Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-16
would be wrecked. His warnings were
needed.
Calls for Conferences.

would be wrecked His warnings were
needed.
Calls for Conferences.
A conference has been called at Mayor
Blessings office looking toward an ami
cable settlement of the strike. Calls have
been sent to the strikers organizations
and the United Traction Company, and
meeting is promised for 1870 pm.
The strikers have called a conference for
3 pm. to discuss the situation.
Arrival of Non-CniOn Men.
Seventy-five non-union men reached the
Union depot shortly before 6 o'clock last
evening, and their delivery at Quail street
barn, a mile and a half away, was made
with dash, under cavalry escort, with
mob resistance in almost every block.
Frenzied men swarmed through the police
lines surged around the fast-moving cav
alrymen, and founght to get at the cowed
non-union men inside the circle of gallop-
ing horses
At 5 o'clock the Sd 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 tagged at their heels and jammed in
around them. and thousands more crowded
into the intersecting streets.
Fifty policemen formed in Gordon about
the waiting dragons and tried to force
the crowd back The street was cleared,
but the walls of humanity on the sidewalks
held firm and could not be moved. ~
broken aleyway, that runs along the souih
side of the Union depot, was the stage OF
the operating scene. Into it We're driven
four flat-topped open trucks. The crowd
recognized them as the same vehicles tnat
had carried the first batch of strike break
ers and greeted them with groans. SUD
denly side door of the depot was thrown
open and up the alleyway toward the walt
ing 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.
Crowd Closes In on Escort.
High up in window, on the top floor OF
a Broadway building, a wildly excited man
barked out an imprecation on the heads OF
the luckless fellows below him, and 10000
men took up 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 cavalrymen. Soon there came
a volley of bricks and three OF the strike
breakers sprang from the rear wagon a'lu
were lost in the crowd The hylns colufnh
dashed into State street for the run up the
hill past the capitol. Here the crowd was
as dense and desperate as the other, ana
men plunged in around the galIoplng ho:Ses.
One rider cut off by the crowd, brousnt ms
q
tagonists and line of blood marked Whe~@
it struck ,
Two blocks up State street and a clever
military ruse blocked the downtown mop.
concealed in Chapel street. and "hen the
caval.y escort dashed past, they ran across
State street and faced the pursuing crowd
with fixed bayonets. The new line WaV-
cred and broke on one flank, but in the
main the movement was successful. But
the strike-breakers We're not yet Iree.
Smaller crowds had gathered at various
points along the route to the parh, ana
they threw stones when the non-unlon
men rushed past There was another wild
scene at the barn, where thousands more
had assembled The infantry repeatedly
charged into the crowd substituting butt
for bayonet and after much effort a pas
sage was opened for the scurrying caval-
cade, and it was safe inside the inclosure
Sixteen Men Injured.
Sixteen Of the strike-breakers were in
jured during the ride, and many of them'
stunned weak and scared had to be helped
from the wagons. OF the sixteen injured
men, only one was sent to the hospital. He
was wounded in the arm and head, and the
surgeons say he shot The strikers
say that eighteen strike-b breakers deserted
during the ride, and that fifty were safely
landed in the barn
In a hollow square of infantry, protected
by lines of pickets that reached into every
bisecting street and an outer skirmish line
in circular form that encompassed all, the
traction tower wagon was moved out of
the barn during the afternoon. and two
hours were spent in repairing trolley wires.
The heavy force of guardsmen and the
strngency of the protective measures
seemed to awe the crowds that surged
| around the outer skirmiSh line, and there
was no disorder. The soldiers Were jeered
| and derided but no one offered them vio-
| lence.
Marshall the non-union mot torman who
was injured by the mob Tuesday, is
very low and will probably die
Edward Nj. Hoffman of Elmira, adjutant
general of the National Guard and chief
| of the governors staff, died suddenly. He
| was in consultation with Major General
Roe, commander Of the National Guard
| concerning the disposition of the troops
| called into service to quell the disturbances
| incident to the street railway employees
| strike, when he taken with faint
| ness. He was assisted to his room but
died before physician could be called
| Gen. Hoffman was about fifty years Of age