The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-09
Sixteen Persons Hurt, Several of Them
Being shot,, on the First Attempt
to Run Out a Car.
MILITIA IS ORDERED ON DUTY
FIRST TROOPS WILL PATROL THE
CITY STREETS THIS MORNING.
Company Announces that 1t Will Ope-
rate It's Cars TO-Day-Many Arrests
Follow the Outbreak.

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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. s.-The attempt
this morning of the New Orleans Railways
Company to start cars on it's lines, which
have been completely tied up for eleven
days. precipitated a -long-impending con-
fict between the strikers and those who at
tempted to fill their places. Although a
hundred shots were fired nobody was
killed, but the following persons were in
jured:
John Fordyce. policeman, ribs fractured
and scalp wound; Policeman Blouin, leg
and hip fractured; Policeman Hessel. hit
in the eye and on leg with a brick;
Policeman schlessinger, hit in neck with
wrist; Policeman Halter, scalp wound
from a brick; Patrol Driver Brown, arm
broken; Peter Jensen, Chicago, strike
break contractor, jaw broken by a brick;
by bricks; Thomas Jones, Chicago, badly
bruised by bricks; NJ. L.. Kennedy, Chicago,
conductor of car, shot in foot; A. NJ. Clark.
Chicago, assistant to Jensen, hit in eye
with a brick; Charles Ferguson, Chicago,
elbow broken by a blow; Bud Lynn, striker.
shot in arm; Fred Eichling, switch boy.
shot in leg; Alex. Derbes, laborer, sympa-
thizer, shot in leg; unknown striker, shot
in head, scalp wound.
Mayor Capdevielle, who requested Gov
ernor Heard to order out the militia, has
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command of the First military district, will
report TO the mayor tomorrow morning.
The street-railways company announces its
determination TO run its cars tomorrow.
The strikers, who have stood firm from the
start, are as determined as ever, while
the citizens, who have been walking and
riding in all manner OF conveyances for
four days more than a week, confidently
expect trouble.
The riot this morning occurred in the
same neighborhood as the one of the day
before. One car was started from the
Canal-street barn about 3 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 Koontz, one of
the %nonunion men, got off TO remove the
Instructions. He succeeded, though set
upon by the crowd. The strikers then
made a rush for the car and a lively fight
ensued. There was a regular fusillade,
fully a hundred shots being exchanged by
strikers. At the first volley from the car
the strikers broke and ran, and a regular
stampede followed. Then the police be-
came active and arrested the nonunion men
for carrying concealed weapons.
Three nonunion men were put in a patrol
wagon, and while en- route to the station
the wagon overturned and all the occu-
| pants were more or less injured. Officer
Fordyce, who suffered the worst injuries
of the day, had several ribs broken and
got a scalp wound.
Governor Heard was reached during the
afternoon, and after a telephone confer
ence with Mayor Capdevielle ordered Major
General Glynn, in of the First
military district, to report to the mayor.
Tonight there will be a consultation of the
militia commanders and arrangements
made to distribute the militia tomorrow so
that adequate protection will be afforded
the company in its effort to run cars.
All the militia in the city was ordered
under arms tonight, and corporals' guards
are out rounding up the men. The plan of
operations for tomorrow has not been de-
termined. One company, Company c, of
the First Regiment, wants to evade serv-
ice because of sympathy with the strikers,
and all officers and men resigned in a body.
The Governor has not been heard from on
this, but ii is understood the destinations
will not be accepted.
Besides charging all the men arrested
with carrying concealed weapons, Chris
Hansen. Jones and Jensen. Chicago strike
reakers were charged with melting a riot.
Quite a number Of the strikers were arrest
ed after the general melee on simple
charges, such as being drunk and refusing
TO move on.
The Progressive Union was to have held
a general meeting this afternoon 10 discuss
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 1t was called
off. Tonight a big labor mass meeting
was held in Washington Artillery Hall.
The mass meeting was attended by 5000
~workingmen and many women. 1t was
presided over by Robert h.. Lee, the Repub-
lican candidate for Congress and president
of the Central Trades and Labor Council
The addresses were temperate, considering
the situation, except when reference was
made to j. III. Edison, the st. Louis strike.
breaker. Then the crowd shouted Hang
him. XIII him. Lynch him." etc. The
first three speakers denounced the Local
press for unfairness in not d~enouncing the
importation of strike-breakerS The au-
thorities were denounced for calling out the
militia, but one of the speakers, in alludins
to them, said the strikers stood in with
the soldiers and they were in no danger
Resolutions were adopted denouncing the
railway company and protesting against
the importation of outside labor. The Grove
dispersed without disorder.
A special from Jackson, Miss, says thai
fourteen men passed through Jackson this
afternoon en- route to New Orleans to take
the place of street car strikers. One of the
party stated tina two hundred men would
leave st. Louis for New Orleans to run
cars in place of union men.
At midnight Henry Corbush and Harry
Felllnan. nonunion men from Chicago, were
walking out Canal street toward the barns
When at the intersection of Basin they
were accosted by a man who drew a re
volver and fred two shots at them and es
capped. Corbush was badly wounds in tn,
groin and was taken to the hospital. Fell
man was taken to the central station
which is only two blocks distant. The tive
men had just reached town and were goins
to report for duty to take out cars to-mor
row.