The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-11
ATTACKED FROM ALL SIDES
Mounted Officers Strike Defense
/ less Women and Ride Them TO
| Earth In FuIfiIIment of Clay's
| Threat to Give Strikers All the
! Trouble They Wanted---C Crowd
| Dispersed After Two Hours
Fight.

Philadelphia, March 1.-THE police
fought and whipped 10000 strikers
and labor union sympathizers in the
heart of the city. Broad street from
the Philadelphia National league park
to the city hall was a battle-ground
for two hours.
The thoroughfare was choked with
men and women, who struggled to
break down the police barricades and
surround the city hall. They were
leaderless and advanced in the wild
est disorder. Hundreds of them were
pounded to the street, trampled by
men and horses, kicked and cuffed
and whirled headlong to side streets.
1t is impossible to say how many were
hurt. The police troubled to make
few arrests, but after the mob was
broken there were to be seen scores
Of men, now and then a woman,
whose heads had been cut open by
savage blows of a club, whose faces
were bloody, or who were nursing an
arm paralyzed by the smashing i'm.
pact Of the policeman's mace.
Broad street was curious spec
tacle after the battle. For squares
the asphalt was Uttered with hats,
mems and women's, that had been
swept away In the rushes of the po-
lice. A truckload of damaged milli-
merry might have been gathered up.
There were also shoes that had been
removed by their owners and thrown
at the police, and many Of them were
women's.
The clash between the union labor
forces and Henry Clay, the director of
public safety, was widely known. The
board of strategy of the Central La
Dor union, the association called the
committee OF ten, issued a call for a
mass meeting in the National League
park. Mr.. Clay, acting under orders
from the mayor, forbade the meeting
emphatically, and notified the lawyer
who acted for the unions that the
meeting would be contrary to law and
against public peace. But the unions
had obtained permission from Presi-
club, TO use the park. Mr.. Clay real
izing that an encounter was certain,
ordered John Taylor, superintendent
of police, to take as many men as he
Z could use and prevent the strikers
from assembling in the baseball park
or anywhere else. The streets con
yerging on the National League park
y spn fttl1 ~ hn gfd oil
. sands who were drifting toward the
meeting. The vanguard of the unions
= reached the ball park about noon
! They found every gate to the park
closed and barred and police lined up
= at all of the entrances. Delegation
after delegation arrived until there
were more than 10000 men and WON
en- wiring around the park. keeping
close to the high fence.
d Then Pratt and Murphy, with mem
bers of the committee of ten, arrived
in an automobile and demanded ad
mittance to the park. There was &
bluster OF words between the unior
\ chiefs and the lieutenant on duty a
I; the main gate of the park. The police
were firm in refusing them admit
tance. Finally Pratt and his part!
left and headed down town. Some
body started the cry that the uniol
chiefs were leading a march to tn
Z city hall. There was a yell raised
ION to the city hall" Then the STAN
pede started.
For a distance of two miles from
p the baseball grounds to Spring Gar
den street. Captain Taylor had poste'
= at short Intervals more than 900 pc
Iicemen. while troops of police cav
airy trotted up and down the sides o
Broad street in reserve A short dis
ance from the ball park a squad o
negro police blocked the street. The
were ordered to tear into the crowd
and they did wlckedly. At jhe sam
moment troop of mounted men rod
" into the crowd from the side. cuttin
on thousand or more Of the march
4 ers from the main body. 1t was III
beginning OF the strategy Taylor ha
\ planned to divide the mob. into SEE
3 tions and then hammer each into tn
hearest side street The plan wa
carried out. Street by street the de
tails of police hammered the crowd
on the public highways. There wa
- long series OF enccE ers. Mel
uarted out OF the lighting holdini