Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-03-12
FOUR SHOT AS CAR
RUNS GAUNTLET
Young Lady and Three Strikers
Fall Wounded.
BULLETS ANSWER BRICKS

Bullet is Thought to Have Killed
Child, Rioters Lay Mad Seige, to Be
outdone by Rain of Bullets and
Speed of Car.
Philadelphia, Marcn "a girl and
| three men were shot last night in a
pistol battle In Frankfort between EN-.
ployes of the Rapid Transit Company
| and a mob of 10000 strikers and sym
pathizers.
Early in the evening the motormen
and conductors along Frankfort ave-
nue. were. savagely cursed by crowds
| strung out along the t~horoughfare for
a mile. When it grew dark bricks
wer thrown.
About 10 o'clock. after several cars
had been shunted into the Frankford
avenue barns with their windows brok-
| en-, a car was started with armed men
| from the barn. At Frankfort avenue
| and Overington street the car, NOV
ing slowly. was attacked fiercely.
| stones and bricks ratified against the
| sides nd whizzed through the windows
The sidewalks were jammed with
trouble makers. No police were in
| sight.
Order to Fire Obeyed.
There were fifteen men in the car,
and they were armed with revolvers.
They shot while the car was in mo-
ton. A 14-yesr-old girl, named Helen
l Nfox, x,kaaa hNnoA ;o ~ COra1 otroa4
was hit in the leg by a bullet. The
shout was raised that she vas dead.
The mob renewed its attack more vio-
lently.
The garrison continued firing. Three
men were dropped between Overing-
ton and Allegheny avenue-John Ma
loney, Frank Bromley and Michael Os-
borne, all shot in the legs.
At Allegheny avenue the car was
switched into a Y nd started back to-
ward the barn. 1t ran a gauntlet of
bricks, and some of its defenders were
face and head. The car returned to
the Frankfort barns, racing between
walls of rioters.
A large force of police were hustled
to Frankfort in response to a riot call
The trouble was over and the avenues
arrived.
Strikers Returning to Work.
Today firm after firm reported that
employees had come back quietly by
dozens and the score. At least fifty
employers had similar experiences,
from % to IS per cent of the men who
had been on stlike returning to work.
Although the aggregate of strikers
is large, only a few industries have
been seriously affected to date. Hun
dreds Of shops and stores have lost so
small a number of men that they have
been able to continue business with.
out much trouble. Out of hundreds OF
employes, WanamaEer's, for instance.
lost only thirty men. Lit Brothers re-
port only forty on strike. The Gin
bles say that less than twenty of their
men quit.
1t can not be stated at his time that
the sympathetic strike is petering
out. However, the movement has fail,
ed to gain in the past twenty-four
hours.
The taxicab drivers decided today
they had enough of it. The chauf.
feurs are few in number, only about
125 or so.
More than 200 carmen have applied
for reinstatement at the offices of the
Rapid Transit Company, and about
100 have been taken back.
The United Brewery Workers, 5000
in number, have been ordered to re-
main at work by the international
body, which is meeting in Cincinnati
The local union last night received
he order through Peter Schaffer, who
was sent to Cincinnati to get instruc.
tons. The international body held
that the brewery workers have no
right TO break their agreement enter
ed into with the Philadelphia Lager
Beer Association.