The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1920-08-06
TWO KILLED AND MANY INJURED
\. i. IN STRIKE riot IN DENVER

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1e2 Denyer, Colo, August 6.-Denver|
was quiet early today after a night
Of TiotingS on the part of the street
car strikers, their sympathizers and
strike leaders during which two per-
sons were killed, thirty-four injured
and thousands Of dollars property
damage incurred, Two thousand vol
unteer policemen are expected to pre-
vent q recurrence of the trouble.
!: The rioting began late in the after
noon apd it was not until. one O'Clock
this morning that members of mobs
which had kept police busy in various
parts OF the city for more than six
! hours had dispersed,
81 Eight street cars were wrecked,
the office Of the Denver Post partial
sly demolished and damage done to
car barns in widely surrounded sec
4 tionssof the city.
~ The dead: Blake, shot and instant
& " kiiledi A. G. Smith, Denver, died
,Sof bullet wounds.
/ The riots followed the first success
fuP effort Of Che Tramway Company
to carry passengers on street cars
manned by armed strike breakers
Two cars were blockaded by motor
truck Just as parade of strikers
and synpathizers were passing. Some
&ofie threw brick and the paraders
attacked the cars and crews. Car
windows were smashed, protective
screens torn off and strike breakers
badly beaten before police could re-
store order. One man was shot in the
foot. 4S.-.--< :. ...., ~ i
The Denver Post was the next OBJ
ject of the mob's attack. That paper
opposed the strike. Every window
in the place was broken, presses
hammered and sand thrown into the
rollers; the business Office was
wrecked, records and fixtures being
thrown into the street; the engraving,
room YVES demolished and type and
y linotype matrices scattered through
thes e9Inposing room. The publishers
this afternoon. .EstdS5i ..t>s 10 !,
Whilt the mob was stin at the Post,
another crowd had gathered at the
SEaaE Denver car barns and a third
mob had attacked the; South Denver
shatns where 100 strike breakers who
had fiv6d during theSs day. sSwere
4 ssh9zH4h Several hundred shots Were
sredS at tie latter place, atfwhieh the
StSEO tiles occurred, This mob did
Eji6tl e1spatse until well after fdhight.
I Y ~ hfs police were engaged qtellti
k's E & 2sss fSSE Str q Issrs
ti.5iiii sessIOn f6F f6s tro1bis d i L doSslE town
TO abkte were attaoked 81 5 crowd
Of Il, 900 persons. The ears were
overturned and the strike breakers,
after receiving severe beating,
sought refuge in the cathedral Of HE
Immaculate Conception and were
saved by intervention, of priests until
rescued by the police. An attempt
was made to burn the cars, but seri-
Gus damage by fire was prevented.
All during the evening Mayor
Bailey, Governor Shoup, Chief of Po-
lice Hamilton Armstrong, who was
injured earlier by a flying brick,
and other city officials were in con-
ference at the State House consider
in the advisabiEty Of asking for Fed
eral troops. A decision was reached
early today to rely on volunteers and
special policement all Of whom were
; ordered to report to the city hall for
Z, strike duty today.
A, H. Burt, International Organ
eizer for the Union and President Sill
issued last night, deplored the mob
violence and ,disclaimed all response
bility for the strikers.
General Manager Hid, of the
company announced early today that
cars would be run today. He declared
there were 500 strike breakers here
and more on the way.
A crowd surrounded the city hall
for a short time last night and an
angry mob was restrained from at
tacking the Tramway Building, where
the majority of the strike breakers
are housed, by q strong armed guard
which protected every entrance and
exit. Mr.. Hid announced that 200
armed men were kept at the dark
ened windows Of the building with
instructions to shoot if the police line
below should give way.
Early today the mob still surround
s-s-rsn on violence.
The&company had Id cars running
yesterday and for the first time men
and women were accepted as pas
sengers.
At times, in the day the cars were
crowded almost to the extent of the
rush hours Of normal times. One pas
senger was injured in the rioting.
Denver, Colo, August 6.-Fear that
rioting by street car strikers, their
sympathizers and strike breakers
which last night resulted in the death
Of two and the injury of 81 persons
would be resumed, was expressed in
official circles today.
Citizens today were responding to
a proclamation issued by Mayor
Bailey calling for two thousand vol
unteers for patrol duty. The police
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