The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-07-04
A DAY on TURMOTB
tN THE sTRRsFs on oH1oAeo.
rhs Result Of the Tlra. nip OF the Street
Cars Loaded with Poliesmsn-Peopls
clabbed aua Arrested, and the strik.
sts LEFT in Possssaiou Of the Field.

Il
CuIcA6o, July s.-Groups Of strikers
and sympathissrs began to gather at the
car barns on Western avenue as early as s
o'clock this morning. It had been report
ed that large reinforcements were on their
way from the stock yards to aid in resist
ing the officers in their attempt to get cars
started, and there was no little talk Of
probable bloodshed. Soon, however, a
striking conductor appeared with the In
formation that the President Of the .Asao-
ciation had accepted . scheme for settling
the differences by arbitration, and that no
attempt would at present be made to start
cars out. The Arbitration Committee, he
said, was to be composed Of citizens, Of
which two members would be chosen by
the strikers, two by the company, and
Mayor Harrison 10 be the third.
AT 1:30 o'clock there were no ihdlca-
tons OF trouble, and less than twenty-five
men were about the barns.
At64. N. the West Division Street Rail-
way Company started o few cars from
their barns. At Western avenue, ab lut
one block from the starting point, they
found their progress barricaded by lum-
Der and gas pipes piled upon the track,
which the police were engaged IN clearing
away unmolested by the strikers. Fifteen
patrol wagons loaded with police are
placed along the street, and every street
corner on Madison street has its strong
force of police, Madison bridge being
doubly guarded.
A sTuMsltXG POINT.
The street cars reached Ashland avenue
ats AN. At Hoyne avenue the strikers
or sympathisers had gained access to; a
lot Of shoyels which had been used by
gas company trench diggers and piled .
huge bank Of dirt on the track. The fore
man of the gas company gang, finding the
shovels left by the strikers, hadtaken pos;
session Of and locked them up, so when
the police arrived they found only the
workmen present, minus their shoyels.
The police captain, 1t is reported, asked
the men for thelr ahoyels, and on their re-
plying that the foreman mad locked them
up, it is stated the police commenced
using their clubs on the gas company en-
pluyes and several men were terribly
beaten, some having their heads splitopes.
Under the protection OF the entire police
force of the city, six cars were sent out by
the West Division railway at 0 o'clock,
and succeeded in making their way into
the business heart Of the city and eneoun-
tered no opposition, beyond that mention
ed at Hoyne street, which proved not to
be very serious. The cars were filed with
policemen, and in fact, the entire thor
0nghiate Is lined with policemen, and west
OF Ashland avenue no vehicles OF any
kind are allowed upon the street.
ARRESTS MADE.
The police have made already more
than one hundred arrests Of persons sus-
pected of IN inclination to impede the
progress of the cars, or who refused to
obey the injunction of the police to quit
the thorougniare. These were caFted OF
rapidly iE patrol wagons to the police
stations. The cars made the return Jour
ney to Western syenue without any en-
counter, and were started east again for
another trip. Madison street, along its
entire length, is filed with excited
strikers and their sympathisers and Curl
Gus spectators, The windows of the
buildings overlooking the street are also
oiled with people. Outside Of this one
street, however, there is no semhlance OF
excitement and business is being pursued
without any apparent reference to the
strike or its consequences.
The street cars on their second trip down
town made the journey safely: The
police, however, assumed the offensive
and arrested everybody making the first
jga Of desiringto create disturbance.
The avorite cry of the onlookers as the
cars were passing appeared to be "rats,
but everybody induiging in q ieeriDg cry
and detected in it was Immediately placed
under arrest.
HAD Orders TO SHOOT.
1t was generally understood that the