New-York tribune., 1919-09-11
State Guards to the Mum.
ber of 5000 Called
Out, Following the
Looting of 800 Stores
CITY Now Faces
General Tie.Up
All Unions to Vote on
Strike in Sympathy
With Police; Firemen
May Leave Their Posts

BOSTON, Sept. 10. - Two men
and boy were killed tonight in
riots growing out of the police
strike. There were numerous in
juries of a minor nature to mem
hers of mobs, police officers and
State Guardsmen. Property damage
was slight compared to that inflicted
by the wild rampage of hoodlums
last night.
The South Boston District, which
was so turbulent last night, was con-
sidered one of the worst danger
spots, and large force Of troops
was thrown in there early in the
night. For some time they kept in
check the mobs of polyglot residents
of the peninsula section. but late at
night conditions were so menacing
that a machine gun crew was rushed
over to aid them.
Machine Gun Used on Mob
So fierce was the resistance of the
angry crowd to the efforts of the
guardsmen to preserve some sort of
order that guns were levelled and
the machine gun was put in posi-
tion. All sorts Of missiles were
hurled at the guardsmen. A shower
of ,tOroc e.o orJop~o~oJ II
that the machine gun crew was or
dered to fire.
Anthony Carr, twenty four years
old, and Robert Sheehan, sixteen,
were killed, and nine persons, includ-
ing two girls about seventeen years
old, were wounded At late hour
the mob was still uncontrolled
Rotng in and near Ccolly Square in
which an unidentified man was killed,
woman shot in the arm and a police
officer beaten into Inconsistencies, was
the most serious occurrence of the early
part of Boston's frts night under guard
of state troops.
All day long the square. which ls
near police headquarters, and which is
famous as the home of numerous cheap
entertainment places, had been
crowded. This was one of the places
where hooGlums, freed from restraint
by the police strike, gathered last night
and smashed windows and looted stores
When the first of the State Guard
forces went on duty tonight troop
of cavalry was sent to this danger
point.
Man Killed; Woman Shot
The mob steadily increased in size
and attacked q police officer. Before
the cavalry could rescue him and
scatter the crowd the officer had been
hurled to the ground and was sense
less. At the same time shots rang out
and the troopers found a man lying
dead and woman wounded. The
woman, Mrs. Gertrude Lewis, of the
Roxbury district, was not dangerousl,
hurt. The cavalry called for reinforce
ments as the mob surged back, and POI
infantrymen were hurried to the
square.
Before the cavalry and infantry hae
succeeded in clearing Scollay Square
one volunteer policeman and thre.
state guardsmen had been injured ane
taken to a hospital. All were hit OF
the head by flying missiles, most!,
bottles.
A few windows were broken in vari
Gus parts of the city, but in most in
stances the guardsmen drove the ms
creants away before they could do an,
looting.
Cavalryman Is Injured
In an earlier attempt TO clear th'
crowd from Scolav Square Privat.
Carl Mead, of the 1st Troop, Stat
Cavalry. was knocked from his hors
unconscious by bottle.
Guardsmen stopped dice games o.
Avery Street, near the theatrical dis
trict. Two thousand gamesters an
lookers-on fed as the soldiers charge
the length Of the street.
Metropolitan park policemen VIII
had been doing police duty were sus
pended when taey refused to continu
; the work to-uiSat. They immediatsl