Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-08
RIorING SAN FRANCISCO.

Inc Uml6u hallIOdus Jcotoiuay oisei
noon attempted to run five cars on the
Turk street line, in San Francisco, but
in the burned district these cars were
savagely attacked by union mechanics
working on buildings and by gangs OF men
and boys. Strike breakers manning
these cars began to shoot and fourteen
of the men and boys were wounded, ive
of whom will die.
The five cars were started from Turk
and Fillmore streets with six strike
breakers and inspectors uniformed and
armed with long SS caliber revolyers.
strapped around their waists. There
was big crowd around the car barns,
but there was no concentrated attack on
the cars until they reached the burned
district. Below Lsrkin street, where
number of new buildings are under con-
struction, cars we're battered with bricks
and stone, bits of iron, and scantlings.
The men who made this attack were
said to be union bricklayers and carpen-
ters. They were aided by large gang
of sympsthisers composes of men and
boys.
At Leavenworth street this attack was
so vicious that the strike breakers, sew
eral of whom had received ugly Wounds,
opened FIRE on the worst of their assail-
ants. They shot to kill, and several men
fell. The crowd scattered and several
policemen cleared the track in front.
The care then moved along Turk street
to the corner of Market street. There
the worst riot occurred. There are sew
ersl three and four-story buildings under
construction on that corner, while the
street is lined with billbosrds. From
windows and upper stories of these
buildings a perfect rain of missiles set in.
Two men threw down large six by six
timber, which broke the roof of one Car,
and men behind billboards began
shooting.
The strike-breakers showed great
nerve and coolness. They fred only upon
hose whom they actually saw shooting
or throwing bricks and stones, but in
nearly every case they dropped their
man.
One boy Of sixteen came from behind
the billboard with brick in each hand.
As he threw his second brick the motor
man drew a revolver and dropped him,
with bullet through the head. One man
threw a half barrel of cement from a
second-story window. All the windows
in the cars we're smashed, and blood
flowed from the wounds of many of the
men who were hit by stones. Two cars
we're derailed, and the strike-breakers
calmly hooked them together with three
good cars and took them back to the car
barns.
Fully 5000 people crowded about the
cars and reviled the strike-breakers.
Many of these were young boys Of six
teen or eighteen years, and these were
the most reckless Of the gang.
The police did little to protect the
men on the cars until shooting began.
Then they drove the crowds from the
street, but they arrested none of those
who threw missiles.
Gov. Gillette, who is in Los Angeles,
says if rioting continues be will call ont
the militia.
eff riots go oD," he said, 'and they
continue to kill men in San Francisco,
aud the police are unable to stop it, l
will call out the militia. There will be
no child's play about it, either, if 1 take
that sction. l will see that riots are
Stopped, and stopped at once. Every
thing is In readiness for the calling out
of troops. These arrangements we're
made several days ago at my direction.
They will be on the ground shortly after
| take my action"