Smyrna times., 1910-03-02

with terrific sag and jerk, rlgnteu |
itself, shot ahead the length of the |
switch. bounded across a sidewalk and |
drove into the wall of a store at the
southeast corner of Fifth and Dickin
son streets.
The impact was so heavy that the
wall gave way, letting the nose Of th'
cur into the store The motorman and
conductor jumped before the smash.
but the policeman was caught and in
jLred Charles McKenna, a ten-year
old boy, couldn't get out Of the way
and was pinned between the car and
the wall. He died half an hour later.
John E. Frederick was crushed in the
same way and died in the hospital.
Three other boys were hurt seriously.
A boy and two women in the store
narrowly escaped death. The car
whirled a heavy counter from its
place. The women and the boy were
caught behind the counter They were
squeezed but not seriously hurt. 1t
required 100 policemen to clear the
street.
There were riots and hard work for
the police and troopers along Girard
avenue, in West Philadelphia and in
the southern section of the city. A
spirit of recklessness was plainly evil
dent before actual disturbances took
place. In these sections the approach
of a street car was the signal for
yelling, in which women took part as
we'll as men. Troopers of the state po-
lice charged these crowds time and
time again. The constables were on
the gallop for hours, riding in answer
to trouble calls from widely separated
points 1t was seldom that the crowd
resisted their orders to dispense, but
after the troopers had galloped on the
people reassembled. Driven from one
position, the trouble makers took up
another. 1T was apparent that they
did not intend to leave the streets and
that they were waiting for things to
harpen. Clubbed out in one place. dis
order started up in another.
A crowd of 5000 wandered through
the streets between Fifth and Elev-
enth. They pushed a coal Car across
the Eighth street car track at Wash
ington avenue. The tracks were bar
ricaded fore and aft of the car. A
SQUAD of policemen came up in an au-
tomobile and charged into the crowd
! clubbing right and left. They grabbed
| eleven men during the fracas and took
them to cells.
Cars were stoned at Fourth and
South streets and several people were
injured. When the police went tC
| break up the mob that had formed
there they were attacked from the
windows of the houses. Stones and
bricks were thrown at them Five meI
| weer arrested.
The police were kept on the jumI
in the neighborhood of Seventh ant
South streets and at Eighth and Fitz
water streets. A police sergeant, whC
had arrested a rioter, was surrounded
by a crowd of 100 men and boys, whC
threatened to kill him if he didn't le
his prisoner go. The sergeant, Butler
pulled a pistol and walked straigh
through the mob, shouting that h
would shoot the first man who laid
finger on him. He got free and lander
his man in jail There were a dozel
men arrested in this section for bricl
throwing and resisting the police.
Alleged Dynamiters Arrested.
Charles r. Copeland, a striking cor
ductor, was arrested by Chief DeteC
tive H. S. Silcox, of the Rapid Transi
company. and Detective O'Connor. q
the city police, charged with attemp
ing to blow up a trolley car in whic
fifty people were riding. William {
Field, who came here from New Yorl
was nabbed in company with Cop
land, and the same charge was mad
| against him. A nitro-glycerine bon'
, powerful enough to wreck a flock {
cars. was found in one of Copeland
| pockets when he was searched at tn
/ city hall police station.
The detectives told Magistrate Pc
, ton that they were standing at Fort
! fifth street and Springfield avenu
Z where there is an intersection of CT
tracks. when two men. Copeland ar
Field. came up and laid something {
! one of the rails. A car was approac
Z Ing. The two men looked around. o
I served that they were being watche
. and hastily removed the object the
e had dropped. They walked away hu
: riedly, followed by the detectives.
2 Forty-ninth street and Woodland av
nue. Silcox and O'Connor arrested Il
L two men.
!. The detectives told Magistrate Be
d ton that Copeland confessed to the
q that he had attended a meeting
d strikers last Friday night, where
d was planned to use nitro-glyceri
d bombs to destroy cars. At that me
e ing Copeland. according to the det'
v tives. was persuaded by Field to ia
h one of the bombs that had been p
pared and watch his chance to use /