The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-08
Attempt to Operate Cars Meets With Riotous
 Outbreak.
SEVERAL FATALLY SHOT
Trolley Guard Fires Into Mob Increasing the
 Frenzy.

Oe'lA auClSCO, May l.--IQe SCrlK6 OI the 1,7OO union men and conductors of the United Railroads developed this afternoon into a riot in which more than a score of persons were severely hurt. some fatally.
 At 2:30 the company made its first at- tempt to resume operation by sending out seven passenger cars manned by about forty strike breakers The men were uniforms of car inspectors and each carried a 3S-calibre revolver. The start was made from the companys barns at Turk and Fillmore streets, where a crowd of from 5000 to 5000 men and boys had gathered
 Twenty-seven policemen five mount ed officers and several sergeants under the command of Captain Moony were on patrol guard. The appearance of the cars in Fillmore street, from which they were switched into Turk street, was the signal for an outburst of jeers and howls. Before the cars were gone one block they were made the targets of stones and bricks. In a few mo- ments every pane of glass had been
 
 had been struck, cut and bruised. At Turk and Buchanan streets an especial ly fierce attack was made on the fore- most car. A guard on the rear plat form answered the stones with a pistol shot. The bullet struck a union sym- pathizer In the arm. This transformed the crowd into bowling mob and fbenon fortrfo rd fo,. +x1rolxta h1oolyc thoro was fierce fighting. The strikers and their friends, aided by hundreds of youthful hoodlums, kept up shower of missiles. The guards responded with fusilade after fusilade of pistol shots.
 Eight men received bullet wounds, some of which will prove fatal Among those thus injured are a detective ser geent and a patrolman.
 Finally a dozen or more of the guards Were arrested by reserves from the central police station and a union crowd boarded the rear most car and started 1t back to the barns.
 Arriving there the strikers charged, revolver fire was opened from the barns In this encounter several more men were shot. A non-union man threw the switch at Turk and Fillmore streets and the derailed car shot into the side walk, maiming two men, whose names , have not been learned. In the stam- Dede that followed scores of women and children were trampled upon.
 The appearance of relief squads to reinforce police Captain Moony's men resulted about 4:3O o'clock in the par tlai dispensing of the crowds.
 A rumor has it that Superintendent Chapman was seen about o'clock driving rapidly on Golden Gate avenue in an automobile that was dashed with blcod. There is as yet no confirmation of the rumor that MT. Chapman was wounded. Practically all of the police reserves at the various precinct stations have been called out and are now pa- trolling the neighborhood of Fillmore and Turk streets.
 The general belief is that because of this afternoons tragic happenings fur ther efforts of the company to resume operation of the system will be with held until officials of the company are satisfied that the police will afford pro- tection to property and life.
 The bloody events of the afternoon were preceded by a less serious clash. in the forenoon when freight car man. ned by five inspectors and Barn Super intendent Jones was run out of the wards at Turk and Fillmore streets and operated for half block, The crowd showered the cars with blick- bats and stones and slightly injured two inspectors. Finally all attempts to operate the cars was given up, and it was run back by Jones himself.
 James Walsh who was among the to4,,red is deaG