Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1905-10-27 | Page 2 | Bloody Battle in Street Car

BLOODY BATTLE IN STREET CAR passengers hugged the floor to ee escape ca pe shower of bullets new york three men fought a battle battla with pistols on oil in an eighth aye ave nue car sunday and all of them were serf cisly injured while the light fight was being waged the car ran mn at top speed for half hair a mile the gong sound ing an alarm and the passengers ying lying pat on the floor to escape the shower of df bullets thomas 0 brien a lumped jumped aboard the car at thirty y first street and clapping a revolver to the conductors conductor s head ordered him to run the car at full speed as aa he was pursued by a gang who intended to kill him A moment later two more men leaped on the tha car and attacked the first drat all three using revolvers when their weapons were nere empty they clinched and fought with the b butts u ats ol 01 their pistols the car rushed along the avenue the motorman mot oiman pounding the gong and the tha conductor shouting for the police as aa far as aa ta twenty enty sixth street where several policemen blaid ed it and seized the three combatants all of whom were too badly injured to offer any resistance