The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-12
R|OT|NC IN
BAY0MNE;; WOMAN IS
KILLED, MANY HURT
Three Men seriously Wounded and
More Than Score of Others struck
BY Flying Bullets.
"SHOOT TO KILL ORDERS
ISSUED By CHIEF DETECTIVE
Foreigners. Told That Rockefeller's
Income Is Million Dollars Day,
Resort OF Violence In Order To
Share In OIL Kings Prosperity.

Bayonne. y. j., OCT. 11.-Rioting
which grew out of the strike of 5000
workers against the Standard OIL
Works here resulted tonight in the
death of a woman and the serious
wounding OF three men. More than
q score of persons suffered minor
wounds from flying bullets.
The riot started when fire engine
sent out to aid the police in dispensing
mobs became stalled.
Strikers and sympathizers gathered
about the machine and attempted to
rip the hose from the reel. The police
were called, and many shots fired into
the threatening crowd.
The woman, falling at the first fire.
died fifteen minutes after being taken
to Bayonne Hospital.
Eleven arrests were made by the
handful of police sent to a dozen diff
ferent points from which rioting was
reported.
Shoot to kill after this" was the
order given by Captain Edward J.
Griffin, chief of the detective squad,
after a clash with the strikers at
Brady's Wharf. There Is to be no
fooling any more, no shooting in the
ground or in the air"
Captain Griffln's order was the re-
suit OF finding of Mushroom bull
let's on two of the four men arrested
after the police had fred seven shots
In the chase OF crowd of strikers
near the wharf
The mob which Captain Griffin and
SIX men went to dispense gathered be-
fore Brady's Wharf at o'clock. The
apparent purpose was to induce work
ers employed by the Tdewater Oil
Company the Pacific Coast Borax
Company and the General Chemical
Company TO join the strike.
The tug. S. @. Brown, bearing the
Tidewater workers TO the plant was
stoned from the shore All those
aboard sought safety below the water
line and none was injured.
At 4:30 O'Clock the machine bear
ing Captain Griffin and his squad
dashed down First Street toward the
wharf. 1t was greeted with a shower
of bricks Men leaped from the auto
mobile firing shots in the direction
of the fleeing strikers.
A Plucky Official.
A mob of 200 attempted to storm
the jail to effect the release OF two
men arrested in the morning. Chief
of Police Michael Reilly stepped out
on the porch. an automatic pistol in
each hand.
I'll kill the first man that ad-
vances one STEP" he said.
For moment or two he stood
alone while the mob hesitated. A
Polish photographer rushed up and
explained to his countrymen that the
depositing of a few dollars with ,he
court would effect the release of the
rush on the police station. Ms adj
vice was accepted and the crowd dis
persed.
On the O'Clock trip OF the tug
S. Q. Brown. bearing Tidewater work
ers who had refused to strike. four
teen policemen with high power rifles
were assigned to duty on board.
Early in the forenoon the usual
stops of the New Jersey Central trains
at the Twenty-second Street station
were discontinued. Strikers had
passengers to alight.
The Lehigh Valley Company sent
1t. John ]. OConnor. of the railroad
police, with several assistants. to the
station. They alighted in the midst
OF a crowd of strikers. Immediately
they were knocked down and dis
armed. The attackers shouted with
glee over the pistols they found.
Lieutenant OConnor was taken to the
Bayonne Hospital. His companions
escaped with bruises.
The trouble is" said one police
man. that these men have been told
that Rockefeller's income Is q million
dollars a day. They are all talking
about It,"
The police announced tonight that
5000 men were idle. OF these 1000
are strikers from the ten Standard
OIL plants in Bayonne. The Others
were thrown out of employment or
compelled to quit work by tho action
Of the strikers.
Henry Wilson. director Of public
safety, announced that no call would
~ made o. 1heri6 KinksAA ene "a