| Show REIGN NEIGH OF TERROR IS 1 CAUSED BY STRIKERS I jH CARS fIRED t BY MOB Policemen Unable to r Cope I ff With Philadelphia Rioters I When They A Attack tta k Traction I Company's Property MANY PERSONS SUFFER 11 BEFORE BATTLE STOPS t. t L Strikebreakers on Cars Are At Attacked At- At a f tacked Stripped of Clothing and Beaten While Policemen r Are Used Roughly t t HEAVY PROPERTY LO LOSS S Sf f Philadelphia June 2 Bid 2 Biri r ding cling open defiance to to all au authority authority and attacking attacking- polices policemen police police- t s men V with fh stones clubs and reVolvers revolvers re- re riotous mobs numbering numbering number number- ing ing- ingin in hi some cases as many as persons created a reign of terror in the northeastern section of the city tonight More than a hundred persons among whom were vere many policemen police police- men luen were vere injured and more than a dozen cars were vere burned i or otherwise destroyed by the tt infuriated crowds Cv ut 0 v V to with J cr 4 0 O d t tI u fJ t I t 1 U n r n Th anI c con wore r vi ch 5 T 7 It cafa f and I be beaten ton V jM ol 1 Hl 1 td Mt in JIl nearby and In man nany cases the liouMes hOUlis I 1 JS giving them shelter w were re almost almo l f wrecked 4 Js of ot policemen summoned by ht r repeated repealed riot calls were powerless to cope w with Ith the tho mob and an for fOl o a time Ume It i I looked as though tho the blue coats would have lia to fire directly Into the crowd in order artIer to Insure their own r C 4 Ju the meantime word had h beon n sent f. f 11 to tn the Uhe ell city hall hull and all the members L of ot tre traffic squad dashed down lown to tho the their horses hordes closely followed fol- fol upon N lowed b bv by a score of or motorcycle police police- mono men Word rord was also sen sent t to a number of lif to rush Tush men to the tho scene In tho lie patrol atrOl wagons Tt If It was not until char charged ed by the mounted policemen who with drawn revolvers ors lashed dashed at full speed peed Into the mob that the tle strike sympathizers gave gao gavek tt and then It was with threats of a aE k E renewal of oC violence as soon as the tho police po po- lice disappeared that hundreds of policemen po 10 0 I- I Icemen rushed to tho the scene shots Arc Fired fired fIrel rel They drew their re 0 and r S over o the tho heads of oC the mob but were i laughed at nt by bv the strike sympathizers with their seemed Intoxicated who I S power as the tho result t of oC tho destruction I l' l of oC the tho troll trolley e cars Policemen were wore pulled to the tho ground round their clubs and badges taken from to the shots them while in answer some someS revolvers rc from Crom the blue coats coats' S members of or the crowd drew weapons weapon the policemen in turn and fired at nt section section sec sec- The Th rioting In the northeastern of the city covered a wide area I and tion from 7 1 o'clock until nearly 11 Continued on Inco Three Throe I I REIGN KEIGI OF TERROR CAUSED BY STRIKES Continued from luJo One riot calls were being constantly sent bent In to the different station houses houes the It I worst was along alons- trouble Kensington n staton avenue that was experienced by the police and It was also in those sec see tons that there was af as tho the greatest de de- destruction de- de of or property In Hundreds s of arrests wore ore made malle but cores of oC cases the tho prisoners were rescued from tram tile the police Many policemen police police- lany men were ere among the Injured Injure District surgeons were early called Into Ice and one of them Item reported that ho Ito ha had treated at least nr n v 1 score or 01 more of rots riots also oc- oc cured In the tue southern section of oC tho the city and cl many people wore were hurt as ns the tho re re re- suit sult sui of ot the tho attacks upon cars and bricks were used by tho the crowds and the windows of nearly all tho the Icy ley rs c cars were broken al Trouble l Early The trouble started shortly after 7 shorty o'clock when a car approached Lehigh crew avenue n enle of ot on n Kensington avenue with wih a n