The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-22

1900 Geyer avenue. A mob OF several
hundred men had surrounded a car OF
the Tower Grove line and were threat
ening the conductor and motorman A
foW stones were thrown when a shot
was fired from a car, the bullet stril1-
ing Zikt fun i'm the breast. He lied
within few minutes. Coductor Far
ley and Motorman Drake were arrested
by the police.
At the police static ntonight lT?rIev
admitted firing the shot He fired he
SAID at man who was preparing TO
throw stone at him, and the bullet
struck Zika.
Inc four people wounded were nlI in
iured during a fight which occurred at
the Intersection Of 18th and Herbert sts.
The riot was lively while it lasted. fll-
lN 100 shots being fired and as 1be
streets were crowded with people. II is
remarkable that the number of injured
was so small.
-Four cars Of the Belfoutaine Ens
were running close together. and whom
the first one turned the corner IL
plunged into a crowd of over 900 me-,
and women who gathered there. No
stop was made and the car was frae
of the mob before any da,.,,.ya
could be done. The mob voe
ready for the second car how
ever. stones were rained u,o,
It and several shots fired at the com.
ductor and motorman. The four police
officer son the car at once returned the
fire and the crew Of the frst car. hear
ing the shots, a once reversed and ran
back to reinforce their comrades Two
other cars, each carrying four officers.
were close behind, Police CAPTAIN Jovce
! being on the third car. For nearly nj
! minute a rapid fire went on from both
sides and then, led by Capt. joyce the
| police made a rush for the mob. which
broke and scattered in all directions.
! Motorman Mullin was shot through the
! arm, he being the only one injured by
the mob. Two rioters were seen to fall,
| Minnie Krueger ran into a yard for
safety when the fight began and a bui-
| let striking an iron fence near which She
was standing glanced off and hit her in
the left thigh.
TIE passengers on the cars made wild
scrambles for the open air when the
| trouble began Among them were three
women and the female sympathizers
| with the strikers who were present I'm
! large numbers, at once attacked them
! They showered them with abuse, pelted
them with stones, clods and sticks and
made them run for their lives. For sew
eral squares the chase was Kept up, the
three women finally leaving the street
and running across some vacant lots still
hotly pursued by the crowd Of women
| behind who succeeded every now and
| then i'm striking one of the tug uves with
a stick or stone. The crowd was
not distanced untI the three wo-
men had been raced fully a
third Of a mile. The police had the'r
hands full at the time in dealing with the
mob at the corner and were not able "a
afford any protection to the women.
At six o''clock a small riot occurred at
11tA street and Park avenue. mob OF
several hundred men and women att
tackled the last Park avenue line car as
it was on the home trip. Several stores
were thrown and a shot was fired, but
whether by the mob or by one of the men
on the car could not be determined. a
force of forty men was at once dispatch
ed from police headquarters and the mon
DISPERSED without difficulty.