Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-05-23
FRACTION STRIKERS.
xhe Situation Reported Very Seri-
Gus at Albany, N. Y.
IMPORTED MEN CAUSE DISTURBANCE.
etsnsied Men Fought the Police and Cav
airy To Get Ut the Nom Union Men
and the Latter Have An
Exciting Ride.

Albany, N. Y, May 1880 seriou
II y the situation here over the trac
ton company strike that Gov. Odel
postponed trip to the state intsitu
lions which he had undertaken an
returned to the executive mansion
Two thousand armed soldiers are nov
within the city limits, more are com
Ing and $500 are in readiness to move
L 10 Troy when Gov. Odell so orders
Citizens saber-slashed, non-union mer
N with broken limbs and bloody
faces, women and children trampled
underfoot, soldiers MANNED with fly.
n Ing missiles and leaders In the crowd
beaten with muskets were some Of
the results of yesterdays work.
Mob and militia closed in combat
late yesterday afternoon, but by the
accident of fortune there were no seri-
GUS casualties. 1t was the introduce
ton of more non-union men to take
the places Of striking traction en-
ployes that produced the violence.
Eeventy-fve non-union men reached
the Union depot shortly before six
1 o'clock and their delivery Mt the Quail
street barn, lN miles away, was made
with dash under cavalry escort,
with mob resistance In almost every
block. Frenzied men swarmed
through the police lines, surged
around the fast moving cavalrymen
and fought to get at the cowed nom
union men inside the circle Of gallop-
ing horses. The courage Of nearly a
4 dozen Of the non-union men failed
& them in the opening squirt through
the crowds and they sprang from the
wagons that carried them to minglc
h with and be lost in the crowd.
The ride of the non-union men
\ through The city was the dramatic
spectacle Of the day. At five o'cloca
the Third signal corps, mounted and
armed as cavalrymcn, formed a hol-
low square around the non-union men
who had just arrived at the depot.
Five thousand men tagged at their
heels and damned in around them
4 and thousands more crowded into the
intersecting streets. Fifty policemen
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 side
walks held firm and could not b.,
moved. A broken alleyway that runs
along the south side Of the Union
depot was the stage of the opening
& scene. Into IL were driven four fiat.
topped open trucks. The crowd rec
egnized them as the same vehicles
that had carried the first batch of
( strike breakers and greeted them
with gronns. Suddenly a side door of
the depot was thrown open and up
the alleyway toward the waiting
teams marched the non-union 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 The po-
lice threw themselves across the
street in solid phalanv, but the
crowd, roaring its threats against the
new men, swept over the police and
took up the chase. Ahead were thou
sands more, and with no fear for
either heels OF horses or blades Of
steel they closed in around the cav
alrymen. Soon there came volley Of
bricks and three of the strike break
ers sprang from the wagon and were |
lost in the crowd The flying col
umn 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 galloping horses, Two
blocks up State street u clever mill
tary ruse blocked the downtown
mob, Two companies of the Tenth
battalion were concealed in Chapel
street, and when the cavalry escort |
DASHED vast they ran across State
street and faced the pursuing crowd
with fixed bayonets. The new line
wavcred and broke on one flank, but
In the main the movement was sue
cessfu. But the strike breakers
were not yet free. Smaller crowds
Ind gathered at various points along |
the route TO the barn and they threw
stones when the non-union men
rushed past. There was another wild
scene at the barn, where thousands |
more had assembled The infantry re-
pentedly charged into the crowd, sub.
shutting butt for bayonet, and after
much effort a passage was opened for
the scurrying cavalcade and it was
safe inside the enclosure,
Sixteen Of the strike breakers were
Injured during the ride and many of
them, stunned, weak and scared, had |
to be helped from the wagons. The
strikers say that IS strike breakers
deserted during the ride and that less
than so were safely landed in the
barn.
The company says that it will pro-
coed to move cars to-day under guard
Of the soldiers and Gen. Roe, in COM
mand Of the troops, says he will as
sist to the best of his ability with his
1900 troops.
Albany, N. Y, May l7.-Thrcc men
fatally wounded, hundreds of others
with broken heads and cut faces
go -.