The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-16
TROOPS CONTROL ALBANY
AN EXCITING CLASH BETWEEN
 MOB AND MILITIA.
Rtotous Scenes During the Escort by Cavalry of Seventy-flve Non-UniOn Men from Railroad Station to One of the Barns of the Traction Company Many Injured but None FatalIy-COm- pany VIII Attempt to Operate Cars To-day.

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 Albany, May 15.-Albany is quiet at
 midnight. Both the strikers and the
 railroad people claim that there has been no further attempt at negotiations
 for a settlement. The company says
 that it will proceed to move cars to-
 morrow under guard of the soldiers, and General Roe, in command of the troops, says that he will assist to the
 best of his ability. No additional troops have been ordered out, nor has there
 been any contingent designation of
 commands liable to be ordered under
 arms
 So serious was the situation consider ed tonight that Governor Odell post
 poned the continuance of his trip to the state institutions and at 5:30 o'clock
 tonight was at the executive mansion.
 Two thousand armed soldiers are now
 within the city limits, more are coming and 2,500 are in readiness to move when
 Governor Odell so orders. The streets are thronged with excited men, women and children, and the otherwise quiet day terminated in bloodshed. A dra- matic element was added to the days features by the sudden death of Adju- tant General Hoffman.
 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 taunt- ing the soldiers and police, but the in- stant an attempt is made to work on the lines or bring non union men the crowd becomes frenzied and bloodshad results.
 Citizens sabre-slashed, non-union men with broken limbs and bloody faces, women and children trampled under food, soldiers maimed with flying mis- siles and leaders In the crowds beaten with muskets were some of the results of the day.
 Anticipating an attempt to move the cars in Troy, Major General Roe has ordered the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Forty-seventh regiments of Brooklyn, Troop c of Brooklyn, the Second Signal corps, the Seventeenth Separate com pany and the Third battery, which car ries Gatling guns, to hold themselves in readiness to move immediately.
 Mob and militia clashed late this af- ternoon, but fortunately there were no | serious casualties. Seventy-five non- union men reached the Union depot shortly before 6 o'clock, and their de- | livery at Quail street barn, mile and | a half away, was a dash under cavalry | escort with mob resistance on almost | every block Frenzed people swarmed | the police lines, surged around | the fast-moving cavalrymen and fought | to get at the cowed non-union men in- side the circle of galloping horses.
 Several men were cut down by the cavalrymen, but the record does not yet show the score of a single fatality. In | the mad ride through the streets few of the non-unionists escaped the flying bricks and stones, but less than doz- an were badly hurt. The courage of nearly a dozen of the non-union men failed them in the opening spurt through the turbulent crowds and they 5prang from the wagons and were lost n the crowd. The ride of the non-union nen through the city was the dramatic spectacle of the day.