Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-05-16
A STATE or siege
Such Is the Condition of At
fairs AT New YOrk's
Capital City.
A LARGE ARMED FORCE
Has Taken Possession of Albany to
Suppress the Riots Incident TO
the Street Car Strike.
Sensational Encounter Between
Troops and Citizens Marks the
Progress of Affrirs.
A LARGE ARMED FORCE

Albany, NY. May 16-So serious is
the situation here over the Traction
company strike that Governor Odeil
has postponed a trip to the state in
situations which he had undertaken
sion. Two Thousand armed soldiers
are now within the city limits. more
are coming and 800 are in readiness
TO move TO Troy when Governor Odell
SO orders The streets are thronged
with excited men, women and children.
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 police. but
the instant an attempt is made to work
on the lines or bring non union men in
the crowd becomes frenzied and blood
shed results. Citizens saber-slashed
non union men with broken limbs and
bloody faces. women and children
trampled under foot, soldiers manned
with flying missiles, and leaders in
the crowd beaten with muskets are
some of the results.
Ii WAS the introduction of more non
union men TO take the places of strik
ing traction employees that produced
the violence. Seventy-five non union
men reached the Union depot shortly
before Is O'Clock. and their delivery a.
Quail street barn. mile and hall
away, was made with 4 dash under
cavalry escort with mob resistance il
almost every block. FrenZied mel
swarmed through tie police lines
surged around the fast-moving cav
airymen. and fought To get at the non
union men inside the circle OF galiop
ing horses. Inc ride of the non unioh
men through the city was the dl;.
matte spectacle of the day. AT
O'Clock the Third signal corps, noun.
ed and armed as cavalrymen. formed
a hoIiow square around the non union
men Who had just arrived a the depot.
Fifty policemen formed in Gordon
about the waiting Dragons and tried
To force the crowd back. The strees
was cleared. but the walls of humanity
on the sidewalks held firm and could
not be moved. a broken alieyway
that runs along the south side of the
Union depot was the stage of the
four fiat-topped open trucks. The
crowd recognized them as the same
vehicles that had carried the first
batch of strike breakers and greeted
them with groans. Suddenly n side
door of the depot was thrown open
and up the alleyway toward the wait
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. High up in window
on the top floor of Broadway build
ing 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 phalanN, bu, 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 volley of bricks and three of
the strike breakers sprarg from the
rear wagon and were lost in the crowd.