The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-07
DENvER'S
TROUBLES
ARE over
Strike Is Called Off by
Streetcar Men and Riot
ing Thru City Stops

DENVER. Aug. 1.-The tram
way strike was ended here today
by q VOTE of striking tramwny
employees. The vote WAS S95
"a 3.
Cars will BE- put In operation
this afternoon. II was announced.
The vote inaor>cd the ariion of
ttse executive committee. which
favored calling off the strike.
However. final action OF the men
Is dependent on the result Of con-
ference with ir1mway officials when
the latter viii BE- asked to take back
all men who struck
Tho conference In scheduled for s
O'Clock this Afternoon
strike riots took toll Of 1--WE dead
and IS injured and gave Denver two
nights Of terror and suspense that
has not been 'cxperienccd since the
bloody Chinese riots Of the early
seventies.
The dead.
Daniel Flanagan. 10: John J.
Collins. ~. and Charles Hanson.
30, all Of Denver.
Hugh Miller, ~. II In the
county hospital. not cxpected 70
live.
Eleven wounded are In the hos
pital. -Four Of the~e arr children.
including two girls. bystanders.
who were hit by bullets.
AMERICAN LEGION MEN
PATROL CITY STREETS
All last night motor trucks. forti.
fled with haEs OF sand and mounted
with machine guns. manned by
former machine giInners. patrolied
the streets. and successfully pre-
vented any violence in the down.
town district. American Legion
members stationed at tho principal
street corners kept motorists off
the main streets 80 the police cars.
fire trucks and ambulances could
have clear path as they rushed
TO the outskirts OF the city In re-
sponse 10 riot calls.
Hundreds OF curious people re
msined downtown until long past
midnight expecting to see more
rioting. When finally II became
certain that the mob spirit had been
practically subducd by tho East
Denver shooting earlier in the.
evening. the people. many OF whom
were women and girls. went home.
Precautions are being taken to
prevent rioting tonight as hundreds
Of iaborcrs from the Denver 4 Rio
Grandc and Union Pacific shops
have n Saturday half holiday today
and military authorities fear dis.
orders may possibly result.
Denver today Is under martial lev
BY order OF Colonel c. G. Ballou.
commanding officer Mt Fort Logan.
who was called upon by Governor
shoup for troops. Two hundred and
fifty troops from Fort Logan are in
charge this morning. and 500 add.
tionai troops will arrive from Camp
Funston. Kan. tonight. IL was stated.
Cars will be put in operation today.
tramway officials declared.
TRAMWAY UNION WILL
URGE STRIKE CANCELLED
A meeting of all members OF the
tramway union has been called for
. o'clock this morning, when the
executive committee OF the union
will recommend that the strike be
called off. The committee voted to
declare the strike off after seven
hours' deliberation last night.
After a comparatively quiet day
yesterday. crowd of strikers and
sympathizers gathered late In the
evening at the East Denver car
barns. where number of strike
breakers were quartered. In the
crowds were scores of women and
children who had waited for an hour
to see what would happen.
Aside from jeers and cries of get
the scabs." there was no disturb
ance from the crowd of 400 strike
sympathixers outside the car barns
until an automobile loaded with
strikebreakefs arrived to relieve the
men in the barns.
This was the signal for which the
mob had been waiting. II rushed
thc car barns and strikebrcakers and
special police began shooting. Wo
men and children, panic stricken.
screamed IA they struggled TO escape
from the malice.
The first few shots were fired In
the air, then. as the mob continued
the guns were turned ii.
rectiy on the crowd