The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-03

works has reached a point where the
authorities, as we'll as the strikers,
are in no mood for trif1ing. When
the non-union men left the works at
5 o'clock this afternoon, there was
rioting.
Two hundred and fifty police emerg-
ed from the gates guarding 500 work.
men. An, immense crowd had gather
ed a 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 huge
moving van was in the rear filed with
strikers, and with a small wagon, Ia
den with empty peer bottles. The
police suspected that the bottles were
intended as missiles and compelled the
driver of the wagon to turn back At
Wilson and Euclid avenues, railroad
train blocked the way and an effort
was made to drive the van through
the guard of the police. The officers
dragged to the ground the driver, Fred
W. Hearne, a moving contractor, and
the man on the seat beside him, w. j.
O'Neill, a paving contractor. These
men resisted, and the police used their
clubs on them with such effect that
their heads were soon swollen masses
of cuts. One mans ankle was broken.
The strikers in the van jumped out
and the
POLICE CHARGED THE CROWD.
Frank Coopenhecker, a nachinist, re-
turning from work, and not striker.
was caught in the crowd and severely
dubbed on the head. Hearne was ar
rested and locked up
The strikers disappeared before the
onslaught of the police, and the non
union men were sent home.
Meanwhile tragedy had taken place
at the Brown works. Albert Saunders, a
young student at Case School of APP
piled Science, whose father lives at S31
Prospect street had been working for
the Brown company during vacation
for the practical knowledge it would
give him. He did not leave with the
pCC-uniou men under police guard, but
mounted his bicycle and sought to
reach home alone. AS he turned up
| Hamilton street, a knot of strikers saw
him and shouted to him to stop. He
did not obey and they 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 they
CONTINUED TO STONE HIM.
Rising to his knees he drew his re-
volver and fired. The ball missed his
ASSISTANTS, s.,ed across a vacant lot
and buried itself in the breast of Will
lam Rettger, one of the strikers who
was walking through an alley with
nj TN-oc m
to a hospital. where he died in a few
minutes. He was single man 25 years
old, boarding on Hoadley street and
was brother OF Pitcher Rettgar, of the
Milwaukee baseball club.
Patrolman Gibbons heard. the shot
fired and rushing up seized young
Saunders and hurried him into the Of
fee of the Bishop Babcock company.
In wonderfully short space of time,
a FURIOUS MOB PACKED THE
STREETS
as far as the eye could reach and
surged against the front of the Office,
demanding that Saunders be given up
to it. Some one brought a rope and
the cry to lynch him was raised A
few began to pry at the windows of
the office when Patrolman Gibbons,
who was once a union workman, adj
dressed the mob and partly quieted it.
Two patrol wagon loads of police ar
rived and a guard was posted in front
OF the building Long before this
Mayor Mckisson, Police Director Alb
bolt, Lieutenant-C Colonel 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
! la Pfcl Dot
quest made for militia. The mayor re-
sponded by ordering the Cleveland City
guards and company F to the scene
of the riot. the guards arrived first,
just as the mob was preparing for
another effort to capture Saunders. AS
the soldiers came down the street the
mob howled and the guards were
COMPELLED TO OPEN A WAY
for themselves with leveled bayonets.
Several men and boys were wounded
slightly by the soldiers. The guards
formed in front of the Office, and just
then company F was seen alighting
from street cars a. block away. Amid
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 it and made
/ to lie on the bottom. The guards
formed around it with bayonets al
charge and they forced their way
down Hamilton street, part of the
/ bowling mob surging along with them.
/ To heighten the excitement. Detective
! Shrosty stood up in the patrol wagon
/ and shot his revolver into the air. The
/ wagon and the soldiers proceeded
! rapidly until the crowd in front had
/ thinned, when the guard opened ranks
and the wagon sped on to the central
police staten on a run. Saunders
whose head is badly cut up and his
body a mass of bruises, is a prisoner
charged with the killing of Rettger
Company F, in command of Major
Liebich, marched to the centre of the
crowd that remained behind. The sol
diers were
MENACED AND JEERED.
Major Lebich halted his men, drew
his revolver and declared upon the
slightest attempt at violence he would
give the command to fire. After thai
the noise ceased and the crowd scat
tered, the company returning to quar-.
ters.
The mayor will cause a, proclamation
declaring the riot act to be in force tx
be posted in the neighborhood of the
Brown works tomorrow morning.
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
NEW YORK, July ga dispatch t