The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-21
PHILADELPHIA In
STATE OF SIEGB;;
RIOTING SERIOUS
Attempts to Run Cars Yester.
day and Today Met
With Violence.
All Police and Extras Are on
Duty.
GENERAL STRIKE IMMINENT

Philadelphia, Feb. 21.-Every
member of the police force is on
duty and many specials are added
The city practically Is in stage OF
siege today. When the traction com
pany attempted to run its cars this
morning, rioting was resumed. Few
risk bricks and bullets by riding on
the cars and most are walking to
their work. All vehicles are pressed
into service. and team owners are
reaplng a harvest. The greatest dan
ger is of a general strike. The local
federated un ions say they wiM call
one II necessary to assist the car
men.
Today's rioting began with an at
tack on a car by mob. using brick
bats and cobblestones, breaking ev-
cry window in the car. 1t was man
ned by four policemen. protecting
the crew. II carried no passengers.
The police charged the crowd. which
dispersed without further trouble.
Two passengers were sent 10 the hos
pital as the result OF another attack.
A mob of more than a hundred, af-
ter breaking all the windows and
tearing away the iron gates, at
tackled the passengers and crew.
The motorman. conductor and pas
sengers were dragged to the street
and beaten The mob wasn't dis
persed until a riot call had been sent
to the city haA, bringing reinforce
ments.
Rioting In every section of this
city followed the attempt OF the Phil
ade,phis Rapid Transit company to
operate its lines here Sunday. Pas
sengers and crews were driven from
the cars by infuriated mobs of
strike sympathizers. and In nearly a
score OF instances the abandoned
cars were burned or otherwise de-
stroyed. With nightfall every car
was withdrawn from service.
Stern measures were adopted by
the police TO quell the disorders and
riots. FIVE persons we're arrested,
charged with melting to riot, and
over a hundred were Jailed for riot
ing. Two women were shot by stray
bullets and many people were re-
moved to hospitals. Mayor Reyburn
ordered Director OF Police Gay to
swear in 5000 additional police and
issued a proclamation enforcing the
riot act.
The executives OF the Central La
Dor Union pledged both moral and
financial support to the striking car
men. They also decided to call a
sympathetic strike of every union
man in the city In case the authori-
ties put in effect their threat TO
operate the cars with policemen and
firemen.
In the southern section OF the city
a mob of boys drove the conductors
and motormen from their posts and
after the four women passengers had
left the car, set 1t on fire with waste
taken from nearby freight car.
The next car was also stopped and
was being set on fire when detach-
ment of police and a chemical en-
gine reached the scene. In this
same section Mary Devlin, aged 16
years. was shot in the leg when the
police fred their revolvers in an eff
fort to check the mob.
Fire Hose Is Used.
In the usually quiet residential sec
ton OF West Philadelphia mobs were
formed which for a time baffled the
police. Iron bars and stones were
piled on the tracks and several cars
were wrecked. Mounted police were
powerless to disperse the mobs here
and a fire hose was finally brought
into play.
Contradictory claims are made by
the opposing forces as to the num-
Der of men on strike. The leaders of
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes say that 6,20O men of the T.
600 employed on the transit com
pany have left their cars. The Off
cials of the company say that $500
of their employees are loyal and that
regular service will be resumed at
daybreak tomorrow.
The importation of 175 strike
breakers from New York led to an
attack on the barns and main Offices
OF the company at Eighth and Dauph
in streets this afternoon. Windows
were broken by stones hurled by the
mob. which was finally dispersed af-
ter thirtyfive arrests had been made.
Attempt to Lynch.
An attempted lynching OF a motor
man by a mob in Kensington this
afternoon resulted in the injury of
aO rioters by the police. who rode
down the mob in answer to riot calls.
lsympathizers, angered by the impor-