Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-14

teen windows were smashed. A
drunken man who proclaimed in
front of the mob that he worked for
"Guggies" was set upon at $50
o'clock and admonished for iSs
wrongs. He was frightfully beaten
and, undoubtedly would have been
killed, but the movable searchlights
came upon the trouble and ril1emen
scattered the group with two shots.
The injured man was dragged by
friends towards Maurer.
Chief Egineer Frnk Comings, who
took Office June l, attended his first
fire as chief in answering the alarm
from box So. He succeeded in reach
in the scene of the blaze without be-
ing injured and this he attributes to
the speed with which he was travelling,
claiming the strikers did not have a
chance to hit him.
Excitement Intense,
Excitement was intense when the
waiting shanty was burning, the fire
companies arrived and strikers were
stoning the A. s. & r. plant. The
flames were extinguished amid protests
from the strikers and as soon as the
fire company had departed the enraged
men turned over the shed and set fire
to it again. The strikers and thousands
of people stood about the glowing fire
and many cheered. AS the flames
were burning briskly and became visi-
bic for some distance there rang out a
dozen shots from rifles of the guards
in the A. S. & r. plant. There fol-
lowed the widest kind of excitement
as the multitude scattered. A major
ity of the men, women and children
ran towards the main portion of the
city and in the crush many fell and
were tramplcd upon. Several were
bruised and scratched, but from all
reports no one was csriOusly lAjuted.
Crowd Scattered.
The crowd remained scattered
throughout the night and much OF the
damage that followed was caused by
boys inspired by the riotous attitude
of the strikers. Boys set, fire to the
United Lead Works waitign hsanty
There were no officers on hand to stop
them. 1t was boys who took a hanG
with some of the strikers in stoning
trolley cars and a number of the young
/, cuIprits found pleasure in setting fire
to three sign boards lust north of the
Wv IdlTOdu tower.
| About score of drink-crazed A. s.
& r strikers returned to the plant
about 2 o'clock this morning and at
tempted to fire the the southerly end
of the high board fence surrounding
| the works. Two shots frightened them
away and no further attempts were
made to destroy the property until this
morning.
Gadek feared last night that his
| house would be attacked, as the moi
Graves for liquor as strongly as 8
man can. The saloon Is closed
| Gadek, armed with a shotgun, held
vigil all night long IN his window
and offered to shoot the first mar
who attempted to burn his home OF
the lumber piles in his yard. For G
! little amusement, perhaps, the mol
swarmed all over the Central rail
road tracks early in the evening an(
| tagged a freight train. 1t was final
| ly allowed to pass after the engineer
and crew were threatened by the ex
cited throng.
No trolley cars were run through
the scene of the A. s. & r. strike
| from about 10 to II o'clock las
night and most of a crowd of merry
makers at Boynton Beach at Sewar
en- walked to their homes in this
city. Cars were not stoned after
II o'clock.
Full details will he found in the
regular edition this afternon.