Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-27
A MOB
FORCES THE ST. LOUIS STREET CABS
TO CEASE RUNNING.
Cars Thrown from the Track, Horses ID
hitched and Drivers Compelled to
Quit work-NumerOus Arrests
Made and Order Restored.
VARIOUS PHASES OF THE STRIKES.
A HALT CALLED.


Proceedings.
Sr. LOUIS, April 26.-Between 10 and
II o'clock this morning Erastus Wells,
President OF the Olive street and Market
street railroad lines, made a proposition
to his men to give the conductors 10
cents and the drivers l29 cents per hour.
Three or four OF the regular hands con-
cluded to accept this and about noon
the cars were started on both roads,they
being mainly manned by new or extra
hands. The first four or five cars op
Market street passed over the road very
well, receiving only a mud
spattering from few unruiy
persons on the street, but about one
O'Clock great crowd collected on Ches-
nut street, between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth streets, stopped ipur cars, forci-
bly detained them, and compelled the
horses TO haul them over the macadam-
lied pavement, down Twelfth street to
Market street, and then forced the dri-
yers to take them back to the stables.
On the latter route, this line uses two
parallel streets, Chestnut and Market,
one block apart, the cars going east on
Chestnut and coming west on Market.
After the lawless act, the mob stopped
another car, going ont Chestnut street,
at the corner OF 18th, broke its windows
plastered it with mud, unhitched the
team, and made the driver take them
back to the stable. The car now stands
on the track, and the crowd will not let
the railroad men touch it. About a
dozen policemen were present at this
point, but, Notwithstanding they ar.
rested number OF the leading spirits OF
the mob, they were powerless to prevent
the reckless proceeding related above.
Another similar scene occurred on
Market street, between Forty-eighth
and Fiftieth streets, ON the eastern ter
minus of the road. Several arrests were
made here also, but the police could not
preserve order, and the mob bespattered
the cars with mud and assailed the men
on them with all manner OF vie and
abusive epithets. On the Oliver street
line another great crowd gathered at
the corner of Fifth street to Fourth
street, the eastern end OF the road and
obstructed the passage OF cars. This
mob was also very abusive to the con.
ductors and drivers and was loud and
bitter in its denunciations of the rail-
road companies. Capt. Fox, with squad
OF about dozen mounted police, was
at this point and managed to keep the |
tracks clear enough for the cars to pass,
but they nor the patrollmen, a number
of whom were also there, conld not pre-
vent tine use OF foul language or stop the |
throwing OF mud at the cars, or other
active demonstrations. Capt. Fox's |
hnrse received knife thrust at this |
point by some unknown ruttian and the |
Captain drew his pistol but did not use |
it. A number of arrests were also made |
and finally about two o'clock the street |
was pretty well cleared and order pre-
vailed.
The Usual Spring Matinee of the Miners.
COLUMBUS, o., April 26.-The white
miners at Corning and Rendville are on
a strike against q reduction from so to |
20 cents ton for mining. The strikers |
number over 500. There are about the |
same number OF negro miners employed |
at the two places, who continue at work
as usual. The reduction was ordered |
by the Ohio Central and Sunday Creek
Coal Companies. w. p. Rend & Co.
have not as yet ordered any
reduction, and their men, white and
colored, are working as usual. The
Hooking Valley operators, who mine
and ship at least ten times as much coal
as the Sunday Creek people in Corning
and Rendvile, have given notice OF a
similar reduction to 20 cents, and are
watching tue proceedings in the Sunday
Creek Valley with some interest. As
the colored miners are all working, and
some OF the whites also, it is as good as
settled that the strike will not last long,
The miners, before the operators order.
ed the reduction, were about to propose
a reduction to 20 cents themselves, fear
ing that the operators were about to pro-
pose reduction TO 90 cents.
The Strike Continues at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, April 26 The street car
strike is still fading. Two busses
have been running to day by the strik-
ers, but with small encouragement.
The founders are giving the wheel
rights Is per cent. rise and not the
10 I'm moulders, which created some ex.
element. At the moulders' meeting
this afternoon a resolution was passed
Fifteen per cent. for all classes or moth
ing"