The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-16
BATTLE NIIH RIOTERS
NEW YORK MILITIA HAS ITS
HANDS MORE THAN FULL
AT ALBANY
MOB ATTACKS THE TROOPS
SOLDIERS AND NoN-UNION MEN
PELTED WITH BRICKS AND
STONES
MANY WERE BADLY INJURED
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ALBANY, N. Y, May 15.-So serious is
the situation here tonight over the trac-
ton company strike that Gov. Odell post
poned a trip to the 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.
Oden so orders. The streets are thronged
with excited men, women and children
and the otherwise quiet day terminated
| in bIoodshed. A dramatic element was
| added to today's features by the sudden
| death of Adjt Gen. Hoffman.
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 taunting
the soldiers and police but the instant an
attempt is made to work on the lines or
bring in non-union men the crowd be-
comes frenzied and bloodshed results.
Citizens sabre-slaShed, non-union men
with broken limbs and bloody faces,
women and children trampled under foot
leaders in the crowd beaten with muskets
were some of the results of the day.
TROOPS AND RIOTERS CLASH.
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 place Of striking
employees that produced the violence.
Seventy"fve non-union men reached the
union depot shortly before 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 resistance
in almost every block. Frenzied men
swarmed through the police line, surged
around the fast moving cavalrymen and
fought to get at the coWed non-union
men inside the circle Of galloping horses
The rays of the setting sun gave CLINT
to busy sabres, but the long blades WELD
ed by forbearing hands seldom descend
ed in serious blows Several of the mob
were knocked down by cornered cavalry
men, but the record does not yet show
the score OF single fatality In the pas
sage through the streets few of the non
unionists escaped the flying bricks and
stones that were hurled at them, but less
than a dozen were badly hurt. The cour-
age of nearly a dozen of the non-union
men failed them in the opening squirt
through the crowds and they sprang from
the wagons that carried them to mngle
with and be lost in the crowd.
NOT A PLEASURE JAUNT
The ride of the non-union men through
the city was the dramatic spectacle of
corps mounted and armed as cavalrymen
formed a hollow square around the non
union men who had just arrived at the
depot. Five thousand men tagged al their
heels and jammed around them and
thousands more jammed into the inter
secting streets. Fifty policemen formed
Gordon around the waiting drag ions
and tried to force the crowd back. The
street was cleared, but the mass Of hu-
manity on the sidewalk held firm and
could not be moved A broken alley that
runs alongside the Union depot was the
stage of operations. Into 1t were driven
four f1at-topped open trucks. The crowd
recognized them as the same vehicles
that had carried the first batch of strike
breakers and greeted them with groans
Suddenly a side door of the depot was
thrown open, and up. the alleyway toward
the waiting teams marched the on-union
men. Once they were all abroad the
drivers brought their teams out into the
street, the cavalry closed In around them,
and the race was on. High UP in win
dow on the top floor of Broadway
building wildly excited man barked
out an mprecation on the heads of the
luckless fellows below him, and 10,00
men took up the hue and cry The police
threw themselves across the street in SOL
i'd phalanX, but the crowd. swept over
them and took up the chase. Ahead
were lnOuSdIOS more, ana with no 1ear
for either heels or horses or blades of
steel they closed in around the cavalry
| men.
SHOWERED WITH BRICKS.
Soon there came volley of bricks and
| three of the strike-breakers sprang from
the rear wagon and were lost in the
crowd The flying column dashed into
| State street for the run up the mill past
the capitol. Here the crowd was as dense
and desperate as the other, and the men
plunged in around the galloping horses
| One rider, cut off by the crowd, brought
his sabre down upon the face of one of
his antagonists, and a line of blood
marked where 1t struck. Two blocks UP
State street and clever military ruse
blocked the downtown mob. Two COM
| panies of the Tenth battalion were con-
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