The New York herald., 1921-05-21
TROOPERS FIRED ON,
STREET CAR BOMBED
IN ALBANY RIOTINC
Several Persons Injured as
Crowds Charge City
and State Police.
TROY SENDS TROOPERS
MObs Smash Windows, Cut
Wires and Send Rock
Into Mayors Office
THREATS FOR BARNES
Advice of His Newspaper to
Support the Company
Is Resented.

Special Despdtch TO THE New YORK HERALD
ALBANY. May 20-One man had his
skull fractured and another was struck
in the leg by a bullet fired by police
man in another outbreak of rioting
which was started here tonight at 8
o'clock after a giant torpedo had been
exploded under a car.
Police and State troopers took the
situation In hand late tonight and
two shots were fired at the troopers
from roof while the rioting was at
its height.
Police were struck by stones fre-
quently, and 1t was midnight before the
mobs were controlled. thirty additional
troopers having arrived from Troy to
help their hard pressed comrades.
Howard W. Slade, 81. a pharmacist,
vas one Of the men injured. and a physi-
clan stated that he considered his injury
serious.
Garry Bohl. %. was hit by a bullet in
the leg. but the wound was not serious.
Corporal Hutton of the State troops
had his arm dislocated when struck by
a stone while guarding car A girl
was injured by being janmed against a
building.
Cars had run all day without mo-
lestation, but after the torpedo explo-
sion their windows were smashed, troll
ley wires cut. trolieys pulled off. crews
driven from the cars, and 1t was only
with difficulty that the police saved
them from being beaten to death.
The striking carmen. who have been
out OF work for nearly five months. are
desperate. Public Indignation has been
aroused by the action OF the police ir
stopping the jitneys This practically
forced citizens to ride on the cars OF
walk The predominating sentiment
seems to be with the strikers and
against the United Traction Company.
Jftney Drivers Defy Police.
Although scores of j,tney drivers were
arrested and their license plates taken
away. the streets were filled with them
tonight. operating in open defiance OF
the police. Because of the temper of the
mobs the police dared not interfere.
Intense excitement was caused by a
runaway car rushing down State street
with It's trolley pulled off the wire. The
rnotorman stuck to his post. but the
conductor hung to the doorstep. ready
to jump. On seeing the mob OF strike
syrnpathizers. however. he decided to
take his chances on the crash which
then seemed inevitable. The car was
brought to a standstlll at the foot Of the
hill and the crew disappeared.
Another car soon came down Pearl
street with all its windows smashed. a
crowd OF boys pulled off the wire and
the car was surrounded. The police. b.
furious swinging OF their clubs. were
able to keep the crowd from beating the
crew. After the excitement subsided the
crew took the car to the barns. The
boy who pulled off the trolley was
nabbed by two policemen and taken 10
the lookup amid jeers.
Thrent. Against william Barnes.
when Mayor James r. Watt arrived
at his office in the City Hail he found
the windows smashed and big rock
lying on the plush carpet OF HIS inner
office. He denied ali responsibility for
the order to drive the jitneys off the
streets sic blamed J. Sheldon Frost.
tho Commissioner Of Public Safety.
other officials are sidesteppins the
order
In the rioting frequent threats were
made against william Barnes, the Re
publican county leader and owner Of the
Albany Evening Journal, who recently
advised the public to support the COM
pany and declared that a. n could not
afford to continue the Increased pay de-
manded by the men there was nothing
to arbitrate.
state troopers have again beon called
upon 70 aid the police In quellins the riot
ing and n to-nights disturbances con-
tinue several companies OF state militia
will be brought TO Albany. The situation
Is fast developing into the seriousness OF
the strike on the United Traction Com
pany's lines twenty years ago. when the
National Guard was called upon and
several deaths resulted from pitched
battles between the strikers and the
soldiers.