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Show SERIOUS RIOTK l RESULTOF STRIKE Attempts of Street Car Company to Run Cars With Non-Union Men Results in Fierce Battle. " , : ..' 1 Over One Hundred Men Injured Dun W lng Conflict, the Strlke-Breakors 'In a Number of-Cases, Desert-, t . . lng Their Cars. Philadelphia. Tho attempt -of vtho Phlladpfphla Rapid Transjl company to, run its cars With non-union men re- suited Wednesday night in'n. number v. ot serious riots. It wns. tho first eft fort to operate tho linos' at nlght.and; .., after soveral futllo efforts' to got tho, cars through tho mobs thoy wero scht back toitho barns. At least ono hundred hun-dred men wero more or less Borlously Injured In tho rioting. In tho Kensington district, where J many mills nro located, feeling ra:i v high. Mobs of men, women and children chil-dren pulled tho motormen apd conductors con-ductors from their cars and beat them severely. In many Instances fcarB were set on fire. Tho pollco wero pow- i erlcss to. control tho Btrlko sympa thlzers. When they charged a mob It soparated only to, form again in the vicinity of another car, Soveral policemen were Injured, ' In West Philadelphia dynamite caps V were placed on the tracks and crowds stoned tho non-union workmen when they nttcmptcd to bring out cars, forcing forc-ing thorn to return to the barn. In . the downtown section conductors and motormen wero pulled from their earn and their clothes torn off by mobs ot Btrlko sympathizers. In some cases tho terrified men had to be taken to . private houses and guarded by pollco, to Bave them from harm. The Imported crews proved a dlsa-polntment dlsa-polntment to tho company, many o; them deserting their cars at tho first sign of: troublo and leaving them standing In tho street nt the mercy or tho mob. |