The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-02
BOilermakers Horribly Beaten
by San BernardinO Strikers.
Assailants Outnumbered Shop
men Seven to One.
MERCHANTS WARNED.
Strikers Try to Prevent Sales
TO Strike Breakers.
San BernardinO Sun DenOunces
Conduct of Strikers.
MERCHANTS WARNED.

San Bernardino. Cal, June 1.-Two
boiler makers working at the shops,
were set upon by a crowd of about 10
strikers in front of Bakers stables,
just at midnight, and horribly beaten.
When the police arrived on the scene
a few moments later, both men were
covered with blood, one had number
of teeth loosened. and they had been
maltreated and abused in a manner
that was little less than the work of
sava ges.
The men had been down in town
spending the evening and about II
O'Clock started to return to the stock
ade. where they are lodged by the com
pany. When in front of Bakers place,
a short distance west of F street, they
were attacked by a mob which they
guessed in number as many as Is men,
some OF whom had been following. but
the most of whom seemed to rise out of
the darkness, and had doubtless been
lying in ambush, until given the word
that some of the strike breakers were
passing.
The cuts and bruises about the mems
heads indicated that some of the blows
had been struck with brass knucks, and
they were certainly the victims of the
most brutal and cOwardly attack that
has been perpetrated in the town in
many years.
The victims of the assault were eth
er not at all familiar with the sur
roundings, and entire strangers to their
assailants, or else too completely ter
rOrized, for they would furnish little
IN the way of information or deScrip-
ton that the local officers could use,
and the police are absolutely a sea in
an effort to follow or capture them.
After the developments earlier in the
evening, when striker had tried to
prevent a merchant from selling goods
to nOnuniOn men, the police had been
watching for trouble, and patrolled
Third street with that in mind But
nothing developed until midnight, and
they had no intimatiOn that any of the
strike breakers were stiH on the street,
until called to the scene.
AS a result of this assault, the San
Bernardino Sun, which has heretofore
supported the strikers, comes out with
an editorial of which the following is a
part:
Some days ago the Sun felt called
upon to chide a Los Angeles cOntem-
pOrary with misrepresenting the situa-
ton and charging violence and law
lessness which UP to that time had not
been practiced. But we regret to be
compelled to admit that the defense
can no longer be made, for last night
witnessed outbreaks Of such a charac-
ter that law abiding citizens can no
longer hold their peace. When mer-
chants are insulted when their only
Offense is that they are selling goods to
men who have money to pay for them,
and when mobs attack and beat de-
fenseless men on the street it is time
not only to call a halt, but to call for
such vigorous and effective enforce
ment of law that all men shall be
taught to respect it.
IF necessary it will become the duty
of the city to station an officer at every
telephone pole from the yards to c
street, and to put a policeman at the
entrance to every store, in order to
make it understood that men can come
and go without hindrance or without
insult or injury. The business inter
ests want those men in the shops to
come to town and spend their money.
The Santa F'e pay roll is an important
item in the commercial life of the town,
and every effort to drive that money
away hurts the town and everything
in it. And the authorities owe it to
themselves to see to it that repeti-
ton of last nights outrages is made
impossible, or if possible that it shall
be impossible for the perpetrators to
escape the punishment they merit