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Show FANNING FLAMES ' III PHILADELPHIA Six Persons. One a Vouna; Girl. "Wounded by Volley From Alleged Al-leged Strikebrcalcers. STRIKEHSTREXZIBD l?V FIRING OX BYSTAXDBRS Result Is Wrecking of Several Oars br Angry Mob Thai , Kills the Sli'eefs. PUTLAD KLT'lTIA , March S. ijix per-sous, per-sous, iuchidiuc a- voting rirl, were M-ouuded tonifiht. by. bullets tired by a party of nllcged strike breakers who rode wildly up aud dowu Fraukfort ave-uuc ave-uuc in a trolley car and shot into tbo ' crowds that lined the sidewalks. ' After one of the most uneventful jduvs since the .bcjrinoiujz of tbo strike, 1 the stoning of cars was renewed touipbt lulou: I'runkfort avenue, the, principal 'i thorough fare in the mill district. I A stone thrown bv one of the crowd injured a strike breaking motorman. In-: In-: fu'riated at this, flfteeu of his comrade.i ! took out n car. nil of the windows ot which tbev broke with their clubs. As ' the ear, loaded with armed strike break-,fcrs. break-,fcrs. sped down the avenue, bullets were ; rniued at the jeering crowd. Little Girl Shot. Helen Mav, aged 11, whs struck in the le" bv a bullet. . .lolin Malonev, acd IS, and Michael Osbovrt. aaed 24, were :j1so shot m the Iocs, and Frank Bromilcy. ajjefl -ot received re-ceived a bullet in the foot. The wouuded wcr.e removed to, the Frankfort hospital. Two others injured were taken to their homes. After reaching Allegheny avenue the car "was switched to the northbound track bv its crew and the dash back to tho barn bejrau. So swiftly was it driven that before the crowd realized that it was coming back, it had sped past them and into the baru. The shooting of ipoffcnHve bystanders bystand-ers worked the crowd to a high pitch of excitement aud as other cars came down the street the mob wrecked several, sev-eral, leaving only tho trucks ou the raib. About a dozeu arrests were made. There were, a few minor outbreako m the downtown district lute tonight. Announcement that plants represent tng 7o per cent of the hosiery tnanntac-turers tnanntac-turers of Philadelphia would closo down until next. Monday, was tho most .important .im-portant development in the. strike situation sit-uation today. The announcement was coupled Trith the intimation that, if the employees iu the. hosiery plants did not. return to main clewed down until fall. One of the manufacturers said lhat Ibf boston association represented mills employing 20.000 hands. Many of them were reported to have gone out on the first dav of the general strike.' Many Strikcra Return. While accessions to the striker' failles were reported today from noine of the manufactWing plants including a few nieui from the Baldwin Locomo-Itivo Locomo-Itivo works-, there, wore mnu reports ot strikers returning to their old places. Manufacturers declared that mauy union men were disappointed over the failure of tho general strike to force the Hapid Transit company lo arbitrate. arbi-trate. Union leaders denied that there were anv defections. C. O. "Pratt, the carmen "s leader, ad-dreEced ad-dreEced a crowd of several huudred at a meeting of the Allied Jewish Trades, urging the men In stand fast in u winning win-ning cnufc. He declared that if au outdoor out-door demonstration were permitted tl would assume proportions thaL would surprifo the country. Brewers Stay at Work. The report fnun ineinunti that the; loi-al btvwerv workers might bo or j d'.ved out.. ha! .'ippareully been discount ed bv the local .brewing interi'ts. The Philadelphia Brewers' nsocialion is-sud is-sud -tat'.'mf nt in which confidence w;:m ej;pre-?ed that the men would stick 'o Ilieir job. "In view of the cood will and bar-non bar-non that have existed so many years j 1 e-v eon emp'ovpr and employee, no vio-i l.iiirm of ibe fiiting contract is looked foi." 'xf -falcment concluded. Snorts Tlay a Tart. One mlercRtiug development today was fhr appeal by oflicials. of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia National leagup baseball club to the strike leader.' Ttie bateball inter-rstv inter-rstv afl;ed that the union men who have ben working on the ball park improvements improve-ments be permitted to continue and complete com-plete work. Unloei the entire work is Unifhed bv April Jo. the opening of the season, the baseball men say that the elub will lie badly handicapped. The labor leaders promised lo place the mnHev before the full committee.. New bleacher" are being erected and iinurovments are beinc made to the 'rand slauil. |