The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-29
WAS ACTIVE
Beat Up Crowd Of Men With His
Monkey Wrench When They
Tried to Attack
Him.


front ranks under the protection Of
dozens of American flags, between ten
and fifteen thousand textile strikers pa
raded today. The demonstration was
intended as protest against the
refusal of the operators to treat with
the strike leaders and to impress the
townspeople with the determination
of the strikers.
Orders have been given to observe
the law, but when motorman forced
a trolley car containing non-union
workers and strikebreakers through
the line, a portion of the crowd lost
its temper, and an attack on the car
followed. Before the police could act
the windows Of sixteen trolley cars
had been smashed ,.nd their occu-
pants driven into the street. A
militia captain and the superintendent
of the street railway were baGly cut
about the face while half dozen
strikers were beaten by police and
seven arrested.
The militia did not .nterfere, but
guarded the bridges across the canal
leading to the mill district. The pa
raiders after marching to within 9
block of the bridges, sang the Mar
seillaise for several minutes ant
| proceeded home in orderly manner.
| Captain Campbell, of the militia
was badly cut about the face by II,
ing glass and David Bruce, superin
tendent of the Bay State Railwa.
Co., was seriously hurt by being hi
with piece of ice. Several strikers
who attacked John Plummer, who
they thought was strike breaker
were terribly beaten by him with 6
monkey wrench whi>n he used as &
club.
Before the police and soldiers got
command of the situation, sixteer
cars had been held up, the windows
smashed, and the occupants driven il
terror into the streets.
Several passengers were cut ant
bruised by flying glass and pieces O.
brick and stone hurled through the
car windows Some of the missiles
went wild and crashed through bis
plate glass store windows.
/ At no time did the militia leave itI
post about the millions of dollars
worth of mill property, to aid a mer'
handful of police in protecting proper
| ty of small property owners. Captain
! Sullivan was helpless with his squa'
of fifteen reserves.
The police grabbed seven men a
! the edge of the crowd and bore then
triumphantly to the station on tn
charge of intimidation.
The strikers formed in parade lin
at $50 on the common. With womel
and children leading and bearini
American flags, the workers marched
sing the Marseillaise. AS they pour
ed into Essex street. street ca
stopped. It was here the riotini
/ started In less than a moment tn
street was jammed, making even foo
passage impossible. The cry "Ther
are the scabs going to work starte
the attack on the street car and six
teen others which were stalled benin
it. After wild scene. the leader
quieted the frantic workmen who cor
tinued the parade in orderly manner.
Assessor Was Killed.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan 29.-On
man was killed and twenty seriousl
injured here today when runawa
4 street car tore down the steep inclin
through the Selby avenue tunnel an
crashed into loaded car severa
hundred feet below.
4 George d. Heatherington, deput
county assessor, is dead.
! Defective brakes caused the motol
man, Fred Swanson. whose legs wer
4 severed in the accident, to lose col
troll of the car. This car carried onl
its crew.
Further fatalities are expected, Sc,
eral of the injured at local hospital
being in precarious condition.