The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-21

Mayor Reyburn tonight ordered Direc-
tor Of Police Clay to swear in 5000 ad-
ditional police and issue a proclamation
enforcing the riot act.
The executive committee of the Central
Labor union this afternoon pledged both
moral and financial support to the stTik-
crs. They also decided To call a sympa-
thetic strike of every union man in the
city i'm case the authorities put into effect
their threat TO operate the cars with pO-
licemen and firemen.
In the morning cars We're run on every
line with little difficulty except in the
mill district of KensingtOn, where cars
We're stoned by mobs. At II O clock Tran
sit company officials announced that
cars were running ON their regular Sun
day schedule. Shortly afteTWaTd riots
We're reported from scores of widely sep
arated localities.
Car Burned by Boys.
In the southern section a mob Of boys
drove a conductor and mOtoTman from
their posts. and after the four women
passengers had left the car set ii on fire.
was being set on fire, when a detachment
of police and ii chemical engine reached
the scene.
In this same section Mary Devln. aged
16 years, was shot i'm the leg when the
police fired their revOlVeTs in an effort
70 check the mob.
In the usually quiet residential section
of West PHILADELPHIA .mobS for a time
baffled the police. Iron bars and stones
were piled on the tracks. and several cars
were wrecked. Mounted police were pow
erless TO dispense the mOhS, and a fire
hose was brought into play.
Stories Do Not Agree.
Contradictory claims . re made by the
opposing forces as to the number of ms
on strike, Leaders of the Amalgamated
Association OF Street AID Electric Rail
way Employees say that $50 OF the 100
employees of the Transit company have
left their ears. Officials Of the company
say that $500 OF theft employees are loyal.
and that regular service will be resumed
az HtE break tomorrow.
The importation of $50 strike-breakers
from New York led TO an attack on the
barns and main offices of the company
this afternoon. Windows were broken 10y
the mob. which was finally dispersed
after thirty-fiye arrests had been made
The most seriously injured person was
13-y ear-uld Viola Beaver. shot in the alb
domen by a stray bullet from a police
man. 5 revolver as she was stepping from
her house when mob was attacking five
cars In front Of il.
George FelJsaup, a nurse. also was
struck by a stray bullet when fastening
To a train. His condition is not critical.
Transit officials say that 297 cars were
wrecked. two completely burned and one
partially burned today. Two thousand
six hundred and eight car windows were
smashed.
Union leaders say they will force the
company to arbitrate. They charge that
the company has for months, by q series
of petty persec utions, been endeavOring
10 force the union to strike, and finally.
by discharging a large number of union
men, practically declared a lockout.
Burning of the Cars,
Wonderful attention to details was
shown by those engaged in wreCking and
burning the cars. Before the car was
burned at TWeuty-siXth and Wharton
streets, freight car on a nearby siding
was forced across the street 10 block the
posi- bic arrival of fire engines. The pins
we've withdrawn from the car wheels and
every preCautiOn was taken to prevent
The moving of the car after the torch had
been applied TO the cotton waste with
which il had been filled, Before the car
at Fifth and Somerset streets was set on
fire il was raised from the tracks with
stone blocks
Strikers and their sympathizers are dis
playing more bitterness against the COM
pany than at any time in the strike last
summer. At no time i'm the former strike
was the riounE SO widespread. nor were
SO many persons engaged in attacking the
cars.
Unlike the previous strike. men with
union buttons were found in the mobs to-
day everywhere, and they are charged
with being ringleadeTs IN many disturb
ances. More rIOtlnE is expected tOnlOr-
row. Orders Of Mayor Reyburn to swear
in 5000 additional police have embittered
the men.
Much difficulty is being experienced by
friends Of those arrested in tOdays riots
I'm finding the prisoners and i'm getting
copies OF the charges.
IL is claimed that prisoners are being
taken to station houses far distant from
places where the arrests take place.
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