The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-24

young striker who was killed Wednes-
day.
Although the strikers remained quiet
for about sixteen hours before the at
tack on the Sheriff and his special aids
II was clear that their spirit was bitter
and that they were ready at any pos
sible opportunity to commi; Violence. In
the morning and In the afternoon they
sauntered along the streets In the Com
stable Hook section or gathered in My
dosh Hall. the headquarters Of the
strikers.
Meantime Sheriff Kinkead. who had
made his headquarters FOR two days in
the fire house near the Tide Water
plant. was getting complaints from the
aids hat he had sworn In On Thurs
day and had assigned - all night duty
at the two oil plants Thu men wanted
an opportunity TO get some sleep. The
Sheriff directed hat more deputies be
sent from Jersey city.
About hfty of these men arrived at
police headquarters In Bayonne at )
O'Clock. The Sheriff. in an automobile
with Cnder Sheriff Clarke and four OF
his regular deputies, led the men down
Avenue & and then down East Twenty
second street to a point near the Jer.
sey Central station. The aids. all of
whom were IN parade formation. carry
ing night sticks and wearing on their
hats a placard marked 'Sherin's Aid.
To Protect Life and Property We're
, then directed 20 march through Tween
ty-second street and relieve the deputies
who hard been on guard at the plants.
Meantime the Sheriff with a few OF
his regular deputies remained ehind
to keep back the crowd Of strikers. The
fifty aids started down the street. step
ping over big gas pipes that had been
placed in the thoroughfare by the strik-
ers 10 stop street ears and automobiles.
They got along all right until theS
passed Avenue T..
Then strikers gathered from all direc-
tions. armed with reviewers and stones.
They opered the attack with a salvo OF
bricks and bullets. The aids tried 70
/ maintain their nerve and their ME nut
they quickly became disordered. The
/. strikers kept pelting them with bricks
. and charging close TO the deputies, wht
= swung their clubs. Then one of the aids
who had AN automatic revolver pulled
II and blazed away. He hit nobody
however.
The strikers missiles hit three of the
guards. one aid suffered a scalr
wound another was struck by a stone OF
the nose and a third was hit on the arm
!, Finally the aids broke ranks and raf
peli nell down the street past the ROY" 81
policemen, which was stretched out u
break the rush OF the strikers. Whei
the aids reached the Tide Water plant
one OF them fell in II fit and was car
ried into the firehouse.
The police succeeded in driving I'M
!, excited strikers back "A little. The latte
then turned and ran toward the Jtrse,
Central tracks. where the Sheriff and 8
few of his deputies were gathered. =
2 hoy hurled a stone at the Sherin's mel
. and with the approach OF the mob th'
sheriff sent n call to police headquarters
! for the reserves. The boulevard police
men and the Ave uniformed men iron
: Union Hill responded.
. with the hurting Of the first stone or
: OF the policemen near by raised his re
, yolyer i'm the air and fired several times
That started a fusilade of stones. the
/, n Young striker mounted the railroad
~embankment. and aking aim at IN
, sheriff and his deputies, fired tire
/ times. The young fellow then ran ava!
sheriff hit ny one
Meantime the hail of stones grey
: thicker and the Sheriff was hit seNera
I times. The sheriff advanced ana or
1 der.d the strikers back. They refuse'
TO bulge. however, until the police re
serves, drawing their revolvers, charge
them.
"l;et back shouted the sheriff,
"Put those guns' away yeiled pac
. a striker.
For Gods sake put up those revol
yers" ordered the sheriff to the polio
. and his deputies. The weapons wer
Q slowed away and the policemen. swing
: ing their clubs, drove the throng bac
b from the railroad tracks. They MAD
men and women h had their mead
8 sticking out of windows step back an
: shu the windows,
4 Presently a delegation Of priests al
rived and went among the strikers an
o pleaded with them to go home Inc
a Jeremiah Baly. chairman OF the striker
q committee, ran up from Mydosh ia
. and beseeched the strikers to go TO the
e homes. Tn wife of a striker. carryin
o a baby in her arms. ran up ana mum
e her baby high, shouted; 49,
eve women want TO fight with on
husbands" But she was hurried ava!
Baly stopped and argued with the D,
lice. saving that the standard on Oh
dcials had refused to treat with then
= Father Egan of st. MarSs 'hurc
,bereupon said he would go TO the OF
iciais If Baly would get his men to s
away.
Il was struck on the arm by a piece {
brick aud had to go to the hospital io
treatment.
'e As the excitement was dying down
% sncctnior accidentally knocked down or
Of the motorcycles. lie was graDbe
and beaten over the head with a poli''
= mans club and would have been a
rested except that the sheriff interpose
u and directed that the man he permltte
a to go. ,, >,
a The throng remained at a distance r'
y more than AN hour, shouting NJ the I'
,1 ,iccmcn. Finally they dispersed An
- won, to their homes. only to rcappear
-, greater force in the evening.
"a The strikers were bitter ycs'er''
Q, over the fact that II was pay day ~
10 they did not get their money ~
re- standard OH Company refused tn perm
strikers complained, offered TO get u