The sun., 1919-09-11

on a mob In South Boston late to.
night, killing two and woundlng sew.
eral others. The rloting was proceed.
ing at last reports.
By StoG Correspondent Of THE Sun.
BosToN, Sept. 10.-Seven thousand
infantrymen are trying to restore Bos-
ton to it's wonted condition of order
llness. One has to be an ontimist to
admit that they have brought about
that peace and observance of the law
that Boston boasted before its police
force struck. Riots are still in vogue.
Looting is still the rage.
These seven thousand soldiers are
the State Guard, organized for home
defence during the war. They are
armed with old fashioned single shot
Springfelds of the vintage of 1898.
They have by dint of rushes and
some bayonet work cleared Boston
proper of some of the hoodlums that
were making wreck Of the shops
of Boylston street, Washington street
and the waterfront But the outlying
districts-those districts of Boston
that correspond to New York's Bronx,
Harlem, Brooklyn and South Brook
lyn-are still ruled by the rioters.
There Is no evidence of break In
the strike. Mayor Peters and Police
Commissioner Curtis are IN accord on
one point and only one. They will not
recognize the policemen's union.
Gov Coolidge tonight notified Mayor
Peters that he will at word from the
latter telegraph Vice-President Mar
shall, in the absence of President
Wilson, for Federal troops. Mayor
Peters may make the request if the
State troops make no further progress
One Man Is Killed.
During a wild fight in the South End
tonight, when a platoon of the State
Guard charged a band of shop looters,
one man was killed and score of
women and men were wounded Sew
eral of the militiamen were knocked
down by bricks, but, although several
shots were fired by the looters, none
| of the soldiers were wounded by bull
lets.
The dead man has not been identi-
fed. His hands indicate that he is a
laborer, but he was we'll dressed and
wore four expensive rings, carried
I q
of jewelry. He had but 40 cents in his
pockets. and it is believed that his
clothing and his jewelry We're OBJ
| tanned in last nights raids upon Bos-
| ton stores.
The shot that killed this man was ths
| only one fred by the soldiers. They
used the butts Of their rifles and their
| bayonets to such good account that the
mob was dispersed after five minute
fight
One woman was seriously wounded by
a revolver bullet She was not in tho
mob but almost block away. The SOL
ders have no pistols.
The earlier part of the night was
| fairly quiet. But South Boston began
| to assert itself about IL O'Clock The
| rnobs-about twenty OF them-centred
their attentions upon liquor stores and
saloons first Having fortified themselves
with confiscated booze they set forth to
provide themselves with clothing.
| Ten thousand men, women and boys
| have broken forth into a series of riots
in South Boston. A machine gun COM
pany, hustled down in motor trucks
trained their Browning on the crowd and
were fired upon. None OF the pistol
shots took effect, but shower of bricks,
| hardware, clocks, scrap iron and
! dozen other missiles descended upon the
| militiamen and the word was given to
| fire.
The machine gun spat a dozen shots
into the crowd. One man. not yet iden-
tlfed, was killed. Others were wounded,
low many and how seriously has not
yet been determined. Another machine
gun company has been ordered out. The
mob fed.
one group would smash haber-
dasher window and another would con-
centrate upon a clothing establishment
A third would choose a Jewelry shop
and fourth select hat or shoe store
While the milit!amen worked upon one
mob and was kept busy there the other
mobs worked.
Girls Wear Finery.
It Is figured that the girls OF South
! BOSTON Dorchester. the South and
West ends and other outlying sections
will be the best dressed women in Bos-
ton this fall and winter. Their men
folks will not lack for sartorial ele-
gance either. The looters work fast
| They make no attempts to clean out
stores unless the militiamen are en-
tirely occupied elsewhere They con-
tent themselves with smashing windows
taking whatever shoes, jewelry and hats
are handy and moving on TO the next
display.
There is not good looking girl In
the riotous districts who cannot exhibit