Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-01

crowd on the sidewalk, only stopping
after it had torn the front out OF the
store.
Realizing that much of the disturb
ance was started by children, Arch
bishop Ryan sent a letter, which was
read in every Roman Catholic church
yesterday, warning parents not to al
low their children on the streets dur.
ing the present trouble.
Cars Stoned by Rioters.
Cars were stoned, motormen and
conductors beaten, and many passen'
gers were struck by flying missiles IN
the rioting which was renewed mere
Sunday afternoon. Nearly dozen RIOT
calls were received at police head
quarters, but nmost instances the
mobs were dispersed with the use OF
riot sticks alone. Seventy-f1ve arrests
were made.
Crowds of men and boys who usually
fill the streets on Sunday In many
sections of the city we're responsible
for most Of the attacks.
The orders of the director of public
safety that wagons and busses must
not be used to convey passengers also
resulted Ill ulduy uloSIaA N0AASSS'
Driven at a high rate Of speed to
escape from mob that was peltlng II
with bricks and stones, trolley car
struck an obstruction near Sixth ana
Ia ckson streets left the tracks ana
plowed through a brick house. The car
was demolished, the motorman, con-
ductor and policeman on guard were
injured.
When a policeman at Frankfort ana
Lehigh avenue fred shot over tne
heads of threatening mob at Firth
and Cumberland street, every WINDOW
in the car was shattered by hall OF
stones. The frightened motorman ana
conductor sought protection In q near
by store Iron gratings were piled on
the tracks and the mob was endeavor,
inc. to demolish the car when squad
of state police drove back the crowd
and escorted the car to the barn.
The riot squad from the city hall,
which had been Fastening to the scene
in automobiles was obliged to shoot
before they succeeded in dispensing
mob of 1000 persons which had gath
cred at Eighth and F1tzwater streets.
A policeman had forced the driver OF
a.
bus, to unload his passengers. This
had infuriataed the crowd and they
started to wreck passing trolley
car -... .
Union Men Arrested.
Fifth street, Girard avenue, South
street and other thoroughfares were
the scenes of almost continuous disor'
ders during the late afternoon hours.
Charged with being implicated IN
plot to blow up trolley cars filled with
passengers and to destroy other prop
erty Of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
company, Charles R. Copeland,
striking conductor, and William Z.
Field, stationary fireman, formerly
of New York, were held in $4,000 bond
yesterday by Magistrate Heaton IN the
central police court.
The men were arrested early yes
terday by H. 8. Silcox, chief detective
of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit COM
pany, and Detective O'Connor Of the
central Office.
The detectives stated at the hearing
that a plot had been Matched at re-
cent meeting of the trolley men to
blow up cars. Early yesterday, they
said, they saw Copeland pick some
thing from the track at Forty-n1nth
street and Woodland avenue, West
Philadelphia. When they followed
Copeland and arrested him a bomb,
which Silcox declared continued sufh-
cient nitroglycerin to blow up car,
was found in his pocket.
Members of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street and Electric Railway
Employees, while admitting that Cope
land is member of their union, deny
any knowledge Of the alleged plot and
say the Rapid Transit detectives have
framed up the dynamiting plot in or
der to discredt the union.