The Montgomery tribune., 1910-02-25
Forty Rioters Injured.


Philadelphia.-The ATTEMPTED lynch
ing of motorman by mob in Ken
sington shortly after noon Monday
resulted in the injuring of 40 rioters
by police, who rode down the moi
In answer to two riot calls.
Sympathizers, angered by the i'm.
portation of strikebreakers, attacked
a car at the corner of. Kensington
avenue and d street, dragged the mo.
torman and conductor from their
posts and pulled the four policemen.
guarding them, off the car.
While a number held tho officers,
| others ran the motorman to a lamp
post, threw a rope around his neck
| and were on the point OF lynching
him when he was rescued by Mount
ed Police Lieutenant Sykes. Beaten
until he was hardly able to stand,
the motorman pleaded with the mob
to spare his life. Sykes, in answer to
the first riot call, came dashing
around the corner, charged his horse
directly into the crowd and swept it
back.
Police Lieutenant Saves Him.
Grabbing the motorman as he
swept by, he dragged him several
hundred feet with clutch on his
coat collar and then hurled him safe
ly into a cigar store.
The motorman, seriously injured,
was afterward taken to a hospital.
The crowd then attacked the con-
ductor, dragged him to the sidewalk
and trampled him into unconscious
ness. He, too, was removed to hos
pital.
The rioters then attacked the car
and wrecked it. BY this time the
second riot call had been sounded
and reserves swooped down on the
mob, injuring 40 of them, 3 of whom
are said to be seriously hurt. Twen-
ty arrests were made.
Realizing the futility of attempting
to run cars through this section of
the city, the transit company has or
dered all the cars running from the
Frankfort barns off the streets.
Patrons Feared Bullets.
A drizzling rain, carried through
the streets by brisk wind, made
walking most uncomfortable, but
many walked to their work rather
than face the chance of stopping a
brick or bullet by patronizing the
cars. Vehicles Of all descriptions are
persons to and from
their work and team owners are reap
Ing harvest, but are unable to take
care Of more than an infinitesimal
part of the traffic.
Mondays rioting began with an at
tack on a car at Kensington and Le-
high avenues, where mob using
bricks and cobblestones broke every |
in the car. The car, manned |
by four policemen protecting the
crew, carried no passengers. The
police charged the crowd, which dis
persed without further trouble.
Policemen Run Cars.
The police are being criticised be-
cause Of the fact that on the Lam
caster avenue division policemen are
the cars with the non-union
notormen hidden in the doorways of
AAS ~oicb eOAiih6 tuCHl uOW 10 10 IT,. |
AS an evidence of Sunday nights
ioting, it is said by the company
hat 297 Of it's care were damaged
md that many will have to be re-
'uilt before being restored to SER
ice.
The big danger is of a general
trike. The local federated union
las intimated that If it is shown that
general strike of all union men will
I'D the workers in winning their
lght, 1t will be ordered. If called, it
viii precipitate the most bitter labor
truggle since the strike of 1877. f,
During Sunday nights rioting, 20 h
olicemen and over 80 citizens were
njured. Over a hundred arrests
'ere made.