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POLICE STAMPEDE
CROWD OF 10000
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nearest side street. The plan was car
ried out ruthlessly.
Encounters Are Numerous.
Street by street details of police ham
mered the crowds off the public highways.
There was a long series of encounters.
Men darted out OF the fighting holding
their hands TO their heads. Often the
hands were dripping blood The women
were seen TO claw at the faces OF the
bluecoats and hurl shoes. When they re-
! fused TO be driven they were knocked
down. II was not at all uncommon TO
see woman pick herself up clutching
at her head.
There was never a moment when the
police hesitated. They were told to smash
the mob. and they carried out orders.
All the time the crowds were getting
thicker Steadily the re-enfercements of
the city police grew. until Broad street.
from Ridge avenue 10 Green street. was
jammed. Ridge avenue was throbbing;
Thirteenth street was congested. Green
street was crowded, and still the labor
hosts lodged and fell and fed. while
frenzied cops took a firmer grasp on their
sticks and battered away
Supt. Taylor ordered a raft Of his men
to Spring Garden street. He stood In
the middle OF Broad street and motioned
the police toward the oncoming groups.
Throughout all the clubbing not a shot
was fred by the strikers or their friends.
Occasionally the police shot over the
heads of the crowd as a warning. Block
by block the mob was split apart and
the sections beaten into submission.
Worst of the Battles.
When Broad and Green streets were
reached there must have been about 5000
persons left IN the labor column. Here
was the last of the encounters. It was
also the worst. Details from stations
near by were rushed to the scene on
horses and In automobiles. Fifty mount
ed cops galloped up Broad street from
the City Hall. And right IN front OF the
Central High School the final movement
of the police. which was successful in
destroying the integrity of the crowd,
took place. It was simply an onslaught.
There was no attempt by the men and
women 70 fight back. For ten minutes
1t was a wild scene. When ii was over
only scattered hundreds remained upon
the street. The rest had fed into the
side streets. Once detached from the
main body, the police kept them moving
AS the hands OF the City Hall clock
pointed 10 the trouble was over.
For the most part, the victims of po-
licemen's clubs were taken away by
friends. Some were sent TO hospitals
Until the crowd had been finally scat
tered. the police made few arrests Then
loiterers were gathered IN and sent to
the city hall.
Wait for Demonstration In Vain.
Around the city hail while the fighting
was fercest northward in Broad street
there were at least 10.000 people waiting
excitedly for the union laborites TO ap-
pear and make their demonstration. But
the unions did not reach the city hall.
The police headed them OF and shunted
them into side streets
There IS not the slightest indication
that q settlement is in sight. and the
struggle appears 10 be resolving itself
Into a long lockout. No amount OF per
suation or threats Will have any effect
on the directors OF the Rapid Transit
Company. They are running more cars
than ever before. and they are hiring
new men rapidly. They have 400 at
work now
The fighting to-day Is sufficient indl- |
cation of the temper of the city officials !
They are against arbitration The |
mayor says that he can whip mobs with |
his police force. But there is a good |
deal Of feeling that the presence Of the |
National Guard would prevent the for
nation OF the mobs.