Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-10

ed only by periodic shouts, groans
and jeers from the men massed on
the sidewalks and in the cross
streets.
cat intervals of about block, loads
of coal had been dumped on the track,
and the car was thrown off very fire.
quently. Men who appeared to be
strikers ran about ten blocks ahead
of the procession to encourage the
obstructionists. Women came out
of side streets and dumped ashes on
the rails. The wild cheering, jsering
and kissing was kept up all along the
route.
''The police manifested commeda-
bic forbearance until E,dridge street
was reached Overturned and de-
rallied Second avenue cars few
blocks ahead caused the procession
to stop, and the hooting crowd press
ed upon the policemen. A stone
whizzed past Superintendent Muir
rays head, and he ordered his men
to charge the crowd. Many heavy
night clubs were uplifted and brought
down on backs and shoulders by the
charging mass of blue coats Yells
of pain supplemented the shouts and
jeers as the multitude struggled into
Eldridge and Forsyth streets, north
and south, to aveid the shower of
blows.
shop keepers were paralyzed by
the sudden bursting in of their doors
and the incoming of frightened men
women. Some windows were smash
ed and showcases were overturned
Two minutes after the charge Grand
street was clear for several blocks
and the pavement was Uttered with
broken bats and tattered bonnets.
The strikers appeared on the Bow
cry. Then at a word from the stri
kers the drivers of seven cars that
happened to be punched together
near the Grand street crossing pull
ell their pins and drove their horses
to one side of the street A Third
avenue car had stopped directly
across the track OF the advancing
blue car. In minute hundred !
hands seized it and gently laid it ON
its side. Then the other cars above !
and below it on the Bowery were I
jumped off the tracks and set in po- /
sitions that were awkward for the |
Grand street road. Three of the |
Fourth avenue cars that were coming /
toward the Bowery in Grand street 1
were laid on their sides near tOgeth- !
er. 4 fourth was overturned at Mott |
street and two more ut Centre. the
mob howled until it was hoarse, but
the strikers seldom spoke a word.
You never saw cars turned over so
gently, said Sailor George, the
Fourth avenne line watchmnn on the
corner OF the Bowery and Grand
street II WIS hike putting a sick ba
by to bed
policeman Hughes, who was the
only man on post at that time, strug
gled 10 get to the first overturned
car, bug wcs he.nmed IN. The pas
sengers from the cars were absorbed
into the crowd, ~, several OF them
greatly frightened Bar
ney Garvcy, sixty years Old. % 2i2 |
Monroe street. fell to the street and
was ha lly injured by the surging
,rowd before he was rescued. Mrs.
James Fisher, an old lady, of 204
Spencer street, Brooklyn, was so
much excited. that she tainted and
vas taken into confectionery
store in Grand street, where she re-
fived a.,
Meantime toe blue ear, with it's !
guards. wa s,eaaily advancing ,
When the E.eirs reached the over .
nfne3 car '--y picked II up and set
{ on It's foe3 ziah a rush, while the
:rowd gro.s4eai ana yelled, but the =
;ar h.,l no s.5oss1v been set upright [
han smoke began to pour out of the
window crsvices All creation yelled {
Firep The police broke in the ear
windows and threw open the doors
u setting the car upright they had
handled the car so violently that the
ire from the stove Was scattered all
over the car floor and seats. While
he police labored with the ire some
,ne sent out a fire alarm, and 10 the
Wild confusion that then prevailed
vas added the Changing of the gongs
If half dozen fire engines, two
rucks, and IA water tower.
But the power of three hundred
policemen armed with night clubs
vas sufficient to rush the crowd out
IF the way. Their whole efforts
we're devoted to clearing the Grand
street line, and little after three o.
.lock they succeeded in getting The
blue cars across the Bovery.
The men on all of the lines Ia the
,ity, on the morning Of the 5th,
struck. About 2 O'Clock on the 5th,
.is trouble WAS adjusted By the com
pennies agreeing TO give The coniuc-
.ogs ami drivers two dollars, for
.welve honrs. as 4 DAYS work, inelrd-
ng a half hour for alDuer. |
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