Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-17
cuARp Is oRDERED OUT.
military Prot ection for Albany street
Cars Ioodshcd Occurs.

| Albany. N. ", May la - ots>s' 'iri4u
national guardsmen and a hundred
mounted men will occupy Albany's
streets today ana attempt to force
! a riotous crowd to let the cars OF the
| United Traction company run WITH
! non-union men. The Iwenty-tnlfd
regiment Of Brooklyn, the Tenth bat
| talon of Albany and the Third Slgnal
corps will make up the com plemen1
of men. They have been reinforced
by 200 special deputies, 300 policemen
and over hundred Pinkerton aetec-
| tiyes.
1t is feared that the bloodshed ana
/ riotous scenes of yesterday Will De
| repeated with much greater fatallty.
The results of yesterday are:
One man dying, fully twenty or
thirty injured, eighty men out OF loo
brought here by the company induced
to desert, the trolley lines cut, cars
| demolished and the police powerless
| to control the thousands OF men pa
| trolling the streets. The company
however, insists that it will run It's
| cars with protection and it is said
that 500 non-unior workmen are in a
train near the city waiting for the
troops to make their entry safe
| Eipht men have been arrested for
| rioting. two only of whom are str1k-
| erS.
At midnight three companies of the
| Tenth battalion took their stations at
three important points.
Albany. n. Y. May ij.--So serious
| is the situation over the traction
company strike that Governor odeil
post poned a trip to the state institu-
| tons which he had undertaken and
returned to the executive mansion.
| Two thousand armed soldiers are
now within the city limits. and $500
arc in readiness to move when Gov
error Oden so orders. The streets
are thronged with excited men,
women and children. and the other
wise quiet day terminated i'll blood
| shed. 4 dramatic element was ADD
| ed to the days features by the sud
den death of Adjutant General Hoh-
man, who dropped dead from hear'
! disease.
As long as the traction company
| does not attempt to run ears or to
! bring in nOn-union men. the crowds
on the street remain good natured,
except for haunting the soldiers ana
! police, but the instant an attempt is
made to work on the lines or to bring
| non-union men in the crowd becomes
frenzied and blaodshed results. Citl-
zens, saberslashed non-union men,
| men with broken limbs and bloody
| faces, women and children trampled
under foot, soldiers manned with fly
ing missiles and leaders in the crowd
| beaten with muskets, were some O.
| the results Of the day.
Mob ard militia closed in combat
late yesterday afternoon, but by the
accident of fortune there were 10
serious casualties. 1t was the intro
! iIucfiou of more nOn-nni0O men to
take the places of striking traction
employees that produced the violence.
| Seventy-fve non-union men reached
| the Union depot shortly before q
o'clock and their trip to Quail street
| barn, {; mile and half away. was
made with dash under cavalry es-
cort with mob resistance in almost
every block. Frenzied men swarm
! ed through the police lines, surged
around the fast moving cavalrymen
and fought to get at the fast
| moving cavalrymen and fought to
| get at the crowded nor-union men
| inside the circle OF galloping horses.
Several Of the mob were knocked
down by cornered cavalrymen, but
| the record does not show the score
or single fatality. In the passage
through the streets few Of the non
unionists escaped the flying bricks
ant. stones that were hurled at them.
| but less than q dozen We're badl,
hurt.
Albany. n. Y. May 17-Three men
fatally wounded, hundreds Of others
with broken heads and cut faces, ears
running merely as arsenals with no
patrons, the city under martial rule,
with it's citizens in q frenzy of excite
ment and the city authorities and
| leaders Of the strikers trying to get
! the railway company to come to an
amicable settlement, was the situa-
ton when darkness put an end to the
strife growing out of the street car
strike last night.
Those. fatally injured are William
Walsh, a merchant, and Leroy Smith.
q merchant, both shot by National
Guardsmen, and William Marshall. a
noil-union motorman, skull fractured.
The bloodshed came after a day OF
peace. From early morning the
crowds had melted away before bay
onets and shotguns, cars had been
operated under heavy guards and
| there was an impression that the
| spirit of turbulence was waning.
There had been some minor riots,
but not a shot had been fired, and
as the day passed the running of cars
attracted but little attention. The
volley fired on Broadway by a squad
of Twenty-third infantrymen. in
which Leroy Smith and William
Walsh, we'll known citizens. fell NOR
tally wounded. changed all that. 1t
stirred anew the feeling of hatred
as the exciting tidings swept through
the city and the guardsmen were. bit
terly denounced. Neither of the men
had been guilty of an offense, but
were caught in a crowd, some mem
Der of which had stoned the guards
men, and by mischance were hit.
| The disturbance was not a serious
one, and murder" is the title ap-
piled by infamed public sentiment
to the shooting. The guardsmen
seemed to have followed their duty,