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Show STRIKE BREAKERS SHOT INTO CROWD The Street Car Strike in San Francisco Results in Riot and Bloodshed. Company Sends Out Non-Union Crew Armed to the Teeth, and When Strike SympalhUer Toss a Few Drleks They Open Fire on the Crowd. gan Pranclsco The strike of tho 1,700 union motormen and conductor of the United Railroad" developed on Tuesday Into n riot. In whlcli tnoro than a score of ierson were Injured, some fatally . Tho compny undertook to operate It car with nonunion men Uach atrlke-brtiaker sent out on the carx carried a 38 calibre revolver "trapped around hi waist. imtldo,Jtl coat. At 2:30 cara were atarted from tho barns, where tho non-union employe aro housed nnd fed Tho appearance of the cara In I'lll-more I'lll-more street, from which they worn snitched Into Turk street, wa lb signal for nn Immense outburst ol Jeer nnd bow hi. llofore the car had gone one block they were made tho In met a of showers of slonea nml brick. In n few moment every pan nt gins bad been smashed nnd sor pral of the armed operative had been struck, cut nnd brulned Al Turk nnd Iluchnuan Wreet nn especially flerc attack wn inndo on Hie foremost car A guard on the renr platform nn swered the flvlns stones with n plain) shot The bullet struck one of the union mnnthler In the arm ThU bpienlng transformed the crowds Into n wild mob. mid thenco forward for twelve block n pitched battle fought.. BinpathUor ol the strlkcra, aided b) hundred ot vnulhful hoodlum, kept up a running shower of missiles; the guard on board tho cars responded with fusil lade after fusillade ot pistol shot. lllglit men received bullet wound, some of which will prove fntul. nmnnif those Injured being n detective ser gennt and n imtrolmnn l'lnnlly n doseii or nioro nf tin. guard wero token under arrest by squad of reserves from tho central station, nnd a tinlpn crowd boarded r the rearmost car and started It back to tho barns. Arriving there, tho striker charged that revolver flro wni opened ou them from tho barns. In k till encounter several nioro men jer , ; liW. A nonunion man ll.rew the t, switch at tho corner of Turk nnd VIII- u more, nnd tho derailed cur vhot Into. JP tho slduwnlk, lnnlmlnR two men. In tho stnmpcdn Hint followed here , scores nf women nnd children on tho ' outskirts of tho mob In KIllMonr street wero hurled to tho pivcmcnt nnd trampled upon. |