The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-20
CLASH Of
SAIL ORS
Bloody ARRAY in
Oahu Lumber
Yard.
NON-UNION
sAlLORSs,HELD-UP
Police Charge the Fighting Men
and Make Several
Arrests.

S THE result of a clash between
IA union and non-union sailors Sat
A urday night and early yesterday
morning, In the premises of the Oahu
Lumber Yard between Iwilei road and
the railroad wharf, nearly a dozen men
were badly wounded and several are
yet under the care of physicians. The
police were called for about 1 O'Clock
yesterday morning and upon their ar
rival in the lumber yard they encoun-
tered about a score of the sailors, and
after hard battle took three of them
prisoners. The officers were compelled
to use force to make their way through
the gang to where non-union seamen
who had been waylaid, were being
beaten. Big Jim Kupihea, the biggest
policeman on the, force, met, in a burly
sailor named Tierney, man about as
big as himself, and did not capture him
until both had matched their strength.
From reports made by some of the
unfortunate men who were beaten by
the union sailors it appears that they
have had a grudge against Captain
Spicer and his ship, Florence, because
union men, from other ships, led By
Tierney, planned to waylay the non-un-
len men as they were leaving their
ship or returning to it, and stationed
themselves in the open space between
the lumber yard ana the railroad
tracks leading to the railway wharf,
where the Florence lies. They were in
such a position that pile of lumber
screened them from the view of pass
ers-by. About 9 o'clock the union men
began to capture the sailors of the
Florence. AS each man came by he
was held and assaulted. An investiga-
ton of the rendezvous made after the
gang was routed, showed that the slug
gers had laid in ammunition for their
repeated assaults, consisting of railway
iron, bricks, stones, pieces of wood and
anything that would inflict injury or
produce wounds upon their victims.
Two of the men who were beaten
managed to escape the gang, and, max
ing a detour regained their ship, where
their wounds were dressed. They made
another detour in leaving the vessel
and wharf and came to the police sta
ton, where they reported the trouble.
A riot-squad, consisting of Jim Kupi
hea, Nielsen and Bishaw, was des
patched to the lumber yard. They APP
preached the place cautiously and saw
the gang in the act of beating three
men. The officers charged on the ring
and broke through in an effort to lay
their hands on the men actually per-
forming the acts of violence. The gang .
was surprised, and so were the non-un- /.
ion men, for upon being released by |
their captors, they took to their heels
and either went back to their ship or
up town.
Kupihea engaged the man Tierney, !
the biggest fellow in the gang, and had /
his hands full for several minutes. !
Finally Tierney broke and ran, with ,
Kupihea in hct pursuit. form darted .
out of the darkness in front of Kupihea I
and Tierney and struck the latter, Civ
ing Kupihea a chance to capture him
and place him under arrest. Nielsen
and Bishaw each picked out man
and held him. The three union men
were taken to the station house, where
Tierney was charged with assault ana
battery on kupihea. Josh Johnson and
Victor Dunn, the other two men, were
also charged with assault and battery.
Yesterday Captain Spicer of the Flor
ence and two OF the men who had been
assaulted the night before made q
round of the union ships, accompanied
by police officers. and three men were
identified as having been members OF
the union gang. and these We're placed
under arrest. They were Ed Morris.
George Commit and r. McClain. The l.
latter is the one who struck Tierney
while Kupihea was in pursuit, but al
though he had performed an act which
assisted the police officer. yet he was
positively identified as the man who,
earlier in the evening, had assisted in
the assaults.
The cases of the men viii come UP il
the police court this morning.