Show POLICE AND MOB CLASH Desperate Running Fight Occurs in the Streets L of Detroit Between Officers and Ten i Thousand Rioters 0 0 Contest Vas Continued Three Hours the Net Result Bel i ng Twelve Citizens and Five Policemen InjuredRiot Caused by Police Director Denying the Right of a Single Tax Exhorter to Speak 0 Trouble Occurred in Heart of City I Lj 1 0 0 Detroit Mich > May 10Fully 10000 I men and boys ran riot In the main streets oC this city for more than I three hours tonight and a continual running fight with policemen both mounted and on foot caused great excitement ex-citement in the heart of the city The net result as far as known Is twelve citizens and five policemen injured The mimes of but two citizens arc known at present They are Michael Waldln and Louts CahlSn Both had their heads bruised by being trampled on by horses ridden by the mounted police In a charge on the crowd OFFICERS INJURED James Tuomcy scalp cut by brick Henry Scott hit on head with cobblestone cob-blestone Thomas Murphy cheek cut open with brick 0 George Moore badly cut about head by brick taken home in ambulance Barney Roonan hIt with a brick I CAUSE OF RIOT I q The beginnIng of the riot was last night when Director o Police Andrews An-drews who recently superseded the old police board through the passage of the Ripper bill by the Legislature Issued an order to thp police to allow no one to stand about the wagon of Tom Baw den a local single tax exhorter who had Incurred lhe illwill of the police director by the extraordinary nature of his remarks on socalled wealthy tax dodgers When Bawden began his exhortation a crowd quickly gathered gath-ered Director Andrews supervised the work of thc police In keeping the pco p6 moving The crowd goo naturod ly hooted at the police and no violence was done TEMPER OF CROWD CHANGES Tonight however the temper of the crowd changed when It was announced that Director Andrews had called on thn reserve olllcera to assist In keeping the campus martius clear The single tax exhorter came with his wagon and found the campus jammed with people The police refused to allow him t lo i cato at any particular point and ho drove from one spot to another the crowd following GENERAL MIXUP OCCURS 0 The mob frequently blocked traffic and the police attempted to disperse them I was but a moment before stones began to fly through the air and a general mixup followed In which the foot police used their clubs and the mounted men charged The policemen police-men fired their guns in the air and the mob returned the fusillade with bricks and cobblestones At one time when the mob had gathered around tho Central Poild station at Fort and Ran dolph streets bricks were thrown through the windows CHARGE MADE BY POLICE In a charge made by the mounted police at this point Michael Waldln was knocked down and three horses trampled over him cutting his head so I badly that he was taken to the emergency emer-gency hospital Policeman George Moore was hit with a stone in this charge and his cheek laid open Tho other policemen were not hurt HOSE IS CUT At one stage of the riot a section of hose was secured by the order of tho police director and the stream turned on the crowd but the hose was cut and the man who wielded the nozzle was driven Into a saloon and pounded I on the head with an iron cuspidor MAYOR ADDRESSES MOB Mayor Maybury was down town watching the crowd and at one time watc11ng tme made a speech to the people from the postofllce steps cautioning them to do no violence but stated that he was not In sympathy with the order of Police Director Andrews denying free speech on the public streets At 1 oclock tonight the mob had gradually dwindled to a mere handful and the city was quiet |