The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
CAVALRY men ARE SENT.
Governor Stuart May BE Called on
For 10000 Militiamen II Cavalry.
men are Not Able to QueII the Dis.
turbances Policemen Assaulted on
Cars and Bullets Flew In Mob.

CarS ana Bullets Flew In MOD.
Philadelphia Pa, Feb. 23.-The
Pennsylvania constabulary will be
patrolling the streets of Philadelphia
tomorrow morning. They are coming,
200 strong, under Captain Jack
Groome to stamp out the civil war il
this city Mayor Reyburn and Henry
Clay Director of Public Safety, have
called for Capt. Groome and his cav
alrymen, because their own police
forcewas limp and worthless in the
face of the numbering, burning and
clubbing that have caused in four
days the death of four persons, mil
lions of dollars Of loss to the Rapid
Transit Company and general busi-
ness of the city. injury to hundi eds
of peaceful citizens and brought about
conditions little short of anarchy.
The constabulary is depended upon
20 break the backbone of the strike.
and they will be projected on to the
firing line the first thing tomorrow
morning The best information to-
night is that if the State constabr-
larry find the job too much FOR their
nerve and experience, Governor
Stuart will be requested to send 10 =
600 miitiamen to Philadelphia and
then if necessary, a soldier with load
ed rifle will stand behind the motor
man OF every car 1t is known that the
National Guard are ready at an hours
notice tc entrain for this city.
The worst of today's riots were at
the Baldwin Locomotive Works. That
plant has been the retreat for -four
days of hundreds of men who fought
the police from cover and bombarded
the cars of the Rapid Transit with
bolts and scrap iron.
This afternoon a crowd of 400 en-
ploycrs of the Baldwin plant march
ed to 18th ard Spring Garden
streets and blocked a north bound
car. A shower Of bricks and stones
crashed into the car, knocking the
notorman down and injuring the
police guards. A dozen men sprang
on the front platform, grabbed the
motorman and policemen and drag
ged them to the street. The policemen
swung their clubs but they mad not
enough elbow room. They were
pounded and kicked and their uni
forms were in rags. Finally one OF
the policemen managed to get his
pistol free and he let a shot fly into
the thick of the crowd The bullet
downed William McIntee, goihg into
his right leg. The policemen t.Ien
sent in a riot call and up c.me an
automobile truck with twenty cop
pers and they had their REVIEWERS
out ready for busin 'ss. They pointed
their guns straight at the Baldwin
crowd and threatened to shoot if the
mob did not retreat. The Baldwin
worlkmen backed away and t. Dk ref
ugc in the locomotive works.
Hardly had the streets been
cleared, when bolts and pig iron be-
gan to drop from the windows o.
the plant, and a chunk of iron smash
ed policeman to the street stones
| Police Captain Austin, dcployed his
men along tie front of the BUILDING
/ and ordered them to fire at the win
dows from which workmen had been
throwing missiles. Several thousand
people, who had lined up behind the
policemen, broke and ran Bullets
crashed through the windows of the
Baldwin plant and shattered on the
brick walls. The police were not
shooting for practice. They wanted
to hit. Occasionally you could see an
arm flash out Of one of the windows
and a heavy | olt or wrench would
! come spinning earthward, sometimes
narrowly missing a policeman. The
fusillade kept up for ten minutes. In
| the fight at Baldwin's several police
men were hurt and a dozen OF strike
sympatnizers dubbed, in addition to
the one shot. There were eight or
ten minor encounters between the
strikers or their friends and the
| police,