Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-07-03
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RICHMOND

two OF them seriously, by street rail
way company guards, who fired into
crowd of strike sympathizers at Main
Lombard street. just outside the city
limits Of Richmond. Va.
A car guarded by employees Of the
company. armed with shotguns, was
standing at that point. There hao
been big crowd there all the evening.
The company claims that the guards
were first fired on. At any rate, they
fred into the crowd, and a brisk fusil
lade followed. At least six people were
struck, and two of them seriously hurt
being peppered in the back with buck
shot.
One of the street car eompany's
guards were slightly wounded In the
shooting.
While this was taking place in the
West End. exciting scenes were enact,
ed in the East End, where efforts werS
made to operate cars aaaer The pro
tection OF the military, All sorts os
missiles were hurried At the cars. aas
distractions placed on the track
eanslly she cars, under the psaesase Of
= detachment Of the ssawatzess. with
4 Calling gun, were taken TO sAe saTass.
Three uailstsaraen were wounded ny
the accidental discharge Of rife. One
Of them was taken to hospital, hat
Is not dangerously injured.
There are over 1000 soldiers i'm Rich
naund Some of the cars have as many
as Gwanty soldiers to a car.
The rn5adtaa guard the cars and ga
harms AMI patrol the lines Of the street
car company, wathout rs waE 80 within
the limits u Raehuaond
Sergeant Daniel Porter, OF Ssaunson
was badly hurt by . brick thrown at 5
car. He had to be carried into nearby
residence. where he received medical
treatment. The mob in this case was
dispersed by a stream Of water from a
IRE engine ordered out for the purpose.
The power houses and supply depots
within the city limits have also been
guarded by militia, and military
guard has been on duty at the state
arsenal, while sentinels have been plac.
| ed at car line crossings. Notwithstand-
| ing these precautions the first car OF
the City street line to leave the East
barns last Friday morning were at
tackled and INSTRUCTED by mob, and
Captain Skip, with one of the Rich
nond companies was wounded in the
leg by a fragment of bomb exploded
Ion the track
The West End car barns are in Hen
rico couuty outside the city, and this
sheriff OF the county refuses to ask for
the aid % troops. The barns are guard
ed by armed men IN the employ of the
company and details from the guards
protect the cars between the barns and
the city line There is much strike
sympathy in both the East and West
Ends, and the greatest danger points
in the present difficulty are there, thf
barns being centers around which dis
turbers gather. Prominent In the
crowds that boot and Jeer the cars. the
strikebreakerg and the mifitiamen, are
women, the wives and daughters Of
strikers and strike sympatbizers.
| william Tucker, aged %, a Dassen.
ger On Main street car, was shot to
night at the corner OF Main and Bel
yidefe street, He was peppered in the
Harm and leg with small shot, and was
mot too badly hurt to walk to his home
LATER receiving the wound Who die
the shooting is not known.
Lester Wilcox, 16-year-old boy,
was shot by soldier, in Fulton, the
lower end of the city for cying
"scab'' at a car and refusing tc
i desist when ordered to do So He i.
wounded in the hand and hip. The hant
is badly mangled. The boy was brought
Iup town on a street car and taken tx
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