Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-10
RIOTS AT FRISCO
Blood Freely SHE'D In Con~ec ion
With Sre; Car Str k
SEVERAL PERSONS SHOT
halfway Company's Attempt to Do
Business Meets With Resistance
From Angry Mob--Women and
Children Trampled During Battle

From Angry Mob--Women and
Children Trampled During Battle
the 100 union motormen and conduc-
tors of the United Railroads developed
yesterday afternoon into a riot in
which more than Il score of persons
were severely hurt, some fatally, one
of whom, james Walsh. died last night.
AT 2:3O o'clock the company made its
first attempt to resume operations by
sending out seven passenger cars
manned by about 40 strkebreakers.
The men wore uniforms of car inspec-
tors and each carried a 3S-calibre re-
volver The start was made from the
companys barns at Turk and Fillmore
streets. where crowd of from 3OOO
70 5000 mcn and boys had gathered.
Twenty policemen, five mount
cd officers ana several Sergeants under
the command of Captain Mooney We're
Oh patrol guard. The appearance of
Che cars in Fillmore street, from which
they We're switched into Turk street,
was the signal for an outburst OF jeers
and howis Before the cars had gone
one block they We're made the targets
of stones and bricks.
IL 4 few moments every pane Of glass
lad been smashed and several of the
operatives had been struck. cut and
bruised At Turk and Buchanan
streets IN especially fierce attack was
made on TIE foremost car. a guard on
the rear platform answered the stones
with a pistol shot. The bullet struck
a union syirpathZer i'll the arm. This
transformed the crowd into wild mob
and thence forward for 10 blocks there
was fierce fighting. The strikers and
Their friends aided by hundreds of
youthful doodlumS, kept up a shower
Of missiles. The guards responded
with fusiliade after fusillade of pistol
shots.
Eight men received bullet wounds,
some of which will prove fatal. Among
those thus injured are a detective SER
geant and Il patrolman Finally a
dozen or more of the guards were ar
rested by police reserves and n union
crowd boarded the rcarmost car and
started it back to the barns.
Arriving there. the strikers charged
end revolver fire was opened from the
oaruS. In this encounter several more
meu were shot. y non-union man
threw the switch at Turk and Fill
more streets and the derailed car shot
into the sidewalk. manning two men.
In the stampede that followed scores
If women and children were trampled
upon.
The appearance of relief squads to
reinforce l'oIce Captain Moneys men
resulted IN the partial dispensing Of the
crowds.
A rumOr has it that Superintendent
Chapman WAS seen about o'clock driv-
ing rapidly on Golden Gate avenue in
IN automobile that was splashed with
blood. There is as yet no confirmation
of the rumJr that Chapman was wound
I'd Practically IL of the police re
serves at the various precinct stations
have been called out and are now pa
trolling the neighborhOOd of Fillmore
and Turk streets.
The bloody events of the afternoon
were preceded by ii less.serious clash in
the fOrenoo2. when freight cal
manned ty five inspectors and a barr
superintendent was run out OF .ht
yards at rurk and Fillmore streets anC
operated for half j block. The crowC
ehowcred The ear with brickbats anC
stones and slightly injured two inspec
lors. Finally all attempts to operat,
the car were given up.