The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-09-29
HALT ORDER GIVEN
But WAS D|SOBEYED
MAYOR AND POLICE PoWERLEss
TO COPE WITH STRIKING
RIO RS.
MARTIAL LAW NOW PREVAILS
Captains Henderson and uowitt oi
Militia Companies Under Arrest for
Order Resulting in Shooting te
Death of Two Citizens.
MARTIAL LAW NOW PREVAILS


prevailed here today as a result OF
feellng aroused by the state militia
last n4gnt when TWO citizens were
shot ana killed and one wounded by
guardsmen In connection with the
strike of the employees of the Angus
ta-Aiken Railway and Electric Cor
poration. Business is at standstill
and a sympathetic strike is imminent.
Five companies of state troops are
on duty here today. The fifth COM
pany arrived from Waynesboro early
today and were placed on guard duty
around the local power plant of the
company. 1t was in this territory,
which embraces Fifteenth street, that
the dead line was established by the
militia last night and in which the
shooting of the three persons occur
red. AAs
Col. M. j. O'Leary of the State
Guard, arrived here early today from
Savannah in an automobile. Together
with Adjutant General Obear he as
sS.ned Immediate charge of the sit
uation.
The dispatch of officers and addi-
tional guardsmen here was made by
Governor Brown late last night when
he was notified at his home in Mari
eta, near Atlanta, that the situation
was critical here He Immediately is
sued a proclamation declaring the
city to be in state of insurrection
and proclaiming martial law.
TWO Business Men Killed.
Alfred Dorm and Robert Christie,
who we're killed, and Ben F. Baker,
who was wounded, a.'e business men
here and are not employees of the
railway company. Christie was driving
an automobile, and the other two
were in a buggy when they entered
the dead line territory. 1t is said they
were in ignorance of the militia order.
Baker and Dorm whipped up their
horse when ordered to stop by a
guard. 1t is not known whether Chris
tie heard the order to halt. Baker
will recover.
Would Use Dynamite.
Not until te early hours of today
did the city become quiet. Angry
strikers and their sympathizers as
serted their intention of trying to
rush the militia guard line and reach
the power plant with the intention Of
dynamiting it. 1t was rumor that
this would be tried, that led the mill
tia to establish the dead line last
night. Leaders of the strike pleaded
with the men to go to their homes
and not attempt violence and finally
the crowds of workers dispersed for
the night
The immediate cause of the strike
is the objection of the employees to
certain rules of the company. The
strike leaders assert that the COM
pany is attempting to destroy the en-
ployes' union.
Augustans seem stunned by the mo-
mentous and most deplorable events
Of the past six days. The street rail-
way strike was declared Monday
evening and ever since there has
been decentralization. Business has
been practically at standstill and
the people have not known at one
hour what to expect the next, There
have been labor meetings at which
speeches of a nature calculated rather
10 encourage than to keep down dis
order have been made, and right now
a sympathetic strike is threatened,but
the entire strike situation has paled
into insignifcance in comparison with
the most unfortunate shooting OF sew
eral citizens by the military yester-
day afternoon.
Fatal Dead Line.
The death toll amounts to two,with
another in a serious condition The
shooting occurred when the citizens,
ignorant Of the fact that Fifteenth
street was to be closed to traffic, ig-
norast also that a command to halt
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