The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-17
BLOOD FLOWS IN ALBANY
SOLDIERS FIRE INTO 4 CROVD
 WITH FATAL RESULTS.

Prominent Merchant Killed ant
 Another Fatally WOunded-A Non
 Union Motorman Has His Skull Frnc.
 tured and Will Die.-Eforts to SettI.
 Albany, N. Y, May 16-One man dead
 and two men dying at the hospital;
 hundreds of others with broken heads
 and wrecked faces,car running merely Fas arsenals with no patrons, the city
 under martial rule, with it's citizens in
 a frenzy of excitement and the city au- thorities and leaders of the strikers try ! ing to get the street railway company
 to come to an amicable settlement, was
 the situation when darkness fell to-
 night.
 1 The list of casualties so far is: Will
 liam Walsh, merchant, shot by Ma
 tional Guard, dead; Leroy Smith mer-
 chant, shot by National Guard, fatally
 wounded; William Marshall non-
 union motormn, skull fractured, will
 die; Gilbert Hall, non-union motorman,
 shot by mob, will recover; George
 Booze, citizen, cheek ripped open by
 bayonet; William Rooney, citizen, shot by National Guard, not seriously. | Non-union Motormen Monahan,
 James Glinn, Frank Flint, Ernest
 Mores, James Murphy Thomas Kelly,
 Michael Smullin, Michael Curtin,
 Charles Jennings, Myron Walk, Michael Kelly, Stephen O'Hare, were all badly
 cut and bruised by rocks thrown by strikers. Trooper F. B. Harrington and
 Trooper Walter Van Guyshing of the Third Signal Corps, wounded with stones. Hundred of citizens were slight ly wounded by flying missiles and bay onets
 The bloodshed in Albany came after a day of absolute peace. From early morning the crowd had melted away before bayonet and gun; cars had been operated under heavy guards and there was an impression that the spirit of tur- buIence was waning. Noon had seen the sentries and patrols practically without occupation.
 Some minor demonstration occurred, particularly in North Albany, but not a shot had been fired, and as the day passed the running of cars attracted but little attention.
 But volley fired on Broad dway by squad of Twenty-third Infantry, in which Leroy Smith and William Walsh, we'll known citizens, fell niortally wounded, brought an instant change over this situation filled with the proin- ise of peace It stirred anew the feel ing of hatred as the exciting tidings swept like wave through the city. The guardsmen were bitterly denounced for neither of the men fatally wounded by their bullets had been guilty of any of ] fense. They were caught in crowd, some member if which had stoned the guardsmen. The disturbance was not a serious one and murder" is the title applied by inf1amed public sentiment to the shooting. The guardsmen, how ever, seem to have merely acted under a strict interpretation of orders which were to shoot if assaulted.
 The military measures of the morn ing represented the limit of stringen- cy. Householders were given warning to see that their premises were kept or derly and every head that showed on a roof had Springfield pointed at it. The car service with only soldiers as was kept up until noon and | then discontinued for lunch. Early l in the afternoon the strikers or some l strike svmpathizers succeeded in cut ting the trolley wires just north of | Quail street barn. The tower wagon guarded by a hollow square of infan- try hurried to the scene to repair the break.
 The vigilance as to dead lines was re- axed and scores oe sentries posted through the streets took shelter on awns and under trees. It was on the inal run of the cars that the great tragedy of the day occurred. The cars were on Broadway moving northward md a constantly swelling crowd was gathered about the Union depot. The irst of the working people were pour ng into the street. Near Columbia treet truck blocked the way of car lriver refused to move on as quickly IS desired. Some one in the crowd hrew stone. but t went wide of it's mark The car finally moved forward nto the next block and another stone vas hurled at it. There was a sharp ommand and as the car slowed down our shots were fired by the soldiers. leroy Smith lounged on the steps of is store: William Walsh, his business eighbor from across the street. was is immediate companion. A small rowd hung about near them and it ,as into this gathering that the : uardsmen fired at range of less than Continued on Sixth Page) {