The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-17
TWO MEN KILLED.
National Guard Fires on the Crowd in
Albany Streets.

Albany, N. z, May 1.-Two men kill
ed, two other men fatally wounded and
hundreds of others with broken heads
and cut faces, cars running merely as
arsenals, with no patrons, the city un
der martial rule, with its citizens IN a
frenzy of excitement and the city auth
critics and leaders of the strikers trying
to get the railway company to come to
an amicable settlement was the Situa-
ton when darkness put an end to the
strife growing out of the street car
strike last night. William Walsh, a
merchant, was killed. Leroy Smith, a
merchant, was shot by a National
Guardsman and died later, and William
Marshall. a nonunion motorman, skull
fractured. Others most seriously injur-
ed are:
George Booze, citizen, cheek ripped
open by bayonet
William Rooney, citizen, shot by Ma
tional Guard.
Gilbert Hall, non-union motorman.
shot by mob
The bloodshed came after a day Of
peace From early morning the crowds
had melted away before bayonets and
shotguns, cars had been operated under
heavy guards, and there was an i'm :
preston that the spirit of turbulence
was waning. There had been some mi
nor demonstrations, particularly in
North Albany, but no shots had been
fired and as the day passed the running
volley fired on Broadway by a squad of
Twenty third infantry men in which
Leroy Smith and William Walsh, well
known citizens, fell mortally wounded,
changed all that. 1t stirred new feel
ing as tidings swept through the city
and the guardsmen were denounced.
Neither of the men had been guilty of
an offense but they were caught in a
crowd, some member of which had
stoned the guardsmen,a and by mischance
were hit Murder is the title applied by
the infiamed public sentiment to the
shooting The guardsmen seem but to
have followed their duty as soldiers, for
they were under orders to shoot if as
sauited-
The bright prospect of a settlement OF
the strike has not served to alIay the
growth of vindictive feeling and if the
present situation continues acts of BIZ
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 We're on
broadway moving northward and a
constantly swelling crowd was gathered
about union station
The first of the work-day folk had
been released by the whistles that
sounded through the manufacturing
district, and they We're pouring into the
crowd Near Columbia street a 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 a stone, but it
went wide of it's mark. The crowd was
noisy, and there was much confusion.
The car finally moved forward into the
next block and another stone was
hurled at it. There was a sharp COM
mand, and as the car slowed down
four shots We're fired from it Leroy
Smith lounged on the steps of his store.
VIM. Walsh, his business neighbor from
across the street, was his immediate
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 ab-
domen and fell where they stood. A