Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1907 — CARS NOT PERMITTED TO RUN [ARTICLE]

CARS NOT PERMITTED TO RUN

Those Running Them at Louisville, Ky., Risk Getting Their Heads Broken. Louisville. March 12.—Violence resulting in injuries more or less severe to nearly a dozen persons; the feeble and spasmodic operation of less than 100 cars for a few hours under inadequate and lukewarm police protection, and the development of an apparently general pro-union feeling on the part of the general public marked the second day of the strike of the union employes of the Louisville Railway company. Few if any of the cars operated were patronized, and a number was stoned. As a general thing, however, the crowds that thronged the streets near the car barns won their point of driving the crews off the cars by merely surging forward and ordering the men away. * The difficulties of the street railway company increased after the first hour the service was attempted. At 1 p. m. attempts to maintain service within the city limits were abandoned, and three hours later the suburban lines were also given up, but the interurbnn service into Indinna was not interfered with. In addition to the great inconvenience to people living in the city about 3,000 suburbanites spent the night in Louisville, owing to the abandonment of service on their lines. Clashes betwene the strikers and their sympathizers and the police and strikebreakers were numerous during the day, and several people were injured. All who were hurt were victims of mobs.