Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — NOT ALLOWED TO NUN [ARTICLE]

NOT ALLOWED TO NUN

Mob at San Francisco Forcibly Stops ths Running of Street Cars. • ■ i . ■ COMPANY GUARDS USE PISTOLS Bullets Wound a Number of the Riot* era, Some Fatally. Police Seem Powerless to Stop the Rioting, but They Arrest the New Company Men— Caa* t ualty List.

Ban Francisco, May B.—The strike of the 1,700 union motormen and conductors of the United Railroads has developed into the riot which always follows such strikes, and more than a score of persons was severely hurt; some were fatally wounded, and others huxt to a lesser extent. At 2:30 p. m. the company made its first attempt to resume the operation of Its system by sending out seven passenger cars manned by between thirty and forty; new men, each cairying.a revolver strapped around his waist outside of his coat. The start was made from the company’s bams at Turk and Fillmore streets, where a crowd of from 3,000 to 5,000 had gathered. 'Assailed Man Finally Shoots. Twenty-seven policemen, five mounted officers, and several sergeants, under the command of Captain Mooney, were on patrol guard. The appearance of the cars in- Fillmore street, from which they were switched into Turk street, was the signal for ah Immense outburst of Jeers and howls. Before the cars had gone one block they were made the targets of stones and bricks In a few moments every pane of glass had been smashed, and several of the armed operatives had been struck,, cut and bruised. At Turk and Buchanan streets an especially fierce attack was made on the foremost car. A guard on the rear platform answered the flying stones with a pistol shot, and the bullet struck one of the rioters in the arm. Regular Battle Results. This transformed the mob into a wild mob, and thenceforward for twelve blocks there was fierce fighting. The strikers and their friends, aided by hundreds of hoodlums, kept pp-a running shower of missiles. The guards on board the cars responded with fusillade after fusillade of pistol shots. Eight men received bullet wounds, some of which will prove fatal. Among those thus injured are a detective sergeant and a patrolman. Finally a dozen or more of the companyh guards were arrested by reserves from the Central police station, and a mob boarded the rearmost car and started it back to the barns, where there was another riot. In this encounter several men were shot. Following is the list of Injured: Thomas White, lacerated scalp; Alta Pai tn, shot in back, may die; James Walsh, shot In head, will die; Police Officer Harry Sauer, shot through shoulder; F. Joy, laceration of cheek; J. Khroner, shot in shoulder; William Slattery, contusion of foot and head; J. Arena, contusion of knee; A. C. Jahn, shot in throat; N. Leisb, shot through chest; N. Granville, lacerated face; G. M. McNaughton, shot In forehead; Tom Buchanan, shot in abdomen, will die; C. W. Forrester, contusion of face; Detective Sergeant Bell, shot In chest Two Cars Ran Six'Miles. San Francisco, May 9.—The police, for the first time since the commencement of the street car sti'ke, supplied actual protection for two of the Uu.t ed railroad’s cars and their crews, and as a result of this protection these cars were ran over six mites of track without the firing of a shot. Four men, one of them a new company man, the other three members of the Electrical Workers* union, were injured. There was Intermittent hurling of missiles by union crowds at various points along the route, and for two or three miles a mob of at least 1,000 men and boys ran with the cars, yelling, calling epithets, and daring the non-union men to get off the cars and fight