The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-03
WAS SET ON BY A CROWD.
NOT CONCERNED IN THE
ATTACK,
HE NARROWLY ESCAPED LYNcH1N,
Militia and Police Needed to Save
Him from the Hands of the
Mob.

authOrlrleS, as Well as the strikers are
in no mood for trif1ing. When the nor-
union men left the works at o'clock
this afternoon there was rioting. Two
hundred and fifty policemen emerged
from the gates. guarding f1fty-three
| workmen. Ar immense crowd had
gathered block away, but the police
took a new route and eluded them
for the moment. The strikers set up a
yell and ran, soon overtaking the
marching column. hooting and yelling.
a nuge moving van was in the rear,
nlled with strikers, ard with it a small
wagon, laden with empty beer bottles.
The police suspected that the bottles
were intended as missiles and COM
peIled the driver Of the wagon to turn
| back.
AT Wilson avenue and Euclid. a rail-
ROAD train blocked the way and an
eHort was made to drive the van
through the guard of police. The off,
GERS dragged to the ground the driver.
rred w. Hearn, a moving contractor.
ana the man on the seat beside him.
W. >. ONeli, paving contractor.
lhese men resisted and the police used
tnelr clups on them with such effect
that their heads were soon swollen
masses OF cuts. O'NeiPs ankle was
broken. The strikers in the van jumped
out ana the police charged the crowd,
using their clubs on all the heads with
III reach. Frank Coopenhecker. a ma
chlnlst, returning from work and not a
striker, was caught in the crowd and
severely clubbed : on the head. Hearn.
was arrested and locked up. The
STRIKERS DISPERSED
before the onslaught Of the police and
tine non-unlon men We're sent home.
| Meanwhile, a tragedy had taken
place at the Brown works. Albert q
saunders. young student at Case
School of Applied Science, whose father
lives at 331 Prospect place, has been
working for the Brown company DUR
Ing vacation, for the practical knowl-
edge 1t would give him. He did not
leave with the non-union men under
police guard, but mounted his bievcle
ana sought ostreach home alone. As
ne turned up Hamilton street, a knot
OF strikers saw him and shouted to
him to stop. He did not obey and thew
began to throw stones and bricks at
him. brick struck him on the head
and knocked him off his wheel. and he
claims that after he was down thew
continued to stone him. Rising to his
knees, he drew4flis revolver and fired.
The ball missed his assailants. sped
across vacant lot and buried itself in
the breast of William Rettger, one of
the strikers, who was walking through
an alley with several companions.
Rettger was sent to a hospital, where
ne died in a few minutes. He was A
single mar, twenty-five years old, and
was a brother of Pitcher Rettger. of
the Milwaukee Base Ball club.
Patrolman Gibbons heard the shot
fired, and, rushing up, seized young
Saunders and hurried him into the
ONCE OF the Bishop-Babcock company.
IN wonderfully short space Of time
furious crowd. which packed the
streets as far as the eye could reach.
surged against the front of the office.
demanding that Saunders be given up
to 1t. Some one brought rope and
the cry to lynch him was raised. A
Few began to pry at the windows of
the office, when Patrolman Gibbons.
VINO was once a union workman, ad-
dressed the mob and partially quieted
it. Two patrol
WAGONLOADS OF POLICE
arrived just at this time and a guard
was posted ia front of the building.
Long before this, Mayor McKisson.
Police Director Abbott, Lieut.. Col.
Whitney, OF the Fifth regiment. and
others were gathered for consultation
In the city hall. Word Of the critical
condition of affairs was telephoned to
them from the Bishop -Babcock Office
and request made for militia. The
mayor responded by ordering the
Cleveland city guards and Company F
to the scene of the riot The guards
arrived first, just as the mob was pre-
pairing for another effort to capture
Saunders. AS the soldiers came down
the street the mob shrieked and howled
and the guards were compelled to open
way for themselves with leveled
bayonets. Several men and boys were
wounded slightly by the soldiers.
The guards formed in front of the
office, ard Just then Company r was
seen alighting from street cars a block
away. Amid a frenzy Of excitement on
| the part of the dense crowd, a patrol
wagon was backed to the door of the
office and Saunders was jerked into 1t
and made to lie on the bottom. The
guards formed around it with bayonets
at charge" and they forced their way
down Hamilton street, part of the
bowling mob surging along with them.
To heighten the excitement, Detec-
tive sprosty, as q warning, stood up in
the patrol wagon. and shot his revolver
into the air. The wagon and the SOL
diers proceeded rapidly until the crowd
in front had tflinned, when the guard
| opened ranks and the wagon sped on
to the central police station at a run.
saunders. whose head is badly cut and
his body a mass of bruises, is a pris-
oner, charged with the killing of Rett-
ger.
Company F, in command of Mai. Lie
ibich, marched to the center of the
crowd that remained behind The SOL
diers were menaeed and jeered. Maj.
Liebich halted his men, drew his re-
volver and declared that upon the
| slightest attempt at violence he would
give the command to fire. After that,
the noise ceased and the crowd scat
tered. the company returning to quar-
ters- The mayor will cause procla-
nation declaring the riot act to be in
force, to be posted in the neighborhood
Of the Brown works tomorrow morning.