Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-16
STRIKING GAR MEN
DISREGARD. ALL Jaw
Shots Were Exchanged
And Many Fall
Wounded
POLICE P0WERLESS TO
CHECK FRISCO RIOTERS
Cars Demolished and Strikebreakers
Shot-Bravery of Captain of
the POLICE Force
Mooney

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San Francisco, May S.-Blood flowed
in the streets Of San Francisco yester-
Gay as the result of the attempt OF the
United Railroads Company to operate
its cars. Never since the laWless days
Of the SOS have such scenes been Wit
ressed III San Francisco. Along Turk
street, where the first six cars were
cent, men and boys lined the sidewalks,
hurting bricks and clubs at the cars.
! Concealed i'll partly completed build
ings and behind fences that surround
ed vacant 1otT, strikers and strike SYM
pathizers emptied their revolVers at
the men on the cars. The armed
guards of the United Railroads re-
turned shot for shot. From the roofs
Of unfinished buildings bricks and iron
girders were hurlsd down upon the
passing cars by strikers and strike.
Eympathizers.
Out at the Turk-street car barn,
when 100 union men brought back the
,ast of the cars, Il pitched battle was
waged The men whom the United
Railroads have hired to break the
strike began to fire out of the windows
Of the car barn, believing that the
strikers were about to storm the place.
Bullets spattered against the bitumen,
and a curious crowd that had gathered
scattered quickly. But the men in the
barn continued to empty their re-
! yolyer1.
MOONEY STOPS THE FIRING.
The place must be veritable arsen-
al, for the smoke from the powder be-
icame SO thick that it obscured the
street Captain Mooney, who has
charge of the district, seeing several
people fall wounded, ran through the
cloud of smoke waving his revolver.
In spite of the shower OF bullets that
was scattering about him, he moved
close to the car barn and implOred the
men in the place to cease firing. But
the volleys continued.
:Stop it, you towards" shouted
Mooney stop it. you murderers.
Gradually the firing stopped and all
sorts of vehicles were gathered to carry
away the wounded When the victims
of the fight at the car barn reached the
Central Emergency Hospital the place
was already filed with wounded from
the running fight of the cars.
Car 1869, manned by Inspectors
fOuigley and Hunt, in command of f.
G. Park, George Williams, w. J. Nelson
and James Wiley. was the first car to
start yesterday afternoon. Before it
had switched into Turk street the
bricks and other missiles began to
crash against its sides \ The men on
the car waved their revolvers, but did
rot fire. AS they ran into Jefferson
square they found the tracks barricad-
ed with cement barrels, bricks and
rubbish. The car was stopped for
moment while the debris was being
removed from the tracks. A jeering,
cursing crowd edged toward the car,
and as it started again the shower of
missiles grew thicker. Glass was shat
tered and the men in the car were cut
and bleeding. AS the vehicle moved
along the crowds along the sidewalks
became thicker. Men concealed in
doorWays began to open fire on it with
Gevolvers The men in the car fired
back whenever they saw the flash of
revolver or an arm appraised to hurl a
brick.
BATTLE WITH THE RIOTERS.
Behind the first car was car 1852,
also manned by two inspectors and
Hour men. Just below Polk street both
cars We're checked and barbados
thrown across the street From the
top of an unfinished building just be-
low Polk street, strike sympathizers
began to hurl down planls and pieces
of iron. The men in the cars, peering
out of the windows fired up at the
! lioters and from the interior of the
building came answering shots.
These first two cars managed to run
the gauntlet as far as Market street.
,rhere they were met by thousand
sympathiZers of the strikers. From
an unfinished building at Turk and
Market streets showers of missiles were
hurled down upon the two cars, which
were by this time close together.
Word had reached the Police Depart
ment of the battle, and the shots from
the demonstration against the four
cars which were following them could
be heard near Polk and Turk street.
All of the available men at the Cen
trail Station were rushed to the scene
Just as the mob, regardless of bullets
and admonitions, were closing in on
the cars Some of the men on the cars
had leaped off and We're trying to fight
their way down Market street. They
were placed under arrest and hustled
10 the City Prison.
STRIKERS FIRE ON POLICE.
Taking Captain Duke, Captain Mar
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