The sun., 1910-02-23

And there would be a laugh that red
dened the cheeks of a whole string Of
Hencibles. Bit by bit the crowd became
bolder and more annoying. Harmless
ieets became sneering insults. The SOL
diers looked as II they wished they were
anywhere else.
ATTACK on SOLDIERS.
Presently. as IL the whole movement
Had been carefully organized. squads OF
young men and boys stole up behind each
far separated soldier and stole cartridges
from his belt. snatched at his hat or tried
10 jerk his musket out OF his hands.
Here and there militiaman lost his
temper and struck out with his fist or the
butt Of his gun.
In no time at all there ives scuffiing all
elong the line. The soldiers looked to
their captains for orders to charge the
crowd with bayonets or TO shoot. The
captains looked to the Major. but the
Major was so busy at the moment that he
hardly knew what was going on.
Blocks away he was talking with D. T.
Pierce. executive assistant to President
Kruger Of the P. n. T.. and explaining to
Mr. Pierce how the Fencibles could be de-
pended upon TO suppress trouble IL cars
were attacked. ..-... -, g..
Suddenly hear Huntingdon street
. woman screamed and attacked one
of the soldiers with her hands. scratching
at his face. Real trouble broke like a
thunderclap. Boys and men sprang
on the militiamen. fifteen or twenty to
Z soldier, bore them down. took their
nuskets away from them. tore their
coats OF their backs, struck them in the
face with cIenched fists and relied them
81 the dirt
| The crowd. now converted into a moo.
wedged /, itself between the separated
militiamen and the Fencibles were utterly
belpless.
II the order had come to them to shoot
they could not have obeyed. Many OF
them had lost their guns. and there was
hardly q man in ten who had a single
caEtridge in his belt.
The intersection OF Germantow h and
tehigh avenues which forms a spacious
eQuare, was a surging, sway ing. mass OF
men and women, in which you could
zoe every now and then a bayonet pointed
ct all kinds OF queer angles.
Service hats were whirling in the air
IA the crowd snatched them from the
heads of the youthful soldiers. Women
&uaerUed from the rim OF the crowd hold
ing up brass buttons that had been cut
from uniforms. Some OF the Fencibles
FSIt ltcTaily WC~liuS tiC4A
cAvALRr COPS TO THE RESCUE
Then came the rapid clacking of horses
boots down Lehigh avenue. Acting Sergt:
buehler, riding at the head OF ten mounted
men, all ex-cavalrvmen. hit the mob
atflll gallop.
-Bushier sprs,d his sluli in a fan
shaped formation and drove right into
the heart OF tbs press. There was no
ioke. had turned into bloody reality.
Every time a mounted policeman swung
his club somebody, man or woman. and
the police weren't bit particular. went
down with a broken head or a paralyzed
arm. There were a thousand men for
every city cavalryman, but the sergeant
didn't stop to reckon odds. He was mad
clear through. His face burned like a
rod headlight and his straw colored
5orman mnssacbe bristIed with rage.
AZ he swung past church near Lehigh
Qvenue Buehlers club struck a woman
od the side OF the head. She dropped
with a scream OF pain that was heard
eprang upon the steps OF the church and
hred q revolver at Bnehlers head. The
bullet missed and the young man fired
again and again until his pistol was
"a foot policeman ieapcd W, the steps
and beat the youth down with his club.
~ rExcfBLxs sovIRN CUT.
The -Fencibles meanwhile were with
drawing by main strength from the fight.
knew L better than themselves. By ones
and twos they wrenched and drag gged
each other out OF the battering, squirm-
ing mass and assembled finally near the
BAN from which they had marched so
The dsht cont nued long after they
left All. through the crowd men had
drnwn pistols.
heard on every side. and the next instant
Sevolver would let 10 with bang and
4uiiet would go whizzing toward the
sergeant or one Q: his squad.
boy named Francis Kolb was shot in
tho side. He was carried out OF the jam
and stretched out on the floor Of drug
sscre. Later an automobile took him to
the Samaritan hospital. ~
In the thick Of the, dght-7the worst
poesible time for IL TO have appeared-a
Germantown car rumbled up. The mob,
etilI fighting with Buehlers mounted
men and q squad OF fifty foot cops that
had been despatched from City Hall,
turned its attention to the car. .-
Windows were smashed and bricks
went calling in, one OF them laying out a
policeman who was guarding the car.
road superintendent Of the p. r. T., Lew
Smith. saw the policeman go down and
hred at the man he thought threw the
brick. The bullet struck a man naned
Walter Stead in the left side just below
the heart, Kolb may recover. but Stead
somebody in the crowd shot John
Hughes In the abdomen. Two policemen
were carried out OF the mob helpless from
bullet wounds.
RIOTERS JUST cor TIRED.
II was nearly s o'clock when the police
rot control OF the streets. more perhaps
because the mob had spent it's violence
than becau use the police were Of sufficient
strength 70 beat back the rioters. One
saw on every hand men with blood run
e.4ex NhOtr Ea. d. a
noses aud arms crippled by the smashing
blows Of clubs. A dozen men were ly-
ing senssless in the street woman
ran up and down cursing the police
she had been foolish enough to bring a
child TO the place and the child had been
hit. accidentally no doubt. with a club.
y TROUBLE AT CTTY's HEART. ..
Market street was uproarious With
trouble all day, much of IL breaking right
IN the heart OF the city. with thousands
Of holiday strollers looking on.
Three cars OF the Lancaster avenue
line were held up directly in front of the