The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-08

Twenty. y.seven policemen, five mount
ed officers and several sergeants, under
the command Of Captain Mooney, were
on patrol guard,
The appearance of the cars in Fill
more street, from which they were
switched into Turk street, was the sig
nal for IN immense outburst of leers
and howls. Before the ears had gone
one block they were made the targets
of showers of stones and bricks. In
a few moments every pane of glass
had been smashed and several of the
armed representatives had been struck,
cut and bruised. AT Turk and Buc-
hanan streets an especially fierce at
tack was made on the foremost car. A
guard on the rear platform answered
the flying stones, with pistol shot,
The bullet struck one of the union
sympathizers in the arm.
In Battle With Mob.
This happening transformed the
crowds into wild mob, and thence
forward for twelve blocks pitched
battle was fought, the strikers and
their friends, aided by hundreds of
youthful hoodlums, kept up a running
shower of missiles; the guards on board
the cars responded with fuslllade after
fusillade of pistol shots.
Eight men received bullet wounds some
of which will prove fatal, among those
thus injured being detective sergeant
and a patrolman.
Finally dozen or more of the guards
were taken under arrest by squads or
reserves from the central station and
a union crowd boarded the rearmost
car and started it back to the barns.
Arriving there, the strikers charged
that revolver fire was opened on them
from the barns In this encounter sew
cral more men were shot. 4 non-union
man threw the switch at the corner of
Turk and Fillmore and the dcralled
car shot into the, sidewalk, manning
two men whose names have not been
learned In the stampede TINT follow
ed here, scores of women and child
rem on the outskirts of the mob IN Fill
more street were hurled to the pave
meut and trampled upon.
Wild Rumors Afloat.
The appearance of relief squads 10
reinforce Captain Moneys men result
ed about 4:30 clock in the partial dis
pcrsiug of the crowds, a current rumor
has it that Superintendent Chapman,
who spent the forenoon and carly after
noon at the Fillmore street barns, was
seen about > % clock driving rapidly
away on Golden Gate avenue. in an
automobile that was dashed with blood
There is ms vet no confirmation of the
rumor that Mr.. Chapman was wound
ed. At the Central Emergency hos
pitaI at Golden Gate avenue and
Cough street is gathered large crowd
Of union men and their friends, wait
ing eagerly for the messages that drift
ont from moment 90 moment from the
bedside of their wounded companions.
Practically all of The reserve forces al
tho various precinct stations have been
called out and are now controlling the
of Fillmore and Turk
streets. where is the greatest congcs.
tion. j, has no, yet been learned I
whether the company proposes 10 make |
n second attempt to run cars TO night, /
bu, the general belief is that because
Of this afternoon s tragic happenings !
further effort TO resume operation Of |
the system will he withheld until the |
officials of the company are satisfied /
TINT the police arc in n position TO af- .
ford protection 70 property and life
The deadly aftray was the outcome f.
of the first attempt of the United Rail
roads 70 run passenger cars ont of /
their Turk and Fillmore street barns
at $50 p. NJ. An Associated Press