The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-02-23
THREE LADS SERIOUSLY INJURED
AND OTHERS ARE HURT IN
CAR TROUBLE.
ATTACKS MADE ON CARS
Preparations Are Being Made to Call
Upon the Entire Force OF the State
Militia to Protect the City IL II Be.
comes Nceessary--Murphy Regards
General Strike as Inevitable.

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Philadelphia. Feb. a2.--rhrec huys
were shot and probably fatally injnr.
ed and several received less severe
wounds today In riots tnat followed
the resumption of service BY the Phil
odclphla Rapid Transit company The
shooting occurred In attacks on cars
IN the northeastern section. Market
street. the principal business thor
ouehfare, was the scene Of the dis
turbances all day. Cars were s.oaed
and two policemen were roughly hand
led by n mob of scvera, thou
sand persons. A dozen arrests were
made and the Prisoners were placed
In trolley car. This was stormcd
by the mob aa1 two prisoners cscap-
ed Preparations We're made by the
authorities to call upon tn, entire
force Of the state militia t. the police
tomorrow were unable /, cope with
the situation.
President Murphy, OF the Central
Labor union. still regards a genera
strike of all trade unions In the cit,
as inevitable. although Organizer
Pratt Is said to oppose this move
Members of the State Fencibles, ar
independent military organization 20,
strong. were placed on duty today
armed with loaded rifles. They wer,
detailed In the kensington mill dis
trict. in the northeast, a hotbed o
union sympathizers. In their frs
skirmish they were badly beaten b,
Il mob that paid no attention to III,
drawn bayonets. and snatched th,
rifles from the hands of the youn:
militamen.
Members of the Fencibles. according
TO Mayor Reyburn, acted as if the.
were allowing girls in the mil lls
trict to wear their caps and cut tn
brass buttons off their clothing. A
one point a group Of rioters capture,
member of the Fencbies and car
rled him several feet from his posi-
where they stripped him OF his coat
hat and cartridge belt and gun an,
threw them Into n sewer.
Narrow Escape.
Fifteen policemen, quartered In tn
barn of the company. at Ridge avenu
and York street, narrowly escape
death tonight when the entire north
| east corner of the building was blow
away with dynamite. The explosion
occurred just as e. o. Pratt was abou
to address meeting of carmen a
Ridge avenue and Dauphin streets
How the dynamite was placed In TIL
car barn Ii a mystery.
The State Fencibles, after being har
rassed and beaten all day by a mo
Of thousands of strike sympathizers
were withdrawn at nightfall. The mill
tia had been poweriess against tn
mob. but half dozen mounted polio
had ridden up and down. driving tn
rioters before them in the Afternoon
Only two cars were run on the Le
high avenue line in the afternoon
Both were badly shattered by stone,
Policemen In this district were fire
upon by strike sympathizcr vino ha
concealed himself In st. Simon
church. This enraged guardians of tn
peace and they returned the fire. hit
ting w. Il. Collins In the groin.
Call for Aid.
Director of Public Safety Clay sal
| tonight that should outside assistanc
| be required. he would ask for tn
state constabulary before calling 70
| state troops. He expressed himse
as satified with the way the polio
have handled the mobs up to date.
| Following a conference with Gov
ernor Stuart this afternoon, Mayo
| Reyburn held consultation wit
heads of the various city department
and decided to prepare to call on III
| governor for the entire state militi
| In case the police tomorrow are unabl
to cope with the rioters.
The crucial point In the situato
promises 10 develop tomorrow. Th
company, II Is understood. will al
| tempt to start cars on the regula
schedule, and II the police do not 81,
adequate protection, will demand thu
the mayor forward to the governor
request for state troops. The gener;
strike order by President Murphy X
day may also materialize. c. o. Prat
national organizer for the street CO
men, after his release on bail toda
held conference with President Mul
| ply, at which he Is reported to has
urged the inexpediency of a gener
strike, but Murphy. at the close OF II
conference. said that he still belle,
ed a general strike inevitable. OF Il
100000 or more members of labor III
ions In this city. 10000 already ha,
voted to go on strike. according
the secretary of the Central Labor III
ion. Whether leaders who are oppo
ing general strike will be able
defer walkout tomorrow Is prol
lematical.
A delegation of labor leaders lie
for Washington this afternoon to uri
Senator Penrose to use his influen
toward a peaceable settlement.