The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-25
STATE TROOPS ARE
HELD READY FOR
QUELLING THE RIOTS
SITUATION IN PHILADELPHIA BE.
COMES so SERIOUS MILITIA
is CALLED OUT.
MANY FIGHTS ARE RECORDED
Peliee are Charged With Being Too
Lenient With the Strike sympathlz.
srs-NearIy 1000 Cars Burned and
Destroyed.

street car strike situation became s
threatening late this afternoon tina
1.-THE officers of the Philadelphia militia
ry mpanies-infantry and calvary
were ordered to have their men read.
for riot calls at any moment tomorrow
This action followed lot of stree
riots in various parts of the city today
Cars were blown in two and woodwork
was scattered by heavy charges of dy
Mantle. other cars were partially
burned before fire engines could reach
the scene The windows in hundreds
of cars were broken with sticks and
clubs in the hands of angry strike
sympathizers.
The list of injured is long one, and
/ includes policemen who were riding
/ on the cars, motormen, conductors
and rioters. The list of injured in the
hands of the police is by no means
complete, as injured rioters were help
ed to cover before the police could
get to them
The most important move made by
the authorities was the arrest of G. o.
Pratt, the union organizer, who is lead
ing the striking car men. He was ar
rested by four detectives as he finish.
ed his dinner in a cafe. The charge
is melting to riot and the police so ar
ranged it that he will be unable to Sc
cure bail and compelled him to spend
the night in a cell in the city hall.
AS he was hauled off to Jail he turned
the strike leadership over to John ].
Murphy, President of the Central La
Dor Union. Murphy promises to call |
a general strike if the street car COM |
pany continues to bring professional
strike breakers.
He declared that $500 car men are
low out.
The Pennsylvania state constables,
IN independent military organization,
700 strong, was sworn in for strike
luty tonight. They will be on the
treets tomorrow in uniform and arm
ID with rifles and bayonets.
An outbreak occurred in the mill
ection, in the northeastern part OF the
ity A car was burned after beating
he motorman and conductor so bad
hat they had to be take !, the hos
ital. The motorman's skull is said
D be fractured
George Feltknap, a nurse in the
riends Asylum was badly injured in
rush to escape the police at Eigh-
zenith and Poplar streets. He was
lken to the Homeopathic Hospital
Catherine Conway, aged II and Mary
1halen, aged H. were hit with bricks q
lille watching the demolition of car y
west Philadelphia At the Presby-
ere both suffering from fractured n
lulls. .
Mary owen, IL years old, was pas
niger on Tenth street car, which
ddenly ran into hail of bricks. She
as struck on the head and lay on
e car floor until the wrecking of the
r was complete. She was carried ht
her home in a serious condition. ca
A man charged with robbing jew ly
ry store was being arrested this af- dc
rnoon when strike sympathizers a
ok him from the officers. He start ca
on dash for liberty, but the po- pl
emen brought him down with bull -
in the leg. -
Believing that the police were too
lient with the strike sympathizers
their home districts, Superintend-
of Public Safety Clay ordered gen.
Il transfers. All the police in sew
II precincts were ordered to change
ces.
Che strikers held big mass meet
!, in Labor lyceum hall at / O'Clock.
e police lid not attempt to interfere
n the meeting, but prevented a pa
~ I'll Ou5u LIE UuSlueSS section al
ward.
'he meeting was the cause of sew
j riots. Forty police charged 500
lalgamated union conductors who =
re marching to the hall. They
Ike up the parade because no per-
had been secured and forced the
ikers to lower the American flag
ich they were carrying.
he labor hall was soon filed to the
RS. The overflow tore up the sew
and piled them on the car
cks. When several cars were STALL
they broke the windows with bricks
other missiles and drove the car
ratiyes to cover. The police finally
1ersed the mob.
everal cars were stalled on Mar
street just below Twelfth, when
lie boys pulled OFF the trolly poles.