The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-08
MOB CONTROLS
IN NEW ORLEANS
Street Cars Not Run Because
Police Were Inefficient.
MILITIA MAY BE CALLED OUT
CITIZENS DID NOT RESPOND TO
a CALL FOR SPECIALS.
MILITIA MAY BE CALLED OUT

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. THE
IN railway company tried TO obey
the orders Of the mayor to run
passenger cars this morning. but with
almost the entire force of city police
| concentrated at the scene of action, the
four cars started got no farther than
| five squares from the Canal street
/ barn and the attempt was abandoned
/ for the day.
In a disturbance at Tonti street,
/ where a car was held up, +. A.
| Schwenck of Chicago, a non-uniOn con-
/ ductor, was hit on the head with
! brick and badly hurt, and he and three
others were bodily taken possession OF
| by the strikers. Two were kept prlS-
| oners at the union headquarters all
/ afternoon, carefully guarded, and not
even members OF the union were al
lowed 10 talk TO them. The other two
are concealed tonight at some other
point known only to the strikers.
Saved by Sweetheart.
A fifth non union man who had been
an inspector for the company became
frightened, and when his sweetheart
chung to his neck and dragged him
from the car he was greeted with
cheers by the strikers He is 70 be
married tomorrow night.
One policeman was hit on the foot
by a brick and another of the nom
union men who is a prisoner was
roughly handled, but not badly hurt.
The cars were badly damaged by bricks
and stones and all the glass was
broken.
, Four cars were started with non
; union motormen and conductors, each
; carrying eleven policemen, while lo'
: policemen were massed in the vicinity
! but when the first car reached Tont
' street the strikers and their sympa-
, thizers made a rush, got possession and
won the day with ease. The police
made no show of resisting the assault
: The Mob in Control.
George w. Centerfield, st. Loui;
man. started TO resist the onslaugh
by using his controller as weapon
but the police in his car took II away
from him. H. H. Edison. of detective
. agency in St Louis, who came herr
with twenty men. was in charge Of tn
last car and displayed much coolnes
in the face of the apathy Of the police
and the onslaught of strikers. He De
liberately climbed on top Of his car ant
tied the remnants of the trolley rope
When he came down the mob was to-
much for him, however. and as n
; showed signs of resistance the polio
took him and conveyed him 10 the Cen
' trail station in the patrol wagon, es
= corted by ten mounted officers.
= The company Informed Mayor Capde
Vile that the police protection was In
! adequate and the mayor issued ca
!, for LOCO volunteer citizen police. tn
responses to the call have been few
= and it looks now as though the militi
y will be called out. The mayor con
y ferred with the aijutant general /
l. Baton Rouge and urged upon him IN
necessity of having the troops in read
mess for call. The mayor tried earl
y in the day to swear in emergency pc
= trolmen, but only seven men answere
= the call. The company says IT via Z
y ready to run twenty-five cars tomorro'
\ if protection is given, but the outloo
4 is that there will not be much add
. tional protection tomorrow.