Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-06
TWO DIE, "a HURT
IN DENVER RIOTS
CITY NOW QUIET
1000 Volunteer Police to
Patrol Streets-Cars Will
Not Be Run Today.

DENVER, Col August Clear that
rioting by street car strikers, their SYM
pathiZers and strikebreakers which last
night resulted in the death of two and
the injury of thirty-four persons would
be resumed. was expressed in official
circles today.
Citizens today were responding to a
proclamation issued by Mayor Bailey
calling for 1000 volunteers for patrol
duty. The police were helpless last
night before the mob, which proceeded
on its journey of destruction until it
tired itself out. No effort was made to
run cars today.
Reports from hospitals today indicat-
ed that the injured probably would re-
cover.
The rioting began late in the after
noon and it was not until l 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.
Eight street cars Were wrecked. the
office of the Denver Post partially de-
molished and damage done to car barns
in widely separated sections of the city.
The dead are a man named Blake.
who was shot and instantly killed, and
A G. Smith. Denver, who died of bullet
wounds
The riots followed the first successful
effort of the tramway company to carry
passengers on street cars manned by
fiiIhtu StiIheDTedheIS. Two cars were
blockaded by a motor truck just as
parade of strikers and sympathiZers
were passing. Some one threw a brick
and the paraderS attacked the cars and
crews. Car windows were smashed.
protective screens torn off and strike
could restore order. One man was shot
in the foot
Denver Post Is Attacked.
The Denver Post was the next object
of the mob's attack. That paper OPP
posed 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 was demolished and
type and linotype matrices scattered
through the composing room. The pub
fishers said they would attempt to pub
lish this afternoon.
While the mob was still at the Post
another crowd had gathered at the East
Denver car barns and a third mob had
attacked the South Denver barns, where
loo strikebreakers who had arrived dur
ing the day were housed. Several hun
bred shots were fired at the latter place,
at which the two fatalities occurred
This mob did not dispense until well
after midnight
While police were engaged in quelling
been waiting in a residential section
for the trouble downtown to abate were
attacked by crowd of 5000 persons
The cars were overturned and the
strlkebreakers. after receiving a severe
beating. sought refuge in the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Convention and were
saved by Intervention of priests until
rescued by the police. An attempt was
made to burn the cars, but serious dam
age by ire was prevented
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Gov. Shoup, Chief of Police Hamilton
Armstrong, who was injured earlier by
a flying brick, and other CITY officials
were in conference at the statehouse
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of asking
1or federal troops. A decision was reach
ed early today to rely on volunteers
and special policemen, all of whom were
ordered to report to the CITY hall for
strike duty today
A. H Burt. international organizer
Tor the union. and President Silberg
or the local union, in statements is
sued last night. deplored the mob
violence and disclaimed all respon-
sibility for the strikers.
A crowd surrounded the city hall
Tor short time last night and an
angry mob was restrained from at
lacking the Tramway- building. where
the majority of the strikebreakers
are housed, by a strong armed guard.
which protected every entrance and
exit. Mr.. Hid announced that 200
armed men were kept at the darkened
windows of the building with instruc-
tons to shoot if the police line be-
low should give way.
Early today the mob still sur
rounded the building, but there was
no sign of violence.
The company had fourteen cars
running yesterday, and for the first
time men and women were accepted
as passengers.
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 riotine