Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-08
GUARDS SHOOT DOWN
MANY INNOCENT MEN
DURING STREET RIOTS
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO May 7.-An As
sociated Press representative who rode
on horseback behind the string of cars
this afternoon saw four men shot from
the glassless windows. The first shot
was fired at the intersection of Turk
and Buchanan treets by a guard on
the rear platform of the car that head
ed the string of seven. The bullet
struck a young man standing on the
curb and inflicted flesh wound in
his arm. The shot was not fired until
most of the windows Of the car had
been smashed with stones, several of
which had struck and severely bruised
some of the guards on board.
The shooting of. this man reused the
mob to a pitch of frenzy. Paving
stones and other distractions were cast
on the track and in that way the car
was brought to a standstill block
farther on.
Hurting any missile that came cas-
lest to hand, cursing and screaming
for the lives of the strikebreakers.
hundreds of men and boys surrounded
the car. In a moment a fusillade of
shots rang out and the crowd fell back
in fear. The Instructions were cleared
away and the car proceeded. followed
a block behind by two others
The second Of the shots apprised the
main crowd in the neighborhood OF
Fillmore and webster streets that a
battle was on and more than q thou
sand men and boys came running down
Turk street in pursuit Of the strike
breakers. who, standing to their posts.
shot again and again into the crowds
initscriI1inaSely. as repeated showers
s--S-
Youth Shot Down
At Van Ness avenue youth of per-
haps - was shot through the lungs.
He pitched forward into the street.
whence he was lifted and thrown on
to a mattress in a furniture van. He
was hurried to the emergency hos
pital at Golden Gate avenue and
Cough street. Still the mob, checked
but not dismayed by the rain of bull
let's, kept up a running pursuit of the
slowly moving cars, stoning them and
cursing their guards.
Just beyond Van Ness avenue the
first relief squad of police arrived in
a patrol wagon. The mob stoned them
too, but presently dessted on being
implored by union pickets, who shout |
ed frantically:
Boys. don't hit the cops; they are
our friends"
The mob called on the officers to
arrest the dozen or more guards on
the first three cars. Very few of the
policemen drew their clubs. They
tried to persuade the maddened men
and boys to disperse, but without eff
feet One union man who was loudest
in denunciation of the strikebreakers,
created a dramatic scene. While the
smoke from the emptied pistols of the
guards still hung about the shattered
cars he threw off his coat, raised his
arms and wildly offered himself a sac
rif1ce to their bullets.
At Turk and Hyde streets, three
blocks east of Van Ness avenue, the
guards again turned loose their
weapons on the crowd. In the fusil-
lade a policeman was shot in the back,
presumably by accident. None of the
strikers or their sympathizers exhib-
tied a pistol or used weapons other
than stones and bricks. Along the Hne
of skirmish, from Webster street as
far as Franklin, garbage cans were
taken from the curb and their con-
tents thrown at the guards.
The first two cars succeeded in get
ting as far as Market street, where
officers from the central police station
in Eddy street arrested the guards and
LOOK IHSI1 u IeduQudrIeTSy WHeEc IHey
were booked-under what charge the
police refuse to say.
Second and third relief squads from
the central station under command of
Captains Scott and Duke raced out
Turk street in carriages and automo-
biles. Captain Scott was the first Of
ficer observed to use actual force in
the attempt to dispense the crazed mob.
Leaping from his buggy he drew his
club and struck right and left. After
he had knocked down four or five of
the strikers and their sympathizers the
salutary effect of his manner of treat
ment became apparent. The mob broke
and began to run. AS Scott pursued
them with raised club he tripped over
a paving stone and fell headlong in
the street. At this the mob set up
shout of delight and missiles of all
sorts were hurled at the PROSTATE man.
He picked himself up and gave chase.
Captain Duke. arriving few minutes
later, followed Captain Scott's tactics
and with half a dozen .burly policemen
beat back and scattered the crowd,
which retreated, jeering, toward the
car barns at Turk and Fillmore streets
Competent observers of the rioting
expressed freely the opinion that the
tragic happenings of the afternoon
might have been in large measure
averted If an adequate police force had
been on hand and if the police had
not hesitated to use force in opposing
| violence.
| All of the wounded men were re-
moved to the emergency hospital.
MAYOR ScHMITz SAYS