labor Leaders
En- Route to Buffalo.

ALBANY, Aug 1.-THE most disastrous
day in the history of the New York Gen.
tral strike closed tonight. Fifteen Pin
kerlon men are in the care of surgeons, and
five citizens are so badly wounded that
there are fears for their recovery. Nearly
all of the Pinkerton men have been with
drawn from duty at the crossing within
the city limits, as their presence serves to
excite a throng of onlookers, and police
took their places.
About O'Clock James Hatton, Pinker-
ton man, was patrolling the tracks in the
vicinity of Van Wort street. He claims to
have been struck with stone in the chest,
while his companion was Knocked down
and severely hurt by a gang OF roughs.
Then he fred a revolver into the crowd,
seriously wounding Richard Dwyer, aged
Is years.
Hstton had no time to fire
another shot. The crowd surged
around him. and before the police
could interfere his clothes were torn from
his back. He was struck will fists and
clubs, and presented a pitiful spectacle
when rescued from the angry crowd by the
police. who were obliged to use their re-
volvers to stop the crowding msss of peo-
Of the spec ators. mostly roughs and hood
lums, and their number increased. and the
chief of police, fearing further trouble, es-
tablished headquarters in a station house
near by.
About o'clock freight train passed
through the city, and the Pinkertons say
il was stoned. The police claim that such
was not the case. At any event, when the
train reached the Broadway vladuct the
Plnkertons began a reckless fusillaae OH a
crowd standing in ahe vicinity.
Four or five shots were fred without any
provocation. Mrs. Thomas Hogan, stand
ing on the stoop of her residence, was shot
through the leg, and small boy was shot
in the thigh. The crowd was by this time
wrought up to a fearful pitch of excite
ment, and only by the efficiency of the
local police, aided by committee from the
strikers. were they kept back.
After this incident, Robert Pinkerton,
who had charge of his forces here in per-
son, called on Chief Willard. He said that
his men had been assaulted, and firearms
had been put into their possession only
yesterday, that they might be used when
necessary in self defense in the work of
protecting the company's property. He
was sorry that innocent parties had suf-
fered, and added that IT generally happened
that way. Still. he would stand by his
men against the wanton attacks of roughs.
Chief Willard expressed the belief that If
the Pinkerton men had never been brought
the local police would have been able to
cope with the situation. As it was, he
feared there would be further trouble if
these men stayed, and in that event the
local authorities could not be held respon.
sib!e, as he had repeatedly informed Super
intendent Bissell chat the company's prop
erty would be guarded by his own men if
no other force was brought here to infiame
the passions of sympathizers of the strikers.
At A o'clock another freight train came
through, and the Pinkerton men again
fired into the crowd, boy named Frank
Carks receiving a bullet in the arm. A
Pinkerton man who fired into the crowd
at VanWort street crossing was pursued
up the tracks by an officer and CAPTURED.
AS the policeman was bringing the prisoner
back he was assaulted by crowd of Pink
erton men, who rescued the prisoner and
severely beat the otficer. All the police
are marshalled at this point. and trouble is
expected tonight. The blockade at West
Albany is almost as bad as on the first day
of the strike.