The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-14
Many Individual Acts of Vic.
Ience Attend Further Re-
sumption of Car Service.
LITTLE GIRL PASSENGER
BADLY WOUNDED IN FRAY
Women Who Sympathize With
Strikers Place Bodies on
Track to Stop Cars.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.-Ons
hundred cars, manned and guarded by
$50 non~union strikebreakers, were
operated today from a. M until
and p, m, on six of the twenty odd
lines of the United Railroads There
were scores of acts OF individual vio-
lence, but there was no riot be-
yond the ability of the police to put
down. About 10000 passengers were
carried during the day. Thousands of
them, wcmen as we'll as men, were sub
Jected to intolerable insult at the hands
of union men and their sympathizer5,
who cursed foully at the passing cars
and the people on them.
President Calhoun of the United Rail-
roads, in a statement today TO the
Associated Press, advanced beyond
the position he has thus far maintained
with reference to the local carmens
union. he said
81 shall not take back any striking
motorman or conductor unless he first
surrenders his union card, and signs a
contract to remain nonunion man as
long as he remains in the company 8
employment. He said further:
Will Not Run Night Cars.
F'To run cars at night is at the pres
era of violence is about over; | hope
that the passions Of last week have run
their course. This much | know, that If
any onon-unIon men are attacked and
their lives endangered, and police pro-
lection is not afforded, / shall exercise
a constitutional right and arm them. I
shall not stand by and see my crews, or
any of them beaten up.
Governor Gillett informed newspaper
men who called on him at staff head
quarters in the Gerry building today
that he will maintain the headquarters
all summer. 1.-The State. - said the Gov
ernor. ''w-ill not withdraw its eye from
San Francisco until this trouble is fully
over. / 90 TO Sacramento Thursday. but
it is only a couple of hours ride, and I
shall be at all times in close touch
with Adiutant General Lauck, who will
remain 10 charge of staff headquarters. -
The Governor declared with emphasis
that the police must promptly and Wig
orously put stop TO the wholesale
abuse that is being heaped upon pas
sengers, both women and men. and upon
the strikebreakeTs, by crowds and in
dividuals in the streets, He was great'
inceused by the many reports brought
to him during the day of vulgar aud
profane remarks addressed by strike
sympathizers TO people on the cars.
Union Men Must Walk,
Any union man who rides on a street
car during this strike is subject TO pun
ishmeut ranging from a S25 or $50 fine
to expulsion.
Governor Gillett said he thought it
would not be wise, from a peace stand
point, for President Calhoun to attempt
roads system at once or TO run cars
at night just now MIR, Calhoun" said
the Governor must be guided by his
own good sense In resuming operation
OF his lines. The service should be re-
stored gradually. with due regard TO the
safety OF passengers as well as the
lives OF operatives. | have no doubt Mr.;
Calhoun understands this quite as we'll
as I do
Blood flowed result OF one of the
many desultory acts OF violence commit
q passenger filled car on the Sutter street
line, at Fifteenth avenue and California
street, tore open the scalp OF a seven
year-old girl Sophia Frank. The child.
bleeding protusely. was removed TO Park
Emergency hospital. The surgeons say
she Will recover.
Women Throw Stones.
A number of women living in Point
with missiles OF various sorts and bonn
barded a passing car. They were doing
considerable execution when the police
intcrfered. Later In the day some Of these
warlike females laid their babies on the
car tracks and were again chased of by
the police after several cars had thus
been blockaded,
At Fourth and Market streets stones
and sImbers were dropped upon passing
cars from a high building In course OF
construction. II is understood tonight
that the United Railroads will tomorrow
operate eight or nine lines. Five hum
dred regular police and one hundred or
more specials were employed In guarding
the streets today through which the
cars ran. Many complaints were received
of refusal of officers TO suppress dis
orderl yacts directed against the service.
In many other instances the police acted
,,it, 1crlSiap and yiUpr