Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-17
LAST NlGHT,s SHOOTING.
Thursday Ends In Bloodshed and
Riot at Albany,

Albany, n. Y, May 17.-Three mer
fatally wounded, hundreds of Others
/ with broken heads and cut faces, cars
| running merely as arsenals with no pat.
rons. the city under martial rule, with
| its citizens In a frenzy of excitement
and the city authorities and leaders OF
the strikers trying TO get the railway
company to come to an amicable settle
ment, was the situation when darkness
put an end to the strife growing out OF
| the street car strike last night.
| Those fatally wounded are William
| Walsh. merchant, and Leroy Smith, :
! merchant. both shot by Nationa
| IGuardsmen, and William Marshall {
nom motorman. skull fractured
Others most seriously injured are
George Boose. citizen, cheek cut open
by a bayonet William Rooney, citizen
sEot by National Guardsman, and Gill
bert Hall, nnon-union motorman. sho,
by the mob. Walsh has since died.
The bloodshed came after day OF
reace. From early morning the crowds
had melted away before bayonets and
shotguns cars had been operated under
heavy guards and there was an impress
sion that the spirit of turbulence was
riots, but not shot had been fired and
as the day passed the running OF cars
attracted but little attention. The vol
Icy fired on Broadway by squad of
Twenty third Infantrymen in which
Leroy Smith and William Walsh. we'll
known citizens, fell mortally wounded,
changed all that. 1t stirred anew the
feeling of hatred as the exciting tiiings
swept thru the city and the guardsmen
were bitterly denounced. Neither of the
men had been guilty of an offense, but
We're 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 in
famed public sentiment 10 the shooting.
The guardsmen seem but to have fol-
lowed their duty. 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
vindictlve feeling. and if the present sit
uatiol continues acts of bitter revenge
and violence may be expected.
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 constantly
swelling crowd was gathered about the
union depot. The first of the day force
had been released by the Whistles that
resounded thru the city. and they were
pouring into the crowd. Near Columbia
street truck blocked the way OF Il car,
ana urged on by the crowd, the driver
refused to move on as rapidly as de
sired. Some one in the crowd threw q
stone, but it went wide of its 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 1t. There was sharp COM
man. and as the car slowed down four
Shots We're fired from 1t. Leroy Smith
lounged on the steps of his store; Will
liam Walsh. his bushes neighbor from
across the street, was his immediate
companion, and small crowd hung
about near them. 1t was into this crowd
that the guardsmen fired at range OF
less than twenty feet. Smith and Walsh
We're both shot in the abdomen and fell
where they stood. ~ third man, Will
liam Rooney, was slightly hurt by a
glancing bullet. Some of the guards
stepped from the car and reloaded their
pieces. The startled crowd fell back at
the first shot, and moment later the
guards sprang aboard the car and were
rapidly wheeled from the scene.
Smith and Walsh We're hurried away.
TO hospitals for surgical care, and an
angry crowd swarmed In the street TO
curse and denounce the guardsmen
Smith is member of the shoe manu-
featuring firm of Smith & Herrick and