Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
NEW ORLEANS CAR
STRIKERS BATTLE
Police Wound Two as Rioters
Drive Three Cars Back
to Barn.

NEW ORLEANS, July UP--Vio-
lence met violence today in the four-day
street car strike as the company at
tempted to resume service with i'm
ported operators under heavy guard.
The launching of three street cars re-
suited In two strikers being shot down,
one with bullet through the head: in
Vulnerable skulls being bruised from
thrown bricks and swinging sticks and
further vandalism.
The disturbance centered around the
Canal street barn, where the cars were
started. The first car was greeted with
a shower of brickbats, and was driven
back to the barn after Is minutes oper-
alton. A second car was then started
and mob of more than 1000 men and
a few women Stormed it with bricks
and sticks.
Police Wound Strikers.
The police guard, armed with shotgtIns
and pistols, fired a volIey into the air.
put as the mob pressed on, they lowered
their weapons and aimed above the
heads Of the crowd.
Sylvan Thibodaux was shot through
the head and was taken to hospital in
what physicians believed was a dying
condition. William Foret got a bullet
In the left shoulder from the same
volley.
Police reserves, heavily armed. rushed
TO the scene in response to a riot call
and attempted to drive the crowd back.
Literally hundreds Of minor injuries
were reported, and the crowd yelled,
swore and repeatedly attempted to storm
the car.
The second car got through. and with
broken window paneS limped through
Canal street to the booS and cheers of
pedestrians. This car returned TO the
barn and third was started out. The
crowd stopped it block away with a
storm of bricks. but the car got another
start and went around the belt line,
where 1t encountered Soaped tracks anG
blocked rights of way.
Crowd Stops Second Car.
When it started back for the barn. it
was stopped in the middle of tbs street.
while the crowd of strikers and sympa-
thizers rained a heavy brick attack.
Police fought desperately, but the crowd
outnumbered them.
Three policemen threw up their
badges and arms amid the cheers of the
crowd and joined the strikers. The pa
troll wagons were weighted to the axleS
as the police made arrests, one i'm
ported carman being among those
arrested.
The brick Volley proved too much for
the imported motorman en- the second
car and he disappeared after the third
Dlock. Policeman Charles Salathe.
former motorman, finding himself de-
serted by the carman, put one hand on
the control and the other on his pistol
and drove it down Canal street to the
river with bricks striking the car every
few feet. He drove it back to the barn.
Third Car DEMOLISHED.
The third car was literally demol-
iShed on the lower end of Canal street
when 1t attempted a second trip. A
crowd of 1900 people swarmed around
1t. bombarding it with bricks, iron and
sticks. The guards and carmen de-
serted the car while the bowling mob
completed the wreckage.
Twenty-Five policemen dubbed their
way through the shouting mob sur
rounding the operators and guards OF
the disabled car on lower Canal street.
showed them into a patrol wagon and
with drawn reVolvers carried them to
the police station to protect them from
the mob.
A gang Of strikers and sympathizers
tore up stretch of track at Esplanade
and Rampant streets. while reports of
broken switches, oiled and soaped
tracks came into police headquarters
from various parts of town.