The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-31
FUNERAL CORTEGE
ATTACKED BY MOB
Employees Of Big Factory Treat
Jewish Mourners Roughly.
TURNED HOSE ON CROWD
POLICE CLUB PARTICIPANTS
RIGHT AND LEFT.

~ I v Il a.
~ the late Chief Rabbi Joseph, head
of the orthodox Hebrews of the
United States, which was held here to-
day, was the occasion of one of the
most remarkable demonstrations ever
witnessed in this city. and led to col
lision between the masses Of Jewish
mourners and the police.
The streets were packed with thou
sands of Hebrews, the stores were gen.
orally closed, and every point B., of
vantage along the route taken by the
funeral procession to the different
synagogues was crowded.
Directly in front of the house where
the body was laying in state for the
last few days 100 patr1<nen kept the
crowd from the entrance with difficulty.
After the services at the house the
body was taken to each of the six
synagogues on the east side. where
brief services were held.
When the procession was passing the
printing press factory OF r. Hoe &
Co., on Grand street. on its way to the
cemetery in Brooklyn, the employees
of the factory emptied pals of water
from the windows of an upper floor
upon the spectators massed upon the
sidewalk.
Pail after pail, it is said. was
emptied on the sthrong. which shouted
and struggled and stampeded in vain
to escape. Then overalls and clothing
soaked in water came down from
above, and even tools, scraps of stee.
bolts and q dead cat
Hebrews Retaliate.
The angry populace, most of whom
were Hebrews, retaliated by throwing
back into the factory windows the mis-
siles that fell on them. They also
few minutes there was scarcely q
whole pane of glass on the Grand
street side of the factory.
Then someone in the factury turned
on a hose and played ii indiscrimi-
nately all over the funeral procession.
At one time as many as five streams
were playing on the crowds Drivers
of mourning carriages whipped up
their horses, trampling over citizens
| men and children under foot in their
efforts to escape.
The police in the meantime had taken
! hand in the trouble and were club
| bling the people right and left. They
were, however, unable to cope with the
| crowd, and the reserves of halfa dozen
precincts were dispatched TO the scene.
1t was more than half an hour before
order was restored and the streets in
| the vicinity of the factory cleared. A
/ number of arrests were made, among
them being several employees of the
! Hoe company.
Many Heads Cracked Open.
| Many persons were found about the
| streets bleeding from wounds on their
/ heads and othee parts of their bodies
| AmbulaHces had ebeanssummoned in the
meantime and atf1ree responded The
/ surgeons were Kept busy for some time
dressing the wounds of the injured.
| Several policemen also were injured
! receiving cuts and bruises. Two men
were taken to the hospital, one OF them
| having sustained internal injuries and
/ contusions, and the other a sprained
leg. Later in the day the persons ar
rested were aE<aigned in police court
| and fines of 50 and SO were imposed
| ir several instances
Bad feeling is said to exist between
| some of, the employees of the Hoe com
| pany and the Hebrews residing in Tho
neighborhood. and this is said to have
been the cause of the trouble.
Hoe Makes Explanation.
Herbert Hoe of the company made q
1 statement after the trouble was over
| in which he says fighting was going or
| In the ranks OF the procession as ii
passed the factory; that some of those
| attacked were forced to the door of the
office, and there the lighting continued
while missiles thrown by the GROVE
broke many windows of the factory
Then it was. says Mr.. Hoe, that hi:
| employees tried to drive the assailant:
back. by hurting missiles at them, and
finally turned water on the crowd Hs
added that boys working in the factory
had been in the habit of jeering at tht
Jews and he had done everything in hi:
power to have the practice stopped
| even discharging boys of whom com
plant was made
After the riot had been quelled. th'
| funeral procession proceeded to Brook
Ign. where the body of Rabbi JOSEPH
| was inferred.
The funeral procession did not reacl
| the cemetery, however, without Incl
dent. As il passed through a Brook.
Ign street some one threw a heav,
block of wood from the roof of build
ing into the line Of mouTnerS. The lat
ter broke through the police lines ant
/ tried to get into the building. Threat
of clubbing by the police finally re
stored order
Forty thousand were crowded In AM
about the cemetery at Cypress hill at
tempting to witness the services at tn
grave.