The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-05-16
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Albany. N. Y. May 15.-Riot follow
ed the attempt of the. Union Traction
companysto sresume hesoierSkion d
= portion >ot its electric street raiiwa!
system in this city. which had beer
tied up by the strike of employees in
augurated last week. The gcompany
had secured 200 non.union men to take
the place of strikers and housed the
newcomers in the Quail street barns
where they were guarded by police
and deputy >sheriffs.s Outside thu
barns q large number of strikers and
their sympathizers assembled during
the night, the crowd growing until \
numbered 10000 Or more by the time
the company was ready to send out
its first car. '--. ~--. -r--.-.--, '..
Two policemen were on the platform
with the motorman and two guarded
the rear platform. The crowd greeted
the appearance of the car with de.
'risive and insulting cries and obstruct-
ed it's passage, but a squad of police
cleared the way and 1t passed on and
away from the vicinity of the barn.
Half an hour later a second car
emerged from the barn. The crowd
Immediately made dash for it, some
Of them hurting missiles at the motor
man. The police. could not withstand
the rush Of the mob and some of the
rioters were soon upon the platform.
The motorman was struck several
times on the head until. bleeding and
senseless, he relinquished his grasp
of the handles. On the rear platform
two men pulled the trolley pole down
and bent it until it broke. The car
had obtained some momentum and
striking the switch, went off into the
gutter. The mob then withdrew with
cheers. The police arrested four or
five. One Of the trolley wires fell to
the street few minutes later, having
been cut, putting one line out of COM
mission.
The car which had previously left
the barn made several trips up and
down town, not carrying any pas
sengers.
At the corner of State and Pearl
streets, when the car came up on its
second run, a boy threw brick at it,
A man who saw the act caught the boy
by the shoulder. In an instant the
mob had torn the boy away and as
saulted the citizen VINO held him.
Nearly a dozen of the non-union
men the company brought from out of
town deserted after the attack on the
second car. They were carried away
in triumph on the strikers shoulders.
The indications are that if the COM
pany persists in running the cars the
guard will have to be called
out. .,..~s
No attempt has been made to oper-
ate the Union Traction company's
lines in Troy, Cohoes, Rensselaer, and
on which the employees
struck when those in Albany walked
out. 4
Woodward Of Brooklyn. the motor
man who was injured at the car barns,
Is in a precarious condition.
Mayor Blessing and Sheriff Nc
Creary have decided that they have
not sufficient force to quell the dis
turbances and are in consultation with
the adjutant general regarding the
calling out of state troops.