Evening journal., 1915-07-21
striker IS killed
IN BAYONNE R|OTING
Workers Open Fire on Police
Inspector With Fatal
Result
MAY CALL MILITIA
TO END TROUBLE
BY The United Press.

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BAYONNE, n. j., July 21.-As the
result OF one striker being killed and
scores OF others injured by shots and
stones during rioting in front of the
Standard Oil Company and Tidewater
Oil Company plants at Constable
Hook this morning. IL was expected
this afternoon that unless the 200
deputies which Sheriff Kinkead is
swearing in are able to help the police
cope with the situation. it will be
necessary to call out the National
Guard.
First Assistant Prosecutor George
I. Vickers, who is also Lieutenant
colonel OF the Fourth Regiment, came
TO Bayonne shortly after IL o'clock.
He declared that the situation was 50
bad that he fears il may be necessary
TO have the militia end the trouble.
Sheriff Kinkead after receiving a
request from Mayor Garven for the
two hundred special deputies, came
here to look over the field for him
self. He is endeavoring 10 quiet the
men himself and get them to quit
| their disorder and return to work
This Is the FIRST strike Of any seri-
Gus proportions which has occurred
/ In this city in forty years. Every
member OF the police department has
been assigned TO duty in the strike
district. Deputies will be placed on
! their beats in other portions OF the
city. This mornings riot, which oc-
! CURED shortly before o'clock, started
when Inspector Daniel Cady returned
to the scene. At the sight Of him, 500
wild-eyed strikers charged on the ris
/ in which he was driving Shots we're
exchanged by the strikers and the in
spector His horse was shot in the lett
side
Cadv leaped from his carriage 4
dozen other policemen ran TO his assist
ance. All backed up against the mgr
concrete wall which runs along th'
outer walls Of the Standard Oil Com
psny's barrel factory. The policemen
beasn 70 blaze away at the mob o
strikers. who retired to the other sid
Of the street. A shot from one of the
policemen's revolvers struck NJ. Storna
ohik i'm the head He dropped to th'
ground and was later rushed to the hos
pitai. where he died three minutes afte
being admitted.
Fifty deputies went to the aid OF tn
polioemen. None Of the deputies car
ried pistols. Mayor Garven would no
permit them TO have guns after the oc
currences during the Roosevelt strik
several months ago They, howver, car
ried night sticks, which they used I
good advantage.
The police and deputies after bein
stoned and dubbed by the strikers, too
refuge in the headquarters OF Engir
Company No 4. As soon as they q
inside they began TO fire on the strikei
who kent on the other side of the stree
Shouting wild "hurrahs," the striker
finally charged on the engine hous
broke all the windows and tried to bat
IN in the doors They were tired o
and in a few minutes retired, carryin
awav four wounded. Inspector Cad
walked ont of the engine house with th
other policemen after the trouble ha
subsided As soon as he was seen b
was charged on and during the mele
was struck with clubs, stones and tst
many times. Believing he had been she
in the ankle. a call was sent for the an
bulance. which was taking away Nv
strikers who had been shot. As soon a
the ambulance arrived Cady ran out an
climbed into il.