New-York tribune., 1902-06-19
NINE SHOT TN PATERSON RIOTS
EDITORS LEAD ARMED MOB AGAINST SILK MILLS
-WOuEN NARCH AT THE HEAD OF The COLUMN.
GOVERNOR HOLDS MILITIA READY FOR HURRY CALL.

greeted with a shower Of bricks and stones and
revolver shots As Sergeant KeppIer alighted
ne was struck by stone full in the stomach
and knocked down
POLICE CHARGE MOB
The officers formed and charged the mob. fr-
ing as they ran. The rioters scattered like
sheep. More than thirty pieces OF rock were
found in the patrol wagon. Nearly every pane
of glass in the mill broken A bullet
passed through the hat of Detective Magee-
Louise Cook, young woman who worked in
the mill. sustained a slight scalp wound from
a flying rock
In the charge after the flying mob Officer
Matthew ConneI arrested Tony Ross. who had
turned on the officer with large dirk and tried
to stab him. ConneI knocked the weapon from
Ross's hand and overpowered him
The rioters Teo-ganized a short distance from
the mill and marched through Temple-st- to
PeIgram & Meyers mill, which was reached
shortly before midday. There they broke doors
and windows. but the superintendent quickly
capitulated the mob moved across the river TO
Levy Brothers yfIT and thence TO the Empire
and Augusta mills. but as the operatives were
leaving these mills no violence was done.
The rioters next gathered in front of the Hall
mill. in F'uIton-st.. where Officers John Garrison
and William Nevins We're on guard. The police
tried to keep the mob from the door Of the
milI but the crowd surrounded and jostIed
them Stones were thrown at the officers, who
were hit several times, and then pistols were
fired The officers drew their revOlvers and fired
into the crowd officer Garrison shot SaIvino
Lara in the chest Lara is a silk worker at
Hackensack. but had come this city take
part in the riots He was dragged away by
some of his friends and later taken TO the hos
pitaI
\ perfect fusiIIada Of shot followed and on
GERS Winkler and Adams came To the assistance
of the two policemen who We're sustaining the
fire of the mob The four officers were sep
arated. and each one of them was a target for
shower of the stones and bullets \ horse and
wagon passed through the street at this time
and bullet hit the horse in the nose. The ami
NAL plunged madIy in the crowd. which scat
tered in all directions. while the battle between
the strikers and the officers continued.
It was scene Of the widest confusion Off
GER Nevins wounded a man who firing AT
him from the top of a fence The man fell into
a yard behind the fence and disappeared Off
Ger WinkIer had pistol duel with several men
who hid behind the corner of house and
lodged out from time time TO take a shot at
the bIuecoat He wounded Of them in the
back 1t was said that the man was taken to a
house in GovernOr-st.. but no further informa-
ton could be obtained More than one hundred
and fifty shots were fired in this battle at the
Hall mill between the four officers and the
rioters All the windows in the mill were
wrecked and the operatives had TO cease work
FIREMEN ARMED AND ORDERED OUT
Shortly after noon the Mayor ordered out all
the firemen available to assist the police, and
they were armed with clubs and revOIvers- The
police hurried to the Hall mill in considerable
force but they arrived as the mob moved away
to the Gaede mill in North Straight-st- The
police followed and another desperate struggle
took place near the Straight-st bridge James
Vaughn a staIxart coIored man. was assisting
the police to drive the rioters across the bridge
when he was shot in the breast
Harry l. Harris and John Hartmeier, re-
porters OF The Morning Call got on a stoOp
near the bridge with d camera To take picture
OF the riOting- Some of the strikers discovered
the reporters and, after yelling at them, began
to pelt them with stones Hartmeier succeeded
in slipping away with the camera but Harris
was attacked by the mob. who began shooting
at him He tried to pull a revolver but before
he could take il from its case il was WreSted
from his hand and he dragged into the
street and cruelty beaten and kicked
While he on the ground shots were fired
at him. and one bullet penetrated his right
breast. The police rescued him from the In
furiated mob. and he taken TO the General
Hospital where il is expected that he will die.
A dozen bullets are imbedded in the stOop In
the house where the two reporters stood with
the camera and over fifty stones were strewn
around the door The side boards on the houses
were battered and the windows all broken. The
Tribune photographer was also ordered by the
mob not to take any photographs. but he per-
sisted using his camera and escaped unin-
jured
Gaede's dyehouse. which stands next to the
Hall mill was wrecked by the mob. The doors
were beaten in by battering rams, and every
window glass in the mill was shattered The
rioters rushed into the place and did much
damage forcing all the men who were working
in the place out to the street This shop is the
worst damaged of any in the city.
SHOTGUNS USED ON MOB.
From Gaede's dyehouse the mob, which BY
this time was thinning out, marched down Riv-
erside-st to Anger & SimOns and Weidmann's
dvsbouses These they attacked with stones
RICHFIELD SPRINGS SLEEPER,