The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-28
Mob Attacks Cage Wagon and
Injuries Nine Strike
Breakers.
voLLEY FROM POLICE GUNS
Strikers Say Some Were Hit and
Spirited Away Gov. Fort
Ready to Act.

Blood ran in the Horseshoe sect ion -
jersey t1ty for two hours last night when
a great crowd. which had for a nucleus
som. of the striking express helpers
dragged nine strike hreskers from the
prot ect ron Of "A handful - police and
maul-d them within an inch 81 their
lives. The attack on the strike breakers
served bui 10 whet the lAwlessne-s ~ the
mob and rhar"aft or until the fury 81 IN"
many vast ad itself the Jersey city police
were hustled from pillar to post car
windows we're stoned and the stree,
in the vicinity 81 Hamilton Park were
entirely IN the grip u noting thousands.
Gov. Fort 81 New Jersey announc ed
last night that he had sent orders 90
AdJt. Gen. Wilbur =. Sadler Of the State
militia TO he ready 10 move any num-
her of companies To Jersey city on a
moments notice. He had received as
surances from Mayor n. otto Wittpenn
and Chief Of Police Monahan that no out
ed. interference. was necessary. Gov.
Fort said hut despite those assurances
the Governor announced himself as ready
to act upon the receipt 81 any credible
Representatives that the situation has
pa ssed beyond the power 81 the police
/ one 81 the strike breakers. who va.
beaten with iron spikes. pieces Of bottles
and wagon spokes. lies in the Hudson
street hospital. Manhattan. in very seri-
ou= condition. This Is Henry G. Turner.
who lives at 3I3 Fast i?Sd street Fred
a =
IN the same hospital with banda ge- swath-
I ing him from his head 10 his waist Seven
other strike breakers were treated Nv
ambulance surgeons on ihis side Of the
river and sent to their homes
The situation in the Horseshoe got 80
far beyond the grip Of the police 81 the
Second district in Jersey city that after
they had cleared the crowd from the spot
where the msuling 81 the strike breakers
had occurred they did not dare risk send
ing the injured men To ~ FranCis's Hos
/. pital IN Jersey city. but bundled them
down 20 the Erie ferry in a patrol wagon
and left them 10 make the trip across the
water under care 81 the boat attendants
and find relief from a hospital outside
] hostile territory
! Al Wells Fargo express wagons which
did business IN Jersey city yesterday had
crews IT strike breaking helpers When
the wagons went 10 the express company
barn- ~ Pavonia avenue between Coles
and Monmouth streets crowd ~
strikers and their sympathzer~ began to
gather mp and down the street for = dis
tame. Of several blocks and the police in
N" district sent m word "a headquarters
that things looked had That word had
hardly passed over the wires when the
situation prophrsied Developed RAPIDLY
The thrung II I~ering men. boys and
women SIrgrd into Hamilton Park which
lies not far from the express companys
baru- and -om" - the wilder spirits
h-gau tearing up b"nch-~ and hurrying
through thu dark With them into the
various Tide streets down which IL was
ro--,hl" that wagons carrying New Iors
strs.. breakers back to New Nork might
ua-- Bov- threw stones ~ IA. Electric
hight on the corners IL m" park and
smashed them. plunging an IN" square
and IA. nearby streets into dlTNne-@
Fuuy moGu'ai polic"mrn and half
do1"u p"hc-m"n ~ iout drew up IN
PaVUu'a ay"nu" on tn. west SIDE 10 the
parN and - them III" crowd charged.
The ar was filed with vhIIIng wagon
spDk-- bricks and bottles some m the
van ,.os~d with ia" policemen and
vr-s'l"d them to the sidwnlk For
minu'" he crowd prevailed and then IN.
10 iCru.cn h"gan 20 draw their r"volv"rs
and they fired They said sitsrward that
they fired INTO IN" air and did not hr
any one. hui the rioters sad that many
people had caught the policemen : bullets
and had been carried to their homes.
Inc firing served 10 check the crowd
and inst when ~ was assembling 10 re-
new the attack y diversion sent the whole
yelling mot streaming down Pavonia
avenu. II was the appearance IL n hIg
Gagged express wagon with two strike
breakers on the seat and eight within
'he Gag. that focused 'he vengeance q
'hs mot instantly upon 'hi- new point Il
attack.
when the wagon. drawn bv two hDrses.
came ont e the express company harms
IN Pavunia avenue IN. police cpt their
way through IN" crowd and attempted
70 TAI. M position ahead ~ and around
'ha wagon The wagon hurried into
Figh'h street Ls'ws"n Jersey avenue and
Fat Hamilton place and there the horses
stumbled over y Ird'" 81 nark lerch"-
which the strikers had piled up ~ antici-
patton - just such al attempt 90 "-caG''.
R.',r. the l.Pd"r- 80 the moi. had
r"a,r"d IN. wagon ~" horses w"r" h"lp"d
80 their feet by the mounted policemen
and 'he wagon ven ratilng through
'hr darkness down a side street and into
payonrA avenue witch leads 20 III" ferry
A. 10" express wagon slowed around
The corne. ~ KesO stree into the avenu"
the pol" struck the front ~ An Erie street
car. wrsnchng 'he fender from - plare
and smashing The windows ~ front Of the
mOtormaT
when tho driver was trying 10 nNtricats
his frightened team from the tangle ~
tender wires tho onslaught ~ tho mob
came again Thsy came 10 the number
u a thousand aud more. hlling the strOse