Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-22

signal for a violen. outbreak by many
of the thousands of idlers who had gath
cred in the vicinity. The street was fill
cd with a surging crowd, many of whom
We're merely curiosity seekers, when the
three electric patrols filled with police
from City hall reached the scene. In the
meantime a wagon of the Philadelphia
Electric Co. had been raided and many
incandescent lamps taken and used as
missiles. which exploded with pistollike
reports. Workmen on the roofs of near
~ buildings joined in the general bonn
lard merit. Tie exploding lamps started
the more timd and there was a mad rush
to seek safety, as the cry went up that
dynamite was being used to tear up the
tracks of the company. After battle
of nearly an hour the police finally sue
ceeded in driving the mob back and the
cars proceeded on their way with scarce
ly a whole light of glass in the long line.
One of the most serious outbreaks o.
CURED at Ken iington and So NJ rs t
treets in the northeastern mill district,
where all traffic was suspended early in
the day. William Maloney. said to be a
strikebreaker from New York, had his
skull fractured with a brick and was re-
moved to a hospital in a serious condi-
ton.
Dynamite caps were used by strike
sympathizers in many sections of the city
but did not cause serious damage.
At Fifth street and Lehigh avenue, at
err stopping a car with one of these ex-
losves the mob smashed the woodwork
md attempted to set fire to the car. A
quad of policemen with loaded revol.
vers dispersed the mob, but not until Ed
| ward Morgan, the conductor, had been
| badly beaten. Although 5000 persons were
in the crowd only about five arrests were
made.
| Feeling that many policemen were
| too sympathetic with the strikers and
strike sympathizers in their home 10
Calities a general shifting of members
of the force was ordered tonight by
| Director Of Public Safety Clay. West
Philadelphia police will go to north
! eastern section while men from those
! districts will take the places vacated
! by the West Philadelphians. 1t also is
thought that similar orders will be
given to the police in the down town
ard northwestern sections.
A curious incident arising from the
| strike occurred today when man
charged with robbing jewelry store,
who was being arrested by a police
| man, was talen from the officers by a
mob of strike sympathizers. When the
/ prisoner attempted to escape the po-
/ liceman drew his revolver and shot
! him in the leg. While the damage done
! to the property of the Rapid Transit
Co. today was not as great as that of
yesterday the temper of the rioters
was no less bitter. The extra force Of
policemen seemed to have a deterrent
effect upon the strike sympathizers in
many sections Of the city. In a state
ment issued tonight Mayor Reyburn
said that the public will be protected
even if the whole police power Of the
city and of the state had to be called
| upon.
| the first shot at a striker was fired
| late today during the excitement in
| cident to great mass meeting being
| held by the strikers. A policeman at
tempted to force the crowd back when
a motorman interfered The officer
drew his revolver and fired at the man,
but the bullet went wide and no one
was injured. While this meeting was
in progress, iron grntings which are
/ used to cover sewer outlets were torn
! up and placed on the tracks. Soon
there was block of cars. and the
crowd amused itself by breaking all
the windows. The cars were well filed
with passengers and several of the
riders We're cut by flying glass. Occur
rtnces of this character were reported
from nearly every section Of the city
but only in one instance was there an
attempt to burn the cars.
The first fatality as result of the
street car rioting occurred tonight.
when an unidentified man died from
the injuries received in a clash between
mob and the police at Broad and
Spring Garden streets. Knocked down
and trampled upon he was found lying
unconscious after the street had been
finally cleared by the police and died
without regaining consciousness.
| Policeman Fred Tyson. whose skull
was fractured in riot at Poplar and
Franklin streets, is in the Homeopath-
ic hospital. His injury will probably
prove fatal.