The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-08
Crews Badly Beaten and Five of the
Nonunfon Men Held Close Prison
err, Two I'm the Union Hall.
POLICE SHOW NO RESISTANCE
THEY PREVENT NoNUNION MEN RE-
sIsTING PERSONAL ASSAULTS.
Attempt to Run Cars In Abandoned
Mayor ~CapdevfeIIe Urges Cover
nor tn Call Out Troops.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct THE Railways
Company tried to obey the order 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 further than
five squares from the Canal-street barn and
the attempt was abandoned for the day.
In the disturbance at Tonti street. where
the first car was held up F. H. Schwenck.
of Chicago. a n~on-union conductor. was hit
on the head with a brick and badly hurt,
and he. with three others, were bodily
taken possession of by the strikers. Two
were kept prisoners in union headquarters
all afternoon. carefully guarded, and not
even members of the union were allowed
to talk to them. The other two are con-
cealed tonight at some other point, which
Is not known except to the strikers. A
fifth non-union man, Who had been an in
spector for the company, became fright
ened, and when his sweetheart chung TO
his neck and dragged him from the car he
was greeted with cheers by the strikers.
He is to be married tomorrow night.
One policeman was hit on the foot with
a brick and another of the %nonunion 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 out with non
union motormen and conductors, each car
ry!ng eleven policemen, while a hundred
policemen were massed in the vicinity. but
when the first car reached Tonti street the
strikers and their sy~mpathizers made a
rush got the car and uy0n the dav with
ease. The police made no show of resist
ing the assault.
George w. Centerfeld. a St. Louis man,
started to resist the onslaught by using his
controller as a weapon. but the police in
his car took it away from him. j. II. Edi-
son. of a detective agency in St. Louis. who
came here with twenty men, was in charge
of the last car and displayed much cool
ness in the face of the apathy of the police
and the onslaught Of strikers. He deliber-
ately 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 resist
ance the police took him and conveyed him
to the central station in the patrol wagon
escorted by ten mounted officers.
Fhe company Informed Mayor Capde.
vielle that the police protection was made
quate. and at 4 o'clock the mayor ISSUED
a call for a thousand volunteer either
police; The responses to the call have beer
will be called out. The mayor conferred
with the adjutant general i'm Baton Rougs
and urged on him the necessity of havins
the troops in readiness for a call. TIL
mayor tried early in the day to swear ir
emergency patrolmen, but only seven mer
answered the call. The company says Il
will be ready to run twenty-five cars to.
morrow If protection is given. but from the
outlook there will not be much additional
| protection tomorrow morning.
| Mayor Capdeveille, after a consultation
with the public safety committee, which
lasted until midnight, decided to call upor
the Governor for troops to suppress an.
ticipated violence in connection with the
street car strike here.
The adjutant general is in New Orleans
and the Governor will be reached at hi:
home in North Louisiana in the morning