CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-09

Railroads developed Tuesday after
noon into a riot in which more than q
score of persons were severely hurt,
some were fatally wounded. and others
hurt to a lesser extent.
At 2:3O o'clock the company made
its first attempt to resume the opera
ton Of its system by sending out seven
passenger cars manned by between
thirty and forty strike-breakers wear
ing the uniform of car inspectors and
each carrying a 3S-caliber revolver
strapped around his waist outside of
his coat. The start was made from
the company's barns at Turk and Fill
more streets. where a crowd of from
5000 to 5000 men and boys had gath
cred
Twenty-seven policemen, five mount
ed officers and several sargeants un-
der 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
signal for an immense outburst of
jeers and howls. Before the cars had
gone one block they were made the
targets OF stones and bricks. In a few
moments every pane of glass had been
smashed and several of the armed op-
eratives had been struck. cut and
bruised. At Turk and Buchanan
streets, an especially fierce attack was
-
On the rear platform answered the
Tying stones with a pistol shot The
bullet struck one of the union sympa-
ssizers In the arm.
This transformed the crowds into
wild mob and then for twelve blocks
there was fighting. The strikers ano
their friends, assembled hundreds,
kept up a running shower of missiles.
The guards on the cars responded with
fusIIade after fusiiade OF pistol shots.
Eight men received bullet wounds.
some OF which will prove fatal. Among
those thus injured are detective.
sergeant and patrolman.
Finally a dozen OF more OF the
guards were arrested by reserves from
the central station and a union crowd
boarded the rearmost car and started
II back to the barns. Arriving her.
the strikers charged that revolver IRE
was opened on them from the barns.
In this encounter several more men
were shot A non-uniou 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 that followed here, scores of
women and children on the outskirts
Of the mob in Fillmore street were
hurled to the pavement and trampled
upon.
The appearance of relief squads TO
reinforce Police Captain MONEYS men
succeeded about 43O O'Clock in dis
persiug the crowd.
1t is said that Captain Chapman.
who spent the forenoon and early aft
ernoon at the Fillmore street barns,
was seen driving rapidly away on
Golden Gate avenue. in an automobile
that was dashed with blood There is
as yet no confirmation of the rumor
that Mr. Chapman was wounded. Prac-
ticaIly all OF the police reserves at the
various precinct stations have been
called out and are now patrolling the
neighborhood OF Fillmore and TURK
streets where Is the greatest conges-
ton.
The general belief is that because o'
the afternoons ttagic happenings fur
ther effort TO resume operations OF The
system will be withheld until officials
OF the company are satisfied that the
police are in position to afford pro
lection TO property and life,
The bloody events Of the afternoon
were preceded by less serious CLASH
in the forenoon when a freight car
manned by five inspectors and Bal
Superintendent Jones, was run out o.
the wards at Turk and Fillmore streets
and operated for half block. TIL,
crowds showered the car with brick
bats and stones and slightly injured
two of the inspectors. Finally attemp
to operate the car was given up and Il
was run back to the yards by Jones
himself with union men swarming OF
the platforms and joining in the cheer'
that were sent up by the mob.