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Show RIOTING li Serious Clash in Express Strike With Aany Persons Injured New York. Oct. 2S The most serious se-rious clash yet In tho expre?s niriko occurred today wtun a determined mo'.) .wo"ped down on eight wagons having tic WellsFarpo .-.tables in Jersey City. S' ort s of persons were Injured and many knocked Into unc-'ii-pclousnefs before the j.ollco finally qufllod the riot. Sixteen serloua Injured strikebreaker.. strikebreak-er.. were taken across the Hudson riser ris-er to a hospital in Manhattan. The flrt outbreak of violence in this city occurred today at Fifth avenue ave-nue and Forty-slMh street. Some l'.u strikers and their sympathizer wer gathered at the comer when an American Am-erican Express company's waon droo up. The mob pelted tho driver with stones and grabbed the reins. Two policemen succeeded in dr.ving the strikers) lack as the express driver driv-er turned back and galloped the horn-es horn-es back to the stable. They then abandoned the outfit. Shortly after this attack, another took place at Madison Avenue and Flrty-uecontJ street. The driver of this team snw the crowd rushing toward to-ward him and ho abandoned his horses hors-es and fled. The police dispersed tho crowd. The Adanin Fxpresn company made no effort today to send out any of I'm wagons. On the other hand the American Fx press company w as determined de-termined to carry on Its deliveries and collections. All Ihe drivers of the Adams Ex-company Ex-company In Manhattan, who remained faithful to tho company yesterday, went on ktrlke today. Two hundred more of the helpers and drivers of the American Express company nlfio Joined the ranks of the strikers. There were more disorders in Jersey Jer-sey City today. An Adams Express company wagon was attacked near tho ferry by a crowd of men, all armed arm-ed with clubs and Micks. Stones were thrown and the strlke-broaker.i were badly beaten up. The hordes unhitched and the wagon was toppled over across the railroad tracks. Police Po-lice drove the mob aw ay. One strike-; breaker waa found unconscious. Iileordera continued throughout the forenoon on lioth sides of the river. One group of rioters in Jersey City first stormed an express wagon which had collided with a trolley car and then attacked tho car, breaking every ev-ery window In it. J The passenger fled !n terror. A little lit-tle Inter three strike-breakers were dragged from a We Hs-Fargo wagon near the Erie ferry and unmercifully beaten. One was taken to tho hofplt-; al unconodous. ' In an attack on an Adams Express wagon, near Grand Central In Manhattan, Man-hattan, a traffic policeman was struck , with a brick and painfully injured. |