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

at the Brown Hosting companys
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 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 filled with
strikers, and with a small wagon, Ia
den with empty oeer 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 a 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 he police, and the non
union men were sent home.
Meanwhile a tragedy had taken place
at the Brown works. Albert Saunders, a
young student at Case School of APP
piled Science, whose father lives at SS1
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
DCQ-union men under police guard, but
mounted his bicycle and sought to
reach l1one alone. AS he turned up
Hamilton street, 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. A 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
assaiiants, seed 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
/ several companions Rettger was sent
l. I'll
l minutes. He was single man 25 years
= old. boarding on Hoadley street and
r was a brother OF Pitcher Rettgar, of the
} Milwaukee baseball club.
z 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 ant
[ surged against the front of the Office
demanding that Saunders be given III
to it. Some one brought a rope ant
the cry to lynch him was raised. 4
few began to pry at the windows o.
$ the office when Patrolman Gibbons
, who was once a union workman, ad
dressed the mob and partly quieted it
Two patrol wagon loads of police ar
rived and guard was posted in from
OF the building. Long before this
Mayor Mckisson, Police Director Alb
bolt, Lieutenant-C Colonel Whitney o
: the Fifth regiment and others wer,
= gathered for consultation in the cit,
+. hall. Word of the critical condition @
. affairs was telephoned to them from
y the Bishop Ba bcock office and a re
quest made for militia. The mayor re
o sponded by ordering the Cleveland Cit,
d guards and company F to the seem
$ of the riot. the guards arrived first
d just as the mob was preparing 70
7 another effort TO capture Saunders. A
+ the soldiers came down the street tn
: mob howled and the guards were
: >. COMPELLED TO OPEN A WAY
r for themselves with leveled bayonets
Several men and boys were wounde
i slightly by the soldiers. The guard
4 formed in front of the office, and jus
r, then company F was seen alightin
: from street cars a block away Ami
5 frenzy of excitement on the part of tn
e dense crowd, a patrol wagon wa
4 backed to the door of the Office an
y Saunders was jerked into it and mad
S to lie on the bottom. The guard
IS formed around it with bayonets a
n charge" and they forced their wa
- down Hamilton street, part OF tn
II bowling mob surging along with then
IN To heighten the excitement, Detectiv
ID Shrosty stood up in the patrol WACO
Is and shot his revolver into the air TIL
It wagon and the soldiers proceede
e rapidly until the crowd in front ha
# thinned, when the guard opened rank
d and the wagon sped on to the centrs
It police STATEN on a run. Saunder!
whose head is badly cut up and hi
body a mass of bruises, is a prisone
5. charged with the killing of Rettger
Is Company F, il command of Majc
= Liebich marched to the centre of TIL
crowd that remained behind. The so
IS diers were
l. MENACED AND JEERED.
Major Liebich halted his men, DIRE
"a his revolver and declared upon tt
. slightest attempt at violence he wou
= give the command to fire. After thu
- the noise ceased and the crowd sea
~ tered, the company returning to qua
:, tiers.
- The mayor will cause a proclamatic
- declaring the riot act to be in force
90 be posted in the neighborhood of tt
:, Brown works tomorrow morning.
81 TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
st NEW YORK, July "a dispatch
lie the World from Syracuse, say
IN George Fred Williams when seen
Of the railroad station tonight, refused