Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1919 — TANKS AID IN FIGHT AGAINST RED RIOTERS [ARTICLE]

TANKS AID IN FIGHT AGAINST RED RIOTERS

Cleveland, 0., May I.—An unidentified man was killed by a detective’s bullet, eleven policemen were shot or badly beaten and about 100 persons wounded, many seriously, in general rioting whic|f brought a dramatic finale this afternoon to a Socialist May Day demonstration here. About thirty persons, seriously injured, are in hospitals tonight, while scores of others, including women, were trampled by rioters and clubbed by police. Socialists and sympathizers in E. Ninth st and at Public Square were ridden down by mounted policemen and by soldiers in army tanks and trucks. Socialist headquarters was totally wrecked by angry civilians bent on putting an end to the demonstration. The rioting was general in Public Square, E. Ninth st, Huron road, Prospect av., Superior av., Boliver av. and other thoroughfares. The one fatality occurred at Central and Woodland avs., wtien a mob said to have been composed of Socialists and sympathizers rushed Detective Woodring and other officers. Woodring, saying he drew his revolver to save his own life, fired into the alleged leader of the mob, the bullet passing through the man’s neck, killing fem instantly. First reports said the dead man was an on- 7 looker. Sixty of the rioters were arrested. A score were found to have weapons on them, police say. A mob of several hundred of the rioters threatened police headquarters when C. E. Ruthenberg, Socialist leader and former Socialist candidate for mayor, was arrested, and for more than an hour the entire downtown section of the city was a seething mass of Socialists, police, civilians and soldiers, the latter riding down the rioters in army trucks and tanks. Dozens of shots were fired in public Square, where more than 20,000 Socialists- and sympathizers assembled for a May Day rally and to protest against the conviction of Eugene V. Debs and Thomas J. Mooney.