The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1901, Page 23

) @ al], [eing] NP HORPLORPRIR O 4 S HORONS mo»mmm / SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1901. ANARCHY AND INCENDIARISY TEACH THEIR DREAD LESSON AND DURING DESPERATE NICHT WARFARE BLOOD FLOWS IN STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO HARRIMAN WILL ASSUME PRESIDENCY OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMP_ANS(!UN"]N TEANSTERS 0P IRE ON SPECIAL POLICE myMMmQ%EQMMSme E —_— An Assistant to Take » Charge and Report to Eastern Magnate Rolling Stock and the Roadbeds Are to Be Looked After Entire Change in the Aspect of the Local Railway Situation ol Curin's Men, Who Promptly ~ eply With Revolvers. Market and Keany Scene of a Midnight ~ Hiot in Which Shots Are Exchanged and Several Men Wounded. | 14 NARCHY has asserted itself in this city. Blood has beew shed and life has probably been taken upon the leading thor- oughfare of San Francisco. This morning an armed body of strikers opened fire upon special policemen at the corner of Market | * and Geary streets. The fire was answered by the pistols of the spe- cial officers, and for a few minutes one of the most outrageous scenes in the history of this city was perpetrated. ' The excitement was at fever heat while the combatants howled and yelled and the crack of: their revolvers affrighted the pedestrians who were so unfortunate as to be in the neighborhood. Fifty strikers, every one of them armed and bent on murder, had followed five special police officers around town, while the Rev. Peter C. Yorke, under the chaperoning wing of Andrew Furuseth, was - patrolling the water front to per- suade himsclf that murderous assaults, cowardly assassinations and dcadly rioting are fictions in San Francisco. The murderous strikers followed their victims for hours, and al Market and Kearny streets assaulted them. The attacking force of; | murderous-minded men.numbered fifty, and their victims were five, 1V hen the deadly battle, without parallel in the history of San Fran- cisco, or perhaps any other American metropolis, was over, three men were dangerously wounded and others were being carried away from the place in order that their identity might not be revealed nor the character of their wounds made known. cnn this extraordinary street battle began pandemonium Affrighted citizens who happened to be in the neighbor- hood rushed terror-stricken into doorways or any ~other convenient place that promiscd safety. Police officers hurried to the spot, ambu= lances were summoned, the wounded were carried away, and the stain of a fearful outrage was upon the city. In the words of the Rev, Peter C. Yorke, “WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN”? | Avre these the deeds which the reverend gentleman wrged the strikers of San Francisco to do? Does this mean, in the words of the Rev. Peter C. Yorke, that it matters little what strikers may say, for the time for saying is past and that the only things that count are deeds? Is this terrible outrage, this extraordinary warfare, com- mitted in a civilized community in the blackness of the night, the di- rect result of the following dread words of the Rev. Peter C. Yorke: “VIOLENCE IS TO BE REPROBATED WHEN THE +| LAW PROTECTS YOU. BUT IF THE LAW BE PERVERT- fsnn;:imcngrgfirggzltinn with the Nexth-| ED, [WHAT THEN? AND AS FOR ME, IF THE RESPON- StltJtshngix‘-.e‘r;:éc:gg)(:;;d";eha;mam‘ s SIBILITY OF GIVING ADVICE SHOU_LD AGAIN BE PUT: position of assistant to President Harri-| U/PON ME, I SHOULD CONSIDER LONG AND EARNEST- OF the rond by’ Frestden: Hore Wenki"S% |y IR THERE ARE NOT WORSE THINGS THAN VIO- CHA'S MELVILLE HAY_S TORK, Sept. 28.—It was announced here to- H. Harriman will esident of the Company. He New York, but n able rafiroad Francisco and fill the to the president. ws was received | eagerly discussed. It | at Harriman will | of the Southern Pa- | | upon motives of vintment of J. C. | r of the Harri- st of the respon- office of presi- c Company. It | lect HUNTINGTON handed in his reu-' ent the moment J. C. d traffic director by | that with the from his control | of Stubbs in Chi- | | Harriman made sev- | elton, assuring him that | the position of presi- | ern Pacific he would slgn} Felton, however, abso- accept the place, owing the esident of the was no longer n trafic department. t has not yet been railroad man who ac- m will not receive a sal- that given Charles M. announced. cepts the po the coast and will refer ect to him in New York. nciers say that Harriman as presi- great