The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-09
STILL ANOTHER RIGT
SERIOUS CLASH IN NEW ORLEANS.
MANY HURT.
STRIKERS ATTACK A CAR.
CARVING TWENTY POLICEMEN
AND STRIKE BREAKERS.

phone, and Latter Orders COM
mander of First Military District
TO Report to the Mnyor-List of
Those Hurt Yesterday.
New Orleans, oct S.-Asa result of
the continued difficulty experienced by
the New Orleans Railway Company
in attempting to resume their sched
ules on account of the conflict be-
tween the strikers and those who at
tempted to fill the dissatisfied mems
positions, all the militia in this city
was ordered under arms tonight.
The plan of operation has not been
decided upon for tomorrow. The rail-
will again attempt to run its cars,
while the strikers are as determined
as ever.
The militia assembled under arms at
the different armores tonight to the
number of 1,050 men, including a troop
of cavalry.
AT midnight Herman CorbuSh and
Harry Fellman, non-union men from
Chicago, were walking out Canal street
towards the barn. When at the inter-
section of Basin street they were ac-
costed by a man who drew revolver
and fired two shots at them and
escaped. Corbush was badly wounded
in the groin and was taken to the hos
pital. Fellman was taken to the CEN
trail station, which is only two blocks
distant. He does not know the man
who shot his companion, but believes
he was a striker
Detectives have been placed on the
cases of the different disturbances oc-
casioned by the strikers and several
arrests have been made.
Another riot took place this
morning when the New Orleans
Railway Company tried to run
out passenger car, and the
police trying to retrieve their record
of II day before offered some resist
ance and a dozen men were more or
less hurt.
Gov. Heard was reached during the
afternoon, and after a telephone con-
ference with Mayor Capdeville ordered
Maj. Gen. Glynn, in command of the
First military district, to report to the
Mayor. Tonight there will be con-
sultation of the military commanders
and arrangements made to distribute
the troops tomorrow so that adequate
protection will be afforded the COM
pany in its effort to run cars.
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the same neighborhood as the one the
day before. One car was started from
the Canal street barn about 9 o'clock,
with ten Chicago strike breakers and
ten policemen aboard.
Two blocks from the barn strikers
pulled up the wooden crossings and
constructed a barricade on the track.
The car stopped, and Robert ID.
Koontz, one of the non-union men, got
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succeeded, though set upon by the
crowd.
The strikers then made rush for
the car and a lively fight ensued. There
was a regular fusillade, fully hundred
shots being exchanged by the men and
police on the car and the strikers.
At the first volley from the car the
strikers broke and ran, and a regular
stampede followed. Then the police
got active and arrested the non-union
men for carrying concealed weapons
Three non-union men were put in
patrol wagon and while en- route to
the station the wagon overturned and
all the occupants were more or less
injured officer Fordice, who sustained
the worst injuries of the day, had sew
eral ribs broken and got scalp wound.
The injured are:
Policeman John Fordice, ribs frac-
tured and scalp wound.
Policeman Blouin, leg and hip frac-
tured.
Policeman Hessel, hit in the eye and
on leg with a brick.
Policeman Schlessinger, hit in neck
with brick and bruised on head
shoulder and wrist.
Policeman Halter, scalp wound from
a brick.
Patrol Driver Brown, arm broken.
Peter Jensen, strike break contrac-
tor, jaw broken by a brick.
Louis Christensen, badly bruised
Thomas Jones, badly bruised by
bricks.
NJ L. Kenny, conductor of car, shot
in foot.
A. M Clark, assistant to Jensen.
hit in eye with a brick.
Charles Ferguson of Chicago, elbow
broken by blow.
Bud Lynn, striker. shot in arm.
Fred Eichling, switch boy, shot in
leg.
Alex Derbes. laborer, sympathizer,
shot in leg.
Unknown striker, shot in head, scalp
wound.
Besides charging all the strikers with
carrying concealed weapons, Christian
sen, Jones and Jensen, Chicago strike
breakers, were charged with melting a
riot.
Quite a number of the strikers were
arrested 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
to discuss the situation, but under the
advice of the Mayor and with the as
surance 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.
Three thousand laborers were present
at the mass meeting. 1t was presided
over by Robert e. Lee, the Republic
can candidate for Congress and presi-
dent of the Central Trades and Labor
Council. Speeches were made by Fred
Alexander, president of the Typo
graphical Union; James Leonard, or
ganizer of the American Federation of
Labor: Ben Commons president of the
Car Mems Union, and r. j. Maloney,
attorney for the car men.
A special from Jackson, Miss, says
that fourteen men passed through
Jackson this afternoon en- route to New
Orleans tomorrow to run cars in
strikers. One of the party stated that
200 men would leave st Louis for New
Orleans to-morro VITO run cars in
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