The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-16
ALBANY IN A RAGE
THE NoN-UNIoN MEN GET NO CON.
SIDERATIoN.
MILITARY HAVE HARD WORK.
MoB's oNsLAUGHTs DIFFICULT TO
REPEL.

and More Troops Ordered Out.
Non-union Men Marched From De-
pot surrounded by Military Cor
Seeking Their BIOod-Adiutant
General Hoffman Drops Dead.
Albany. N. Y, May 15.--so serious is
the situation here tonight over the trac-
tion company strike that Gov. Odell post
poned the continuance of a trip to state
institutions which he had undertaken.
and returned to the executive mansion.
Two thousand armed soldiers are now
within the city limits, more are coming,
and $500 are in readiness to move to Troy
when Gov Odell so orders. The streets
are thronged with excited men, women
terminated in boodshed. dramatic
element was added to the days features
by the sudden death of Adjt. Gen. Hoff-
man.
As long as the traction company does
not attempt to move cars or bring in
non-union men, the crowds on the street
remain good natured. except for tauntins
the soldiers and police, but the instant
an attempt is made to work on the lines
or bring non-union men in the crowd be-
comes frenzied and bloodshed results.
Citizens, sabre-slashed, non-union men
with broken limbs and bloody faces, wo-
men and children trampled under foot,
soldiers manned with flying missiles. and
leaders in the crowds beaten with musk
cts. were some of the results of the day.
Anticipating an attempt to move the
street cars in Troy, Maj. Gen. Roe has or
dered the Thirteenth Fourteenth and
Forty-seventh Regiments of Brooklyn,
Troop c Of Brooklyn, the Second Signar
Corps, the Seventeenth Separate Company
and the Third Battery. which carries Cat
ling guns, to hold themselves in readiness
to move Immediately.
Exciting Time for Non union Men.
Mob and militia closed IN combat late
this afternoon, but by the accident of
fortune there were no serious casualties.
1t was the introduction of more non-union
men to take the places of striking trac-
ton employees that produced the violence.
Seventy-Nve non-union men reached the
union depot shortly before 6 o'clock, and
their delivery at Quail street barn, a
mile and a half away, was made with a
dash under cavalry escort with mob re-
sistance in almost every block. F'renzied
men swaPmed through the police lines.
surged around the fast moving cavalry
men and fought to get at the cowed nom
union men inside the circle of galloping
horses.
The rays OF the setting sun gave CLINT
TO busy sabres. but the long blades.
welded by forbearing hands. seldom de-
scended in serious blows. Several of the
mobwere knocked down by cornered cav
alrymen, but the record does not yet
show the score of single fatality In
the passage through the streets few Of
the non-unionists escaped the flying
bricks and stones that We're hurled at
them, but less than a dozen were badly
hurt. The courage of nearly a dozen of
the non-union men failed them in the
opening spurt through the crowds and
they sprang from the wagons that carried
them TO mingle with and be lost in the
crowd.
A Dramatic Spectacle.
The ride of the non-union men through
the city was the dramatic spectacle of the
day. AT o'clock the Third Signal Corps.
mounted and armed as cavalrymen,
formed a hollow square around the nom
union men who had just arrived at the
depot.
Five thousand men tagged at their
heels and jammed in around them and
thousands more crowded into the inter-
secting streets
Fifty policemen formed in Gordon about
the waiting dragons and tried to force
the crowd back. The street was cleared,
but the walls of humanity on the side
walks held firm and could not be moved.
A broken alley way that runs along the.
-
stage Of the operating scene. Into it were
driven four hat-topped open trucks.
The crowd recognized them az
the same vehicles that had car
rled the first batch of strike breakers
and greeted them with groans. Suddenly
a side door of the depot was thrown open
and up the alley way toward the waiting
tearms marched the non-union men.
Once they were all aboard the drivers
brought their teams out into the street,
the cavalry closed in around them, and
the race was on. The flying column dash
ed into State street for the run up the
hill past the Capitol. Here the crowd was
as dense and desperate as the other. and
men plunged In around the galloping
horses. One rider cut off from the crowd.
brought his saber down on the face OF
one of his antagonists and a line Of blood
marked where It struck.
Military Blocked the Way.
Two blocks up State street and a clever
military ruse blocked the down town mob.
Two companies OF the Tenth Battalion
were concealed in Chapel street, and when
the cavalry escort dashed past. they ran
across State street and faced the pursu-
ing crowd with fixed bayonets. The new
line wavered and broke on one flank.
but in the main the movement was sue
ceesful Put the strike hrcalxafs xyero no.
yet free. Smaller crowds had gathered
at various points along the route to the
barn, and they threw Stones when the
non-union men rushed past. There was
another wild scene at the barn where
thousands more had assembled. The in
fantry repeatedly charged into the crowd.
substituting butt for bayonet. ana after
much effort passage was opened for
the scurrying cavaicade and Il was safe
inside the inclosuro.
strike rms EEEnn