success. He will take an active in. the t ‘corporation and make improvements that are sadly need. expend vast sums in mlllng‘stock. —i ST. JOEN ASSISTANT, Belief Is General Here That He TWill | Be Appointed. The news that Harriman Js to be the next president of the Southern Pacific | Compa came as a great and dismal | to the prominent officials of the | v in this city, who had been noti- om New York of the fact. With Harriman as president of the road the manipulations, workings and entire inter- »#t¢ will be centered in New York. The roed is now entirely owned by Baslern capital. The policy of the road will be dictated from Wall street and the officials Il send out to the | ant will simply represent | of the Southern Pacific will be a ie will both remodel the road ang GREAT WALL STREET RAILROAD MANIPULATOR WHO IS TO BE THR NEW PRESIDENT: OF ERN PACIFIC COMPANY; ALSO THE THREE ME. RATION IN THE YEARS THAT ARE GONE. —_— in this city now know that old service, social connection or other infiuences will THE SOUTH- N WHO HAVE BEEN AT THE HEAD OF THE CORPO- count for nothing. In his pollflon as manager. J. M. Herbert's friends say he is safe | act independently, as -he was out here. He left the early part of last week to go ‘back to his home at Norfolk and sell his resldence before fin- ally settling ih San Francisco. Those rallroad officlals in the Southern Pacific Company In this eity who picked out either Felton or Burt as the next president are sadly disappointed. Tvery raflroad man earning a large salary will have to stand on his merits. Weekly re- ports will'be forwarded to Harriman and those who are found wanting will soon gst their notices of dismissal. It is supposed that Harriman as the new president will go In for a sweeping reform in regard to the expenses of the company. This is very evident from the fact that he has accepted the post of president and is going to knuckle down to hard work himself. Around the “yeliow building” it is said that' consolidations are now sure to come fast and thick. Balaries will not be lowered, but where an offictal or even a clerk can do more work 1t will certainly be forced upon Lim. The Southern Pacific. The Southern Pacific Company, long the autoerat of the transportation business west of the Rocky Mountalns, as such has passed and with all the vast mile- age and propertles it ‘controlled has be- come a part of a still more gigantic com- bination, or rathér centralization of rvail- roads, whose head and direction is in the East. The Southern Pacific Company was chartered by special act of the Legisia- ture of Kentucky, March 17, 1884. It was Continued on Page Thirty-Two. LENCE”? Y MEN WOUNDED IN THE FRAY. H. F. BEEHLER, special officer, shot in the left leg. WILLIAM MILLER, striking teamster, shot in the left breast and will die. J. WISSEL, teamster, shot in the knee. EDDIE FULLER, messenge” bcy, shot in the leg. J. BOYNE, lacerated scalp wound, inflicted with the butt end of a revolver. MacDONALD, shot in the left hand. NE of the most desperate and disgraceful assaults ye* made by union teamsters occurred shortly after m|d~‘ night last night directly in front of Lotta's fountain and extended through adja- cent streets. The attack was directed against special officers. Fully fifty shots were flred, several of the combatants and innocent passers-by were wounded, and windows were shattered by fiying bullets. In the party of specfals that were as- saulted were but five men. Thelr assail- ants numbered fully ten times as many. The party of specials left the Thalla Theater at the close of the performance and was composed of H. F. Beehler, Al- bert Little, Albert Bogan and -James Grangall, employed by Curtin's Detective ‘| Agency, and a young man named W. F. | Rawley, all stopping at the International Hotel. When the members of the party | turned from Turk street into Market they noticed a crowd following them. Seeing Police Officer John Tillman patrolling his beat on the south side of Market street | they crossed over and asked him to ac- company them. In charge of Tillman they crossed over Market street, the crowd, constderably augmented in numbers. still following them. Tillman endeavored to keep the pursuers back. Just as the party reached Lotta’s fountain a shot was fired from the rear, followed in quick succession by several others. Then the specials turned on their zursuers and a regular fusillade follo>red, the striking teamsters firing the larger number. As one man after another dropped, the police began arriving on the scene. The Continued on Page Twenty-Six.