Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-06
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ported coming 10 Denver from Fort
Logan. At that hour a mob was
marching toward the city hall.
There were cries of Wreck the
hall"
Engraving Room Wrecked.
The publishers of the Denver
Post after examining their plant
following the mob's attack, an
nounced that they believed hey
We Guild be able to issue Taper
from their own plant tomorrow.
The Post is an evening paper.
The publishers said that their
engraving room was so badly
wrecked that they would be I'M
abie to do any engraving but that
they believed the other equipment
could be put in shape for use to-
morrow.
The great plate glass windows
of the Post were shattered by the
rioters. With these broken the
members of the mob sprang inside.
Apparently without 4 leader. some
of the mob went to press room in
the basement of the building,
others proceeded 10 wreck the bus
mess office on first floor, another
group gave themselves over TO de-
stroying furniture and equipment
in the executive offices and the
editorial rooms on the second floor
while still another crowd entered
the composing room on the third
floor.
Chairs Hurled Through Windows.
Chairs were hurled through
windows, desks were smashed and
rolls of pape.' were taken from tue
presses The mob members did
their best to injure the linotype
machines and the presses. pound
ing upon the presses with ham
mers and pouring powdery sub
stance over them. Spikes were
placed in the linotype machines.
The engraving room was wrecked.
Members of the Post staff made
no attempt to oppose the mob,
seeking safety over the roof of an
adjoining building, No one was
injured during the assault upon the
Post. -.-.
At midnight rioters set fire to
one of the cars overturned in
front Of the cathedral but the
Flames were extinguished before
much damage had been done.
One of the men killed was par
tally identified as --- Biak2. He
was shot near the South Denver
car barns which a large mob still
was menacing after midnight. A.
G. Smith, of Denver. who was shot
at the South Side car barns, later
died. @
Scores of passengers had been
carried by street cars manned by
armed strike breakers today for
the first time since the strike was
called early Sunday. Five hundred
strike breakers are in the city, ac-
cording to company officials.
Denver, Colo, Aug. 5.--Nearly |
score of persons were injured, sew
eral of them seriously, and two
cars were badly damaged as a re-
suit of of an attempt of striking !
street car men and their sympa-
thizers to prevent operation Of cars
by strike breakers at O'clock this
afternoon. Several shots were
fired, wounding several persons.
Others were injured by flying
bricks and other articles. There
were several passengers on the car
at the time Of the attack but so far
as could be learned only one, John
Morgan of Tulsa, Okla, was in
jured He was reported to have
fractured skull.
More than a thousand strikers
and their sympathizers who had
marched to the city hall while
committee from the Trades and La
Dor assembly conferred with Mayor
Dewey Fl. Bailey regarding the
town section and just reached the
corner where the trouble occurred,
when rioting started.
& Screening Torn From Windows.
. The car windows had been COW
cred with heavy screening to pro-
teet the strike breakers and pas
sengers but the crowd quickly tore
It off. According to witnesses,
when the strike breakers saw that
the crowd was likely to get the up
per hand. they opened fire and
wounded several persons.
The motorman on one of the cars
Is alleged to have shot strike
sympathiZer in the heel. and the
crowd then proceeded to attack the
motorman, beating him badly.
The cars were being operated in
pairs to afford greater security for
The strike breakers, Both cars had
Ill their windows broken. interiors
badly torn up and holes torn in the
foofs. They returned to the barns
ander their own power.
List of Injured.
The following injured were
aiken to the county hospital:
/ jeff McNutt of Denver. a for
ner motorman; shot in the heel. i
Joe Boxer. 13 years old of Den
5er; hit in head with brick, skull !
fractured.
J. Dolling. a strike breaker, San I
severely bruised.
George Ryan. strike breaker,
IAN Francisco; badly beaten.
! George Mililio, strike breaker,
IAN Francisco; internal injuries.
7 Clarence Bensen, strike breaker,
IAN Francisco; beaten about the !
lead and body. ".
Walter Piper, strike breaker;
an Francisco; badly bruised.