Blood ran red in the streets of San Francisco yesterday.
In the darkest day this city has known since April 18, 1906, one thousand embattled police held at bay five thousand longshoremen and their sympathizers in a sweeping front south of Market street and east of Second street.
The furies of street warfare raged for hour piled on hour.
Two were dead, one was dying, 32 others shot and more than three score sent to hospitals.
Hundreds were injured or badly gassed. Still the strikers surged up and down the sunlit streets among thousands of foolhardy spectators. Still the clouds of tear gas, the very air darkened with hurtling bricks. Still the revolver battles.
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