The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-09
Two Regiments Ordered
Out to Quell Riot
ing.
DOZEN INSTANCES
OF GUN BATTLES
Hospitals in City Are Filled With
Injured as Result of Fighting,
and Railroad Company Ad-
mits That No Less Than
400 Cars Have Been
Wrecked.
Especial 20 Tho Times-Dispatch.1


Buffalo. y. Y, April S--After day
of disorder. In which scores were in
jurcd and which continued tonight.
the Sixty and Seventy fourth
Regiments OF the National Guard were
ordered out at II L. NJ TO auell riot :
ing between strikers and their sym
pathiZers and strike breakers. The
Third Regiment has also been ordered
under arms. and it, together with Troop
J OF the First Cavalry. will be called
upon tomorrow, should the present
military force lie unable to cope with
the turbulence that has run rife here
since Monday morning. The hospitals
are filled with injured, as a result Of
the hghting. and the railroad company
admitted tonight that no less than 400
cars had been wrecked since their men
went on strike. The two regiments or
dered out tonight were sent to Forest
Avenue, where a mob was threatening
serious damage.
To-day's rioting was not confined
TO any particular part of the city 30
sooner would the police reserves Quell
a. disturbance at one spot than 2 riot
call came In from sormc other sec
ton. Several times fire alarms were
also turned in and the arrival of the
apparatus would aid in scattering the
mobs.
Surrounded ny Strike Rraek-rs.
The sound of the firing echoed
through the city streets at intervals
all day. The first bloodshcd came when
mob Of sHmpathizers surrounded a
car AT Walden Avenue and I.atour
street. IL was full of strikebreakcrs
1t was quickly surrounded BY the teer-
ing. hootinG throng. and stones We're
fired through the windows
strikebreaker drew a revolver and
fred. Francis Murphy, thirteen years
2 nj fnl1 10 b.
in his groin. lie is dying in the E,ner-
gency Hospital. The crowd then total
ly wrecked the car and the strike
breakers fled. \ short time later there
was battle between strikers and
strlkeoreakers in which stanley
obcrne was shot through the jaw.
There were dozen other instances OF
gun battles. but none was seriously
hurt The hospitals. however. are filled
with men who fell under the terrible
Onslaught oi night sticks OF The police,
welded during the days disorders. a
gang of strikers attacked two Seneca
street cars at Bailey Avenue. a voIley
OF missiles greeted them. The green
motorman OF the second car ducked.
/ and his car crashed into the one ahead.
( That Jumped the tracks and ran down
stephen Mayors, twenty-six Years old.
brick struck John Terry. OF New
York, a strkebreaiser running one OF
he VIII die
While dispensing n crowd at Broad
way and Young Avenue. Patrolman n
Hastings was shot through the arm.
Iirondway IL Storm Centre.
broadway was the storm centre to-
day. Ten thousand people lined that
I thoroughfare and attacked every car
that came through. After Il dozen cars
had been wrecked and the crews in
( lured, the company late this afternoon
abandoned efforts TO run cars on that
line and concentrated all their efforts
TO Keeping the Main street line open.
Then for two hours rioting ragged along
Main Street.
The result was usually the same a
inon would surround car. smash the
windows and pull the strikcbreakers
OH The police reserves would dash
III on gallop, heavy sticks wouie
crack over the heads OF the attackers,
and in few minutes the ambulance
would pull up and carry off the uncon =
scious and wounded. That scene was
repeated at intervals all along the
street. and finally the situation became
so alarming that when darkness be-
gan 10 settle over the city the COM
pany gave up all efforts. and not a
wheel stirred in the city tonight
president Connote. of the Interna-
ional Hallway Company, stated that
over 400 cars have been wrecked.
i'up.
close guard is being kept on all
the car barns, 800 more officers being
sworn in tonight for that purpose.
Dynamite was found under the Forest
Avenue barns, and in several places
on the tracks. Explosions have been
avcrtcd however.
Attack ON Chief
An attack was made on Chief Recan
as he was responding TO 4 riot call
tonight. y fusillade of bullets struck
ms auto two of them passing through
| the Top OF the car. The auto was
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