Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-10-08
NEW ORLEANS ANS STRIKE
BECOMING TURBULENT
Strikers Try to Prevent Run
ming of Cars.
WIRES AND ROPES ARE CUT,
Strikers Boarded Car, Attacked Non.
union Motormen, Smashed Windows
and Created Disorder Generally
Emergency Police sworn In.

Emergency Police Sworn In.
New Orleans, Oct. S.-Violence start
ed with the first attempt of the Rail
ways company to carry out the orders
of the mayor and run its cars today
Just before o'clock the company
started out three cars from the barn
on Canal street.
On each car manned by nonunion
policemen. Large crowds of strik'
ers and sympathizers were on the
streets. When the cars reached Miro
street the tracks were blockaded, and
when they came to a stop large mon
attacked them. Wires and ropes
were cut and the cars were boarded,
A pistol shot was fired and the nor
union motorman attacked. One OF
them was badly cut. The polics
seemed unable to cope with the situa
tion.
When the rioting spent itself the
three cars were left standing on the
track guarded by policemen. All the
windows in them were smashed, and
they were otherwise damaged. F. H.
Schwenck, of Chicago, a conductor,
was the man who was most badly beat.
en-. The mob of strikers captured
Schwenck and his motorman, and both
consented to join the union. Some
OF the policemen were hurt by flying
SoA -
company has imported a number OF
men from other cities.
AS soon as news of the rioting
reached the city hall the mayor issued
a call for meeting of the police
board. 1t is understood that the OBJ
ject is to swear in emergency police
men and to make it plain to the regu'
lar force that the board expects every
man to do his full duty.
High officers of the militia are in the
city preparing themselves in the event
of call for troops. Governor Heard
will only order out the militia when
he is notified by Mayor Capedeville
| that the situation has gotten beyond
the control of the municipal authori.
ties.
Mayor Capdevielle visited police
| headquarters and conferred with Chief
Journee after the rioting. The chief
said that as the company had tempo
! rarily abandoned the attempt to op.
crate cars on the Canal line, the sitn
alton had quieted down.
An immense multitude of people, IN.
cluding strikers and their sympathiz-
ers, is gathering at Elk Place and Ca
nal, and without greater protection
than is likely to be furnished by the
police, there is no likelihood that the
company will run cars on Canal street
| today
At union headquarters it was all.
nounced that the headquarters will he
| open to receive any offers of negotia-
ton looking to a settlement of the
| trouble.
J. H Edison, of St Louis, said to be
connected with a detective agency in
that city, was one of the cars dur
ing the rioting. Edison very plucki-
ly climbed on top and adjusted the
trolley pole when it was first pulled
down The mobs made rush for
him when he descended, but the police
managed to protect him, and he was
taken to the Central station in a pa
troll wagon, hooted and jeered at by a
multitude. Edison said he had been
employed By the company and had
brought 20 men with him from ST.
Louis. He said he desired to retul n
to the Canal barn and repeat the at.
tempt to take cut cars