Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-08
SCORES OF PERSONS
WOUNDED DURING
AFTERNOON RIOTS
Nv Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 1.-THE
strike of the 100 union motormen and
conductors of the United Railroads de-
veloped this afternoon into riot in
which more than a score of persons
were severely, some fatally wounded
and many Others injured to a lesser
extent.
AT 2:So o'clock the company made its
first attempt to resume the operation
of its system by sending out seven pas
senger cars manned by between thirty
and forty strike breakers wearing the
uniform of car ispectors. each carry
ing a thirty-eight caliber revolver
strapped around his waist outside of
his coat.
The start was made from the conn
pany's barns at Turk and Fillmore
streets, where a crowd, variously es-
timated at from 5000 to 5000 men and
boys. was congregated. Twenty-seven
policemen, Eve mounted officers and
several sergeants. under the command
Of Captain Mooney. were on patrol
guard.
The appearance of the cars on Fill
more street, from which they were
switched into Turk street. was the sig
nal ror an Immense outhuTSS Of 5ee-s
and bowls Before gaas cars had gone
one block they were made the targets
asf showers Of stones azad bricks
In fSW mlorne1zs every pane OF
glass had been smashed and several
Of the aEnss5 operatives had been
struck. cat and bruised At Turk and
RnehAm2m streets SIN especially fierce
zrnAck wsS made on the foremost car.
A guard on the rear platform answered
the flying stones with a pitol shot. The
bullet struck one of the union SYM
pathizers in the arm.
This happening transformed the
crowds into a wild mob and for twelve
blocks pitched battle was fought, the
strikers and their friends, aided by
hundreds of youthful hoodlunls, keep
ing up q 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 being a de-
tective sergeant and a patrolman.
Revolver Fire Opened Up
Finally dozen or more of the guards
were taken under arrest by squads of
reserves from the central station and a
union crowd boarded the rearmost car
and started it back to the barns. Ar
riving there the strikers charged and a
revolver fire was opened on them from
the barns.
In this encounter several more men
were shot. A non-union man threw
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Fillmore and the derailed 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 Captain Moneys men re-
suited about 4:30 o'clock in par
TALLY dispensing the crowd. A cur
rent runor has It that Superintendent
Chapman, who spent the forenoon and
early aft rnoon at the Fillmore street
barns, was seen about five o'clock
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.
Mt AiiC tEJilTdi EtllCy IIO5Dlldl dL
Golden Gate avenue and Cough street
is gathered q large crowd of union
men and their friends, waiting eagerly
for the messages that drift out from
moment TO moment from the bedside
of their wounded companions.
Reserves Called Out
Practically all of the reserve officers
at the various precinct stations have
the neighborhood of Fillmore patrolling
the neighborhood Of Fillmore and Turk
streets, where there is the greatest
congestion. 1t has not yet been learn
ed whether the company proposes to
make a second attempt to run cars
tonight, but the general belief is that
because Of this afternoons tragic hap
peIiings further effort to resume op-
Grafton Of the system will be withheld
until the officials OF the company find
that the police are in position to af-
ford protection to property and life.
The bloody events of the afternoon
were preceded by a less serious clash
at II o'clock in the forenoon when a
freight car, manned by five inspectors
and barn superintendent Jones, was
run out of the yards at Turk and Fill
more streets and operated for half a
block. The crowds showered the car
with brickbats and stones and slightly
injured two of tho inspectors. Finally
ali attempt to operate the car was
given up and It was run back to the
yards by Jones himself with union
men swarming on the platforms and
joining in the cheers that were sent
up by the mob
In both the morning and Afternoon
battles the throwing of missiles was
Joined I'm BY strikers and strike sym.
pathizers. Both forenoon and after.
noon scores Of union pickets pleaded
with the mob not to use violence, bu'
were jeered for their pains. Eventu.
ally a few of the pickets themselves
An plckets were distinguished by &
SILK ribbon badge which they wore OF
their coats