Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-02-26

when the entire northwest corner of
the building was blown way with
dynamite. The explosion occurred
just as Organizer Pratt was about to
address a meeting OF car men at a hall
at Ridge avenue and Dauphin street.
This building, as well as others in the
vicinity, was shaken by the shock OF
the explosion. How the dynamite was
placed in the car barns is a mystery.
State F~encibIes Of Little Use.
Members of the State Fencibles. an
independent military organization
about 200 strong, were placed on duty,
armed with loaded muskets. They
were detailed in the Kensington mill
district, in the northeast, which is a
hotbed of union sympathizers. In their
first skirmish they were badly beaten
by a mob which paid no attention to
the drawn ~bayonets and snatched the
muskets from the hands of the young
militiamen.
Members of the Fencibles. accord
ing to Mayor Reyburn, acted as
though they were on a picnic, allow
ing girls in the mill district to wear
their caps and cut the brass buttons
off their clothing.
At one point a group of rioters cap
tured a member of the Fencibles and
carried him several hundred feet from
his post, where they stripped him OF
his coat, hat and cartridge belt and
gun and threw them into a sewer.
The probably fatally injured ones
are John Hughes, IS years old, shot
in the neck; w. e. Collins, 20 years
old, shot in the groin, and John Wal
ter Stab, Is years old. Hughes re-
ceived his injuries late yesterday af-
ternoon, when a mob attacked a car
at Germantown avenue below West
moreland street. Stab was shot in a
similar attack in the same section of
the city.
The Fencibles, after being harassed
and beaten all day yesterday were
withdrawn at nightfall. They had
been powerless against the mob, but
half a dozen mounted police had rid
den up and down, driving the rioters
before them during the afternoon.
Only two ears were run on this line in
the afternoon, and both very badly
shattered by stones.
Policemen in this locality were fired
upon by a strike ~sympathizer who
had concealed himself in ST. Simeon's
church, at Lehigh avenue and Hutchin
son street. This enraged the guardians
of the peace and they returned the
fire, hitting w. e. Collins in the groin.
pital.
Two Fall With Bullet Wounds.
1t vas an attack on a Chestnut Hill
car al Allegheny avenue at 7.45 a. M.
yesterday that a policeman, who vas
guarding the motorman, brought his
revolver into play, and two boys-one
of them Walter Stab-fell. Francis
Kalb, IS years old. the other victim
received only a flesh wound.
Market street was the scene of an
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unidentified man was crushed to death
in the throng, many others were more
or less injured, cars were wrecked
and wholesale arrests made. Shots
were fired from police revolvers,
which temporarily scattered the
throngs, that only collected again at
other points. The thoroughfare from
the river front to the city hall was in
almost constant turmoil.
Shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday
three cars were held up directly in
front Of the Reading terminal.
Stones were hurled through the win
dows and the passengers fed in
alarm. Policemen had responded to
a riot call and arrested two OF the
crowd-a boy and a man. AS they
were leading the prisoners away, the
crowd surged forward and attempted
to rescue those under arrest.
In the van of this throng an aged
man was caught and showed forward.
He was jammed against one of the
halted trolley cars just as a big deliv-
cry wagon was forcing a passage be-
tween the car and the crowd. Others
escaped from before the horses, but
the aged man was caught against the