The San Francisco call., 1906-09-05
Two Hurt in Bloody Battle
at urk Street Stockade.

Strikers and strike breakers fought
pitched battle for the possession of
the stockade in front of the Turk
street carbarns about 5 O'clock last
night. Heavy clubs were used on both
sides with damaging effect. and fully
fifty shots were fired into the air by
the Farleyites to frighten or the in
vaders. When the smoke of battle
cleared it was found that the attack
ing party had been driven back across
the street and had left two of its mem
bers senseless upon the ground badly
beaten by the clubs of the strike
breakers. They We're picked up by the
union men and carried into the strike
headquarters, where they recovered
consciousness. None CT the shots were
fired. into the crowd. and no one was
wounded by bullets.
The noise OF the battle brought a
squad of policemen to the scene, and
a riot call was turned in TO the City
Hall station. Corporal Morrisey and
Officers Kearney and McGrayan entered
the stockade and arrested John Poole.
commander In chief of the Turkrstreet
carbarn forces, who had ordered his
men to fire into the air.. He was locked
up at the Bush-street station. but re-
leased later on bonds furnished by the
United Railroads.
Another attack. less bloody than the
first. was, made on the same stoekade
at s o'clock last night. The strike
breakers again fired into the air and
frightened off the invaders without
coming to blows. No arrests were
made.
JEERs START FIGHT.
The battle in the afternoon started
when crowd of strike sympathizers
gathered opposite the stockade and be-
gan to jeer the Farleyites. The union
men called upon the strike breakers to
desert and about forty of Farley's men
leaped over the fence and Joined the
strike forces. Meanwhile the crowd
was pressing closer to the stockade and
the strike-breakers were shouting for
them to get back. Imprecations were
hurled back and forth and a few stones
were thrown over the fence.
At fhis moment, shortly before 5
o'clock, two drays filled with provisions
for the strike-breakers arrived on the
scene. They were surrounded by the
excited crowd and the drivers persuad-
ed to give up any attempt to deliver the
supplies Some one outside the stock
ade threw brick and two men climbed
up on the fence. The crowd followed.
The strike breakers fought the invad-
ers off with clubs and the strike SYM
pathizers retaliated with clubs and
bricks. Poole's order to fire in the air
closed the battle. the attackers fearing
fatal bloodshed II the affair was contin-
ued further.
POLICE VISIT FARLEYITEs.
Yesterday was visitors day at the
Fillmore and Turk streets carbarns.
There was reception given-if not
in honor, at least on account of the
Farley strike breakers who, to the
number of 200. were within the high
fence. The visitors stayed outside the
pale and tried to lure the men within
outside The most of1icial visitors were
Captain Duke and Captain Anderson
of the Police Department. They went
to release any strike-breaker who
might fnd the confinement in the yard
distasteful But the expedition OF the
two officers was in vain. However. forty
men got over the fence and out durin g
the afternoon.
During the night the Eastern men
arrived and were taken to the carbarn.
Early In the morning crowd OF car-
men and sympathizers gathered on the
sidewalks and roadways of Turk street.
on lumber piles and housetops to
''look-see" what might be doing in the
United Railroads reservation and to