New-York tribune., 1910-02-21
PHILADELPHIA In
GRIP OF RIOTERS
THO WOMEN SHOT
IND MANY HURT.
Police Make 800 .1rrests and
the MayOr ProcIdims Riot
-1ct-No Cars at Night.


Passengers and crews were driven
from the cars by infuriated mobs Of
strike sympathizers. and. in nearly q
score of instances the abandoned cars
were burned or otherwise destroyed At
nightfaIl every car was Withdrawn from
service.
Stern measures We're adopted by the
police TO quell the disorders. and nearly
five hundred persons were arrested.
charged with melting to riot. Two
women. a policeman and boy were hit
by stray bullets and thirty other persons
were removed to hospitals
Mayor Reyburn tonight ordered the
Director of Police. Mr.. Clay. to swear in
three thousand additional police and is
sued a proclamation enforcing the riot
act.
The executive committee of the Cen
trail Labor Union. at meeting this af
ternoon, pledged both moral and finan
cial support to the striking car men,
They also decided to call a syrnpa athletic
strike of every union man in the city in
case the authorities put in effect their
threat to operate the cars with police
men and firemen.
Durin., the morning hours cars were
run on every line with little difficulty
except in the mill district of kensing-
ton, where they were stoned by mobs.
At II o'clock the transit company off,
cials announced that cars were running
on their regular Sunday schedule short
ly aftervard riots were reported from
scores of widely separated localities
SHOT BY STRAY BULLET
Al 18th and Wharton streets, in the
southern section of the city. mob Of
boys drove the conductor and rhotorman
from their posts. and after the four
women passengers had left the car set
il on fire with waste taken from a near
by freight car. The following car was
also stopped and was being set on fire
when a detachment of police and a
chemical engine reached the scene In
this same section Mary Devlin. sixteen
years old. was shot in the leg when the
police fired their revoIvers in an effort
to check the mob
In the usually quiet residential section
of West Philadelphia mobs we're formed
bars and stones were piled on the tracks
and several cars were wrecked Mounted
police We're powerles5 10 disperse the
mobs here and fire hose was finally
brought into play
Contradictory assertions are made By
the opposing forces as 10 the number
of men on strike The leaders of the
Anna lzamated Association of street and
Electric Railroad Employees say that
s 300 of the 1900 employees of the tran
sit company have left their cars The
officials of the company say that 5000
of their employees are loyal and that
regular service will he resumed ar day
break tomorrow
The importation of 1I5 strike breakers
from New York led TO an attack on the
barns and main offices of the company.
at Sth and Dauphin streets. this after
noon. Windows were broken by stones
hurled by the mob. which was finally
dispersed after twenty-five arrests had
been made
The most seriously injured person IN
to-day's rioting was thirteen-year-
Viola Beavan. who was shot in the abdo-
men by stray bullet from a policeman's
revolver as she was stepping from her
home at No 929 North 18th street whils
a mob was attacking five trolley cars in
front of the house.
George Feltsaup. twenty-five years
old. nurse in the Friends Asylum. was
also struck by stray bullet while has
tening to a train. His condition IS not
regarded as critical
RIOTERS WRECK 29T CARS.
The transit officials state that 291 cars
we're wrecked, two completely burned
and one partly burned by the mobs to-
day. Two thousand. six hundred and
eight car windows were smashed. The
officials of the company charge that tbs
rioting was directed by union men. and
was the result of a plot 10 intlmidats
the Ioval motormeu and conductors
They say that all their lines except those
in the northeastern section OF the city.
where the rioting was the most severe.
will be in operation tomorrow
The union leaders say they VIII force
the company TO arbitrate. They charge
that the company for months. by a
series OF petty RciSCOUttbiA@t 4AN'N
endeavoring to force the union to strike
and finally. by discharging a large num-
her of union men, practically declared a
lockout.
Wonderful attention TO details was
shown by those engaged in wreckins and
burning the cars. Before the ear was
burned at 26th and Wharton streets.
freight car on nearby siding was
forced across the street to block the pos
sible arrival of fire engines The pins
were Withdrawn from the car wheels.
and every possible precautiOn was taken
to prevent the moving of the car after
the torch had been applied TO the cotton
waste with which il had been filled.
Before the car at Fifth and Somerset
streets was set on fire it was raised from
the tracks With stone blocks.
MUCH BITTERNESS SHOWN
The strikers and their sympathizers
are displaying more bitterness against
the company than at any time during
the strike OF last summer At no time
during the former strike was the riotins
so widespread nor were there as many
persons engaged in attacking the cars
Unlike the previous strike, men with
union buttons were found in the mobs
everywhere, and they are charged with
being ths rinSIeaderS in manu- - ,n.