New-York tribune., 1886-04-20
ATTACKING A THIRD AVENUE CAR.
THE DRIVER AND CONDUCrOR ROUGHLY HANDLEl
- BRISK WORK BY THE POLICE.


BRISK WORK BY THE POLICE.
II, "tie-urn on all the roads in the city
except tho Eighth and Ninth Avenue lines was
ordered because the strikers alleged that
all these roads the two mentioned were
conspring against them and aiding aud abetting the
Third Avenue Line. No were run on most Of these
roads during the day. and no Third Avenue cars ran
until late in the afternoon At 5l5 the first with
Inspector Byrnrs and six policemen ran ont OF the
stables at Sixtyhfth-st and barring a great deal OF
hooting and yelling from the strikers and their friends
co ngregated the sidewalk. 1t went through safely to
Printing House square. seven other cars passed out
OF the stables ran the gauntlet Of yelling strikers and
passed down town.
1t was 3j when ear No. j3 the eighth to start emerged
from the and began its journey CITY Hallward
IL destined TO get through. The crowd In the
vicinity of the stables rapidly increasing afte
the first down and VIXEN car NO 13 passed the
belt OF police who kept the angry strikers from the I'M
mediate proximity to the stables nearly 5000 people
blocked Thlrd-ave. Two policemen stood on the front
platform beside Melvin A. Shcak. the driver. brawny
Young man Of twenty-five. SIX feet tall and with
determined cast OF countenance. On tho DacK plat
form the conductor Drake Iustod. a middleaeed man
long, black sidewhiskcrs. was guarded Dy patO-
men armed with long nght-sticks osoid locust that
Weighed nearly five pounds Nothing daunted by the
volley of epithets and yels that saluted hm
sheak guided his horses with steady and practlsed
hand through the crowd. He gripped the brake triny
his hat wa, tilted back from his head and he scowled
defiance at the raging crowd Cries Of "scab pro-
duced no effect upon him.
The bowled along in safety until 1t reached Fifty
nnth-st Here under the elevated station crowd OF
about 900 had collected 1t far enough from the
stables to be comparatively unprotected by tho police
While most of the mob were strikers there were
hundreds OF ugly, villanous faces that
looked as IT they had come up from
Houston.st looking for a scrape." They blocked the
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horse truck driven eastward through Fftynint-st
by a rce-lookng Irishman. Car No 30 reached tue
crossing time with the truck sneak Slack
ened speed permit the truck to pass Inc drVer
OF tho truck swung his horses savagey around ahu' IL
seemed to the crowd tried drive over the car horses
The frightened animals III trying to prevent e poio oi
the truck from mpang them, backed in their tracks
and became entangled in their race-chains one horse
tied up legs the chains and fell unuer tue car
where he lay kicking and sprawllng. pilar Vi 'no
elevated road prevented his regainng his rect IL was
the looked and the crowd sursed ABOUT the
obsructed car They called to Sneak to get down from
the platform They entrcated at first but Sneak refused
70 give p the lines mob grew denscr and denser
around the car Bloomugdale Brothers, the cothierS'
are erecting a building at the corner anu suoAS'
stones DrcKoats and mud and mortar we're pehtiuI a
brckbst suddenly crashed through the car window IL
was followed by perfect shower OF whole bricks ana
half-bricks stones and mud. The car WINDOWS were
shattered and the woodwork dented in and battered
The blood Of the mob up The volley OF stcRs'
stones mortar and brickbats was turned upon
tho luckless conductor and driver fierce rush was
made at the car and a strong arms reached out
and seized the two men Those dsin crested persons
who looked OIL say that the four po cemen offered no
assistance whatever 10 the two men, VINO were hl III
a dozen places by flying missiles Bold strikers JuhPcu
upon the platforms and hustled them TO the ground
.heak was thrown under the feet OF the wild mob now
freuzied with excitement, and kicked ana traupled id
the mud Clenched fists struck him In the race 'oh-
ductor Husted fared better lie had been knocked
from his platform and rolling on the street
bruised and beaten lie managed TO get up ana hcd LOT
sarrty from the crowd to grocery store Inc s'rAoS
pursued him. but the grocer humaney smut tue uoor III
their face, and saved the trembling conductor
Meantime -heaK WAS battling for his lie WIN
the brutal mob, increased to about 2'ooo people,
men and women. But help for him was near
The police attracted by the noise oil lhc iO'' were
coming in doube-quck time 10 the scene cap
tain Gunner he ded thirty buccoas that came rom 'uo
staies Captain Mount lei platoon up lhiru"V"
from the opposite direction But taey would not nave
been IN time to save shcak had not sergeant lucA o'
the Fifty-eighhst police who was near oy "hch tho
riot began taken four and charged into tue mop
The long locust clubs fell upon heads ann shoulders
regardless OF whom they struck Inc eAu"uS1
less store OF ammunition hcId by the m)D
WAS turned upon the police and their spring UNIFORMS
were hespattcred lbersly wish mud aud mortar SCR
geant Tuck weighs 800 pounds and Is tall ana
stustic Tho mob fell back from before the giant anu