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Show SABBATH I0B J CROWDS CUT I i Philadelphia, Feb. 20. Rioting la ' very section of the city followed tte attempt of the Philadelphia Rapid I Transit company to operate Its line here today. Passengers and crews were driven from cars by Infuriated mobs of strike sympathizer, and la nearly a tscoro of instances the abandoned aban-doned cars were burned or other who destroyed. At nightfall every car was with-drawn with-drawn from service. Stern measures were adopted by tho pollco to quell the disorder. FIto persons were arrested charged wlm 1 iacltlug riot. Two women were shot i by stray bulleta, and many injured ' feraons were taken to hospitals. j 8peclal Officers Ordered. ) Mayor Reyburn tonight ordored Dl ( rector of Police Clay to swear la 3,000 additional police and Issue a I proclamation enforcing the riot act. The executive committee of th 1 Central Labor union this afternoon pledged both moral and financial support sup-port to the strikers. They also decided de-cided to call a sympathetic strike of every union man lu the city In cas the authorities put Into effect their threat to operate the , car with policemen po-licemen and firemen. In the morning cars were run oa every line with HtUo difliculty, except ex-cept in the mill district of Kensington, Kensing-ton, where cars were stoned by inogs. At 11 o'clock transit company oiu-clala oiu-clala announced that cars were rno nlng on their regular Sunday schedule. sche-dule. Shortly afterwards riots wers reported from scores of widely separated sep-arated localities. , Boys Burn Car. In tho southern section, a mob of boys drove a conductor aud motor man from their posts and after th four women passengers had left tli car, set It on Are. The car following follow-ing was also stopped und wa being sot on fire, when a detachment. o pollco and a chemical engine reached reach-ed the scene. In thi3 same section Mary Devlin, aed lt, was shot in the log wha the police Dred their revolvers la an effort to check the mob. In the usually quiet residential section sec-tion of West Philadelphia, mobs for a time baffled the police. Iron bars and stones were piled on the tracks and several cars were wrecked Mounted police were poweiless t disperse the mobs and a tire hos was brought Into play. Claims Contradictory. Contradictory claims are made by the opposing forces as to the number of men on strike. Leaders oi the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employes say that C.200 of the 7.000 employes of th transit company have left their cars. Ortlclah of the company say thai 3,500 of their employes are loyal and that regular service will be resume! at daybreak, tomorrow. The importation of 150 strikebreakers strike-breakers from New York led to an attack on the barns and main officer of the company this afternoon. Windows were broken by the mob which was" finally dispersed after 35 arrests had been made. The most seriously Injured person was 13 year-old Viola Deaven, shot in tho abdomen by a stray bullet from :i policeman's revolver as she was stepping step-ping from her house when a mob was attacking five cars In front of It. George Fcltsaup, a nurse, also was struck by a stray bullet when hastening hasten-ing to a train. His condition Is nut critical. Transit officials say that 297 cars were wrecked, two completely burned and one partially burned today. Two thousand tlx hundred and eight car windows were smashed. Union leaders say they will forca the company to arbitrate. |