The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
BAY0NET CHARGE.
National Guardsmen Force Back
the Mob
And Drive 1t Three Blocks Away
in Albany.
REVERSE THEIR GUNS.
Strike Adherents Badly Bat
tered in the Shock.
Street Cleared Preparatory to
Starting Out Cars.
Pinkerton Detectives Armed
With Rifles on Hand.

Albany, N. Y, May 16.-Promptly at
o'clock this morning the United Trac-
tion company began preparations to
move its cars At that hour General
Barnes in command of the Twenty third
regiment brought out before the Quail
street barn his entire regiment. At the
same time the Tenth battalion started
down town. dropping out details at the
street corners along the traction line
running to Broadway. One company OF
the Twenty-third, company A, started
to clear out the mob massed at the
curve on Central avenue Persuasion
was of no avail and back went the COM
pany a dozen PAGES Charge bayonets''
shouted Lieutenant Colonel Brady, who
was nearby. Down went the cleaning
points and on rush the men started
for the crowd Just as they reached
them there was quick reverse of the
guns and the butts smasehed against
human bodies. With a howl the crowd
started back some with bloody faces
and some with broken bones. The mob
was not allowed to stop until it had
been driven three blocks away. Then
every side street for blocks around was
cleared and details began the work OF
closing up the saloons and houses. In
two corner saloons they found surly
groups, and in one the soldiers had TO
club the men with their rifles. General
Barnes then ordered windows in the
houses closed. Usually a rifle pointed
was sufficient, but in one or TWO cases
details had to enter the houses and close
them, the women defying them-
All the time inside the barn doors
were five open cars ready manned with
non union men waiting the word to run
out.
On each car were two notormen. two
conductors and two Pinkerton detec-
tives the latter with loaded rifles in
their hands
"The men are ordered not to fire ex-
cept it is absolutely necessary, said
Superintendent Fassett of the road
FIRST CAR RUNS OUT
At $50 o'clock the first car emerged
from the barn and rounded the curve to
the spot where the crowd had wrecked
two others Tuesday. General Barnes
was on the car and when it reached the
Instructions q coupling was made and
the damaged cars soon were removed to
the barn. The crowd was too far dis
tant to even see the operation and if a
window went up a guardsman soon shut
it with an order.
While this was going on the street
corners along the State street route be-
gan to assume the condition of military
posts. Details of soldiers in every prom
no large crowd could gather At $40
a second car left the stable and started
over towards Madison avenue, thor
oughfare not guarded. On board of 1t
We're Lieutenant Colonel Brady and
company of the Twenty third regiment
guarding the two motormen and two
conductors. They proceeded over Quail
street, stopping to remove f1agstone OBJ
structions from the track. The car was
an open one.
4 Ie. IN
move a car word was sent to Colonel
Lloyd, in command of the Second regi-
ment at North Albany and he immedi-
ateIy began placing his men along
Broadway at points where trouble was
feared HousehOlderS were warned that
a brick thrown from a house top or a
window would mean the arrest of all the
inmates, and stragglerS on the street
corners were notified to keep moving.
1t was 10 O'clock before the first car
had removed the last of the Instructions
and then it was run up the end of the
line. In the meantime the company
ran out seven other cars and got them
ready for business. On each was full
complement of militia The first car
moved out and down the avenue with no
trouble and car number two with a
trailer followed a few moments after
ward There was hardly a ripple of eX-
element as the cars moved down the
hill to take different routes. There were
boots and Kisses at several points, but
up to the time the various cars reached
the foot of State street, no serious trOu-
BILE occurred and there were no great
crowds at any point. Evidently the
great display of military force and the
way the crowds were handled had
awed the riotous element
AS the numerous cars kept coming
down the hill the crowd near the post
office increased in numbers and began
to get excited. The military charged
upon the crowd and drove them two
blocks away from the junction of State
and Broadway. The cars ran up the
roadway as far as the company's barn,
and although there were several thou
sand people the hostile demonstration
was limited to jeering those on the cars
Following the procession of cars the
repair wagons. guarded by seventy
mounted signal corps men, came down
the street and turned up Broadway.
where there was some repairing to be
done. The United Traction company
has added to its five rewards offered
yesterday for information as to who hurt
the non-union men, i've more rewards
of S100 each.