New-York tribune., 1912-01-16
TROOPS AWE MILL MOBS
AFTER DAY OF FIGHTING
Soldiers Meet MurderouS On
sIaughts Of Lawrence Strikers
with Bayonets and Bullets.
CITY NOW AN ARMED CAMP
Forty Attackers Injured, One
Fatally, and One Hundred
Are Under Arrest-More
Bloodshed Is Feared.
rev Tel.srsnh to The Tribune

Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 15.-Encircled
nv infantry and artillery and illuminated
bv huge searchights. the mill district
of Lawrence. from which great mob
Of wildly excited strikers we're driven
to-day at the point Of the bayonet. pre-
sents tonight a weirder spectacle than
this usual peaceful textile city has ever
witnessed. The horde Of strikers, most
Of whom are foreigners. have been
driven from the streets, temporarily
cowed by the drastic measures the
militia adopted at the first outbreak OF
violence to-day. More than thirty thou
sand operatives are now out Of work.
The tramp of soldiers is heard all
through the heart or the city as the
provost guards. which have been organ
lied to supplement the police patrols,
mass on their way. In all, seven COM
panies of infantry and one of artillery
commanded by Colonel f. Lorey
Sweetser. Of the Sth Regiment. are en-
camped here. Adiutant General Gardner
w. Pearson. head Of the Massachusetts
militia. is at the Lawrence Armory In
charge OF the situation.,
One Fatally Injured.
In cells at Police Headquarters are
more than one hundred strikers, VINO
wore summarily arrested and hauled
off to Police Headquarters. In the hos
pitaI are forty injured, some suffering
from bayonet wounds; others from being
hit with clubs or by flying billets OF
wood. one will probably die. The streets
are deserted except for soldiers or the
noIice or an occasional dying striker
whom the watchful guard has discov-
cred
In addition 10 the sOldiery already
hero. Governor FOss stands ready to
dispatch more at moments notice.
The Lawrence police force has been sup
nIementcd by police details sent from
BOSTON. Lowell and other Massachusetts
cities.
Rloodshed seems inevitable before the
sItuation clears The strikers are great
nob of sullen, foreign born operatives,
who hurl themselves with Old World
fatalism against the bayonets and other
weapons which oppose their frenzy
The mill district and city Hall were
both stormed by the strikers to-day. Al
tho civ Hall an infuriated. hooting
noh of six thousand gathered in front
of the main entrance. hurled chunks OF
ice across the street at the members of
Battery c. who were drawn up across
,be stens. brandished knives and finally
charged. The men were to have held
mass meeting at City Hal The violence
committed in the mill district earlier in
the day caused the permit 10 use the
building to be cancelled
The members of the battery were
armed with short clubs. These were
,,,oIded right and left while hurry
call for rcinforcements was sent to the
armory. A company of infantry was
so,t on the double quick, and, swinging
into the square. charged the mob with
fixed bayonets.
officer Slashed with Razor.
Lieutenant Buckle. Of Battery g. was
s,ashed in the cheek by man welding
razor The officer knocked his assail-
ant down with his sword, and afterward
took him to Police Headquarters. This
made the fourth arrest during the day.
and a special session OF the court was
called 10 deal with the cases
In the mill district the most serious
disturbance of the day was at the Lower
pacihc Mills. The charging crowd fired
at the police. and an exchange OF shots
followed after which the militia charged
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