Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-14
STRIKE AT ALBANY
Cars Started With Two Police
 men on Each End.
WIRES DOWN, CARS UPTURNED

sIotorman Struck Several Times Until.
 Bleeding and Senseless, He Was
 Taken from the Car-Non-U Union Men
 Gave Up the Work and Were Car
 ried Away on Strikers Shoulders
 Wire Was Cut and One Line
 Knocked Out of Business.
 Albany. N. Y, May 14.-Police off cers of this city and hundred special deputy sheriffs are in state of fer ment this morning over the announce inent that the United Traction Co would operate its cars to-day The. POO nOn-union men imported last night were housed in the Quail street barns of the company and were heavily guarded by police and special deputy sheriffs. There have been no acts of violence with the exception of the bombardment by strike sympathizers of the nOn-union men last night while they were on their way from the rall- road station.
 A crowd of strikers and sympathiz- CTS remained in the vicinity of the barns during the night and 1t was swelled to several thousand people this morning awaiting the attempt by the company to operate it's lines.
 A platoon of mounted police is at the car barns and they will act as the es- cort of the first cars started. The company has not made any attempt to commence the operation of any lines other than those which run through the principal thOrOughfares of this city All suburban lines and those of Troy, COhoes. Watervliet and Rens- .1ekf1
 The strikers are employing all man. ner of subterfuges to induce the public not to patronize the cars. As an in- stance they circulated a report that smallpox has broken out among the men who have come to take their places
 Fifteen minutes after 10 o'clock the first car moved out of the barn with two policemen on each platform. The crowd, numbering by this time about 2,OOO. set up a roar. but were kept back by the police. mounted and on foot, and amid jeers and hOots the car moved along the down town route. At the foot of State street 1000 men swarmed toward the car and a fight seemed imminent. but the mounted po- lice split the crowd, the car started rapidly and soon ran away from the mob
 Five arrests were made at the car barns of the more noisy and unruly members of the crowd.
 Half an hour after the first car sS9d left the barn the doors opened ont more and a second motorman faced, the crowd. which was now in perfect frenzy This time the police could not control the mob.
 The police swung their batons with m Tx-6 ha6 the men in front forward until they were on the platform. The motorman was struck several times on the head
 until. bleeding and senseless, he re lnquished his grasp of the handles. On the rear platform two men pulled the trolley pole down and bent it un- til it broke. The car had obtained some momentum and striking switch went off into the gutter.
 The police could do nothing with the crowd and they wrecked the car. Finally when they found that they had accomplished their purpose they with drew with cheers. The police arrest ed four or five of them. One of the trolley lines, a live wire. fell to the street few minutes after It had been cut and until it is repaired one line is ont of commission. The Pine Hill car which got safely out of the barn for the first trip, made several trips up and down town, but carried no passengers It was hooted at, but no violence occurred.
 Some idea of the feeling on the streets may be gained from an incl dent that occurred at the corner of State and Pearl streets when the Pine Hill car came up on it's second run. A boy threw a brick. A man who saw him throw it caught him by the shoul- der In an instant the mob had torn the boy away and assaulted the citizen who held him.
 Nearly a dozen of the non-union men the company brought from out of town deserted after the attack on the sec ond car- They were carried away in triumph on strikers shoulders.
 The crew of the first car deserted the car on Quail street, after making two trips The wires are down and the cars outside the barns on the lines are overturned and traffic on the road is entirely suspended