The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
FIERCE RIOTS In HAMILTON.
POLICE AND SOLDIERS CHARGE
STRIKERS AND HOODLUMS.
Gathers In ontario CITY After DARK
10 wreck street Cars-Then Authsrt.
ties Take Serious Action --streets
strewn with Injurea Men and wsmcn.

HAMILTON, Ont, Nov. ~24.-Soores Of
men and women were injured tonight in
clashes between the police and militia on
the one side and the rioting street car strikers
and their sympathiyers OF the other. Many
street cars were demolished by the mob
and the wreckags strewn in the streets.
At 10 o'clock tonight, after numerous
minor outbreaks, the rioters grew violent
in James street in the vicinity Of the City
Hall and were charged by the police and
militia with clubs, swords and bsyonets.
driving the rioters in panic before them.
but not until many persons felt h weight
Of the polioeman's nightstick and the thrust
Of the militia's bayonets,
At a late hour street cars were running at
intervals under heavy guards, but they
did not carry passengers and continued 10
be targets for fusillades OF stones and bricks
from side streets N slleyways. Drastic
az were the measures taken by the au-
thorities tonight, il was plain that the
mob spirit had not been broken.
The crowds began TO gather at dusk.
The authorities at once saw that trouble
was brewing and made their preparations
accordingly. Attacks on the street cars
began as early as 7 O'Clock. The police
welded their clubs freely, but the situation
grew too serious for them to handle
Sheriff Middleton was notified and he
Immediately read the riot act, which makes
every ablebodied citizen amenaSle to police
duty. He also notified Capt. ogilvie that
the aid Of troops had become necessary
to maintain order.
At 10 o'clock q concerted effort was made
by the police and soldiers TO clear the streets.
James street. in the vicinity Of the City Hall
was packed with hundreds of yelling hood
lums. The police charged this crowd first.
They welded their clubs with telling
eject. The absence of stern methods
in previous disorders had led many 70 be-
Iieve that the police wOuldn not resort to harsh
measures tonight. The officers were met
with jeers and insults.
Smashing right and left with their heavy
| nightsticss, the police wadsd int the crowd.
Man and woman suffered alike and soon
the pavement was strewn with uncon-
scious forms. The mob, realizing that
the police meant business this time, began
to r~etaliate with stones and other missiles.
At this point the clatter Of horses hoois
on the pavement announced the approach
of the cavalry and the crowd, attacked
from both sides, broke and fed down side
streets and through Railways into back
alleys. The streets in the vicinity Of the
City HaiT we're cleared, but it was only
temporary relief for the authorities
The crowd noon began to converge on
King street. A street car with detectives
| on board came along and became the target
for a fusillade 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.
More than 100 men were treated at the
hospitals after the fighting About twenty
prisoners were landed In cells. More we're
taken, but he crowd rescued many from
! the police. Fitzgerald. the striker whose
| skull was fractured In the fighting last night.
Is dying.
The street car service ia abandoned for
the night.