The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-23
WILD WORK
IN FU.L TON.
Street Car Compdny's Prop
erty Badly Damaged.
TRY TO BURN A BRIDGE RIDGE
fAPole Chopped and Saved Down, and
the Street Car Track Left In. an
Exceedingly Bad Shape
Indeed.
TRY TO BURN A BRIDGE

To the silent spectacle who Ftood
nearabouts and watched the progress.
steady and sure. Of mob work In Full
ton last night. the sight which met his
gaze bore weird and startling re-
semblance to the often retold tale OF
what happened In the days when barr1-
cadoes blocked the streets of Paris and
lawlessness and disorder ran rife.
There were upon the streets no CORY
spots telling OF bloody slaughter and no
e1lilictine grinned near, but for square
along the thoroughfare stretched an
ever increasing pile Of bricks. stones,
rocks, huge boxes, and other impedl-
ments designed and effectively designed,
to check in that section Mt least any
operation OF street cars when morning
broke again. The work was done swift
:ly and silently by q band OF about forty
Young men, divided off into gangs. which
operated In different sections at the same
moment. at 1 o'clock in the morning
they were still at it, and the evidences
OF their handiwork were apparent on
many sides.
Ton sObstructions.
Here stood tons Of obstruction upon
the track; here the grooves In the rails
were daubed tlickly with cement; here
smelled OF oil, where an attempt had
been made to burn q bridge; here showed
where n saw and an axe had been ap-
piled with effect to pole supporting
the electric wires; here and there were
other signs Of the nights work
Against 1t all stood one lone policeman
n epecial officer. utterly impotent in his
weakness. He did his best, but his best
against such odds was but little. Ha
couldn't stop the obstruction, so be got
q big red light and put on It.
f Reports received at midnight were to
the effect that similar work of OBJ
structing the track was going on IN the
neighborhood of Church Hill and Ven
able Street, hut no confirmation of these
were not at this time aware of any dis
turbance in the East End at all.
The work in Fulton began comparative
" early In the evening and continued far
Into the morning hours. When II started
n fairly good-szed crowd OF curious spec
tators gathered around. but by midnight
most of them had drfted home to bed.
Among the disturbers We're none of the
strikers, but only their sympathizers,
They moved about quickly and silently,
not making much fuss.
First of all bega nthe task Of blocking
tho track. Three brlcklayers' boxes, huge
affairs, wero dragged out from place
now being built and set squarely In tho
track Twelve or fifteen stones, twelve
or fourteen feet long, We're also put
there, WIFI pies VI Jpliths, hH'ibsr a'h..
other stuff The obstruction extended
about n square. Not satisfied with this,
the fellows got hold of a barrel of ce-
ment and proceeded TO put 1t to use. Ihe
curve running around Lester Street was
thoroughly blocked,
Went for an Axe.
Later on mt night a saw was put to
a pole at Denny and Second Street, and
the thing was nearly cut when the men
left off to get an axe The polo supports
electric wires. An attempt was made
also to burn Rockets bridge, over which
the cars pass on their way sdown town,
| OIL and everything was ready for the
| incendiarian work when the lone Off
Ger butted into the group and dispersed
| the lot.
1t looked at one time as If some of the
| track rails might be pulled up, and 1t
| is nossible that something of this sort
was really done, At least two OF the
heavy wires holding the rails together
| had been cut by A. M.
| AS stated above. but one police officer
was on the scene to give protection, This
] one Il, a speclal officer named Mosby, who
| did his best according to his lights, one of
| which is red. This red light he put on tor
| of the nile In the track. Then he lodged
| about irving to keep track of the young
| men hut with Indifferent success. Some
I body set him Off the track for awhile by
| telling him that one of the men had a
stick or two of dynamite on him and was
getting ready to blow up things. Mosby
| conscientiously spotted this follow and
| followed him around until he discovered
I 49, -, stroppast thing on him was his