Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO IS
AROUSED
TAYLOR DECLARES BLooDsHED
MUST CEASE
Battle Between Union PIckets and
Employees of United Railroads
Results In oeveraI Persons
Being Wounded

Taylor, at laSt aroused 10 actlon Dy idst
nights rioting and bloodshed, this after
noon issued orders to Acting Chief Of
Police Anderson to increase the police
force in the Mission district.
Law and order" said the mayor,
must be respected in San Francisco,
and am going to see that 1t Is upheld
without regard to persons"
| When the facts of the riotinug, as
gathered by the officials of the United
Railroads, were laid before the mayor,
he said that he had no disposition to
dispute them, though he himself had not
| personally investigated the affair. He
| gave assurance that he will personally
see that the police do their duty and
| that the non-union carmen have protec-
| ton in the lawful operation of cars.
| AS the result of an attack made upon
non-union carmen by a crowd of strike
sympathizers at an early hour this morn
ing five men were injured and are now
| in st. Lukes hospital.
| The injured:
| Morris Rendsberg. non-union conductor,
bullet wound in the left chest. The bull
| let penetrated the pleural cavity and
came out at the back.
| Roy Perkins, conductor; flesh wound in
the right chest.
| J.. ]. Cotter, motorman; bullet wound.
left upper forearm.
Harry Cohrs, conductor: bullet wound
| in the right leg.
Frank Smith, conductor; bullet wound
in the right forearm.
i Police Fire on Carmen
The trouble occurred when wrecking
car of the United Railroads on which
were about fifteen men was approaching
II the car barn at the corner of Utah and
| lTwenty-fourth streets. AS the car was
passing tent occupied by union pickets
stones were thrown at 1t and shots were
fired by some of the carmen, but no one
was hit. The car continued on it's way
to the barn, where a crowd had assem-
bled.
Some of the men alighted and trouble
began Immediately. Policeman r. l..
| Wade j. w. Miller and A. Bigelow ap-
peared on the scene and ordered the men
not to shoot. 1t is said that this COM
mand was disregarded, whereupon the
police used their revolvers, five of the
carmen being wounded.
The union pickets who occupied the
tent where the disturbances began say
that they were informed that wrecking
VI crew was going to make an attack on
them at about the time the car ap-
preached.
H. Green, a non-union carman, was
: placed under arrest on suspicion of hav-
, ing fired one of the shots.
The story told by the police this morn
ling in a report to Captain of Detectives
Colby casts all the blame the nom
union carmen. In substance it is as
follows:
At 11:15 o'clock a work car with all the
| lights extinguished and carrying a force
of twenty-five strike breakers left the
car barn at Twenty-fourth and Utah
streets and ran down Twenty-fourth
street to a switch at Bryant. When
passing the tent of the union pickets at
lTwenty-fourth and Potrero the non-union
/ men opened fire, directing volleys of shots
at the tent In switching back the car
at Bryant street half a dozen of the
carmen were inadvertently left behind
and the work car started at high speed
on It's return to the barn.
Police Officers Miller and Bigelow, at
tracted to the scene by the noise of the
shooting were Joined by Officer Wade,
who had been stationed at the barn.
The three bluecoats encountered at
point about 100 feet from the barn the
| carmen who were returning afoot.
1--WE were in full uniform said Off
Ger Wade, "and not more than 150 feet
from the strike breakers when we called
out to them to halt and not to shoot,
that we were officers Instead of obey
| ing this command the men faced about
at US and the whole bunch of them
opened fire with revolvers. About fifty
| shots were fired at us by them, but none
| of us was hit We returned the fire
promptly and got five of them.
"At the hospital this morning one of
| the men we shot called me over to his
bed and shook hands with me. I hope
there's no hard feeling he said. We
| got ours and you would have got yours
! If we had shot better ALI of the five
wounded men had pistols on them when
we arrested them
Several Arrested
Harry Green and John T. Cotter are
under arrest charged with assault to
murder. Frank Smith, Harry Cohrs,
Maurice Rendsberg and Roy Perkins are
charged with carrying concealed weapons
and discharging firearms within the city
limitsl 1t is stated at st. Luke's hos
| pital that Rendsberg Is resting comforts
ably and has a chance to recover, and
that the other four wounded men are
getting along well. Officer Wade, when
questioned by newspapermen this morn
/ ing, admitted that the union pickets In
| the tent at Twenty-fourth and Potrero
streets had been stoning cars during the
day and the evening, but that ne knew
nothing of it.
| President Patrick Calhoun Of the Unit
ed Railroads and General Manager Null
| lalIy went to the Utah street car barns
this morning to make thorough in
vestigation. They do not accept for
more than it's face value the story told
by the police which exonerates the pick
cts and themselves and casts all the
blame of the shooting on the non-union
carmen.
The facts as developed by searching
| investigation made by President Calhoun
and General Manager Mutually place the
affair in very different light and are
| of a color with the frequent outbreaks
of lawlessness and acts of outrage openly
perpetrated by union men and their SYM
pathizers since the commencement OF the
street car strike four months ago. Gem
eral Manager Mutually upon hts return
from the Mission at noon made the fol-
lowing statement of the facts gathered.
in support of which, he said, there Is
abundant evidences:
"On the night of the 9th CdondaD we
had trouble at Twenty-sixth and Bryant
| streets. Spikes were wedged between the
rails there and car was derailed On
curve Our men were shamefully abused
| by union piclzets and their friends and