The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-09
SEVERAL MEN INJURED
Troops Will Report to Mayor
 Capdevielle Today.
Riot on Canal Street and Strikers Took Non-Union Men from Cars. Crescent City Police
 Powerless.

New Orleans. Oct. s.-The attempt tnia morning. of the New Orleans haiiways Company. to start cars on its lines wnich have been completely tied up TOT eieVeh days precipitated long impending con- flict between the strikers and those Who attempted to fill their places Although huhdred shots were fired nobody was killed. but sixteen persons were injured.
 Mayor Capdevielle, who requested Gov ernor Heard to order out the militia, mas been advised that Major General Flynn in command of the militia will report to the Mayor tomorrow morning. The raii- way company announced it's intention to make another attempt to run It's cars m the morning.
 The strikers. who have stood hrm from the start, are as determined as ever wnue the citizens of New Orleans, who nave been walking and riding in all manner Of vehicles for more than a week confidently expect trouble.
 The riot this morning occurred in the same neighborhood as the one or the uay before. One car was started from the Ca- nal Street barn about o'clock. with ten Chicago strike-breakers and ten police- men aboard. Two blocks from the barn strikers pulled up the wooden crossings and constructed a barricade on the track. The car stopped and Robert D. Koontz, one of the non-union men. got off to re- move the Instructions. He succeeded. though set upon by the crowd. The strik- CTS then made a rush for the car and lively fight ensued. There was regular fusilade fully a hundred shots being ex- changed by the men and police on the car an dthe strikers.
 Stampede in Streets.
 At the first volley from the car the strikers broke and ran and regular stampede followed. Then the police got active and arrested the non-union men for carrying concealed weapons. Three non-union men were put in patrol wagon and while en route to the station tho wagon overturned and all the occupants were more or less injured. Officer For dyce, who sustained the worst injuries of the day, had several ribs broken and got a scalp wound.
 The injured are: Policeman John For dyce ribs fractured and scalp wound; Policeman Blouin, leg and hip fractured; Policeman Hessel, hit In the eye and on leg wil1 brick; Policeman Schlessinger. hit in neck with brick and bruised on head, shoulder and wrist; Policeman Hat tier, scalp wound from a brick; Patrol Driver Brown, arm broken; Peter Jensen of Chicago, strike break contractor, jaw broken by brick; Louis Christiansen of Chicago, badly bruised by bricks; Thom- as Jones of Chicago, badly bruised by brick; M. l.. Kennedy of Chicago, con- ductor of car, shot in foot; A. M. Clark of Chicago, assistant to Jensen, hit in eye with a brick; Charles Ferguson of Chicago, elbow broken by a blow; Bud Lynn, striker. shot in arm; Fred Eich- ling. switch boy, shot in leg; Alex Derbes, labor sympathizer. shot in leg; unknown striker, shot in head, scalp wound.
 Besides charging all the strikers with carrying concealed weapons, Christian sen, Jones and Jensen, Chicago striko breakers, were charged with melting a riot.
 Several Strikers Arrested.
 Quite a number of the strikers were arrested after the general melee on sim pie charges as being drunk and refusing to move on.
 The Progressive Union was to have heiI a general meeting this afternoon to dts cuss the situation, but under the advice of the Mayor and with the assurance that the Governor would place the State troops at the disposal of the Mayor, it was called off.
 Tonight big labor mass meeting is in progress in Washington Artillery hall.
 The mass meeting was a big one, fully 5000 workingmen and dozen ladies being present. It was presided over by Robert E. Lee, the Republican candidate for Congress and president of the Central Trades and Labor Council. Speeches were made by Fred Alexander, president of the Typographical Union; James Leo- hard. organizer of the American Fedora tion of Labor; Ben Commons, president of Cay TTvto attorney for the car men. The addresses except when reference was made to J. H. Edison. the St. Louis strike breaker Then the crowd shouted hang him, !" kill him. lynch him." etc.
 The first three speakers denounced the press for unfairness for not denouncing Rhe importation of the strike breakers. The authorities were denounced for call ing In the militia, but Leonard. in refer ring to them, said the strikers stood in with the soldiers and they were in no danger.
 Resolutions were adopted denouncing the railways company and protesting against the importation of outside labor. The crowd dispersed without disorder.
 Military Men Resign.
 All the militia in the city was ordered
 
 are out rounding up the men. The plan of operations for tomorrow has not been determined yet One company-Com- pany C-of the 1st regiment wants to evade service because of sympathy with the strikers and all officers and men re- signed in d body. The Governor has not been heard from on this, but the resignations will not be accepted.
 A special from Jackson, Miss, says that fourteen men passed through Jackson this afternoon en route to New Orleans to take the place of street car strikers. One of the party s1ated that POO men would leave St. Louis for New Orleans tomorrow to run cars in place of union men.
 The police detectives were turned loose on the rioters this morning and some startling developments are promised It is the first time since the troubles began that the detectives have had an oppor- tunity to work on the case. Their sym