Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-18
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
co DOWN BEFORE LONG
STICKS SWUNG BY
CITY OFFICERS.
FOUR CARS ARE DEMOLISHED
Strikers and sympathizers, Who Try
to Hold Meeting and Are Stopped,
Compelled to Fight for Their
Lives When Attacked by
by Guardians Of Law.

Philadelphia, PA riot that lasted
for two hours and covered three mics
of territory was brought about on the
afternoon of March 10 by Phila-
delphia's police chiefs. twenty-five
thousand strikers and strike sympa
thizers attempted TO hold an open air
mass meeting in the National league
baseball park All they wanted to do
was to talk and object and pass res
olutions in an enclosed piece of prop
erty where they would not disturb
anybody. You must not" said Clay,
the director of public safety, and Tay-
lor, the superintendent of police. 1--WE
will" said the labor unionists. who.
according to their lawyers, were per-
fectly within their rights.
They assembled at the bali park peace
ably and quietly. They would have dis
persed in the same fashion, most likely,
II they had been asked to- But new
form of police warfare was introduced.
A squad of Observation-Disclosures po-
licemen in citizens clothing and with long
clubs concealed beneath their overcoats-
We're hurled in the back of the crowd
with the order: Don't talk to them
club them And club they surely did.
Men, women and even children were
felled by the long sticks. There was
mercy for no one who got within range of
hickories. When the first charge of
the strong armed Brownies had spent
itself there We're II unconscious persons
picked up on the Broad street block in
front of the ball park.
The crowd. panic stricken didn't want
to fight back; 1t tried to get away from
the police who We're therc-1,5Oo; but 1t
was so big that 1t could not get out of its
own way. Then 1t had ia fight. Several
policemen were seized and disarmed. In
retaliation their mates started another
| charge. which cut n wide lane through
| the struggling mass of people and left
| more beaten ones in its wake. The reg
| ulars as well as the Brownies" began to
| club them, and still greater uproar fol-
| lowed.
Broad street for three blocks south of
| the ball park, was solid mass of shout
| ing, battling citizens and bluecoats. The
| latter, though outnumbered nearly two to
| one, succeeded after an hours hot work
| in clearing the driveway and jamming
| the crowd upon the sidewalks and into
| the cross streets. a volley OF shots in the
| air finally turned the tide of battle. The
| asphalt. when IL was over, was Uttered
| with hundreds of hats Cwomen's as well
| as men's) coats, broken umbrellas and
| even shoes
But that was only the first of the af-
| fair. As soon as hostillties ceased in that
| skirmish n shout of Down to the City
| hall came from the ranks of the strikers
and sympathzers. In rudely formed
| companies the battered crowd began to
move southwark. The police telephoned
a message to the City hall that big at
| tack might be expected and that Director
| Clay and Superintendent Taylor had bet
ter prepare forit
| When tho crowd pbp1 Norris
three blocks below the baseball grounds
a car chanced TO cross Broad street. Its
motorman tried to put on full speed and
escape, but n boy pulled down the trolley
| pole and 1t stopped. Waiting only for the
| passengers to get out the crowd bonn
barded the car with "A shower of bricks
| that smashed every window and splln-
tered every side panel. The crew and
the policeman who had been riding with
| them fled in panic. Then another car
| came along and met the same fate.
Just at this moment racing auto
| mobile carrying a couple of policemen
| reached the scene. Someone threw n
brick at the occupants. 1t struck Patrol
| man William Barr on the side of the head
| and knocked him completely out of the
ma chine, unconscious Then the crowd
moved on, still being clubbed from be-
| hind by the force of policemen which had
followed il from the ball park. At Colum-
bia avenue, two blocks further south. an
| OtieT WAS NttCheu. lIeH at lSlCSc
| avenue still another was shattered.
The crowd was growing less numer-
| Gus by now, for the policemen working
from the rear We're cutting OUT punches
of 1000 at time. and driving them into
the side streets. The fighting back had
| stopped too. but not so the clubbing.
At last the flying squadron from the
City hall met the crowd and the final
battle was waged. This was at Broad
and Spring Garden streets. In front of the
| Baldwin Locomotive Works The 5000 OF
| S, 600 persons left of the $4,000 We're rid"
den down by horses. trampled upon
dubbed pronlscuously. frightened by an
other banging of the police revolvers and
dispersed helter skeiter.
woman carrying IL baby was struck
on the head and knocked down by a
Brownie" because she could not hurry
away fast enough. Another woman In
the same block was kicked In the stomach
by a regular policeman. An old man
who had been walking north and did not
have anything TO do with the crowd, was
held against a wall by two policemen
beaten and then locked up
Six reporters from the local evening
papers were arrested because they tried
TO get the numbers of the sluSginG police
! men and because they refused to leave
the ncighborhood. they were all put il
cells and later Were arraigned before
Magistrate Bea ton. "ClaY's man." as h,
Is called and We're held In 81 900 bail
each charged with "incitlrg to riot"