The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16

leaders in the crowd beaten with muskets
were some of the results of the day.
Mob and militia closed in combat late
In the afternoon, but by the accident OF
fortune there were no serious casualties
1t was the introduction Of more nOn-unlon
men to take the places of striking trac-
ton employees that produced the Violence
Seventy-fVe nOn-uniOn men reached the
union station shortly before o'clock,
and their delivery at the Quail street
with dash under cavalry escort. with
mob Resistance IN almost every block
Frenzied men swarmed through the police
lines, Surged around the fast moving cav
alrymen and fought to get at the cowed
nOn-untOn men inside the circle OF gal
The rays of the setting sun gave CLINT
to busy sabers, but the long blades, WELD
ed by forbearing hands, seldom descend
ed in serious blows. Several Of the mob
men, but the record does not yet show
the score Of single fatality, In the
and stones thai were re- hurled AZ them
but less than a dozen were badly hurt.
union men failed them in the opening
mfngle with and be lost in the crowd.
The ride of the non-union men through
the day At O'Clock the Third signal
corps, mounted and armed as cavalry
men, formed a hollow square around the
non-union men who had just arrived at
Five thousand men tagged at their
neeis ana 1anIned IN around them and
Fifty policemen formed in a Gordon
force the crowd back. The street was
cleared but the walls Of humanity on the
sidewalks held firm and could not be
moved. A broken alleyWay that runs
along the south side of the union station
was the stage of the opening scene Into
1t were driven four fat-topped open
trucks The crowd recognized them as
the same vehicles that had carried the
first batch of strilxebreakers, and greeted
them with groans suddenly side-door
thrown II u
the alleyway toward the waiting teams
were all aboard, the drivers brought their
teams out into the street the cavalry
closed in around them and the race was
on. The police threw themselves across.
the street in solid phalanx, but the crowd,
roaring its threats against the new men,
swept over the police and took up the
chase Ahead were thousands more. and
or blades of steel they closed in around
the cavalrymen. Soon there came vol
ley OF bricks and three OF the non-unIo1
INN dashed into state street for The he run
up the hill past the capitol Here the
crowd was as dense and desperate as the
other and men plunged in around the gal
Looping horses One rider, cut off from
the crowd. brought his saber down on
the face OF one of his antagonists, and a
line of blood marked where it struck.
Two blocks up State street a clever milf
tary ruse blocked the downtown mob.
Two companies of the Tenth battalion
were concealed in Chapel street and when
the cavalry escort dashed past they ran
ing crowd with fixed bayonets. The new
line Wavered and broke on one flank. but
in the main the movement was success
full BUT the non-union men We're not yet
free Smaller crowds had 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 in
fantry repeatedly charged into the crowd
substituting butt for bayOnet, and after
much effort a passage was opened for
the scurrying cavalry and it was safe in
side the inclosure.