Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — RIOT AND BLOODSHED. [ARTICLE]

RIOT AND BLOODSHED.

Th* Mon-Unloh Splnnars of Clark’s Thread Alta*k*d by a M*b. Riot and bloodshed occurred at Clark’* thread mills at Kearney, N. Y., at 6 o'clock Th- >day eveuing. When the non-union spinners quit work they were carried over tue river from the N ewark side in a launch, and when they landed on the Kearney side they were met by a throng of 2,000 person*, men, women and children, hoodlums pre* dominating. When the spinners got inside tbe gate a boy on the dock threw a stone over the fence. Immediately after s woman in the crown threw a stone, smash. Ing the mill officers’ window. Thereupon the specials rushed ent on the crowd, flourishing their revolvers and shooting in the air and into the groundThe crowd surged back, but firing a shower of stones which crashed through the mill windows. Several girls were crushed "nd one girl was clubbed. Willie Richmond, aged nine, was shot through the foot by a special who shot downward, Intens* excitement prevails.