Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-05-17
ASKS FOR TROOPS
TO QUELL Street
CAR RIOTS
MAYOR OF CINCINNATI FINDS POLICE
UNABLE TO HANDLE STRIKERS
WHO SMASH CARS AND INIuRE
TRAVELLERS.
GOVERNOR RELUCTANT
TO CALL OUT MILITIA

Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1.-THE
street car situation is apparently be-
yond the control of the police. Mayor
Hunt today sent request to Governor
Cox and Adjutant General Wood for
militia.
Columbus. o. May 17-At l. o'clock
Governor Knox notified Mayor Hunt
O. Cincinnati that he did not think the
situation there at this time was suffi-
GENTLY serious to warrant the sending
OF troops.
Hurried appeals were sent this
morning to Governor Cox and Adju.
tant General Wood of Ohio, asking
that the militia be rushed to this city
to take charge of the strike situation
This means of protecting the opera
tions of the street cars was only re-
serted to by Mayor HenryT. Hunt, af
ter a series of assaults on cars that
We're not personally conducted by po-
lice, had taken place.
AS the result Of these attacks three
men are in the city hospital in dan
serous condition while more than a
dozen others were severely beaten.
Four cars were completely wrecked
and left standing in the streets and
the traction company has been forced
to abandon all efforts to operate cars
in the western section of the town,
while only few cars were TO be seen
running through the residence dist
riots of Avondale and Walnut Hills.
Two telephone requests for troops
sent by Mayor Hunt to Governor Cox
brought forth the information that the
governor was reluctant to take such a
stand. After the refusal of troops at
this time had been made by the gov
ernor, the mayor Immediately dispat-
ched a telegram to the adjutant gem
eral demanding troops and asking that
they be sent to the city hall here by
1e O'Clock tomorrow morning.
Probably the most spectacular dis
trrbance occurred in the center of the
city when a huge steel brace, bags of
cement and other missiles were hurled
from the upper floors of the Union
Central Life Insurance building. Some
of the cement came from higher than
the twenty ninth floor and several
pedestrians were bruised and cut. The
car was completely wrecked and left
in the street.
In Maids onville, where the cars |
were operated for the first time today, !
one of them was attacked, the crew
driven off into the woods and the men
who committed the assault took their |
time in dsmantling and wrecking the ,
car. Today, for the first time, the po- /
lice did not ride in the cars, but were /
stationed along all routes at intervals !
of every fifty feet. The traction COM
pany at noon suspended its attempt to
operate cars and all that were run
hing in the morning were called into /
their barns.
Mayor Could Act.
Following the receipt of the tele-
gram from the governor, the mayor
was notified that a ruling by Attor
ney General Hogan held that it was
in his power under the law to call
out all the militia in this county with /
out the sanction of the governor. +
Only three companies composed in all
of 145 men. are located here and the
mayor dismissed the suggestion that
he use these with the statement: :
This force would be entirely in
There was no resumption Of the
rioting during the afternoon after
The traction company ceased operat-
ing the cars.
Governor Rebukes Mayor.
Columbus, Ohio, May 17.-In re-
buking telegram to Mayor Hunt of
Cincinnati, Governor Cox shortly aft
er noon today refused to call out the