Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-16

street remain good-natured except for
taunting the soldiers and police but the
Instant an attempt is made to work or
the lines or bring non-union men in, the
4 crowd becomes frenzied and bloodshed
results
Citizens. saber- -slashed, non-union
| men with broken limbs and bloody
faces, women and children trampled
under foot, soldiers MANNED with fly
Ing missiles and leaders in the crowd
beaten with muskets were some of the
results of the day.
Mob and militia closed in combat late
yesterday afternoon, but by the acct
/ dent of fortune there We're no serious
casualties. 1t was the Introduction of
more non-union men to take the places
of striking Traction employees that pro-
duced the violence. Seventy-five nom
union men reached the union depot
shortly before o'clock and their de-
livery at Quail street barn, a mile and
a half away, was made with a dash
4 under cavalry escort with mob resist
ence In almost every block. Frenzied
men swarmed thru the police lines.
surSed around the fast moving cavalry
men and fought to get at the cowed
/ non-union men inside the circle of gall
| loping horses.
Several of the mob were knocked
down by cornered cavalry men, but the
record does not yet show the score of
single fatality. InBthe passage thru
the street few of the non-unionists es-
capped the flying bricks and stones that
We're hurled at them, but less than a
dozen were badly hurt. The courage of
nearly dozen of the nom union men
failed them in the opening squirt thru
the crowds and they sprang from the
wagons that carried them to mingle
4 with and be lost in the crowd.
4 The ride of the non-union men thru
the city was the dramatic spectacle of
the day. AT ) o'clock the Third signal
corps mounted and armed as cavalry
men, formed hollow square around
the non-union men who had lust ar
rived at the depot. Five thousand men
tuggeet at their heels and damned in
| around them and thousands more
4 crowded into the intersectinr streets
4 Fifty policemen formed in Gordon
about the waiting dragons and tired to
i force the. crowd back. The street was
4 cleared but the walls of humanity on
4 the sidewalks held firm and could not
be moved A broken alleyway that runs
4 along the south side of the union depot
sIswas the stage of the opening scene.
Into it were driven four fiat topped
4 open trucks. The crowd recognized
them as the same vehicles that had car
| ried the first batch of strike breakers
4 and greeted them with groans Suddenly
u side door of the depot was thrown
open and up the alleyway toward the
waiting teams marched the non-union
4 inen Once they were all aboard the
4 drivers brought their teams out in'o the
A street the cavalry closed in around
4 them and the race was on. High up in
4 a window on the top floor of a Broad
Z way building wildly excited mar
barked out an imprecaton on the head:
of tho luck,ess fellows belois him am
10000 took up the hue and cry. Iht
police threw themselves across tht
street In solid phaianX put the GROVE
4 swept over them ana TOOK up ehe el'ase'
Ahead OF them were tnousahos inore
and with no fear Tor ei.her he'is o'
horses or blades OF steel they cioseo ~
around the caVairyhen. soon .he'e cai,'s ~,
! Nolley OF brlcks ana tnree OF 'he strih'
breakers spring from lne rear waeo,
and We're lost IN the crowd. lhe hyiha
y Icolumn dasheu INTO STATE street lor ti.'
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