New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-24
Aged Pastor Stops
Ugly Attack on
kinkead'S S Car
PISTOLS DRAWN
AS AN ANSWER
Cache of Rifles Raided by
Detectives HaltS Assault
on Oil Plant.

Three Catholic priests walked un-
armed and unafraid through a yelling
mob Of strikers at Bayonne yesterday
afternoon, and by their influence
turned aside the human tide which
threatened to overwhelm Sheriff Kin
kead, Under Sheriff Clark and several
deputies.
A great crowd of maddened Poles
and Lithuanians had swept down upon
the Sheriff's car in East Twenty-second
Street. Stones were flying fast. and
the police sent from headquarters when
the riot call was turned in were un-
able to keep the mob at bay. Several
shots had been fred and the police
had drawn their revolvers, when Father
Andrew Eagan. of St. Mary's Church;
Father Edward J. Budraawiz, of st.
Michael's, and Father Felix Steelman,
of Mount Carmel. appeared.
Father Eagan is an old man. the
dean of the Bayonne clergy. There
was no sign of age in his voice as he
clambered to the railway embankment
and ordered the crowd to disperse. His
two associates mingled with the mob,
many of them members of the St.
Michael's and Mount Carmel congrega-
tions, begging them to keep calm, to
cease to use force.
Pastors Disperse Mob.
The heavy, dulled eyes Of Pole and
Lithuanian turned toward their pas
tors. Here and there a man crossed
himself. The rain of missiles slack
encd, then ceased and the packed
masses of the strikers began to with
draw before the pushes Of the police
surrounding the Sheriff's car. In lit
tie while the street was cleared, and
kinkead, who had, bareheaded and un-
armed, ventured into the mob and had
been surrounded, went on his way. The
priests left as quietly as they had
come.
Find Cache of Rifles.
A rumor that the strikers were arm
ing themselves for a general attack
upon the oil properties was confirmed
early this morning, when five detec-
tives of the Bayonne police, headed by
Acting Captain Wrigney, raided
Wvdosh's Hall. the rallying place of the
rioters. and brought away fifty Spring
field rifles and as many bayonets.
~ Vbp
Iolice swooped down upon the hall.
No one was there but the proprietor.
and he offered no resistance. The de-
tectives gathered up the arms, carried
them out to their machines and were
On the way back TO Police Headquarters
before any of the strikers realized
what had happened. The rifles are of
modern model and are in good condi-
tion. They were probably bought with
the war fund" which the oil employees
collected when they walked out
. Four deputies and five special guards
were injured by the strikers yester-
dav. For an hour in th1 afternoon
East Twenty-second Street vas the
battle-ground for the noisiest and most
vivid mob fight staged since the strike
bepan. That no one was killed Is due
TO the fact that the ammunition of the
strikers has been exhausted and no one
in Hudson County will furnish them
with any.
Sheriff Kinkead again appealed for
troops to Governor Fielder yesterday
afternoon. He talked with the Cover
nor over the telephone and told him
il was absolutely necessary to have
uniformed men on the scene 20 Quell
the riots. The Governor gave no def
mite answer -,
az told Governor Fielder" the Sheriff
said after his conference. that | was
prepared to stay here with my men TO
defend life and property as long as
was on my feet. | also described to
him exactly what happened here this
afternoon. If ! could get uniformed
men could 90 through week like
This without trouble. ! told the Gov
rrnor that if Jersey City and Hoboken
d;d not furnish US with sufficient uni
Continued on page Q. column