Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1907-05-09
R|OTlNG HAS OCCURRED
Effort at San Francisco to Run
the Street Cars
PROVES A COSTLY AFFAIR
Armed Guards and Mob. Including In
II Handreds Of Women. Have Ho,
Battle, and Several Psrsens Injured,
One Dying.

co" fiahcibco, may S.-The strike
OF the LOO union motormen and con
ductors OF the United Railways de
veloped Tuesday afternoon into a rio,
In which more than score OF persons
were severely hurt. some were severe
ly wounded and others hurt to n less
extent.
At 1880 o'clock the company made
It's first attempt 10 resume the oper.
ation OF Its system by sending ou,
seven passenger cars manned By be.
tween thirty and forty strike breakers
wearing the uniform OF car inspect.
ors and each carry a thirty-eight-cabi.
Der revolver strapped about his waist
outside his coat. This start was made
from the company's barns at Turk and
Fillmore streets. where a crowd Of
from 1000 TO 5000 men and boys had
gathered.
Twenty-seven policemen. five mount.
ed officers and several sergeants. un.
der the command OF Captain Moody.
were on patrol guard. The appear:
ance OF the cars In Fillmore street.
from which they were switched into
Turk street. was the signal for an i'm.
mediate outburst Of jeers and howls.
Before the cars had gone one block
they were made the targets OF stones
and bricks. In a few minutes every
pane of glass had been smashed. and
several OF the armed operatives had
been hit. cut and bruised. At Turk
and Buchanan streets an especially
fierce attack was made on the fore
most car. A guard on the rear plat
form answered the flying stones with
pistol shot. The bullet struck one
OF the union sympathizers In the arm.
This transformed the crowd into a
wild mood. and thenceforward for
twelve blocks there was fierce fight.
ing. The strikers and their friends
aided by hundreds OF youthful hood
lums. kept up running shower Of
missiles. The guards on board the cars
responded with fusillade after fusillade
Of pistol shots.
Eight men received bullet wounds.
some of which will prove fatal. Among
those thus injured are a detective
gergeant and a patrolman. James
Walsh died from a wound.
Finally n dozen OF more cf the
guards were arrested by reserves from
the central police station, and union
crowd board the rearmcst car and
started Il back TO the barns. Arrivins
there. the strikers charged that re-
volver fire was opened upon them
from the harms. In this encounter
several more men were shot. A non
union man threw the switch at the coz
ner OF Turk and Fillmore streets. ard
the deraIlel car shot into the side
walk, manning two men. whose name
have not been learned In the STAN
pede that followed a score Of women
and children on the outskirts Of the
mob in Fillmore were hurled 20 the
pavement and trampled upon.
The appearance OF relief squads -
reinforce Police Captain Moddy's me-
resulted about $40 o'clock In the pa
.ial dispensing OF the crowd
At Van Ness avenue a youth was
hot through the lungs. He pitched
'orward Into the street whence he
vas lifted and thrown on 20 mattress
n a furniture van. He was hurried
o the emergency hospital. still the
mob, checked but not dismayed by
he rain OF bullets. kept up a running
,ursult OF the slowly moving cars
,oning them and cursing the guards
Just beyond Van Ness avenue the
irst squad Of police arrived In a pa !
roi wagon. The mob stoned them /
90. but presently desisted on oeinr
mplored by union pickets. who shout !
a frantically: Boys. don't hit the /
ops: they are our friends,"
Mr. Mullaly said that when the n.
orneys OF thine United Railways Wis
ted the central police station 10 re-
Iuest the admittance TO bail of the
under arrest for shoot
ng strikers and their sympathizeIt
,hief OF Police Dinan said: ITO
morrow shall arm the police with |
ifles. II any strikebreaker stars
ny shooting from the cars they will
'e shot IN turn by the police"
Il can hardly credit this statement,
dded Mr.. Mullaly. "bnt = comes to ne
irect and automatically"
Thirteen strikebreakers were arrest
d. Three OF them were released on
all. and the remainder were held
waiting developments.
A bullet penetrated the abdomen %
'om Buchanan. a striker. and per
GRATED the intestines twenty-five
Ines.
James walsh died az the emergency
ospital He was a strike sympathiz'
r.