The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-25
Six Men Wounded in Exchange of Shots on Streets
 of Richmond
COMPANY CLAIMS GUARDS
 WERE FIRED ON FIRST
Mayor Has Issued Proclamation Call Ing on All Women and Children to Keep of the Streets Today.
 More Soldiers Coming.

Richmond Va, June 24.-Six men were wounded tonight, two of them seriously. by street railroad company guards who fired into a crowd of strike sympathizers at Main and Lombard streets, just out side of the city limits.
 A car guarded by employees of the com pany. armed with shot guns. was stand Ing at the point There had been a large crowd all the evening. The company claims the guards were first fired on. At any rate they fired into the crowd and a brisk fusilade followed At least six persons were struck, and two of them seri- ously hurt, being peppered in the back with buck shot.
 While this was taking place in the West End. exciting scenes were enacted in the East End. where efforts were made to operate cars under the protection of the militia. All sorts of missiles were hurled at the cars and Instructions placed on the tracks Finally, the cars under the pilotage of a detachment of the howitzers with gatling gun were taken to the barns. All cars were withdrawn from the streets at s:45 D. m. for the night.
 helnforcements Coming.
 Five companies of the seventy-frst regi- ment, from Norfolk and Newport News, are en route to this city to reinforce the troops already here, and are expected to arrive in the early morning hours The mayor has isued an address asking women and children to keep off the streets tomor- row. It Is proposed in the event of the mi litia being unable at that time to cope with the mob, to order out the fire depart- ment and have streams from the hose play upon disorderly gatherings.
 Three of the militiamen were wounded today by the accidental discharge of a rifle. One of them was taken to hos pital, but Is not dangerously injured.
 At Il o'clock tonight Sheriff Solomons of Heinrich county decided to ask for troops. He made the request and the gov ernor issued orders to the military au- thorities accordingly. Militia will there- fore guard the cars and car barns and patrol the lines of the ,s.reet car com pany tomorrow without As well as within the city limits.
 Under Military Protection.
 Street cars have been run on all the lines today under military protection. The cars h;Ve been manned by strike breakers. Two militiamen, with bayonets fixed. stood guard on the front and two on the rear platforms of each car.
 The power house and supply depots within the city have also been guarded by militia while sentinels have been posted at car line crossings. Notwith- standing these precautions the first car of the Clay street line to leave the East End barn this morning was attacked and obstructed by a mob and Captain Skipp- with. with one of the Richmond com panies, was wounded in the leg by a frag- ment of bomb exploded on the track. The car made its way into the more central part of the city without further casualty.
 The West End car barns are in Henrico county, outside the city limits and the sheriff of the county refuses to ask for the aid of troops.
 Barns Guarded.
 The barns are guarded 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, barns being centers around which distur- bers gather. Prominent in the crowds that hoot and jeer the cars or the strike breakers and militia men are women. wives and daughters of the strikers, and strike sympathizers.
 The military force now on duty in Rich mond aggregates about 800 men,