Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-16
RIOT AND AOODSHED MARK
ALBANY TROLLEY STRIKE
THOUSANDS OF FRENzTED CITI-
ZENS ATTACK A PARTY OF
NEWLY ARRIVED STRIKE
BREAKERS
THE CAVALRY CALLED UPON
TO GUARD THE NEW CoMERs FROM
THE RAILROAD STATION TO
THE CAR BARNS.

ALBANY, N. Y. May 15.-So serious
is the situation here tonight over the
Traction Company strike that Governor
odell postponed the continuance OF a
trip TO State institutions which he had
undertaken and returned to the execu-
tive mansion. Two thousand armed
soldiers are now within the city limits.
more are coming and $500 are in read
mess to move to Troy when Governor
Odell so orders.
The streets are thronged with excit-
ed men, women and children and the
otherwise quiet day terminated In
oloodshed. A dramatic element was
added to the days features by the sud
den death of Adiutant General Hoff-
man.
AS long as the Traction Company
does not attempt to move cars or bring
in non-union men, the crowds on the
street remain good natured except for,
haunting the soldiers and pelice but
the instant an attempt Is made to work
on the lines or bring non-umonsmen in.
the crowd becomes frenzied and. blood
shed results.
Citizens. sabre slashed, non-union
men with broken limbs and bloody
faces, women and children trampled
under foot, soldiers manned with ny
ing missiles and leaders in the crowds
beaten with muskets were some of the
results OF the day.
Mob and military closed in combat
late this afternoon, but by the accident
of fortune there were no serious cas-
ualties. 1t was the Introduction of
more non-union men to take the places
of striking traction company employees.
that produced the violence. Seventy
five non-union men reached the depot
shortly before six o'clock and their de-
livery at Quail street barn, a mile and
q half away. was made with dash I'M
der cavalry escort with mob resistance
in almost every block. Frenzied men
swarmed through the police lines. surg
ed around the fast moving cavalrymen
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 blades,
welded by forDearing hands, seldom de-
scended in serious blows. Several OF
the mob were knocked down by corner
ed cavalrymen, but the record does not
yet show single fatality. In the pass
age through the streets few OF the non
unionists escaped the flying bricks and
stones that were hurled at them. but
less than a dozen were badly hurt. The
courage of nearly dozen OF the non
union men failed them in the opening
squirt through the crowds and they
sprang from the wagons that carried
them to mingle with and be lost In the
crowd.
The ride OF the non-union men
through the city was the dramatic spec
tacle of the day. At O'Clock the Third
signal corps. mounted and armed az
caValrymen. formed a hollow square
around the non-union men who had Just
arrived at the depot.
Five thousand men Jagged at their
heels and jammed in around them ana
thousands more crowded into the inter-
secting streets.
Fifty policemen formed In Gordon
about the wedged dragons and tried
10 force the crowd back. The street
was cleared but the walls OF humanity
on the sidewalks held Arm and could
not be moved. A broken alleyway that
runs along the south side OF the union
depot was the stage OF the opening
scene. Into it we're driven four nat
TONED open trucks. The crowd reeog-
nized them as the same vehicles that
had carried the first batch OF strike
breakers and greeted them with gToans-
Suddenly a side door OF the depot was
thrown open and up the alley way to-
ward the waiting teams marched the
non-union men. Once they were all
aboard the drivers brought their teams
out into the street. the cavalry ciosed
In around them and the race was on.
High ~ In a window on the top floor of
a broadway window a wildly excited maa
barked out an lmprecation on the heads
OF the Iuckless fellows below him and ten
thousand men took W the hue and cry
The police threw themselves across The
street in solid phalanx. but the crowd
swept over them and took up the chase
Ahead were thousands more and With no
fear for either heels OF horses or blades
Of steel. they closed in around the eayal-
ryneu. Soon there came v0iiey OK
bricks and three Of the strike breakers
sorang from the rear wagon and were
lost IN the crowd The Dying column
, dashed into state street for the run ~
,he bllI past Inc capitol Here the crowd
waz as dense ard desperate az the other
ana men plunged In around the gaiioplng
horses one rider was cat OF from the
crowd. brought mis- sabre down or the face
Of one Of his antagonists and a line o.
blood marked where Il struck
Two blocks up State street and a clever
military ruse blocked the downtown mob.
Two companies Of the Tenth battalion
we're concealed in Chapel street. and when
the cavalry escort dashed past they ran
across state street and faced the pursuing
crowd with fixed bayonets. The new line
vavered and broke on one flank. but In
the main the movement was successful
There was another wild scene at the barn
where thousands more had assembled The
infantry repeatedly charged into the
crowd. substituting butt Cor bayonet. and
i = rse- ranch effort 4 paMsa9e WAS on~n~d