St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-11
Bonfires Built on the Tracks
and All Traffic Com -
pletely Blocked. IS
A Large Crop Of Broken
Heads Resulting From the
Skirmishes. =
Further Troubles Of a More
Serious Nature Expected
to Occur To-Day.
Snecial to the Globe.

streets to-day. anu llio lclIpcI vi INV
strikers and their sympathiZers Is evil
IDENTIFY becoming more irritable. All
day long the tracks on the North side
were covered with Instructions, which
were renewed as quickly as removed,
and the policemen guarding the cars
were forced every few yards to
charge and dispense the crowds which
gathered in front of the cars and as
sailed the ''scab" conductors and drlv-
ers with all sorts of abuse. The first
serious trouble on the North side oc-
Cured during the fifth trip made by the
Garfield avenue cars. They had pro-
ceeded as far as Indiana street without
serious difficulty, when they encoun-
tered a crowd of perhaps LOCO peo-
pie who had piled distractions OH
the track. A gang of railroad
laGorers was Set TO work to clear away
the debris, when fusilade was COM
menced by the crowd. Rocks, clubs
and missiles of every description flew
through the air, and when the police,
after repeated charges, succeeded In
dispensing the crowd it was found that
three of the labOrers were seriously IN
jured. They we're: Mike Gibbons, cut
on the scalp and seriously injured;
August Anderson,
STRUCK WITH A BRICK
and face badly smashed; Nate Crime,
struck in several places by flying
bricks. They were removed to the
hospital. More trouble was experienced
at about the same spot at $50 o'clock.
The crowd on the streets had been aug
mented by persons returning from
work. and at the hour named probably
5000 people were packed i'll the block
Oh Clark street between Illinois and
Indiana. A number of Garfield avenue
cars came on their down trip,
but were stopped at this point
where the disorderly element OF the
crowd was throwing instructions on the
tracks. Some bold SympathlZerS OF the
strikers got some cedar blocks from
neighboring streets, and plllng them on
the tracks poured tar on them. Inc
mass was then set on fire. Inc ponce
endeavored to disperse the crowd, but
it was so dense that their efforts
were unavailing, and reallZin2
that an attempt to force the
cars through would probably
result in bloody outbreak, they were
ordered to return to the barns. No
further efforts were made after this to
run cars on the North side. On the West
side all was quiet until about 2 O'Clock,
although large crowds had gathered
round the Western avenue barns. AT
that hour MeSsrS. Gubbins and Carson,
two officials of the railway company,
drove out of the barn in a buggy. Their
appearance excited the wrath OF the
crowd and they were met by shower
of stones. Both men Immediately drew
reVolYers and
FIRED INTO THE CROWD
which became excited to the point OF
frenzy. The horse became frightened
by the noise and started to run with the
strikers in pursuit. The buggy dashed
across Madison street, and Gubbins and
Carson again fired into the crowd,
which fell back and allowed them to
escape. No one was hit by the lying
bullets. but GubbnS and Carson were
captured by the police at Oakley street
and locked up. The most stubborn
encounter of the day, however,
occurred at o'clock, when an attempt
was made to run q car over the Madison
street line. Five thousand persons
were crowded around the barn at west
ern avenue when the car was run out
and they greeted its appearance with
yell. The crowd had been thoroughly
eXasperated by the shooting atfray two
hours previous, and it was evident that
it meant business. The car had not
proceeded ten feet before the cannon
ade began. Stones and bricks rained
uDOn the car fast and furious. Police
Captain Aldrch, who was riding in his
buggy alongside the car, was struck by
a brick and had his scalp laid open. The
driver of the car, man named HuXter,
was twice knocked from the platform
by well-aimed missiles, while none of
the policeman and reporters inside
escaped without some bruises. Matters
were getting critical. Capt. Aldrich
WA COVERED WITH BLOOD
so was the driver of the car. The mob
was yelling wildly kill the scab,"
'.Shoot him, +" Hang him" ''Smash his
face Bricks and stones were flying
thick aud fast. The police appeared to
be totally unequal to the crowd, and for
a time there were reasons why the
attempt to take the car down Madison
street might have been prudently
their way. foot by foot, the police
gradually made way against the crowd,
which fell away by degrees as the car
proceeded eastward, until by the time
Oakley street was reached nothing
harder than curses were being hurled
at the vehicle and its occupants. The
trip down town was accomplished with
out interruption, but when Ashland az
enue was reached on the return trip the
trouble began again. The turbulent
crowd, encountered when the car first
started out, was again met, and the mob
contested every inch of the ground.
Lieut.. Shea had to order charge, and
the police
DID SOME MORE CLUBBING,
Another charge mad to be made at
Western avenue, and finally. clubbing.
right and left, the officers succeeded in
running the car into the barn. The
railway officials wanted to run out an
other car, but Capt. Aldrich, in view of.
the coming darkness and the evident
bad temper of the mob, decided that
such an attempt would be unwise and
the barns were locked up for the
night. A large crop of broken heads
resulted from the trip, but it is
not known that any we're dangerously
hurt. A conference was held tonight
between Mayor Roche and committees
representing the North and West side,
strikers, with view to settlement off
the strike. Alto o'clock the conference
dissolved, but Mayor Roche declined to-
saw what had been done. The street
car men said that they would report
the result of the conference to the
meetings of the strikers, who were
waiting TO hear from them, but declined
to say anything for publication. A
large number of extra police have been
sworn in tonight and will be ais
tributed tomorrow at points where the
greatest trouble is anticipated. A tele-
gram was received this evening at the
North side strikers headquarters from
the men who came here to take the
strikers places, but returned to Phila-
delphia. Those who were formerly i'm
the employ of the traction company
there have been
REFUSED THEIR OLD POSITIONS,