The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-08
CANNOT RUN
 MOT CARS New Orlea $ Police Unable to z Itrol Strikers. ALL A. TEMPS ABANDONED Mayor Capdeville Calls for Thousand Citizen Police. Striking Car Men Intoxicated with Victory and Governor Will Be
 Asked to Order out
 Louisiana Troops.
ALL Az TEMPS ABANDONED

Company tried to obey the order of the Mayor to run passenger cars this morn- ing, but with almost the entire force of city police concentrated at the scene of action, one car got five squares from the Canal Street barn and the attempt was abandoned for the day.
 Four cars were started out with non- union motormen and conductors, each carrying eleven policemen while a hun dred policemen were massed in the vicin- ity. but when the first car reached Tonti Street, the strikers and their sympathiz- CTS made rush, got possession and won the day with the utmost ease. The po- lice made no show of resisting the as- sault.
 Evidence of the fact Is that not single striker was hurt. On the other hand, F. H. Schwenck of Chicago. a non-union conductor, was hit on the head with a brick and badly hurt, and he, with three others. was bodily taken possession of by the strikers Two were kept prison CTS in union headquarters all afternoon. carefully guarded, and not even members of the union were allowed to talk to them. The ether two are concealed at some other point which Is not known. A fifth non-union man who had been an inspec- tor for the company got scared and when his sweetheart clung to his neck and drag ged him from the car, he went and was greeted with cheers by the strikers as he retired to his home. He is to be married tomorrow night.
 One policeman was hit on the foot by a brick and another of the non-union men, wfp is a prisoner. was roughly handled, but not badly huct. The cars were bad ly damaged by the rain of brickbats and all the glasses broken.
 Call for Volunteer Police. The company informed the Mayor that the police protection was inadequate and at o'clock the Mayor issued a call for a thousand volunteer citizen-police. The responses to the call have been few, and it looks now as if the militia will be call ed out. The Mayor sought to communi- cate with the Governor in Baton Rouge. but found that he had gone to his home in Farmersville. in the northern part of the State, so he conferred with the Ad- jutant- General, and urged upon him the necessity of having the troops in readi- ness for a call The Mayor tried early in the day to swear in emergency patrol men, but only seven men answered the call.
 The strikers are intoxicated with their first victory, and the ease with which they accomplished their work under the eyes and within reach of practically the whole force of police. They are massing their forces for tomorrow. The company says it will be ready to run twenty-five cars if protection is given, but from the outlook tonight there will not be much additional protection tomorrow morning.
 Three arrests were made by the police. One was a striker who fired the only shot during the melee. which passed through the car. He was simply charged with discharging firearms in the city limits. Another was a striker who refused to move on when ordered, and a third was drunken man who was talking too loud.
 Cars Stopped by Strikers.
 The four cars left the Canal Street barn at o'clock in a procession and started hoots and yells by the crowd of strikers in the immediate vicinity. but no vio- lence was offered. Two blocks from the barn a large crowd was gathered, and they made a dash for the first car. One man swung on to the trolley rope and pulled the trolley down. The car ran a block and half before it stopped, and it was some time before the daring striker was joined by his colleagues
 The stopping of this car stopped all the others and the strikers boarded them without any show of resistance. Some of the policemen drew revolvers but not
 
 striker. Stones and bricks were showered on the cars and the crews of two of them were carried off bodily. The trolley ropes were cut.
 George w. Centerfield a St. Louis man, started to resist the onslaught by using his controller as a weapon, but the po- lice in his car took it away from him. J. H. Edison of the Thiel Detective Agency of St. Louis. who came here with fS, -ka car and displayed much coolness in the face of the apathy of the police and the onslaught of strikers He deliberately climbed on top of his car and tied the remnants of the trolley rope. When he came down the mob was too much for him. however. and as he showed signs of resisting the attack the police took him and conveyed him to the central station iu the patrol wagon, escorted by ten mounted officers. When he reached the station he said he wanted to go back to the t4rn and was conveyed there. He was badly beaten three nights ago by three men who caught him leaving the barn and his left arm is badly bruised
 The company then made a play for Federal interference by running out a mail car behind the others and of course 1t could not get through. Ground was laid for a charge of interfering with the mail
 One of the cars ran off the track while being taken back to the barn. but by 10 O clock all had been returned and the crowds of strikers had dispersed except a few who were left on watch.
 A bombshell was thrown into the ranks of the strikers this afternoon by the arrest of Clark Bentley, conductor on a charge by Postoffice Inspector Lake Jones of cutting trolley wires near Audu- bon Park on October l. The company has been offering S1.OOO reward for such an arrest. but the strikers laughed at 1t. The fact that the Federal authorities have taken hand has surprised them. Bentley was arrested while in the United States court room listening to the evil dence in the cases against the sixteen strikers charged with attacking mall cars on September g.
 An affidavit has also been made against