The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-25
BLOOD OF STRIKERS
Is SHED IN THE RIOTING OF CAR
MEN AT RICHMOND.
GUARDS FIRED UPON A MOB
AND SIX MEN WERE WOUNDED,
TWO SERIOUSLY.

strike of the Street Car Men Has
Assumed an Alarming Aspect.
More Troops Have Been Called
out for the Protection of the Street
Railway Company and the Pas
sengers-Capt. Skippwith of the
Militia wounded by "A Fragment of
n Bursting BOmb-HOse to Be
Turned on MObs.
Richmond, Va, June 24.-Six men
were wounded tonight, two of them
seriously, by street railway company
guards, who fired into crowd of strike
sympathizers at Main and Lombardy
streets just outside the city limits.
A car guarded by employees of the
company, armed with shotguns, was
standing at that point. There had been
a big crowd there all the evening. The
company claims that the guards were
first fired on. At any rate, they fired
into the crowd, and a brisk fusilade
ensued. At least six persons were
struck, and two of them seriously hurt,
being peppered in the back with buck
shot.
While this was taking place in the
West End, exciting scenes were enact
ed in the East End, where efforts were
made to operate cars under the pro-
lection of the military. All sorts Of
missiles We're hurled at the cars and
distractions placed on the track. Final
ly the cars under the pilotage of a
detachment of the Howitzers, with
gatHng gun, were taken to the barns.
All cars were withdrawn from the
streets at $40 p. m. for the night.
Five companies of the Seventy-first
Regiment from Norfolk and Newport
News are en- route for the city, to re-
inforce the troops already here, and are
expected to arrive in the early morn
ing hours. The Mayor has issued an
address, asking women and children to
keep off the streets tomorrow. 1t is
proposed in the event that the military
are unable at that time to cope with
the mob TO order out the fire depart
ment, and have streams from the hose
played upon disOrderly gatherings.
Three of the militiamen were wound
ed to-day by the accidental discharge
of a rifle. One of them was taken to
a hospital, but is not dangerously in
jured.
sheriff Asks for Troops.
AT IL O'Clock tonight Sheriff Solo
mons of Henrico county decided to
ask for troops. He made the request
and the Governor issued orders to the
military authorities accordingly. Mill
tia will, therefore, guard the cars and
car barns and patrol the lines of the
street car company tomorrow with
out as we'll as within the city limits.
Street cars have been run on all the
lines to-day under military protec-
ton. The cars have been manned
by strike breakers. Two militiamen,
with bayonets fixed, stood guard on
the front and two on the rear platform
of each car.
The power houses and supply depots
within the city have also been guard
ed by militia, and a military guard
has been on duty at the state arsenal,
while sentinels have been posted at
car line crossings.
Notwithstanding these precautions
the first car of the Clay street line TO
leave the East End barn this morning
was attacked and INSTRUCTED by mob,
and Capt. Shippwith, with one of the
Richmond companies, was wounded in
the leg by fragment of bomb explod-
ed on the track. The car made its
way into the more central part of the
city without further casualty.
One of the Guards Wounded.
The West End car barns are in Hen
rico county, outside the city limits.
The barns are guarded by armed men
in the employ of the company, and de-
tails 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 great
est danger points in the present diff
Guilty are there, the barns being centers
around which disturbers gather.
Prominent in the crowds that boot
and jeer the cars the strike breakers
and the miltiamen, are women, the
wives and daughters of strikers and
strike sympathizers.
Late tonight it developed that one
of the street car company's guards at
Main and Lombardy streets was slight
ly wounded in the shooting at that
place.
Sergt Daniel Porter of Staunton
was badly hurt tonight by brick
thrown at car. He had to be car
ried into a nearby residence, where
he remains under medical treatment.
The mob in this case was dispersed by
stream of water from fire engine
ordered out for the purpose.