The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-16
SERIOUS CLASH
BANY YESTERDAY EVENING.
Cavalrymen Besieged by an Army of
Strikers and Sympathizers While
Escorting NOnuniOnists.
SABRES USED SPARINGLY
AND BUTTS OF MUsKETs APPLIED
ONLY WHEN NECESSARY.
Women and Children TrampIed on by
Horses, and "strike Breakers,
Assaulted with stones.
DRAMATIC RIDE FROM DEPOT
SOLDIERS FORCED TO RUN THE
GAUNTLET OF A FURIOUS MOB.
sixteen NOnuniOnists Injured and
Others Frightened Away over
1000 Militiamen Now on Guard
Women and Children TrampIed on by
Horses, and "Strike Breakers"
Assaulted with stones.
DRAMATIC RIDE FROM DEPOT
SOLDIERS FORCED TO RUN THE
GAUNTLET OF FURIOUS MOB.
sixteen NonuniOnists Injured and
Others Frightened Away Over
1000 MiIitiamen Now on Guard.

ALBANY, N. Y, May 15-So serious is
the situation here tonight over the Trac-
ton Company's strike that Governor Odell
postponed a trip to the state institutions
which he had undertaken. and returned to
the executive mansion. Two thousand
limits, more are coming and $500 are in
readiness to move to Troy when Governor
Odell so orders. The streets are thronged
with excited men, women and children, and
the otherwise quiet day terminated in
bloodshed. dramatic element was added
to the days features by the sudden death
or Adjutant General Hoffman. AS long as
the traction company does not attempt to
move cars or bring in nonunion 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 nonunion men in the
crowd becomes frenzied and bloodshed re-
suits.
Citizens sabre slashed, nonunion men
with broken limbs and bloody faces, women
and children trampled under foot, soldiers
MANNED with flying missiles and leaders in
the crowd beaten with muskets were some
Of the results of the day.
CLASH IN THE AFTERNOON.
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 nonunion men to
take the places of striking traction en-
ployes that produced the violence. Seventy
| five nonunion men reached the union depot
shortly before o'clock. and their delivery
at Quail-street barn, a mile and a half
away. was ma de with dash under cavalry
escort. with mo- resistance I'm almost every
block. Frenzied men swarmed through the
| police lines, surged around the fast-moving
cavalrymen and fought to get at the
cowed nonunion men inside the circle of
galloping horses
| The rays of the setting sun gave CLINT to
the busy sabers, but the long blades,
welded by forbearing hands, seldom de-
scended in serious blows. Several of the
| mob were knocked down by cornered caval-
| rymen. but the record does not yet show
| the score of a single fatality. In the
passage through the streets few of the
nonunionists 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 nonunion men
failed them in the opening squirt through
the crowds and they sprang from the
wagons that carried them TO mingle with
and be lost in the crowd.
DRAMATIC SPECTACLE
The ride of the nonunion men through
the city was the dramatic spectacle of the
day. At o'clock the Third Signal Corps,
mounted and armed as cavalrymen, formed
a hollow square around the nonunion men,
who had just arrived at the depot. A mob
of men tagged at their heels and jammed in
around them and thousands more crowded
into the intersecting streets. Fifty police
men formed in Gordon about the waiting
| dragons and tried to force the crowd back
| The street was cleared, but the walls of
| humanity on the sidewalks held firm and
| could not be moved. A broken alleyway
| that runs along the south side of the Union
Depot was the stage of the opening scene.
| Into it were driven four fiattopped 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 towards
the waiting teams marched the nonunion
men. Once they were all aboard the drivers
brought their teams out into the street, the
cavalry closed in around them and the race
was on. High up in a window on the top
floor of a Broadway building wildly excited
of the Iuckless fellows below him and ten
thousand men took up the hue and cry The
police threw themselves across the street
in solid phalanx, but the crowd swept over
them and took up the chase. Ahead were
thousands more. and with no fear for
either heels of horses or blades of steel.
they closed in around the cavalrymen. Soon
there came a volley of bricks and three cf
the strike breakers sprang from the rear
wagon and were lost i'm the crowd. The fiy-
ing column dashed into State street for the
run up the hill past the Capitol. Here the
crowd was as dense and desperate as the
other. and men plunged in around the gall
loping horses. One rider, cut off from the
crowd. brought his saber down on the face
OF one of his antagonists and a line of blood
marked where il struck.
CHECKED BY A RUSE.
Two blocks up State street a clever mill
tary ruse blocked the downtown mob Two
companies OF the Tenth Battalion were con-
cealed in Chapel street and when the cav.
airy escort dashed past they ran across
State street and faced the pursuing crowd
with fixed bayonets. The new line wavered
and broke on one flank. but in the main
the movement was successful But the
strike breakers were not yet free. Smaller