The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-15
THE POLICE P0wERLESS
One Man Seriously Wounded
 by the Mob.
A Street Car Wrecked and the Trol. ley Wires Cut, Practically Put
 ting the Traction Company Out of Business.

Albany, N. r., May H.--A thousand National Guardsmen and a hundred mounted men will occupy Albany directs tomorrow and attempt to force a riotous crowd to let the cars of the United Traction Company run with non-union men. The 23d Regiment of Brooklyn, the 10th Battalion of Albany and the Third Signal Corps will be here and will be reinforced by 200 special deputies. 300 policemen and over a hum dred Pinkerton detectives. It Is ex- pected that the bloodshed and riotous scenes of today will be repeated with much greater fatality. The results of today are: one man dying, fully twen- ty or thirty injured. eighty men out of 150 brought here by the company in- duced to desert, the trolley lines cut, cars demolished and the police almost powerless to control the thousands Of men parading the streets. The com pany, however. insists that 1t will run its cars with protection and 1t is said late tonight that 300 new non-union men are in a train near the city wait ing for the troops to make their entry safe. Eight men have been arrested
 
 strikers.
 Troops Already on Guard.
 At midnight three companies of the 10th Battalion took their stations at three important points.
 When darkness fell this evening sev- eral thousand weary street car strikers and sympathizers went to their homes, but they we're replaced by as many more who took up the vigil to prevent the United Traction Company from running it's electric cars with non union men. The darkness brought some confidence that there would be no attempt before morning to move cars, for two attempts in broad daylight had i. brought bioodshed and riot on such . scale that the local police aided by scores of deputies and Pinkerton men had been unable to quell the disturb ance.
 One man is in a hospital seriously wounded, one of the two cars the cQmi pany attempted to run is wrecked. in the street not two blocks from the car house and the trolley wires are cut in several rlaces, practically crippling the road. Near the car house thousands of men, women and children are wrought %up to a pitch of frenzy that bodes i'll if the doors of the car house open to iet out another car. Inside tine ear house. afraid even to look out of the grated windows are about seventy i've non-union men whom the company expects to use in running the cars. Early this morning there were about 150 of them, but by nightfall sixty-five had deserted and joined the ranks of the strikers. The men claim that they were brought here under a misappre- hension and that they supposed they were going to Philadelphia.
 | The Authorities Powerless. The authorities this afternoon prac- tically admitted that they were pow erless to take care of the large crowds on the streets if cars were run and General Manager McNamara immedi- ately called upon General Oliver, in command of the Sd Brigade, for pros lection. He said: We intend to run our cars if it takes the entire National Guard of New York State to protect us."
 General Oliver issued an order as- sembling at their armory tonight the Tenth Battlion of Albany, comprising four companies of the National Guard of Infantry and the Third Signal Corps. mounted. General Oliver said that he would warn the remainder of the Third Brigade to be in readiness for a call.
 The riot today was full of exciting features. At 10 o'clock two of the big car house doors swung open and out started closed car with all the win dows opened. Immediately there was a roar of misses and shouts. Several men made an effort to board the car but they were kept from doing so by the policemen, one of whom was sta- tioned on each car step. The car made rapid headway and almost before the expectant crowd realized what haC happened it was well on it's way over Quail Street. It continued to the Union Station and returned, followed most of the way by bicyclists and peo- pie in vehicles.
 The second car did not escape. When the doors were opened the mob surged towards it despite the efforts of the police. The crew consisted of four men dressed in plain clothes. As the car swung around the curve there was a rush for it, but the crowd was driven back. The committee from the strik- CTS was allowed to approach the men.
 Don't you want to come with us, boys? You won't regret 1t"
 Bombarded the Car.
 There was no respon from any of the men. The motormsp waved them aside and the car was soff again. All restraint in the great crowd broke. Through the middle of the street ran women and children, mingling with the officers of the law, whose clubs were swinging end arms moving to keep people from danger. Before the car had started two policemen boarded 1t. They simply made extra targets for the stones and bricks. The car had not gone fifty feet before one policeman's S helmet was crushed. There was a per feet fusilade of stones. They came frOVVa al Jiranfi0na and aahad the windows and sides of the car.
 The men aboard lodged and jumped from side to side to escape them and were successful with the exception of the motorman. A large jagged edge rock struck him full in the forehead and he dropped to the floor of the plat form.