The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-05-15
'DINAN' s FORCE
GIVES 4 FREE
REIN To MOB
Police Refuse to Protect
Passengers From
Assault
HOURS OF RIOTING
Citizens Brutally Beaten by
Strikers in Mission
District
EVERY CAR STONED
Rock Barely Misses Babe
Carried in the Arms of
It's Mother
EVERY CAR STONED

The most serious rioting since
Tuesdays bloody battle occurred
on Mission street yesterday after
noon. The police lost all control
of the situation and cars were
bombarded for blocks. In one IN
stance the strikers boarded a car
and assaulted the crew. Every
Car that was turned in at the
Twentieth-ninth street barn at 2
o'clock had been stoned, bumped
by drays and heavy wagons, its
passengers assaulted and its crew
bruised by stones and beaten by the
mob.
I'VE have shown you that we are
nervy men," one of the strike break
ers said to Thornwen Mullally. who
was a witness of the riot. ~and we VIII
take cars through any mob in San
Francisco if you will give US back our
guns. but it is murder to send US out
on the streets when the police either
can't or won't handle the mobs-'
A woman with a baby in her arms
was passenger on one Of the cars on
Mission street yesterday afternoon
When the mob charged the car and the
rocks crashed through the windows she
held her babe to her breast in an agony
OF fear An eyewitness states that a
paving block that came through the
window where she sat passed within a
few inches OF the baby,s head The
conductor came TO her aid and COM
forted her until the car had got clear
OF the mob.
PASSENGERS ARE STONED
Passengers were followed as they left
the cars and stoned for blocks until
they had distanced their pursuers. One
man was overtaken and cruelty beaten
until he was dragged away from the
mob and taken inside the Twenty-ninth
street barn.
Strikers led the rioting and the
police apparently were unable to cope
with the situation Mulla11y. who was
in the thickest of the trouble between
5 and o'clock. said last night:
This has been the worst rioting since
the strike was begun. Every car that
turned in at the Twenty-ninth and Mis-
sion street barn had been stoned. men
had been hit, the windows broken and
the cars bumped by trucks I saw the
Or-a
had been hit in the jaw. another on the
eye. I saw paving block pass within
two inches of a baby held in the arms
o. one OF the women who was pas
senger.on car.
Il saw man step from the car at
Twenty-eighth street. The crowd
started after him They were striking
carmen They Knocked him down and
were beating him when he was rescued
and taken to the Twenty-ninth street
barn. Afterward 1 took him through
the crowd to the Twenty-eighth street
barn and sent him home. He was car
penter who from fear asked that his
name be not published.
POLICE REFUSE TO ACT
when our men were attacked the
police did not help them-they refused
to do it. The men were stoned an
along the line. especially at the post
oflce. and it was done by striking car
men The attacks became more fre-
/ quent late in the afternoon. and when
the cars were turned in every car and
both men on them had got it good
and hot and strong
How long is this going to Iastg
Have we got to have 40 persons killed
before we have the troops2 How do
we know who VIII be the next TO be
killed. Who can say 1t will not be her
1t is impossible to record all the acts
Of violence that occurred in Mission