Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-11

utes to reduce that car to battered,
vindowless hulk. The mounted police
who had ridden in the wake Of the
crowd urging them TO keep moving,
tried in vain 10 come to the rescue.
They dashed their horses into the crowd
Int ALWAYS there was a hand To grasp
the horses hits and enough reinforce
mentS to force the horses 70 lhelr
launches The police struck right ana
left and a dozen split ScalpS ana nun
dred wrecked hats resulted.
BY the time the police did get TO the
car the crowd was proceeding southwark
hooting and jeering-
mounted squad, which was reinforced al
Diamond street. The crowd was likewise
being reinforced. and 1t was a Wlid-iook-
ing mob that surged from curb 70 curn
against the houses on elmer sue OF Diodd
street.
1t is probable that there would have
been no more trouble if word mad not
been passed that at that time Rapid
Transit officials and Mayor Reyburn were
in consultation in the city hall.
According to Superintendent OF Police
Taylor who arrived at the time in an
automobile. il was from one of the motor
cars that the shout came: urn around.
March On the city hail. Anyway, the
crowd took mp the slogan, ON to the
city hall and real trouble appeared 10
be omnously near.
The police did not have to remind the
crowd that il must keep moving. The
paraders shook their hundreds Of flags,
took Lp a dscordant chorus OF Hang
Mayor Reyburn to Sour Apple Tree.
and proceeded to march to the city nan.
Supt Taylor realized the danger, and
ordered Lieut. Kenny and his mounted
men IT, ride around and try TO head off
the crowd.
'.Disperse them into the side streets"
he shouted to Kenny.
Motorman Badly Beaten.
The horsemen dashed down Montgom
cry avenue over 18th street and up to
Broad again. 1t happened that they
did not head off the crowd but struck
it in the center. The crowd had closed
around another car at Columbia avenue.
The car was shattered from stem to stern
and bereft of every window.
The motorman made motion that
looked as though he were going to draw a
revolver. He was seized BY the crowd
and dragged by the legs 10 the front Of
the Grand Opera House. He was beaten
severely and thrown into the lobby Of
the theater, where hundred women had
taken refuge.
Police came from every direction
Lieut. Nippes came on the run with fifty
men from ftn ana thompson streets.
Lieut. Tweston came with like number
from the ball park. and hundred more
men We're brought in motor cars from the
city hall
\ three-corncred fight followed. one
detail of policemen came down Columbia
avenue: another came north In Broad
street. and Tweston and his men hemmed
in the rioters from the north. AS re-
suit wild mob ran east in Columbia ave
nue. y car boWled directly into the
l crowd hut pulled the trolley
from the wire.
Every window was smashed in a few
seconds. The crowd pulled the crew from
| the platforms.
\ single policeman showed his bravery
| by lighting his way through the mass of
men with club and revolver in his hand.
He struck one of the rioters. who had the
motorman by the throat, and the man
| fell like log.
The policeman straddled the body of the
| fallen striker and ordered the car crew
| to get back on the platform The crowd
was awed by the policeman's courage. 1t
fell back for just a moment-long enough
to allow dozen mounted policemen to
struggle through.
Policeman Is Injured.
The lone policeman was practically mas
ter of the situation. But no sooner had
the mounted men approached than the
crowd awoke.
brick torn from the half-fnshed wall
on the north side of the street hurtled
through the air and struck the policeman
on the side of the head. Like the rioter
who fell before his club, the policeman
dropped senseless and the spell was
broken.
The crowd, bowling its derision for the
police, tried to fight sthe mounted men
! with bricks and clubs. One determined
dash however. settled the argument. and
| the crowd fed The wounded policeman
/ was picked up and carried to hospital.
! The police in Broad street continued the
! work of dispensing the crowd. Part of II
went west in oxford street and held up
| "a car III 18th street. Here again the pas
| sengers were ordered to dismount.
The wrecked in a minute. The
! fare register was torn out and smashed
on the pavement. The motorman and
conductor received the usual beating and
were chased away limppg.
! All the way down to Spring Garden
street ears were stoned. The mounted Of
| ficers were gradually breaking the crowd
and the last stand was made here.