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Bloodshed Marks the Streetcar Strike at Evansville.Evansville, Ind., May 18.—While several strike sympathizers were on a Walnut street car having trouble with a strike-breaker, the car jumped the track at a curve and plunged headlong into a building, killing one, a child, and fatally injuring three other persons.Bessie Cohn, eighteen months old, was killed, but her sl6ter, Lillian, who was wheeling her in a baby carriage in front of the building when It fell over them, escaped. The conductor of the car cannot live, his skull being crushed. , •The accident occurred at the corner, of Eighth and Walnut streets, the car dashing into a corner building and wrecking the entire front. Two of the men had their skulls fractured and are certain to die. The baby was buried under a pile of brick for twenty minutes before the body was found.The accident occurred as a result of a fight on the front end of the car. A union sympathizer jumped on the car as it was running down Eighth street and began to fight with the motorman, who turned on full speed. When the car struck the curve ft bounded across the street into the building. The child was in a baby buggy on the sidewalk when the accident occurred, and was burled under the shower of bricks.By order of Mayor ooehne the cars today were loaded with police and a desperate effort is^being made to restore norma] conditions. More than 200 extra men were sworn in and went on duty this morning. The gangs of Imported strike breakers, who declare that they were brought here without knowing what the conditions were, are deserting their posts and leaving the city.
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New Castle Daily Courier
New Castle, Indiana, US
Sat, May 18, 1907
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