Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-16

| peace. captain ikdHuiett Oh ~ l. ~
the Sth Regiment had to order 2 bay
| onet charge in which Two persons We're
50 badly hurt ny the bayonet points
| that they had 10 be taken to the hos
pita!.
| During this time disorders We're In
| progress within the lower Pacific mill
and 2S foreign mill bands who were
making trouble there were arrested
ard handcuffed together They made
some resistance. but We're brought to
| Tire police station in an automobile in
custody Of the militiamen. At the sta
| ton . small-sized arsenal of weapons,
| including revolvers. knives and clubs
was found in their possession. AL
| though it appeared that the disorders
| had ceased at 1870 A. NJ, the city Of
fcials communicated with Adjutant
General Gardner ". Pearson at Low
| ell, ana he promised to send as soon
| as possible several companies of mi
| litia from Lowell or elsewhere. Ar
rangemnnts were also made to bring
| here 200 policemen from Boston and
nearby cities.
The miltiamen of Co. F. of the 9th
/ Regiment and Co. l. OF the Sth, to-
eather with Battery c, Light Artillery,
| were detailed to patrol duty about the
mill district. The regimental men
were armed with mHskets and ball
shot hut the artillerymen came only
with clubs
The most serious of the mornings
disorders were efforts on the part o.
the strikers to rush through the doors
at the Wood and Prospect mills. The
attempts at both places were repulsed
BY the police of whom more than 200
were on duty. They found it neces-
sarv to use their clubs on several of
the leaders at the Prospect mills and
made arrests at both places.
The greatest crowd gathered at the
Wood miil of the American Wooden
Co. before the hour of opening. Pick
cts We're on duty as early as . O'Clock,
this morning, TO prevent operatives
from entering the mills. Force was
often used and women and children
were roughly handled when they in
sisted on going to their work. Abont
1000 hands got to their places in the
mill only to be met there by other
strikers. who, having eVaded the po-
lice and watchmcn, brandished clubs
in an effort to force the operatives
out. These agitators had their way
until the mills We're closed down,
shortly after : o'clock Meanwhile the
crowd of strikers elamoring at the
mill gates made two attempts To
storm the doors which had been
closed against them. Several OF the
mon were able to enter the mills and
were Immediately arrested. one oil
these men gave his name as Santo
Fagaro of Common street. When the
Wood mill was closed the strike sym
ma thiZers went to the Prospect mills
and there dashed at the gates which
had been closed against them. They
assumed q more belligerent ATTITUDE
and resisted strenuously the attempts
of the police TO force them PACK.
NincenZo I.amaresto, % years old, the
notice saw. was one Of the most vio-
lent in the crowd and he was placed
under arrest charged with assault.
state Officer Flynn. who took him IN
TO custody, searched him and found
a 3S-calibre revolver with an anlnu-
milton belt containing - cartridges.
n long dirk knife in one pocket ana
a stiletto in another. When Marshal
O'Sullivan arrived at the prospect
mill during this outbreak, strike SYM
pathizers cut the tires of the auto
mobile in which he came.
Another crowd of over thousand
gathered at the Washington mill. early
in the morning They crowded the
bridge leading to the mills across the
canal and had several minor scrim-
ma ges with the police. But the heavy
snow storm apparently Quoted the
men and most of them dispersed about
L. n !, homes
TO which some of the calmer leaders
had cautioned them to go. they ran
into a disturbance at the lower Pa
| cific mills. Here a small body of
more violently inclined strike sym
pathizers had worked themselves into
a fighting mood and had just emerged
from one assault on the mill gates
when the Washington crowd arrived.
Soon all was in an uproar. The crowd
raided coal cars on a siding and seiz-
ing the chunks of coal bombarded the
windows of the lower Pacific weave
shed. on both the canal and Methuen
street sides the wind panes We're
shattered. Some of the operatives in
| side were hurt but not seriously The
police then charged the mob and fired
a number of shots in the air. The
men were not affected and orders were
then given to turn on the water in the
mill hose. This had better effect
and the disorder subsidized
The situation at the lower Pacific
mills became so strained at $50 o'clock
that it was decided that the assistance
of the militia was needed According
ly Co. l. of the Sth Regiment and Co.
f. of the 9th We're ordered out for SER
vice and the riot act was read. Co.
+ took up a station at one of the en-
! frances of the lower Pacific mills while
half dozen lines of hose was kept
in service at the other. Co. l. under
Captain Randlett lined up on the
north bank of the canal where n
thousand persons had congregated
+, Captain Randletts orders to the
crowd to dispense wera not immedi-
ately obeyed and he ordered the half
a hundred militiamen to charge with
lbayonets set, he brandishing a re-
Evolver which he pushed into the faces
',of a number of persons. The bayo-