Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — TROOPS USE BULLETS. [ARTICLE]

TROOPS USE BULLETS.

Albany Marchant Killed aad Two Other Maa Receive Fatal Injuries. Riot and bloodshed, coming Thursday night at the close of a day of comparative peace, added a long list to the victims of the strike en the United Traction company’s lines at Albany. One citizen was killed and another was fatally wounded, while one nonunion workman had his skull fracturW and cannot recover. A large number of others were wounded more or leas seriously. Obedient to orders to shoot if assaulted, guardsmen of the Twsntythird Regiment opened fire at dusk upon a mob of strikers, sympathizer* and innocent bystanders. The hurling of a stone against the soldiers was the • signal for the attack. William Walsh, a merchant, was fatally shot by national guardsmen while sitting in front of a store on Broadway; removed to hospital, where he died during the evening. The fatally injured are: Leroy Smith, merchant and prominent citizen, shot while sitting in front of his store in company with Walsh. William Marshall, a non-union motorman, skull fractured. Others Injured are: George Booze, citizen, cheek slashed open by bayonet. Gilbert Hall, non-union motorman, shot by mob. William Rooney, citizen, shot by national guards. An incident of Friday was the arrival of the Ninth regiment from New York city. More non-union men arrived also, and cars were started from the North Albany barns, as well as from the Quail street barn, the company operating fourteen cars, seven from each barn, and opening up th* Central avenue branch. The Ninth regiment came to Albany with 524 officers and men, in command of Colonel William C. Morris. E. Leroy Smith, who was wounded by a bullet discharged by Lieutenant WHstou of Company E, Twenty-third regiment, died in the Albany hospital. Albany’s Committee of Thirteen, which is much like the Citizens’ union in New York, issued an address severely condemning the police for their inability to sup-, press the disorder and charged them with being in league with the strik- I ers. _