Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-17
c.1ARn is ORDERED OUT.
rryitary Prot ection for Albany Street
Cars Hloodshed Occurs.

Albany. N. A.. May ia tno 'ss 'NAN
national guardsmen and hundred
mounted men will occupy Albany 3
streets today ana attempt to force
riotous crowd to let the cars OF the
United Traction company run WITH
non-union men. The Twenty-third
re giment of Brooklyn, the Tenth pat,
talon of Albany and the Third Slgnal
corps will make up the complement
of men They have been reinforced
by 200 special deputies, 300 policemen
and over hundred Pinkerton detec-
tives.
1t is feared that the bloodshed ana
! riotous scenes of yesterday will be
repeated with much greater fatality.
The results of yesterday are:
One man dying, fully twenty or
thirty injured, eighty men out OF loo
brought here by the company induced
| to desert, the trolley lines cut, cars
demolished and the police poWerless
| TO control the thousands OF men pa
trolling the streets. The company,
| however. insists that it will run IT'S
| ears with protection and 1T IS salu
that 500 non-union workmen are IN
| train near the city waiting for the
troops to make their entry sa We.
| Eight men have been arrested Tor
riotine. two only of whom are strlk
| ers.
| At midnight three companies OF the
Tenth battalion took their STATIONS ar
three important points.
Albany. N. Y. May $50 serious
| is the situation over the tractlon
company strike that Governor OdeI
post poned trip to the state 1nstltu-
| tons which he had undertaken ana
| returned to the executive mansion
Two thousand armed soldiers are
now within the city limits, and 2,5oo
are in readiness to move when GOV
error Oiell so orders. The streets
are thronged with excited men,
women and children. and the other
wise quiet day terminated i'll blood
| shed A dramatic element was add
ed to the days features by the sud
den death of Adjutant General Holt
| man, who dropped dead from hear'
| disease.
AS long as the traction company
| does not attempt to run cars or 10
! bring in non-uniOn men. the crowds
| on the street remain good natured,
! except for taunting the soldiers ana
| police, but the instant an attempt is
made to work on the lines or to bring
| non-uniOn men in the crowd becomes
| frenzied and blaodshed results. Citl-
| >.
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 o.
the results of the day.
Mob and militia closed in combat
| late yesterday afternoon. but by the
accident of fortune there We're no
serious casualties. It was the intro
duction of more non-union men to
take the places Of striking traction
| employees that produced the violence.
| Seventy-five non-union men reached
the Union depot shortly before 6
o'clock and their trip to Quail street
| barn, q mile and half away. was
| made with a dash under cavalry es.
every block Frerzied men swarm
ed through the police lines, surged
| around the fast moving cavalrymen
and fought to get at the fast
| moving cavalrymen and fought to
get at the crowded non-union men
inside the circle OF galloping horses.
Several Of the mob were knocked
down by cornered cavalrymen, but
the record does not show the score
or a single fatality. In the passage
| through the streets few of the non
unionists escaped the flying bricks
| ant. stones that were hurled at them,
but less than Q dozen We're badl,,
hurt.
Albany. N. Y. May 17.-Three men
fatally wounded. hundreds of others
with broken heads and cut faces. ears
running merely as arsenals with no
patrons, the city under martial rule,
with it's citizens in frenzy of excite
| ment and the city authorities and
leaders of the strikers trying to get
| the railway company to come to an
amicahle settlement, was the situa-
ton when darkness put an end to the
strife growing out Of the street car
strike last night.
Those fatally injured are William
| Walsh, a merchant, and Leroy Smith.
a merchant, both shot by National
Guardsmen, and William Marshall, a
noil-union motorman, skull fractured
The bloodshed came after a day OF
peace. From early morning the
crowds had melted away before bay.
onets and shOtguns, cars had been
operated under heavy guards and
there was an impression that the
spirit of turbulence was waning
There had been some minor riots
but not a shot had been fired. anG
as the day passed the running of cars
attracted but little attention. The
volley fired on Broadway by a squad
Of Twenty-third infantrymen, ir
which Leroy Smith and William
Walsh, we'll known citizens, fell NOR.
tally wounded, changed all that. II
stirred anew the feeling of hatred
as the exciting tidings swept through
the city and the guardsmen were bit.
terly denounced. Neither of the mer
had been guilty Of an offense, but
were caught in a crowd, some mem.
Der of which had stoned the guards
.. men, and by mischance We're hit.
The disturbance was not a serious
one. and murder is the title ap
piled by infamed public sentimen1
to the shooting. The guardsmer