The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-24
TROOPS ARE CALLED OUT.
Street Car Strike the Cause of Riot
aud Bloodshed in the City
of Albany, N. Y.
SOLDIERS SENT TO SCENE OF TROUBLE.
Violent Clashes Take Place Between
Rioters and Military FOrces-A
VOlley Fired Into a Crowd with
Fatal Efect-Citizens in a Frenzy
of Excitement.

national guardsmen and hundred
mounted men, will occupy Albany
streets to-day and attempt to force
riotous crowd to let the cars of the
United Traction company run with
nonunion men. The Twenty-third
regiment of Brooklyn, the Tenth bat
talon of Albany and the Third signal
corps will make up the complement of
men. They will be reinforced by 200
special deputies, 300 policemen and
over a hundred Pinkerton detectives.
1t is feared that the bloodshed and
riotous scenes of Tuesday will be re-
peated with much greater fatality.
The results of Tuesday are: One man
dying, fully 20 or 80 injured, 80
men out of $50 brought here by
company induced to desert, the
trolley lines cut. cars demolished
and the police almost powerless to
control the thousands of men patrol
ling the streets. The company, how
ever, insists that it will run its cars
with protection, and it is said that 800
new nonunion men are in train near
the city waiting for the troops to make
their entry safe. Eight men have been
arrested for rioting, two only Of whom
were strikers. At midnight three COM
panies of the Tenth battalion took
their stations at three important
points.
First Serious Outbreak.
Albany, n. Y, May 16.-The first
serious outbreak of the street railway
strike occurred last evening, when
several violent clashes took place be-
tween rioters and the military forces.
Mobs were charged by cavalry and in
fantry and sabers and bayonets were
used. No one was killed. The for
bearance of the soldiers was taxed
severely, for they were assailed with
stones and other missiles by bowling
throngs of men and women. A dra-
matte element was added to the days
features by the sudden death of Adjt.
Gen. Hoffman while issuing orders for
the disposal of the troops.
Militinmen Shoot.
Albany, N. Y, May 1.-Two men ia
tally wounded, one of whom is dead,
hundreds of others with broken heads
and cut faces, cars running merely As
arsenals with no patrons, the city un-
der martial rule, with its citizens in
frenzy of excitement and the city au-
thorities and leaders of the strikers
trying to get the railway company to
come to an amicable settlement, was
the situation when darkness put an
end to the strife growing out of the
street car strike Thursday night.
The Victims.
Those fatally wounded are William
Walsh, a merchant, and Leroy Smith,
a merchant, both shot by national
guardsmen, and William Marshall,
nonunion motorman, skull fractured.
Walsh died of his wound. Others most
seriously injured are: George Booze,
citizen. cheek ripped open by bayonet;
William Rooney, citizen, shot by ma
tional guard, and Gilbert Hall, non
union motorman, shot by mob.
More Troops Called Out.
Albany, N. Y, May 17.-Gen. Roe
has issued an order calling out the
Ninth infantry regiment, Col. MOTIFS,
of New York. and directing it to re-
port here tonight.
Troops Control Situation.
Albany, N. Y, May 1S.-Yesterday
afternoon GOO additional troops of the
Ninth regiment arrived from New
York, thus adding to the imposing
show of military strength. There has
been nothing to indicate an early set
Element of the trouble between the
traction company and the strikers, but
the day passed without any serious