The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-05-24

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Albany d, May tve hours
ence last night with all the
raSrtlig Alements represente ted failed to
5ettle the Albany strike Of street rail-
way einplo Dyes. The strikers waived an
the demands for the removal Il fs the!
non-union men. The executive conf
mittee Of the United Traction company
VIII consider the proposition and may
accept Il and settle the strike to-day.
Meantime Mai. Gen. Roe Intends to
take every precaution, and at midnight
ordered out the z Ninth regiment Of
New York. 1t will arrive here to-day.
800 strong, and IL the strike is not set
tied will assist in opening up the lines
Of the Traction company in this city.
William Walsh, wounded by q bullet
from a member Of the Twenty third
regiment, portion Of which was de-.
Tending car, died last night. .lis
BlOOdshed and Disorder
Three men fatally wounded and hum
dreds Of others with broken heads and
cut faces, cars running merely as
arserals with no patrons, the city un-a
der martial rule, with its citizens in q
frenzy of excitement and the city au-
thorities and leaders of the strikers
trying to get the railway company to
come to an amicable settlement was
the situation when darkness put an
end to the strife growing out OF the
street car strike last night. Those fa-
tally wounded are William Walsh, a
chant, both shot by national guards
men, and William Marshall, non
union motorman, skull fractured. 9th
ers mos seriously injured are George
Booze, citizen, cheek Clipped open by
bayonet: William Rooney, citizen, shot
by national guard; Gilbert Hall, nom
union Ectorman, shot by mob. The
bloodshed came after a day Of peace.
From early morning the crowds had
melted away before the bayonets and
shotguns, cars had been operated un-
der heavy guards and there was an i'm
preston that the spirit of turbulence
was waning. There had been some
minor demonstrations, particularly in
North Albany, but
Not n Shot Had been Fired
and as the day passed the running of
cars attracted but little attention. The
volley fired on Broadway by squad
of Twenty-third infantrymen, in which
Leroy Smith and William Walsh, well
known citizens, fell mortally wounded,
changed all that. 1t stirred anew the
feeling Of hatred as the exciting tidings
swept through the city and the guards
men were bitterly denounced. Neither
of the men had been guilty of an Of
Tense, but were caught in crowd,
some member of which had stoned the
guardsmen, and by mischance were hit.
The disturbance was not serious one
and murder" is the title applied by
inflamed public sentiment to the shoot
ing. The guardsmen seem but to have
followed their duty as soldiers, for they
were under orders to shoot If assaulted.
The bright prospect of settlement of
the strike has not served to allay the
growth of vindictive feeling, and if the
present situation continues acts of Bit
ter revenge and violence may be ex-
pected. 1t was on the last run of the
soldiers on the cars that the tragedy Of
the day occurred. The cars were on
Broadway, moving northward and a
constantly swelling crowd was gath
cred about union depot. The first Of
the wo1k-day folk
Had Been Released
by the whistles that sounded through
the manufacturing district and they
were pouring into the crowd. Near
Columbia street q truck blocked the
way of a car and, urged on by the
crowd, the driver refused to move on
as speedily as desired. Some one in
the crowd threw stone, but it went
wide of the mark. The crowd was very
noisy and there was much confusion.
The car finally moved forward into the
next block and another stone was
hurled at it. There was sharp COM
mand and the car was slowed down.
Four shots were fired from it. Leroy
Saith lounged on the steps Of his store,
William Walsh, his business neighbor
from across the street was his inlmedi-
ate companion and a small crowd hung
about near them. 1t was into this
crowd that the guardsmen fired at a
range of less than twenty feet. Smith
and Walsh were both SHOT in the abdo-
men and fell where they stood. A third
man, William Rooney. was slightly
hurt by a glancing bullet. Some of the
guards stepped from the car and re-
loaded their pieces. The startled crowd
fell back at the first shot, and a mo-.
ment. later the guards sprang aboard
che car and were rapidly wheeled from
the scene. Smith and Walsh were hur-
ried away to hospitals for surgical care
and an angry crowd swarmed the
st eet to curse and denounce the
Guardsmen.
HAVOC IN MEXICO.