The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1903, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. » M &g ies AN a 1 river the Sher ' wrecking the « s a covering the yard e w ! Re. ® it, but it didn't = ows long to find ¢ k 2 . . " five mir . oving roat g ' . B ir ¥ ote e ® rottie We N e £ an s w > door e . s head w i nan, but 8Sain, the . was v oy v t a pick her of the freight ey el g wt > s - . n L] 2 - 2 7S here . = and = ? £ ' work from . b ¢ et B was ehind e e big ) w E Polac € ¥ saw as e b : a doz a “p e. Ehe k = what indhouse s - g ma to save the ° . stin ell & Read- certal z r e men to do it. The r . e. She © ar s he kerosene K . A wavering g N hat licked the r fa g for the store- er a minute that G S er 2 i protect at the i t As he east AN he could cut off the a stool and 1 r s le g line of rioters they i Nelg k wa we a ng store house. It was there that the f ) E retorted McTe \ p d ¢ Neigl itue f P in on the 3 EARER R R e ahe il dhadtion flank rioters master meci resently. “This Mme e Reading fellow cat up with the ear. They whee.ed with a ¢ < and coupling-pi The detectives cpened with their Winches- ters ip that took me « : cTerza back ke Iheir answer < was the r storehouse and a charge on the sards that shook - their front like a whirlwi The detec- tves ran for - Neighbor's br orks with the miners hot behind and a hail of ot des missiles on their backs. Half a A s stood In the cupola of the fire s with the thing laid beiow . *‘ norama There were as the biazing fre house lit the b McTerza didn't e could see the rivters swarming . p re than once, the bottoms. The raiiroad ofid . ew with Mrs. clals gathered upstairs in the passenger depe ed heipiess for the moment w must have made ok ’ i “H mob should turn on e s The entire rec- dispatcher of- - the whole sweg At roof, with ndifference of r res stand between it and the B e 4 1 13 =3 i 3 Two intensel tive leaders rose out o e = RECTermn ”“" one friend 4. crowds. Kollowing the shouts of the e . family the strike pair which we could just hear, a great . ise of Mullenix was di- body of the strikers dashed up the yard [ f 11 held for the en- “By the goa cried Andy Cameron at t e e youngest m bow they're going for the oil er an In s telegraph house - i oDy Sk Before the words were out we could e o 72 he new Dear the dull stroke of the picks sink- 3 L 4he Rew ing into the cle ors. Bucke were 4 K Le pas: and the house tanks - s che ! Ruck- Jacketed cans of turpentine and varnish e h-b as e A t vated him. were hustled down the line to men drunk £ = sed g e on the Bk o g as Mec- With riot; in a moment twenty cars wer strm e > et A became @blaze. To top the frenzy they fired the . ; ° oil house itself. Destruction crazed (he G et saapped XKath s entire population of the bottoms. The - = = B ad of Was burning cars threw the front of the big enix ens - - fight was ing brick depot up into the sky. As the re- self ghe was § £ - co . here and th into fiection struck back from the plate glass o showed the feeling, but it Windows the mob split into two great ‘ Little Russia went out that Waves. and one headed for- the passen- ger depot. They crossed the coal spurs -~ ky for the COMPAny prandishing torche 1d sledges and bars. oud. Little R a had We could see them plain as block sig- e big Russia at the time nals. Every implement that ever figured e Russians had spread in a yard showed in their line, but their - like leader, a y ngish fellow, swung a long, * = tap ng stake As the foremost Polack 8 . limbed up on the last string of flats t} sing dis R 5 28 ng of flats that gl Tssivsriadhe mpany coal mines. At Mc- geparated them from the depot the stor- eink ? x ¥ A Snere d a crowd after age tanks in the oil house took fire. The ce = 3w d on the steppes. Toof jumped from the wall plates like one R serve Reading men here,” ve- & them, struck while V&St trapdoor, and the liquid yellow . the engineers were out, and the fat went "PUrted flaming a hundred feet up into - esponded MCTerEa, 1neo the fire with & flash the black. A splitting yell greeted the : 4 . ; . burst, and the Polacks, with addec once 3 e them 7p, night ie trouble took even us raced toward the long d(-h.u 1d;;.