Show sotDIERS FIRE ON MOB I One Man Killed Another Fatally Wounded Two Others Seriously Hurt by Bul V i I rl f r Militia V lets Fired by 1 V NonUnion Motorman Has His Skull Crushed Another Seriously Injured by RiotersHundreds of Other People Have Broken V Heads and Cut Faces in the Clash Between Mob and National V Guard at Albany More Troops Ordered Out J Albany N Y May lGFlvc hours of conference tonight with all the tarring elements represented failed to settle the Albany strike of street railway employees V The strikers waived all the demands for tho removal of the nonunion menThe men-The executive committee of the United V Traction company will consider the I proposition In the morning and may accept It and settle the strike Meantime Maj Gen Roe intends to lake every precaution and at midnight ordered out the Ninth regiment of New York It will arrive here tomorrow a tcrn09n 800 strong and if the strike It not settled will assist In opening up other lines of the traction company in this city l Albany N T May J60ne manV V killed two other men fatally Wounded hundreds of others with brolcen heads and cut faces cars running merely as arsenals with no patrons the city under un-der inartlal rule with its citizens in a frchry of excitement and the city authorities au-thorities and leaders of the strikers trying to get the railway company to come and an amicable settlement was theV situation when darkness put an V end to the strife growing out of the street car strike tonight V V V KILLED Walsh William wellknown mer I V chant V FATALLY WOUNDED V Marshall William nonunion motorman motor-man skull fractured V Smith Leroy merchant shot by National Na-tional Guardsman V V SERIOUSLY INJUREDV V V Booze George citizen cheek ripped V open by b yonet VV Hall Gilbert rfonunlon motorman V Injured by mob V V Rooney William citizen shot by National V Na-tional Guard V V CAME AFTER DAY OF PEACE i V Theblq < nlsnejlcanic after a day oC peace From eVrIy morning the crowds had melted LInr before bayonets and shotguns car had been operated under un-der guards and there was an impression impres-sion that the spirit of turbulence was Waning There had been some minor demonstrations particularly In North Albany but not a shot had been fired and as the day passed the running of cars attracted little attention V GUARDSMEN DENOUNCED The volley fired on Broadway by a squad of Tvventylhlrd infantry inV In-V which Le Roy Smith and William Walsh wellknown citizens fell mortally mor-tally wounded changed all that It stirred anew the feeling of hatred as the excited tidings swept through the city and the Guardsmen were bitterly denounced VV NEITHER GUILTY OF OFFENSE Neither of the men had been guilty of an offense but were caught in a crowd some member of which had stoned the Guardsmen and by mischance mis-chance were hit The disturbance was not a serious one and murder is the title applied by Inflamed public sentiment senti-ment to the shooting The Guardsmen seem but to have followed their duty as soldiers for they were under orders or-ders to shoot If assaulted VIOLENCE MAY BE EXPECTED Tho bright prospect of a settlement of the strike has not served to allay the growth of vindictive feeling and a the present situation continues bitter revenge and violence may be expected WHEN TRAGEDY OCCURRED It was on the last run of the soldiers sol-diers on the cars that the tragedy of the day occurred The cars were on Broadway moving northward and a constantlyswelling crowd was gathered gath-ered about Union station The flist of the workday folk had been released by the whistles that ounded through V manufacturing district and they were pouring Into the crowd i V V STONES THROWN AT CAR V Near Columbia street a truck blocked the way of a car and urged on bj the crowd the V driver refused to move on as speedily as debited rfome one In the crowd threw a stone but It went wide of Its mark The crowd was V noisy and there was much confusion The car Dually moved forward into the next block and another stone was hurled at IL V FOUR SHOTS FIRED V There was a sharp command and as the oar slowed down four shots were fired from it Lc Roy Smith lounged on the steps of his store William Wash Ida business neighbor from across the street was his immediate companion and a small crowd hung about near them SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE It was Into this crowd that the V V Guardsmen fired at a jange of less than twenty feet Smith and Walsh Avero both shot In time abdomen and fell whore they stood A third man William Rooney was slightly hurt by n glancing bullet Some of the Guards stepped from the car uud reloaded their pieces The startled crowd fell back at the first shot and a moment later the Guards sprang aboard tho car and were rapidly wheeled from the scene HURRIED TO HOSPITALS Smith and Walsh were hurried away to hospitals for surgical care and an angry crowd swarmed In the street to curse and denounce the Guardsmen Walsh died at the hospital tonight Smith Is a member of the shoe manufacturing man-ufacturing liny of Smith Ilerrlck V and a citizen of wealth respectability and prominence He is a member of the Albany cluband a whist expert of national reputation He is 50 years of age and has a family V V Walsh was thehead of a V plumbing house and well known in business circles cir-cles Neither man had any part other f than as spectators vin the demonstration demonstra-tion that provoked the shooting VV V V VGTJflDS RECALLED The remainder of the cars made tho run to North Albany and back without with-out trouble and when they V reached Quail street barn Avcre hfiuged lor tUe night V When the cars wore all in the Guards in the street were recalled V HAD DEPRESSING EFFECT The shooting of Smith and Walsh had a very depressing effect upon the members of the Twentythird regiment regi-ment and tonight frhen stones were hurled at the picket men around the Quail street barn they did not fire in r the dark Two privates were hit and hurt nut they did not care to take a chance by firing It was held by the officers and men generally that the order or-der to fire was entirely justified but there was general regret at the consequences con-sequences of the volley V With the addition of the Ninth regiment regi-ment tomorrow there will he over 3000 Guardsmen Albany TROOPS ABOUT BARN This morning when the United Traction Trac-tion company began preparations to V move Its cars Gen Barnes in command com-mand of the Twentieth regiment brought out before the Quail street V barn his entire regiment At the same time the Tenth battalion started downtown down-town dropping out details at the street corners along the traction line running V to Broadway V CHARGE BAYONETS VV V Ono company of the Twentythird company A started to clear out the mob massed at the curve on Central avenue Persuasion was of no avail and back went the company a dozen paces Charge bayonets shouted LleutCol Brady who was nearby Down Aent the gleaming points and on a rush the men started for the crowd BUTTS OF GUNS USED Just as they reached them there was V a quick reverse of the guns and the butts smashed against human bodies With a howl the crowd started bark some Avlth bloody faces and some with broken bones The mob was not allowed al-lowed to stop until it had been driven tljree blocks away Then cverj side street for blocks around was cleared and details began closing up the saloons sa-loons In two corner saloons they Toundgurly groups and In one the soldiers sol-diers had to club the men with their VFifiCSV V V WINDOWS OF HOUSES CLOSED Gen Bnrjnes then Bordered windows In the houses closed usually a rifle pointed was sufficient but in one or two cases details had to enter the houses and close them the women defying de-fying them V All the time Inside the barn doors were five open cars ready manned with nonunion men waiting the word to run out On each car were two motormen motor-men two conductors and two Pinkerton Pinker-ton detectives the latter with loaded 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