Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-02-23
HIDING IN CHURCH;
|. FIRES ON OFFICERS
Rioting in Philadelphia Street
Railway Strike Still More
Alarming.
TWO HUNDRED SOLDIERS
ARE BEATEN BY MOB
One MiIitiaman is Captured and Strip
ped OF His Cartridge Belt and Gun
Three Boys Are Shot and Prob
ably Fatally wounded--Tro'iey
Barn is Oynamited.
6By Associated Press)

Three boys we've shot and probably
fatally injured, while several received
less severe wounds today in RIOTS
which followed the resumption Oh
service by the philadelphia RAPID
Transit Company. The shooting oc-
cured in attacks on cars in the north
eastern section.
Market street, the. principal Dust
ness thoroughfare, in the heart CT the
city was the scene OF d;stui Dances
during the entire day. Gals were
stoned and two policemen we're
roughly handled ly "a mob or several
thousand persons. A dozen arrests
wtreS made and the prisoners placed
in trolley car. This was stormed
by the mobs and two of the prisoners
escaped. r
Preparations were made by the au-
fhorities3 to call out the entire force
of the state militia If the police to-
morrew are still unable 10 cope Win
the situation.
Strike May be General.
President Murphy, of the Cents al
Labor Union. stilr regards generai
strike of all trade unions In the city
as inevitable, although Organizer
Pratt Is reported to be opposing this
move. A delegation of labor leade RS
left for Washington today 10 ask Sen
ator Penrose to use his inference for
a peaceable solution of the trouble.
Members Ct the State Fencibles, an
ipder endent military organization,
about 200 strong, were placed on duty
today. armed with loaded muske;s.
They were detailed in the Kenslpgton
mill district in the northeast. which
is hot bed of union sympathizers-
In their first skirmish they were bad
" teateu by mob which paid no
attention TO the drawn bayonets ana
snatched the muskets from the hands
of the young militiamen.
Members of the State Fencibies'
according to Mayor Reyburn. acted as
though they were on picnic. allowing
girls in the mill district 10 wear their
caps and cut the brass buttons on
the ir clothing. At one point a group
of rioters captured a member of the
Fencsrles and carried hkn several
hundred feet from his p~st, where
they stripped him Of his coat. hal
and cartridge belt and gun and threw
them into a sewer.
Boys Are Shot.
The probably fatally injured boys
are john Hughes, Is years old. shot
in the neck; John Walter, stab. aged
Is years. and w. E. Collins. aged ~,
shot IN the groin. They were taken
to a hospital. The former received his
Injuries late in the afternoon when q
mob attacked a car at Germantown
avenue. below westmoreland street,
while the other two boys were shot
during a similar attack in the same
sect:cn Of the city.
Fifteen policemen, CHARTERED IN the
barn OF the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
STA Company. at Ridge avenue and
York street. narrowly escaped death
tonight when the entire northwest
corner Of the building was blow away
with dynamite. The explosion oc-
cured tust as c. o. Pratt was a5cus
10 address a meeting of car men at
hall at Ridge avenue and Dsuphin
streets. This building. as well as 9TH
ers. in the vicinity was shaken D.
;he shock CT the expIosia1. How the
dynamite was placed in the car barn
Is a mystery.
Soldiers Poweriess-
The State Fencibles. after beng
haIassed and beaten eli day by a mob
OF thousands Of strike synFaihizers
alcuz LehIeh avenue. we're Withdrawn
AZ nightfsIL The militia had been
powerIes< agzins; me mob. but a hair
dozen mounted police had ridden mp
and Gown driving toe rioters before
them during the afternoon.
Only two cars we're rua on ihis
line during the Afternoon and both
were badly shatiered-by stones.
PrIlcs men IN this locality were Cred
upon = = strike synpathizeT who hsd
corcealed himself IN 81. eimon'z
church a. Lehieh sveaue ana Hitch
inson street. This euraged the guard