strike-breakers strike running it Jt under the tho guard of two policemen There Thero were ivere about a dozen pa passengers upon the tho car which was of tho the open summer kind I in the tao twinkling of ot an eye eyo a mob had surrounded the tIle car while missiles of all 01 torman sorts descended Up upon n It It missies Tho motorman motorman motorman mo- mo was drugged dragged from tram his post his controller was wrested tram from rota hi his hand und and cast down a nearby sewer and he ho was badly beaten ho tore himself him him- self seH free from his assailants and fled d In teror terror The conductor was equally unfortunate the thc mob stripping his badge from Crom his uniform while his Ills hat hatas was as torn to shreds shreds With bl blood od streamIng streamIng stream- stream Ing lag from a half dozen wounds haJ on his head and face Cace he ho ran down KensIngton Kensing KensIng- ton avenue pursued by a hooting threatening mob In Iii II the meantime the two policemen upon the tho car were trying to beat boat tho the mob back with their night sticks Tho The latter later were viere ere wrested from their hands and before the they could draw their re ro- ro Ulf they wore rushed to the tho sidewalk side sIdo- walk and a n half block away Realizing their Inability to cope copo with the th thousands of at rioters the bluecoats sent sont In a mob call cal The he mob made short work of ot the car A moment later lator two more summer cars of or the tho Lehigh h avenue came bowlIng bowling bowl- bowl Ing along I Kensington avenue upon the tile same samo track as the first one With menacing yells the mob which had swollen to to- twice Its Is original size sur sur- surrounded rounded thO the tWO ears cars Th WAI- WAI A treated as had ana tho tl-lQ first ti their r crows crews being hl roughly handled while tho cows pas pas- fc tied lied for tor their lives amid a shower of or 1 missiles mIssies Several were struck b by bricks and nd bottles and ond 1 bottes ron ron- dered unconscious Shot Sent In 10 Meanwhile riot being stoat ont to police In the north north- west and ua a. IS details of 01 bluecoats blue- blue Ing cout coats they reached found tile thousands scone acono of 01 of or the tho persons rioting riot riot- to Lo cope copo with The mob gave ave battle to the tho bluecoats until their batte were wore greatly reinforced number A Am dozen times l the police attempted t to snake mako arrests set only l to have their wrested from them while oven ovon the tho discharge of at their In the tho air nil or over tho tIle heads of or tho tim rioters had hac as much effect as tho ugo mo VL vs UI n. n 1 nielli SUCK i Finally a fourth car tell foil Into U tile tle c clutches es of the tho mob Swooping down upon It tho the mel mob moho In defiance of the tho cut the thc pole rope smashed smash smash- tle cc ed cd tho tile fare faro re register lster and nc nd after ater causing the tho crow croW Its Is policemen guard and a few passengers ers on It to bolero before a shower of ot blows and missiles sot fire fro to It It Paper was plied piled under It I and ignited and as tho the flames be began an to cat eat their wa way through h g the Hoar floor tho the mob cheered wl wildly ly A basket of shavIngs shavings ings and curtains stripped from Its sides silos added fuel tuel to tho tIle flames fames A fire fre alarm was sent In and several engine engino companies soon arrived Thousands of a persons were packed around tho the burning car and thoy they scattered scattered scattered scat scat- momentarily as the tho lire fire fre engines raced alon along Kensington avenue but they tiley closed In again g hampering hampering- the tho firemen as ns the they started to attach their hose to nearby fire fre plugs Policemen struggled with th the mob hammering heads and adding to the excitement b by firing Into the air and finall finally the firemen lire fire Ire Ire- men had hud to turn the tho hose upon the crowd crowll Before Defore the water the mob melted meled rapidly men knocking one ammo another another another an an- other down In a frantic effort to escape the tile deluge |
