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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