Evening star., 1919-08-26
DEATHS AND RIOTS
IN WIDE UNREST
Troops in Charlotte, N. c.,
Where Three KiIIed-0ne
Dead in Springfield, III.
CLASHES IN OTHER CITIES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. c.. August 90
State troops and deputies patrolled
the principal streets of this city to-
day in an effort to prevent a renewal
Of rioting in connection with the
street car strike here. which resulted
last night in the death Of three men
and the injury of thirteen others.
Additional troops have been ordered
to Charlotte and should arrive dur
ing the day.
Strong guards have been thrown
around the car barns of the Southern
Public Utilities Company, where the
rioting last night took place The
city hall also was guarded by soldiers.
No effort was made to operate street
cars today. The service had been
abandoned for two weeks and last
nights rioting followed efforts to op-
crate cars on some of the more i'm
portant routes.
Reports coming to police headquar-
ters early this morning that large
force of outsiders. comprising num-
bers of railway workers bent upon
atoning for the death of Engineer
Houston in last nights rioting, was
on it's way to Charlotte, stirred speedy
action this morning to combat further
attempts of organized violence. The
thirty regular police officers. who
have been continuously on duty since
early Monday morning, are being re-
lieved by citizen policemen.
One Shot to Death.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. August &c.
One killed and two wounded consti-
tuted today's early developments in
the strike of coal miners. who are re-
belling against fines imposed by
operators.
Elmer Galardi, aged thirteen, was
shot and instantly killed, and two
men, said to be strikers, were hit by
bullets when Pleasant Jarman. a
negro. engaged in revolver battle
near the Jones and Adams mine here.
Jarman, a coal miner, was on his
way to work when the crowd OF in
surgent miners began throwing
and fred then ran. but was over
taken and placed under arrest by
deputy sheriffs. The two wounded
miners were taken to hospital.
Only few miners were working In
the Springfield subdistrict today.
Pittsburgh to Augment Police.
call for 1000 emergency policemen to
aid the local police force in handling
the trolley situation here was issued
this morning by Mayor E. V. Bah
cock. This action followed a confer
ence last night between city Off.
Gals who gathered to consider ways
and means to prevent recurrence of
rioting yesterday when the receivers
of the Pittsburgh Street Railway
Company attempted to break the
strike of 5000 motormen and con-
ductors which has tied up trolley
Transportation for twelve days.
The emergency force will be used. it
was stated, in the capacity of regular
policemen, while the latter will be put
on guard in the street cars if it is
deemed advisable to run them. How
ever. there will be no attempt to
have a limited trolley service unless
a large force Of deputy policemen is
secured.
More Than Score Hurt.
More than a score Of persons were
more or less seriously injured yester-
day in riots when an attempt was
made to run the cars through the
downtown districts of the city. and
those injured were struck by stray
bullets when a truck crowded with
men dashed through the streets. fir-
ing as they went. Seven other per-
sons were trampled in a panic as
mounted police charged rioters in 5th
avenue in the business district. when
a trolley car was stoned.
Disperse Bridgeport Mobs.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, August 25.-
Police and f1remen late tonight dis
persed a mob which they estimated
At 1000 persons following disorder
and rioting in which bricks and stones
were the chief weapons. Three fire.
men were injured. The police re-
ported four arrests.
The trouble, was the result of the
dispersal by the police of a meeting
in the Hungarian section Of the city.
which was being addressed by radical
agitators. Crowds gathered in the
street yelling and singing and a clash
occurred when the police. reinforced
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