The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-11-30
FIERCE Street RIOT
NEVER WAS THERE SUCH DIS
ORDER In HAMILTON, ONT
Striking Car Men and sympathlzers
Attacked by Police and Soldiers
Street Cars Were Wrecked-over
Hundred People Injured-Frank
Fitzgerald viii Die.

Hamilton, Ont, Nov. 25.--Never In
Hamilton's history were such scenes
OF disorder and lawlessness seen as
were enacted in the principal streets
Of the city Saturday night. Scores of
sympathizers and striking car
men felt the weight Of pollceman's
night sticks and the keen edge of the
soldiers, swords, in conflicts On James
and King streets. At late hour
street cars were running at intervals,
under heavy guards, but they did not
carry passengers, and continued to- be
the targets for fusilades of stones and
bricks from side streets and alley
ways,
The crowds began to gather at dusk.
The authorities at once saw that
trouble was brewing, and made their
preparations accordingly. Fights on
the street cars began as early as z
o'clock The police welded their clubs
freely, but the situation became too
serious for them to handle. Sheriff
Middleton was notified and he imme-
diately read the riot act, which made
every able bodied citizen amenable to
police duty. He also notified Captain
Ogilvie that the aid of troops had be-
come necessary to keep order.
A o'clock concerted effort was
made by the police and soldiers to Y
clear the streets. James street. In the
vicinity of the city hall, was packed
with dense crowd Of yelling hood
lums, and hundreds Of people were at
tracted to the scene more by curiosity
than to take part in the disorders. The
police charged this crowd first They
welded their clubs with telling effect.
The absence Of stern methods in pre-
vious disorders had led many to be-
lieve that the police would not resort
to harsh measures. The officers were
met with jeers and insults.
i Smashing right and left with their
heavy night sticks, the police waded
into the crowd. Men and women suf-
fered alike, and soon the pavement
was marked by many unconscious
forms. The mob, realizing that the
police meant business this time, began
to retaliate with stones and other mis-
siles.
Cavalry Take Hand.
At this point, the clatter of horses
hoofs on the pavement announced the
approach Of the cavalry, and the
crowd, attached from both sides, broke
and fed down the side streets and
through Railways into back alleys.
ne streets in me vicinity of the city
hall were closed, but it was only
temporary relief for the authorities.
Inc crowd soon began to converge on
King street. A street car with de-
tectives on board came along and be-
came the target for fus. -ade of bricks
and stones. The strikebreakers and
detectives deserted the car as the mob
grew in volume and their lives were
endangered by The avalanche of rocks.
They were followed by section Of
the crowd and given severe beating.
The street car was derailed and liter
ally torn to pieces before the militia
could reach the spot. The moo meHed.
away as the soldiers charged with
liked bayonets.
This was the last concentrated dem
onstratlon made by the rioters during
the evening, although disorders on
smaller scale were frequently up to
midnight. ~.
Streets Strewn With Debris.
The streets were strewn with debris.
Many plate glass windows n stores
were broken by flying missiles.
Twenty of the rioters were landed
at the police stations. The policemen
arrested scores but the crowd rescued
the prisoners.
Nearly 100 persons were treated at
the hospitals. 1neir injuries, however.
are not serious. They had been hit by
club. The soldiers, as a rule, used
the fiat of their swords and the butt
ends Of their rifles.
Frank Fitzgerald, whose skull was
fractured in the disorders, is at the
point of death.