The Red Cloud chief., 1907-05-10

PITCHED BATTLE BETWr u
STRIKE EREAkERS AND MOS.
SCORE OF PERSONS WOUNDED

Some Of Which viii Prove Fatal.
Police Arrest Guards and Dispense
Crowds on the Streets.
San Francisco, May 8.--The strike
Of the LOO union motormen and con.
ductors of the United Railroads de.
veloped into a riot in which more than
a score of persons were severely hurt,
some we're fatally wounded and others
hurt to a lesser extent.
The company made it's first attempt
to resume the operation of its system
by sending out seven passenger cars
manned by forty strike breakers wear.
ing the uniform of car inspectors and
each carrying a revolver strapped
around his waist outside of his coat.
The start was made from the COM
pany's barns at Turk and Fillmore
streets, where a crowd of from 5000
TO 5000 men and boys had gathered.
Thirty-ive policemen, under the
command Of Captain Mooney, were on
patrol guard. The appearance of che
cars in Fillmore street. from which
they we're switched into Turk street,
was the signal for an immediate out
burst Of jeers and bowls. Before the
cars had gone one block they were
made the targets of stones and bricks.
In a few moments every pane of glass
had been smashed and several of the
armed operatives had been struck,
cut and bruised. At Turk and Buch.
anan streets an especially fierce at
tack was made on the foremost car.
A guard on the rear platform an
swered the flying stones with a pis-
toll shot. The bullet struck one of the
union sympathizers in the arm.
This transformed the crowd into a
wild mob, and thenceforward for
twelve blocks there was fierce fight
ing. The strikers and their friends,
aided by hundreds of youthful hood
lums, kept up a 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 thase thus injured are a detec-
tive sergeant and a patrolman.
Strike Breakers Arrested.
Finally a dozen or more of the
guards were arrested by reserves from
the Central police station and a
union crowd boarded the rearmost car
and started it back to the barns. Ar
| irving there the strikers charge that
revolver fire was opened on them from
he barns. In this encounter several
more men were shot. Anonunion man
threw the switch at the corner of
Turk and Fillmore streets and the de-
rallied car hot into the sidewalk,
manning two e 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 Police Captain Moneys
men resulted in the partial dispensing
OF the crowds.
Following is a list of the injured at
Central Emergency hospital: Thomas
White, lacerated scalp; James Walsh.
shot in head, will die; Police officer
Harry Sauer, shot through shoulder;
+. Joy. l%aceration of cheek; ]. Kroh-
ner, shot in shoulder; William Stat
terry, confusion of foot and head; J.
Arena. confusion Of knee; A. c. jain,
shot in throat; n. Leish, shot through
chest; n. Granville, lacerated face;
G. NJ. McNaught0n, shot in forehead;
Tom Buchanan, shot in abdomen, will
die; c. w. Forester. confusion Of
face; Detective Sergeant Bell, shot in
shsetssA Al Palm, shot in back, may die.
ReMeral Manager Mullaly said that
when attorneys for the United Rail
roads visitGS the Central police sta
tioa to request the admittance to bail
OF the strike breakers under arrest
for shooting strikers and their sym.
pathizers, Chief of Police Oman said:
81 shall arm the police with rifles.
II any strike breakers start any shoot
ing from the cars they will be shot in
turn by the police"
Thirteen strike breakers were ar
rested. Three OF them were released
on bail and the remainder were held
awaiting developments.
James Walsh, one OF the strike sym
pathizers who was shot from one of
the attacked cars, died at the Central
Emergency hospital. No hope is held
out for the recovery of Thomas
Buchanan, n Of the strikers.