The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-10
STRIKERS AND GUARDS
m PITCHED BATTLE
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Attempt to Run San francisco
Street Cars Proves
Futile.
MANY BADLY WOUNDED
yards Who Were Armed BY Company
With R~evoivers. Fire on
Mob When .assailea
With Stones,


With Stones.
San Francisco. Aay a-Iae strike o
the I.7o0 union motornaen and conduc-
tors of the United railroads developed
yesterday afternoon into a riot. II
which more than u score of persons
were severely hurt. SOME being Fatally
wounded.
At go O'Clock the company made Its
first tempt to resume the operation OF
Its system by sending out seven pas
senger cars manned by between thirty
or forty strike breakers wearing the
uniform of car inspectors inc each
carrying a ~.SS-caliber revolver trapped
around his waist outside OF his coat.
The start was made from tle ON
pany's barns at Turk and Fillmore
streets, where a crowd of from 5000 to
5000 men and boys had gathered.
Cars Quickly Attacked.
Twenty-seven policemen. five mount
ed officers and several %sergeants under
the command of Captain Mooney were
on patrol guard. The appearance OF
the cars in Fillmore street, from which
they were switched into Turk street,
was the signal for an immediate out
burst of jeers and bowls. Before the
cars had gone n block they We're
made the targets OF stones and Dicks.
In a few moments every pane of glass
had been smashed and several of the
armed operatives had been struck, cut
and bruised.
All Turk and Buchanan streets an
especially fierce attack was made on
the foremost car. A guard on the rear
-Ja%f~~,, rxrara tho A1rino stones
with a pistol shot. The bullet struck
one of the union sympathizers in the
arm.
Eight Men Fatally Wounded.
This transformed the crowd into a
wild mob and thence Onward for
twelve blocks there was fierce fighting.
The strikers n their friends, aided
by hundreds Of youthful hoodlums,
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
those thus injured are a desk sergeant
and a patrolman. Finally a dozen or
reserves from the central police station
and a union crowd boarded the rear
most car and started it back to the
barns.
HurlS Car at the Mob.
Arriving there the strikers charged,
and revolver fire was opened on them
from the barns. In this encounter sew
eral more men We're shot. A %nonunion
man threw the switch at h corner of
Turk and Fillmore streets inc the de-
rallied car shot into the sidewalk, MAIN
ing two men whose names nave not
been learned. In the stampede that
followed here scores of women and
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Fillmore street were hurled to the pave
ment and trampled upon.
Police Partially Successful.
The appearance of relief squads to
reinforce Police Captain MONEYS
men resulted about 4:3O o'clock in the
partial dispensing of the crowds. A
current rumor has it hat Superinten-
lent Chapman who spent the fore
noon and early afternoon at the Fill
O'clock driving rapidly away in Golden
Gate avenue in an automobile h a
was dashed with blood. There is as
yet no confirmation of the ru1nor that
Mr.. Chapman was wounded. Prac-
tically all of the police reserves at the
various precinct stations nave been
called out n are now p%atrolling the
-neighborhood of Fillmore and Turk
streets, where is the greatest conges-
ton.
The bloody events of the day were
preceded by a less serious clash in
the forenoon, when a freight car
manned by five inspectors and Barn
Superintendent Jones was run out of
the yards at Turk and Fillmore
streets and operated for half a block.
The crowds showered the car with
brickbats and tor and slightly in
jured two of the inspectors. Finally
all attempts to operate the car was
fyyn III n ~ 20 1919, No. - -.
yards by Jones himself, with union
men swarming on the platforms
n joining in the cheers that We're
sent up by the mob.
Among the wounded are w police
men. The shooting was done by strike
breakers from car windows in responses
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,
At Van Ness avenue a youth of per-
haps 20 years was shot through the
lungs. He pitched forward into the
street, whence he was lifted and
thrown onto a mattress on a furniture
van. He was hurried to the emergency
hospital at Golden Gate avenue and
Cough street. Still the mob checked
but not dismayed by the rain of bull.
let's, kept up a running pursuit of the
slowly moving cars, stoning them and
cursing the guards.
Unionist Makes Dramatic Stand.
Just beyond Van Ness avenue the
first squad of police arrived in a pa.
troll wagon. The mo stoned them. too
but presently desisted on being i'm.
plored by union pickets. who shouted
frantical1y.
Boys, don't hit the .cops'-they are
our friends
The mob called on the officers to ar.
rest the dozen or more guards ON the
first three cars. Very few of the DO.
Gene drew their clubs. They tried
to persuade he m%addened men anc
boys to disperse, but without effect.
Ono union man, who was the loudest
in denunciation of the strikehreakers
created a dramatic scene. When the
smoke from the cmptied pistols of the
guards still hung with the shattered
KILLS WIFE AND SELF
OVER WFnDlNG RlMC