The evening world., 1913-05-01
POLICEMEN SHOOT
AS STRIKERS KNOCK
THREE Off HORSES
Bullet Drops One Rioter as
Stones Pelt Mounted
Officers.
CHARGE ROUTS OTHERS.
Pitched Battle Follows When
Railroad Laborers Quit
in Jamaica.
CHARGE ROUTS OTHERS.

ITALIAN iaborers on the Long leland
Railroad Improvement WORK IN Rich.
mend Hiil to-day Mounted Police Ser.
geant Albert Koissn was thrown from
6is horse and had his shoulder disio-
Gated: Mounted Policeman Albert Her
Ter wss knocked unconscious with .
stone after he had been dragged from
his horse and kicked. and Mounted Po-
hceman Joseph Probst was hit by .
stone which knocked him out Of the
saddle. Kolsen and Herter are In St
Mary's Hospital. Jamaica.
One OF the iaborers was shot In the
isg By Hsrter. With ave other men
this man was taken prisoner when Cap
tain Duifsr Of tho Richmond HIN Sta
tion arrived. He and additional men
rushed from the Jamaica station and
charged tho rioters with drawn rsvol-
vees.
Organisers Of the Laborers' Interna-
tionai Union who have been working
among railroad and agricultural and
contractors workers all through New
Rne,and lately arc believed to have
stirred up the men to the strike they
Aselarsd to-day.
oTNlkGRe MEET POLICE WITH
oToNGs.
without notice they demanded an In
ersass Of wasss from s1.7S to = day.
rhe evpsrintendent told them he would
have 70 consult with higher esncia1s Of
the road. The men refused TO 90 70
vork and were discharged.
me iaSorers, 5esrans and shouting end
some OF them hshtinG among thsm.
aeavss. marched "a Jana$oA avenue ana
heeAod for females.
a raiirood foreman tsisphonsd 20 the
R,cAmonA hin statloa that the crowd
80 vsay anA might make serious
trouble. Lieutenant Mason. WHO got ths
nessaSs. put his head out Of the window
ana stoppsd Sergeant Kolssn. who wa
leaving for drill at Morris Park With
ove other mosntsd men. without their
clubs. but With their rsvoivsrs In their
holstsrs, the six men wtirisd about and
T. raced out Jamaica avenue
They caught the strikers at 0peuos
0trsat. nuusbsr Of othsr policesnsa
followed them on foot. - fast - they
ssuid run. The mounted men were met
N Q volisy Of stones. some Of wAioil
Vers ~ big - . mans two fsts.
Xolssn's horse was hit on the head
With Q stone and dropped 10 ~ knees
I1s went over the animals head and x
soeslvsd his injury.
poltcG ARE oRogNgo 70
oHooT TO KILL.
Members Of the mob caught Hertsr't
Duttss wrapped right ieg and draggs,
I'm = Sns ground. A. he fell he whippst
~ revolver out and began shooting
0as MAJ dropped and several other
were helped away. limping. ~ thsil
ceupanions. Probst was struck on tn,
side 6 the head With . stone.
me scene q the hght 10 about half ,
niis wsat Of the Jamaica station, an,
Cap&. Dulfsr and his reinforcsments ver
On hanA Utmost before the first charx
was over.
oct out your guns. men," shoute,
psifsr. ''and KIN every man with q roc
p his hand or who refuses to run"
o0TeHe AHg oHlePGo AWAY
ON TRAINS.
3oers was great scurrying. Standin
- In the light runabout with which a
covsss the territory OF his precinct. Cap
tain Dulfsr dashed back and fort
through the crowd. picking out me
Who seemed to him to DO leaders an
ordsring their arrest. Six prisoner
we're taken. including the man shot b
Hertsr.
Under the Captains direction Il
strtksrs were herded apart in souat
e from thirty to hundred and wei
arivsn to divergiug trolley lines m
70 the Richmond HIN. Dunton and No
rts Park stations. where they wei
driven aboard trains with orders to col
ductors to carry them ~ far a. tn,
liked and the Farther the better.