Show SAN FRANCISCO SCENt SCENE OF K RIOT n Attempt Att to Run Street Cars Followed by Show Shower Sh w wet er et of Missiles and Then Shooting Began S Eight Men Wounded Some of at Them Fatally Fatall and Scores In Injured During the Melee San Francisco May 7 James Walsh who was injured in a street car riot died tonight ton No hope is held out for the th recovery of Tom Buchanan one of the wounded strikers t San Francisco Francizco May Ma 7 The strike of the 1700 1 OO union motormen and conductors cond c ct tors t rs of the United Railroads developed this th afternoon In a riot In which more than a icoro of persons were severely some orno fatally wounded and others to a lesser leaser extent At the com corn company company pany made its first attempt to resume the operation of o Its system by sending out seven passengers cars manned by between thirty and forty strikebreakers ers wearing earing the uniform of car tt rs and each carrying a re olver oher strapped around his waist out outside outRide outside side Ride of his Ins coat The start was made from the barns at Turk and Fillmore streets where a crowd vari variously var arl estimated at from to men and boys was congregated policemen five mount mounted i ed officers and several sergeants under I the command of Captain Mooney were on patrol guard First Shot hot Fired The appearance of the earl cars in Fill FIU Fillmore Fillmore more street from which they were switched into Turk street was 1 S the sig signal nal for tor an immense outburst of jeers and howls howl Before the cars had gone one block they were made the targets of It showers of stones and bricks In a moments every pane of glass had been smashed ma hed and several sov ral of the armed operatives had been struck cut and bruised ed At Turk and Buchanan streets Sr nn R especially fierce attack was w made on the foremost car A guard on the rear platform answered answer d the flying stones n ith Hh a n pistol shot hot The bullet struck one of the union sympathizers s in the arm happening the crowds into a and anc nd thenceforward thence forward lot f r twelve tw blocks a pitched battle was fought tOU The strikers and their friends aided ahlI ald d by hundreds of youthful hoodlums kept up a running shower of missiles the guards on board the cars responded with fusillade after fusIllade of pistol shots hots Eight men received bullet wounds some of which will prove fatal among those thus injured being a detective sergeant and a patrolman Finally a dozen or more of the guards guarde gu were taken under arrest by squads of reserves from the central station and anda a union crowd boarded the rearmost car and started start d it back b ck to the barns Arriving ArrivI thare th re the strikers charged that revolver fire was opened on them from the barns bams In this encounter sev several eral cral more men were shot A nonunion man threw the switch at the tf e corner of Turk and Fillmore arid and the derailed car shot hot Into the sidewalk maiming two men whose names names have not been learned In the stampede that followed here scores of women and children on the outskirts of the mob In Fillmore I street were hurled to the pavement and trampled upon Superintendent Wounded The of relief squads to re J force Captain men resulted about 30 in the partial die dis dispersing persing of ot the crowds A current ru rumor rumor rumor mor has it that Superintendent Chap Chapman Chapman Chapman man who spent the forenoon for noon and early afternoon at the Fillmore street barns was ivas seen about o driving rapidly away on Golden Gat Gato avenue In an au nu automobile autom tom that was dashed with blood There Is yet no confirmation of the ru rumor rumor rumar mor mar that Mr Chapman was waa wounded e eAt At the Central Emergency hospital at Golden Gate avenue and Gough street is gathered a large crowd of union men and their friends waiting eagerly for forthe forthe forthe the messages that drift drUt out from mo moment moment moment ment to moment mom nt from the bedsides of their wounded companions Reserves on Duty Practically all of the reserve reserve forces at atthe atthe the th various adou precinct have haye been called out and are now tiow ow patrolling the neighborhood of Fillmore and Turk streets where Is the greatest congestion congest tion t Oll It has hus not yet et been learned f whether the company proposes to make a second attempt to run cars tonight but the general belief la s that because of this afternoons at happenings fur further further further ther effort t to resume operation of the system will be withheld until the om em officials daIs of the Ule company are satisfied that the police poUce are In hi 11 a position to afford arford protection to property and tife ife Following Is a list of Injured in the riots General Gener 1 Emergency Hospital lacerated scalp James Tames Walsh shot in the head will willdie die dit di Police PoUce Officer Harry shot through shoulder F Joy Toy laceration lac of cheek heek J T Krohner s shot jn In shoulder William Slattery contusion of cf foot and head J T r na contusion of knee A C Jahn shot in throat N Leish Lelah shot through chest chestN N 1 Granville laceration of face G A McNaughton Mc shot hot In forehead Tom Buchanan chot In abdomen will wilt willdie willI I die dieC C W Forrester contusion of face Detective Sergeant Bell shot in chest Clara Barton Hospital Al Palm shot In neck may maYdie die Mount Zion Hospital W WI C Krooks Krook shot In fn foot toot ClashIn C ash ln Forenoon The Woody bloody y events ev ir rits ot jf f the afternoon were wert preceded by bya a less serious rl us clash at 11 in the forenoon Zor ore oon when a J a freight car cai manned by five inspectors and Barn Superintendent Jones Tones was run out opt of the yards at Turk and Fill Fillmore Fillmore Fillmore more streets and operated for Cor half a block The crowds showered the car with brickbats and stones and slightly injured two of the Inspectors Finally all aU attempt to operate opera e the car ar was wa given gl glen given en up and it was run tack Lack to the yards by Jones himself with union men swarming on the platforms and joining In the cheers that were ere sent up by