Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-21
The Strike In Pl iladelphia.

( nigi ts rioiing twetty policemen end
ever fifty citizens we're injured. Over q
bu 1dred arrests we're made.
On the Lancaster Averus division
police are handling the controller under
the direction OF the nor u ZION motormen.
Shortly Eit,r eight O'Clock this morn
log rioiing wss retuued 10 several Sec
tions of the city. 10 response 10 riot
calls police sUppressed the disturbance
before any real damsge was done to tar'
or crews.
Today's rio.iOg began With sn attack
on car at Remington and Lehigh Ave.
NUS where mob, uslpg bricks and
cobblestoues, broke every window In the
car. The vehicle, manned By four po'
lIeemen protecting the crew, carried nc
passengers. The police charged tbs
crowd which dispersed without further
t:tu5le.
Two passengers we're cent to the Epis'
copsl Hospital as the result Of an attach
on a car OF Cambria and KensiDgtoo
Avenues. A mob OF more than thtu3'
snd broke ell the windows Of the vehicle
tore away the iron gates, attacked t1t
passengers and crew. Molorman, coz
dactor and passengers we're dragged t
the streets and besten. The mob va
| not dispersed until a riot call had oeel
sent to the city ball which brought rein
ments.
Later In the day the police bad to us'
their clubs on crowd which aitsckec
two csrs at KensiDg!on Avenue snf
HUI 1tlngdou street. Although both vehi
cles were filed with policemen, they
| we're stoned from the Sidewalk and from
the roofs OF houses Il liil forced to stop
Cara we're beirg run at more ftqne'
intervals In this section, but carried few
passengers. Drivers OF wagons are aid
Ing the rioters 10 obstructIOg the t'a.kS
Philadelphia, Feb. 81. The ATTEMPTED
lypching OF mttormsn by an iniuristec
mob in KensiDgton, shortly before moor
,day, resulted In the ipjuring OF fo't]
riot us by police who rode down the mob
10 answer to riot calls. Iniutlsted Gym
pathizsrs, msddened by the importation
OF strike breakers, attacked a car a. th,
corner of Kensipgton Avenue, and L
streets, dragged the motorman aud COB
6uctor from their posts, pulled the fou
policemen guarding them of the car, ant
while q number held the officers ter
ran the met ,rman to lamp post, threw
rops around bis neck and we're on th
point OF lyuchipg him when be va
rescued la thrilling manner By moutt''
police Lleutensnt Sgles. B-aten utti
| he was hardly able to stand the motor
man pleaded piteonsly With the mob +
spare bis life. Sykes, In answer t. tn
| fret riot call, came dashipg aFtuad tb
corner. and realizing Ihs seriousness o
| he 81 uatlon, charged bis horse direCil
lirt, the crowd swett 1t back It foil speed
lGrabbipy the motormsn as be SWeI b.
he dragged him several hundred feet will
elu Oh on bis coat collar and tisl
hurled him safely into cigsr store. Th
mot)rmsD, seoiously Injured, was after
wards hurled to a hospital.
| The crowd then st acked The conducto
dragging him to the sidewalk an
trampled hin il - Inconsistencies. lie
too, wss removed to q hospital in q ser
LEU, coud Oh. The rioters then attscke
the car and wrecked 1t beyond repair
b. this time the second riot call had bee
sounded snd reserves swooped down o.
the mob ipjuring forty OF them, three o
whom, 1t Is feared, will die. TweDt
arrests we're made.
Duliug the noon hour workmen Of th
d ,ldwin Locomt two Works made OF
tacks on cars of the Fifteenth street lioe
Many of the cars carried women pssseD
Vers. Two OF them we're stu K wit
DO t, aud bricks torn from the pavement
Policemen With drawn Ievolvers mount
ed 10 the roofs Of the cars during ih
honr.
New York, Feb. 2l.-About 40
motormen gathered here by the agent
Of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
psny hsve left for Philadelphia and bt
fore the day 10 over 1t L. expected 40
mora will be sent the Quaker City. Tn
agerts OF the company expect 10 shi
1900 stdke breakers 10 all.