The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-07-20
FIGHT is NEAR BRIDGE
Rail Placed Across Track;
Crowd Gathers When
Disturbance Starts.
NO ONE KNOWS WHO FIRED
Woolley Says His NJ @ n
Did Not Shoot; Two
Taken to Hospital.

Disturbances and domouslroiious
against the men operating the okla
homn Union railway cars. carried on
ali day yesterday, reached a climax
last nigh with tho shooting OF
Hubert blythe of Rcd Fork. ana N
=. MayrIrld, deputy sheriff, iu u
fiEhi between members of crowd
gathered a. ihg east approach Of th,
West Tulsa bridge ana three deputy
aherft- ana Two men operating an
q. 4. X. car. Evidence OF Impcnd-
ing .fuIhIc between s'rlk, NmptthiE.
ers and strike breakers was shown
several times during Iur morning ami
ail'lnouu in the hurting uf sand ana
rocks az cars running uu tho com
pnnys lines ana In remarks that
passed back and forth gom tho cars
tu crowds On the street corners.
Nucu wtstbouud -. &. r. car
reached the east end of the bridge
az Z o'clock last night n crowd OF
900 people were standing at tho
bridge where "a rail which had been
lying on the Sidewalk nearby had
been placed across the track bar
ring Tho way 90 West Tulsa 4 dis
turbauCc when the preceding car
going east had gone across the bridge
had drawn ont crowd lo watch the
excitement and three deputy Ehcriffs
had been sent uut hy Sheriff James
Wooley 20 protect the carmen
when the car arrived within so
feet ~ the rail the three deputies.
the motorm1u and the guard on the
car stepped out Roth Mayafrld and
Reynolds wer" carrying rifles and
az Mnystcld advanced with his gun,
Loo b..
refinery grabbed the gun and
grappliod with him, according to
Witnesses While the two men
were wrestling fpr the posses
sion ~ the rifle three shots were
fired az them, one entering Mays
fields right arm ius' above the
wrist ana the other two striking
Blythe. one in each arm
According to sheriff WoOllcy. only
one shot was freq and that came
from somewhere in the crowd HINiho
said last uEht uf the oklahoma hos.
pfIl. whore tho two men had been
taken following the shooting iha'
on" NJ the mon who he'd stepped
from The car flrcl m" shot hut he
did not know which uuc ~ fnr four
men i' Wus Several members ~
tho crowd who were present s-,I that
three shot, were fired Ev DEPUTY
Sheriff Reynolds. Ip aD-.rrforl 90
keep blythe from gar'thg possession
OF the ruu. and that ono bullet
struck Maysflold while the other two
lodged IN R'ythc.s arms According
hroudishad the gun lu tho other
mans face uu llrhilug from The car
and had struck him over tho head
with u when ho told N1ysf.cld 10
point tho gun away from him Rlythe.
ls is said. grabbed tho gun after tho
deputy had h.i him With &C.
chief ~ Police ~ Alcs Allen was
called 10 the scene W the trouble
shortly before tho shooting occurred /
and had lcff the bridge driving To- tho !
Dosdcn plant 10 talk with men there
when the car arrived. while .u West
Tulsa, he was again called and told .
that two men had been shot AZ tho /
east crl ~ the bridge when he
returned 'Hn two mon had already
hocn removed tn 'ho hospital and
most of IHo crowd had dispersed the
car having returned 90 the barn on
South Mp,hoII street
when ] FIRST arrived no the bridge .
there was crowd ~ between geo
and 500 people s''0i'ug around .
the chief soII 81 asked them what .
they intended o. du and they r.. .
to warn Tho people rlljnE .On the care
90 sta, uG and that mo- damage /
would pr" done. TH'y seemed 90 by /
q pgacan'c crowd and I rode over 90 /
Ncst Tulsa tO inquire about the /
mat'cr tN're While / was nt the /
Cosden plant someone called me over
the f,'pulUrs and said that man /