‘déuur‘" en after & PRUSS: 4y gur and the company was wholly then the man with the club. It was unprepared. The engineers in the worst Rucker. of the heat were accused of the rioting, _The staff of the superintendent and the at k g B AE Mg {n;;-e nrl:upadtmln; a haunatul of men all . e el o d, gathere the uppe dow. ed Kate, glancing the Hom ir boys are Amer '0ld: Bathered at the upper windows and 2 SOty stthe y 4 . opened fire with revolvers! It was just 7 cans, and we dor h torches and enough to infurlate the rioters. And it kerosene. The « imported the appeared certain that the house would be . Polacks; them settie their own ac- burned under the defenders’ feet, for the . counts w them, said our fellows, and broad platform bare from end to end. /i I right. Admitting that some SOt @ 8host of a barricade, not a truck, G g 3 not a_shutter, stood between the depot g ok W, of & ut to mix in it, we gnq the torch, and nobody thought of a e took the M in seuse e held for that man until Cameron, with the quicker ok the It was Neighbor, the tiest old fox eyes, cried: the case. the staff of the divi who told the “For God's sake! There's McTerza!" £ ple In the «f n tk Sure as pay day there he was, walkiug s )ming, and it was strange no G0N the platform toward the depot, and R ey humping alongside—Sinkers. 0 w bzd been out three | guess everybody ' both camps swore, ‘. weeks, and no end of gabbling Like a man in his sleep he was walking fact, . Men that talk are not so right in the teeth of the Polacks. But dangerous when they quit talking. that was just McTerza—to be where he g fe T s a man of a thousand to Shouldn't when he shouldn't. Even had PegY o AT WES kil there not been more pressing matters, no- s ar act on his apprehensio A1 the after- ,,4y could have figured ocut where the : . noon he had the switch engines shunting fellow had come from with his convoy or o P cars about the roundhouse; the minute where he was going. He was there; that . AR vas there. the arc lights went on the resuit could be Wwas all—he was f & . e rhe old man had long lines of fur. The dispatchers velled at him from 1 g e e & s, gondolas and deaq 3POVe: The cry echoed back short from called for Piture vans, box cars, g e 24 g hundred Polack throats. It was plain smile they g Mec- Pullmans strung around the big house they were made for blood. Even that cry at the cigar case, like parapets. Whatever anybody else didn't greatly feaze the fellow, but in the TD"'Tér'za.s fight with the Strikers latty he caught another cry— he tarned st the veics and the word Mre mmm-&uumhu :zr;raeflrft (sttr.hlllzht to McTerza's ear, and a man stung. Rucker, leaping ahead and stutterer, yelled, “The scab™ ; B The Reading en; baited bear. Rucker’s cr snd at that Terza froze to nicre—and we k Ited was enough—'n that strike a A womarn rous as one ma McTer: eircling as the m of mir R on windows above the Reading with their pist have thrown firecrac a f'a'lfis‘\ sp! corkscrew fashion, one another, and assallants w hands it cut t and knives like t mothering u ers ran in llke Terza from side t They charged surroun ewung N would pick to . would clear the whol dan & Terza, cut about hir a kid, and be 1 run he brought a full-arm gweep fi s vas clean outside the brea P trotted warily along, n sible boy. they 1 1 struck him like a hunte At the upper end of sa huge ice box. McTerza, dodging in the hail that followed wheeiling to strike with a single he sa closed too thic throwing Sinkers in on his enemi W , reached shirt streaming s £l daubed with dirt a ab held th recess like t q w the Polacks till t ate Yod TRe a aughter pen W le s b swung old John B 1 across th t 1 1 Almost unobse i door, when Rucker's in on his feet, sp! ers inside. ut McTerza or barred b ey ran to dark amor br ith fright . God, do you Ben Nicholson?" she s head out, fearfully th Mars “We want the scab Mrs the side door, Nicholson. “Fire F Rucker pushed her b into the door after her. The room was but th too great for Mrs. Mullentx, and she cried to McTerza to leavelher house for the love of God. Some one tore down urtains, the glow of the burning y lit the room and out of the gloom, beh the lunch counter, almost at her elbow panting, blood-stained and torn, rose Mc t was the Terza. His fingers closed over the grip of the bread knife on the shelf besids him “Who wants me?” he cri=d, leaning over his breastwork. “Leave my house! For th leave it!" screamed Mrs. M ing her hands. The scab, leaped across the count but before he could spring again thers was a ery be- hind “He sha'n't leave this house Kate Mullenix, her face ablaze, forward. “He sha'n't lea she cried ng ¢ “Leave th er your bo m under clubs! e it for who? out. Burn it over our heads! she cr passiona wheeling on the r When he goes we'll go with you that want him, Cu Come get him, you stands. Take him! Her volce rang like a fire bell. R burnt by her words, would hav s Rucker, coward himself on McTerza, but Nicholson h him back. “Come away!" called the older ma hoarsely. “It's not women we're after She's an engineer's wife, Curt; this ~ shanty. Come away, I he pushed Rucker ar lowing out of the Mrs. Mullenix ar to lock the door. Terza, spent with bl them. So far as I ca that &8 where the courtship bega hen and there —and, as McTerza says, all along of Sink te's favor ers, for Sinkers was alway ite brother, as he is now M FEBRUARY I—ALAN DALE MAKES HIS DEBUT AS A WRITER FOR THE SUNDAY CALL——FEBRUARYI