Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Quiet Prevails in Charlotte, Aug. 27, 1919

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Aug. 27, 1919

Quiet Prevails in Charlotte. . . With 600 Soldiers and 200 Citizens Patrolling the Streets and Guarding the Barns of the Street Car Company. . . Cars Being Operated to a Limited Extent

Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 27—Reports reaching the City Hall today (???) quiet over the town with six companies of State troops and 200 armed citizens patrolling the streets and the property and barns of the Southern Public Utilities Co., as the result of the demands of the street car strikers, and the scenes of the riots at the barns of the Company last Tuesday when three men were killed and 13 were injured.

The death list was increased today when J.D. Aldred and Will Hammond, two of those seriously wounded in the Tuesday morning riot succumbed to their injuries near mid-night last night. One other man is seriously wounded and is not expected to live.

Street cars were run out on limited schedules today. The authorities assured the officials of the Public Utilities Company that they had the satiation well in hand and that they would guarantee them protection and promptly quell any disturbance. The cars and the tracks of the company are being guarded to prevent further trouble and to provide for the prompt moving of the cars.

600 Men Under Arms in Charlotte

Six hundred men are under arms here to prevent a recurrence of the strike disorder of the past few days.

The death of J.L. Aldred of Charlotte last night brought the toll of lives lost in last night’s shooting at the car barns of the Southern Public Utilities Company to four. He was taken to a hospital mortally wounded soon after more than a dozen men had been shot in an exchange of fire between guards and the mob. It was authoritatively announced tonight that operation of street cars would be resumed tomorrow morning, having been suspended for a day following the outbreak last night.

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