the mob In both the morning and afternoon battles the throwing of missiles was begun by b hoodlums but hut was soon Eoon Joined In by strikers and strike sympathizers Both forenoon and amI an afternoon scores of union pickets s pleaded with the mch nich not notto notto notto to use JIse violence but were Jeered for forI I their rains Eventually a few of the I pickets themselves took a hand han 1 In the hurling of stones All AU pickets were vere die dis distinguishable by a a silk ribbon badge which hick they wore on their coats coa FEAR OF FURTHER RIOTING Company Will Make Another At Attempt Attempt Attempt tempt to Run Cars Today San Francisco stay May 7 That the bloody events C of street car riots may be repeated tomorrow with even eyen more tragic results was waSt the e fear expressed tonight when it was made known that the United Railroads pro program program gram for Wednesday includes another attempt to resume the operation of its system s stem I This attempt according to General GeneralI I Manager will be mad ma some sometime sometime sometime time in the forenoon He declined to tostat stat at what hour or to discuss di the i s spec espee i Police Armed With Rifles i Mr Ir said that when attorneys for Cor the United Railroads visited the central police pollee station this evening to I request the admittance to ball bail of the strikebreaker under arrest for shoot shooting shooting shooting ing strikers and their sympathizers Chief of rolice DInan Din n said T I shall arm the police pollee with rifles If any strikebreakers start any shooting from the cars cans they will be shot In turn by b the police poUce I 1 can hardly credit this statement added Mr lIr but It comes to tome tome tome me direct and authentically Thirteen strikebreakers were arrest arrested ed Three of or them were released on bail ball and the remainder were held li h ld await awaiting awaitIng awaiting ing developments Death of One Victim James Walsh one of the strike sym sympathizers who was shot this afternoon I from one of the attacked cars di dl d at atthe attile tile the central emergency hospital tonight No hope Is held out for the recovery of Tom Buchanan one of the strikers He also is at the Central Emergency hospital A bullet penetrated his abdo abdomen abdomen abdomen men and punctured the intestines twenty twenty twenty ty two times President Calhoun tonight at his home stated that he has In view no appeal to the governor for state troops That he said Is not a task for me to per perform perform perform form Manifesto President Calhoun un tonight Issued th following To the people of San Francisco The time Urn has arrived for the enforce enforcement enforcement enforcement ment of law and order The humblest citizen in this community has a right to work The issue has been squarely raised Shall striking their friends and arid sympathizers yam para paralyze ara by b force and violence viol nce our street I railway service Shall mob violence rule or shall law be enforced Shan Shall I individual liberty be preserved When the United Railroads attempt attempted I ed cd to 10 resume the operation of Its ita cars today its were assailed by a fierce and and violent mob dangerous rioting ensued many men were Injured I T appeal to you to preserve the peace i My company will spare no effort to resume lawfully and peacefully th operation of its cars but It will not be I driven to compromise with wrong and i it will wm fearlessly defend Its rights s The Tl i issue AssUe rests Teats with you Defends StrikeBreakers He issued also to the press Dress a brief epitome of the days events calling at attention attention attention to the fact that no shot was fired by the strikebreakers strike breakers until after they had been repeatedly made a tar target target target get of missiles thrown by the crowd In a n letter l to Mayor Pres Pros President President ident Calhoun recites the fact and the acts of the mob the failure of the lice to disperse the mob and requesting that the chief executive take steps to protect the property henceforth To this letter Mayor replied that he lIe had notified the policy poUce that peace must be preserved at any cost costA costA costA A duplicate of Mr letter to the mayor was sent to Sheriff ONeill and to this the latter replied that he had been informed by Mayor that the latter had considered the po police police police lice force competent to cope op with the situation The sheriff answered that he heIs heIs heIs Is not authorized to appoint special de deputies deputies but that th t his of Ice would hold itself in readiness to assist the tho police pollee any way it c could uld Orders of Chief Dinan Chief of Police DInan said tonight There will ill be no indiscriminate shooting should an attempt be made mad Continued on Page 2 SAN FRANCISCO SCENE OF FIERCE STRIKE RIOT Continued from Page 1 to run cars tomorrow Orders have been issued to all company commanders to instruct their men to arrest all per persons perSons sons eons carrying weapons whether or not II the weapons are concealed It is the I province of ot the tho police to preserve I peace If It an attempt is made mado to run cars tomorrow we will wUl ateo ao al o have I guards along the entire line The men menso menI menso so detailed will be in full fall uniform and their only aim will WUl be to preserve order orde I We will not nol put any men on the cars but we will wUl protect the men sent out oat outto Ito to operate the cars rs I Additional Reserves Sixty additional onal reserves reserves have lave been bun called in from outside stations and placed placed ed at the disposal of at Police Captains Mooney and Gleason at the Turk street streetcar streetcar et etcar car barn In addition to the regular force at that barn bim tonight an extra detail of ot thirty men inca was sent there thereAn All An detectives and policeman doing mis miscellaneous miscellaneous duty havo have been notified to tobe tobe tobe be in readiness for tor emergency work President Leahy of ot the police commis commission slon sion tonight said that full power rested r with Chief Dinan and he would not be interfered with In handling the troubles arising from the strike |