The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-08

yards when his house collapsed ana was so badly hurt that he died last night
 The only buildings not wrecked are three residences and the colored Meth odist church.
 tion to afford protection to property and life.
 A pitched battle between strike break CTS in the uniforms of ear inspectors. and strikers, and sympathizers was fought this afternoon on Turk for more than an hour. Among them were d policeman and Detective Bell, and sew eral will die. The shooting was done by strike breakers from car windows in response to showers of paving stones and bricks hurled at them by the mob that chased the cars through block after block, picking up their wounded as they ran.
 The deadly affray was the outcome of the first attempt of the United railroads to run passenger cars out of their Turk and Fillmore street barns at 2:3O p. m.
 Shot From Windows.
 An Associated Press man, who rode on horseback behind 6 string of cars, saw four men shot from the glass car windows The first shot was fired at the intersection of Turk and Buchanan streets by a guard from the rear platform of the car that headed the string of seven. The bullet struck 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 ear had been smashed with stones, several of which had struck and severly bruised some of the guards on board. The shoot ing of this man aroused the members to a pitch of frenzy.
 Paving stones and other Instructions were cast on the track and in that way the car was brought to a standstill a block further on. Hurling any missiles that came easiest to hand, cursing and screaming for the lives of the strike breakers, men and boys surrounded the car In moment the fusillade of shots rang out and the crowd fell back in fear. The Instructions wers cleared away and the car proceeded, followed by two others a block behind.
 The sound of the shots apprised the main crowd in the neighborhood of Fill more and Webster streets, that a battle was on, and more than 1000 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 indscriminately, as repeated showers of stones struck and injured them.
 Youth Wounded.
 At Van Ness avenue a youth, perhaps 20 years of age, was shot through the lungs. He pitched forward into the street. whence he was lifted and thrown on mattress in a furniture wagon. He was hurried to the Emergency hospital. Still the mob checked but not dismayed by the rain of bullets, kept up a running pur- suit of the slowly moving cars, ston- ing them and cursing the guards.
 Just beyond Van Hess avenue, the first squad of police arrived in patrol wagon The mob stoned them too but presently desisted on being implored by union pickets, who shouted frantically: Boys don't hit the cops; they are our friends"
 The mob called on the officers to ar rest the dozen or more of the men on the first three cars Very few of the po- licemen drew their clubs. They tried to perslade the maddened men and boys to disperse, but without effect. One union man who was loudest in denunciaton of strikebreakers created a dramatic scene While the smoke from the emptied pis- tols of the guards still hung within the shattered cars, he threw off his coat, raised him arms and wildly offered him self as a sacrifice to their bullets
 At Turk and Hyde streets, three blocks east Of Van Hess avenue, the guards again turned loose their weapons on the following crowd. In the fusilade, a po- liceman was shot in the back, presum- ably by accident. None of the strikers or their sympathizers exhibited a pis- tol or used weapons other than stones and bricks. Along the line of skirmsh, from Webster street as far as Franklin, garbage cans were taken from the curb and their contents thrown at the guards
 Police Take a Hand.
 The first two cars surrounded succeeded in getting far as Market street, where Eddy street arrested the guards and took them to headquarters, where they were booked. under what charge the police re- fused to say.
 Second and third relief squads of the central station under command of Cap tains Scott and Duke raced out Turk street in carriages and automobiles. Cap tain Scott was the first officer observed to use actual force in dispering the crazed mob Leaping from his bugy he drew his club and struck right and left After he had knocked down four five of the strikers and their sympathizers the salu- tary effect of his manner of treatment became apparent, the mob broke and be- gan 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 a shout of delight and missiles of all sorts were hurled at the prostrate man. He picked himself up and gave chase. Captain Duke arrived a few minutes later. followed Captain Scott's tactics and with half dozen burly partol- men beat back and scattered the crowd. which rptreated ieerinp toward fhe ear