The age-herald., 1901-05-16
Mony Soldiers Mained With Flying Missiles and Women
 and Children Injured SERIOUSS|TUAT ION AT ALBANY Non-union Men Passed Through the Streets Under Cavalry Escort, While the Mob Poured VoIleys
 of Brick Upon Them.

Albany, N. Y, May 15.-So serious is the situation here tonight over the trac- tion strike that Governor Od I post poned a trip to the State institutions which he had undertaken and returned to the executive mansion. Two thousand armed soldiers are now within the city limits, more are coming and 250O are in readiness to move to Troy when the Gov ernor so orders. The streets arg throngod with excited men, women and children and the otherwise quiet day terminated in bloodshed. A dramatic element was added to the days features by the sud- den death of Adjutant General Hoffman. Citizens, saber-slashed, non-nion men with broken limbs and bloody faces, wo- men and children trampled under foot, soldiers maimed with flying missiles and leaders in the crowd beaten with muskets were some of the results of the day. Mob and militia closed in combat late this evening, but by the accident of for tune there were no serious casualties. It was the introduction of more non-union men to take the places of striking trac- ton employees that produced. the violence. Seventy-flve non-union men reached the union depots shortly before 6 o'clock and their delivery at the Quail street barn, mile and half away, was made with a dash under cavalry escort. with mob re- sistance in almost every block.
 Several Knocked Down. Several of the mob were knocked down by cavalrymen, but the record does not yet show single fatality. In the passage through the streets few of the non-union- ists escaped the bricks and stones that were hurled at them, but less than a dozen were badly hurt. The ride of the non-union men through the city was the dramatic spectacle of the day. At o'clock the third signal corps mounted, and armed as cavalrymen formed hollow square around the non-union men who had just arrived at the depot. Five thousand men Jagged at their heels and thousands more crowded into the intersectingl street A broken alley way along the south side of the union depot was the stage of the opening scene. Into 1t were driven four f1at-topped open trucks. The crowd recognized them as the same vehicles that had carried the first batch of strike breakers. Suddenly side door of the depot was thrown open, and up the alley toward the waiting teams marched the non-union men. Once they were all aboard the drivers brought their teams out into the street, the cavalry closed in around them and the race was on. High up in a window on the top floor of a Broadway building a wildly ex- cited man parked out an imprecation on the heads of the luckless fellows below him. and ten thousand men took up the hue and cry The police. threw them selves across the street in solid phalanx, but the crowd swept over them and took up the chase. Ahead were thousands more. and they closed around the caval- rymen.
 A VoIley of Bricks.
 Soon there came volley of bricks and three of the strike breakers sprang from | nd lost in the crowd. The flying column dashed into State street for the run up the hill past the capitol Here the crowd was as dense and desperate as the other, and men plunged around the galloping horses One rider, cut off from the crowd, brought his sabre down on the face of one of his antagonists and a line of blood marked where 1t struck. Two companies of the Tenth Battalion were concealed in Chapel street and when the cavalry escort dash ed past they ran across State street and faced the pursuing crowd with fixed pay onets The new line wavered and broke on one flank, but in the main the move ment was successful. But the strike breakers were 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 ln1antry repeateoiy charged into the crowd substituting butt for bayonet and after much effort pas sage was opened for the scurrying cav alcade and it was safe inside the inclos- ure.
 At night the city was quiet. The com pany says 1t will proceed to move cars tomorrow under guard of the soldiers and General Roe, in command of the troops, says he will assist to the best of his abil- ity with 22O0 troops.
 Marshall, the non-union motorman who was injured yesterday by the mob, is very low and probably will die before morn- ing.