Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-23
Sympathetic Move Expected at Phil
ade| phia-- Only 500 Out Of the 1900
Cars Running More Rioting, Cas-
ua|tieS and Arrests Bitter Feeling.
THREE BOYS SHOT.

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Philadelphia, Feb. 22-Three BOYS
were shot and probably fatally in
jured, While several received less severe
wounds today il riots which followed
tie resumption of service by the Phil
ade!phia Rapid Transit Co. The shoot
ing occurred in attacks on cars in the
northern section.
Market street. the principal business
thOrcu9hfare in the heart of the city,
was the scene of disturbances during
the entire day. Cars were stoned and
two policemen were roughly handled
by MOB Of several thousand persons.
A dozen arrests We're made and the
prisoners placed in a trolley car. This
was stormed by the mob and two of
the prisoners cscaped
Preparations were made by the all
tnorii,s to call u: on the entire fo.ce
of the state militia if Tie notice tomor-
row arc still unable to cope with the
situation.
President Murphy of the Central La
Dor Union still regards q general strike
of all trade unions in the city as inev-
itahlc, although Organizer Pratt is re-
ported TO be opposing this movement.
\ Ceiegatcn Of labor leaders left for
WASH 5ton today to ask Senator Pen
rose to use his influence for a peace
! able solution of the trouble. Members
of the State Fencibles, an independent
military organization about 200 strong,
were placed on duty today armed with
loaded muskets. They were detailed in
| the Kcnngston mill district in the
northeast, which is a hotbed of union
y TN, hot Grc clxi ~,,oi Itch,
they We're badly beaten by g. mob. who
| paid no attention to the drawn bayo-
nets and snatched the muskets from
the hands of the young militiamen.
Members of the State Fencibles, ac-
cording to the mayor, acted as though
they We're on a picnic, allowing girls
| in the mill district to wear their caps
and cut the brass buttons off their
| clothing
| At one point a group of rioters cap
| tured member Of the Fencibles and
| carried him some hundred feet from
his post, where they stripped him Of
his coat, hat and cartridge belt and
| gun and threw them into a sewer.
The probably fatally injured boys are
John Hughes, Is, shot in the neck, and
John Walterstabb, aged Is. Both were
taken to a hospital. The former re-
ceived his injuries last late in the af-
ternOon, when mob attacked a car
| at Germantown avenue below West
| moreland street. The former was shot
| during a similar attack in the same
section of the city. W. E. Collins aged
| 81 years, was shot in the groin.
| Fifteen policemen quartered in the
rarn of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Co., at Ridge avenue and York
street narrowly escaped death tonight
when the entire northwest corner of
| the Building was blown away with
DYNAMITE. The explosion occurred just
as G. o. Pratt was about to address
| a meeting of car men at a hall at
Ridge avenue and Dauphin streets.
This building as we'll as others in
the vicinity was shaken by the shock
of the explosion. How the dynamite
was placed in the car barn is mys-
terry.
The state Fencibles after being har-
raised and beaten all day by mob
| of thousands Of strike sympathizers
| along Lehigh avenue were withdrawn
at nightfall. Policemen in this locality
were fired upon by a strike sympa-
thizer. who had concealed himself in a
church end they returned the fire, hit
ting w. f. Collins in the groin. Direc-
tor OF Public Safety Clay tonight said
| that should outside assistance be re-
CURED he would ask for the state con-
stabulary before calling for the state
militia.
Following a conference with Gov.
Stuart at the Union League this after
noon, Mayor Reyburn held a consulta-
ton with the heads Of the various city
departments and decided to prepare to
call on the governor for the entire
state militia in case the police tomor-
row find themselves unable to cope
with the rioters.
| The crucial point in the situation
promises to develop tomorrow. The
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. OFF,
Gals, it is understood, will attempt to
start their cars on regular schedule
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