The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-16
GovBRNoS oDELL ACTIVE
Dares Not g cave for Fear of
 Uglls Troubles.
Scores of Persons Injured When Company Attempted to Take Non-Union Men to
 Its Barns.

Albany, N. Y., May 15.-So serious is the strike situation here tonight that Governor Odell postponed trip to the State institutions, which he had un- dertaken, and returned to the Execu- tive Mansion. Two thousand armed soldiers are now within the city linn it's. more are coming, and 2,500 are in Governor so orders. A dramatic ele- ment was added to the days Features by the sudden death of Adjutant- Gen. eral Hoffman.
 Citizens sabre -slashed, non-u union men with broken limbs and bloody faces. women and children trampled under foot, soldiers maimed by flying missiles. and leaders in the crowd beaten with muskets, were some of the results of the day.
 Mob and, Militia Battle.
 Mob and militia closed in combat late this afternoon but by rarest good for tune, there were no serious casualties. It was the introduction of more non- union men to take the places of strik- AuS AfdSIiOu CAhRlOyCS tudt RtOuuCCu the violence. Seventy-five non-u union men reacher Union Station shortly be- fore o'clock and their delivery at the Quail Street barns, mile and a half away. was made with @ dash under cavalry escort with mob resistance ae almost every block.
 Several of the mob were knocked down by cornered cavalrymen, but the record does not yet show a single fa- tality. In the passage through the streets few of the non-unionists es- capped the bricks and stones that were hurled at them, but less than a dozen were badly hurt. The ride of the non-union men through the city was one of the dia- matic spectacIes of the day. At o'clock the 3rd Signal corps mounted and armed as cavalrymen, formed a hollow square around the on-union men who had just arrived at the de- pot. Five thousand men Jagged at their heels and thousands more crowded in- to the intersecting streets. A broken alleyWay along the south side of the Union Depot was the stage of the open ing scene. Into it were driven four flat topped open trucks. The crowd recognized them as the same vehicles that had carried the first batch of strike breakers. Suddenly a side door of the depot was thrown open and up the alley toward the waiting teams marched the non-union men.
 A Race for Life.
 Once they were all aboard, the driv- CTS brought their teams out into the street, the cavalry closed in around them and the race was on. High up on the top floor of a Broadway build ing a wildly excited man parked out an imprecation on the heads of the luckless fellows below him and 10000 men took up the hue and cry. The po- lice threw themselves across the street in solid phalanx but the crowd swept over them and took up the chase. Ahead were thousands more and they closed around the cavalrymen.
 Soon there came a volley of bricks and three of the strike breakers sprang from the rear wagon and were lost in the crowd The flying column dashes | into State Street for the run up the hill past the Capitol. Here the crowd
 was as dense and desperate as the oth- CTS. and men plunged around the gal l loping horses.
 One rider, cut off from the crowd, brought his sabre down on the face of one of his antagonists and a line of
 blood marked where it struck. Two companies of the Tenth Battalion were concealed in Chapel Street and when l the cavalry escort dashed past they ran across State Street and faced the
 pursuing crowd with fixed bayonets.