Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-05-16
THE STRIKE
Causes Citizens To Meet
Each Other
IN BLOODY COMBAT
Soldiers Find Use For Their
Armaments

Albany, May 16.-The strike situa
tion in this city is now more seriou!
than anything Of the kind that has
ever taken place In the state.
AS long as the Traction Company
does not attempt to move cars OF
bring in non-union men the crowds on
the streets remain good natured ex.
cept for haunting the soldiers and po.
lice but the instant an attempt is
made to work on the lines or bring
men in the crowd becomes frenzied
and bloodshed results.
Citizens, sabre Slashed, non-union
men with broken limbs and bloody
faces, women and children trampled
under foot, soldiers MANNED with fly
ing missiles and ring leaders in a
crowd beaten with the butts Of mus
ketS were some OF the results of the
day.
Mob and militia closed in combat
late this afternoon, but by the acct
dent of fortune there were no serious
casualties. 1t was the introduction
Of more non-union men to take the
places of striking traction employees
that produced the violence, and it
was only by the skill and forbearance
Of the guardsmen that the clash was
not q desperately serious one.
Seventy ave NON union men reach
ed the union depot shortly before six
O'Clock and their delivery at Quail
street barn, mile and half away,
was a dash under cavalry escort. with
mob resistance In almost every block.
Fienzied men in countless numbers
swarmed through the police lines,
Surged around the swift moving cav
alrymen and fought to get at the
cowed non union men inside the circle
Of galloping horses.
The rays of the setting sun gave
CLINT to busy Sabres but the long bla.
des welded by forbearing hands sell
dom descended in serious blows. Sew
eral men we're cut down by cornered
cavalrymen but the record does not
yet show the score by single fatality.
In the mad ride through the streets
| few of the non -unioniStS escaped the
flying bricks and stones that the an
gered mobs hurled at them but less
than dUzen were badly hurt.
The courage of nearly dozen non.
union men failed them in the opening
squirt through the turbulent crowds
and they sprang from the wagons
that carried them to mingle and be
lost in the crowd that demanded their
blood.
Albany, May l6.-All night the
guardsmen patrolled the Traction
Company's barns. An immense crowd
jeered the soldiers, but no violence
was attempted.
The first indication that the company
had intended to resume operations de-
veloped at sos a. M, when two bat
talions of the 23rd regiment left the
camp at Beverwick Park and marched
to Quail St.
They formed on the roadway in
front of the barns. Company A under
Capt. Pager wheeled into two pla-
toons and went forward at double
quick.
The crowd of several thousand lined
Central Avenue across Quail St. As
the soldiers came forward it scattered
some Of the men rushing into saloons.
The soldiers followed with fixe
bayonets, ordered the proprietors 10
close their places and hustled the men
into the streets.
Some of the crowd were hurt but
we're taken away by friends before
their names or injuries were learned.
The 10th battalion started from the
barns to guard the cars along the
lines. Details were distributed at
each corner down past the capitol to
Broadway.
At the barns five cars were manned.
Two motormen, two conductors and
two Pinkertons with loaded rifles on
the first Car, left the barn about $50
and ran over to the cars wrecked
Tuesday, coupled on to them and
come back to the barns.
The second car left shortly after 8,
headed for Madison Avenue. On it
were two motormen, two conductors,
and company of the Add regiment.
The striker sympathizers were awed
by the imposing military force and
offered no violence. Ten cars in all
passed through the streets accompani.