The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-05-29
STATE TROOPS CALLED OUT
Attempt to Run Trolley Cars at A.
bany,.N Y, Results in Rioting.
WILD DISORDER IN THE STREETS

Rioters Successfully Attacked Non-Union
Employees OF the Traction Company -
Police Were Unable to Cope With the
Mobs and the Militia Was Ordered
Out on Strike Duty.
Albany, N. Y.-Rioting in the capital
Of the State on Tuesday prevented the
operation of the street railway lines,
and resulted in an order from Govern
or Odell, through Adjutant- General
Hoffman, calling out the Twenty-third
Regiment, Of Brooklyn, and the Tenth
Battalion and Third Signal Corps,
mounted, of this city, to preserve peace
and protect the property and employees
of the United Traction Company.
Feeling convinced that the police Of
Albany could not protect its employees
and passengers from attack, the off,
GERS of the United Traction Company
appealed to Sheriff McCreery, of AL
bany County, for military protection
for its lines. The Sheriff in turn ap-
pealed to Brigadier-General Robert
Shaw Oliver, commanding the Third
Brigade, who promptly ordered out
the Tenth Battalion and the Signal
Corps. Sheriff McCreery also in
formed Governor Odell, through Adju-
tant-General Hoffman, that the num-
ber of members of the National Guard
in Albany County was too small to
deal effectively with the riotous condi-
tions prevalent Tuesday, and accord
ingly the Governor directed the Twen-
ty-third Regiment, of Brooklyn, to pro-
ceed to this city.
The story of the days riots is full of
exciting features.
At the car barns of the company, in
Quai street, the first trouble arose.
Here it was that William Marshall,
motorman, who lives in Brooklyn. re-,
ceived probably fatal injuries. Sew
eral on the car with the injured man
were also injured, but none so Sc
riously.
Several thousand strikers and SYM
pathizers charged at dusk on a wagon
load of non-union men who had been
sent out from the Quail street barns by
the company to repair the trolley wires
which had been cut during the riots Of
the morning.
The wagon left the barn under the
escort of fifty policemen, including
mounted officers, and proceeded sever
al hundred yards through a crowd Of
several thousand persons.
When the wagon stopped for the men
to commence work a dash was made
for them by the crowd. The police
were powerless to stop the storm Of
stones and bricks showered upon the
non-union men from the vacant lots,
cross streets and housetops.
The men lay upon their faces on the
floor of the wagon, and, surrounded by
the mounted men. who used their clubs
on the more aggressive Of the rioters,
were hurried back to the barns.
Two of the non-union men were in
jured. Several of the mob were Sc
verely dubbed.
With the militia patroling the streets
In the vicinity of the car barns Of the
company, in Quail street and North
Albany, the day Of riot and disorder
drew to close.
Disappointed at it's failure to stop the
first car, the mob fell upon the second
as one man. The police made but
feeble effort to stop the onslaught.
Late Monday night the mounted po-
lice and the reserves were summoned
by Commissioner of Public Safety
Frederick G. Ham to the Union Sta
tion. There about ninety men ar
rived from New York City and New
Jersey. They had come to take the
places Of the strikers. They were
bundled into trucks and taken to the
barns Of the company on Quail street.
When the doors of the barn on Quail
street opened at 1920 o'clock, and O
motor came forth the trouble began.
There were 1000 persons in the imme-
diate vicinity of the barn. The car
sped on its way over Quail street be-
fore the people had recovered from
their astonishment, and escaped with
but one brick being thrown at the crew
of four men. On the car were four po-
licemen. Upon its return to Quail
street the car was deserted by its
crew, who Joined the strikers.
1t was the second car, which started
few minutes after the first, which re-
ceived rough treatment. 1t was on this
car that Marshall received the injur-
les which may cause his death.
In Quail street, during the melee.
some one threw a rope over the trolley
wires. pulling them to the ground.
This practically tied up the road, be-
cause of the failure to secure the serv-
ices of linemen, who had gone out with
the strikers.
President Sheehan, of the strikers,
claimed that violence used at the COM
pany's barn was altogether the work
of sympathizers and not strikers.
President Mahan, Of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street Railway
Employees, arrived in town. and Will
endeavor to settle the strike. Mean
time, the strikers are determined,
while General Manager Mcnamara, Of
the company. said: I'VE intend to run
our cars if it takes the entire National
Guard of New York State to protect
u.s."