St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-10
stricken and forgot the use of his brake
snd the car moved with acceleratlng
sneed toward the open draw. The

WOMEN SCREAMED AND TAINTED
and some of them fell off the car. The
bridge tender, at the risk of having the
structure run into by the approaching
vessel, closed the draw as quickly as
possible, but only in time to eaten the
descending car, which was on the Drlnk.
A matter of peculiar interest is tne
character of the localities through
which a number of YerkeS' car lines
run. Not few of the neighbOrhoods
traverSed have become noted through
out the country as the strOnghOlds OF
the socialists and anarchists. Ihe
exact spot where the Haymarket bomb
fell is scarcely ten yards from MI.
Yerkes' tracks on Randolph street. An
archist Parsons doorway opens directly
out on Milwaukee avenue, one OF the
chief of the syndicates thoroughfBreS.
three-quarterS of mile distant, on TINS
same street, Anarchist George Engle
could easily have peered through ms
dingy store windows, and, II allVe
to-day,
HURLED A aOMB
down on a passing street car Loaded
with police. On the Lake street line
are the halls, scattered along less than
a block apart. where the Lehr and Wehr
Weiren held their secret drills WIN
rifle and dynamite. Halstead street
and Blue Island avenue, both through
streets of the YerkeS system. are lined
for miles with almost unbroken foN VS.
of saloons. Clyburn avenue Is FAMOUS
in the history of the anarchist trial as
the street along which Louis Lingg
marched with a satchel full OF bombs
the night of the Haymarket slaughter,
and was only restrained from throwing
the missiles into patrol wagons and po-
lice stations through the cunning and
coWardice of the informer, Sellger. lt
was in a saloon near Division street,
another of the YerkeS streets, that
Lingg'S bombs were distributed ana an
hour lated moved down whole ranks or
police. The list of like significant as
sOciations suggested by the names or
many of the Yerkes streets might be
stretched out almost intermlnaDly.
A disturbance more serious than that
on the North side marked the ending or
the trip of the West side cars this even
ing. A dense mob ObStructed the police
laden cars on the down trip after pass
ing HalStead street. Nothing serious
happened, however, until the cars were
approaching the western terminus on
tile return. There the crowd surged
around the cOnveyanceS in such COM
pact mass that it was impossible for the
horses to move. A platoon OF poilce
with clubs forced a way for the leading
car, but the one following
WAS BROUGHT TO A STOP
with a lurch. A wooden wedge had
been suddenly inserted in the Western
avenue switch by some person IN the
mob Superintendent Nagle was the
driver of the disabled car, He seemed
to be the object of special dislike from
the strikers and their sympathiZerS. In
a moment after the car stopped, the
vicinity was pandemOnlum. Stones
and sticks were hurled at the car, ana
the air rang with yells and curses. A
flying brick caught the superintendent
in the stomach. Uttering an oath, he
pulled a revolver from from his over
coat pocket and tnrned menacingly
toward the crowd. The conductor,
Harris, who had been discharged by the
company for cause long previous to the
strike, but re-emplOyed in the emergen-
cy, followed quickly the example OF
the superintendent. ! The sharp click
as the two cooked their weapons was
the signal for an unexpected incident.
Police Lieut.. Shea was seen to grasp
Nagel and by main strength forced the
pistol from him. You d fool, what
do YOU mean?' blurted out the irate
Lieutenant. Harris was disarmed with
as little ceremony. Nagel left the car,
and when, off his guard for moment
received
STUNNING BLOW IN THE JAW
from a heavy-Uuilt man who was some
what under the influence of liquor, but
none the less powerful for that. a gen
eral row enSued, in which Nagel and
his braWny aSSailant were roughly
I,,1Ia1 Tho lattar Ihln1nn ~
Northwestern SWitchman named John
Gleason, had to be mercilessly dubbed
and then sat upon in the patrol wagon
by half a dozen policemen before he
could be Subdued. Others were scarcely
less determined, and, but for the fact
that all appeared to be unarmed, the
the fray would scarcely have been fin
ished without the sacrifice of number
of lives. So far as learned, no one OIL
either side was injured dangerously.
The big downtown retail stores did
greatly curtailed business to-day. This
evening the managers OF these establish
mentS were very glnm, and expected
that commencing tomorrow and lasting
till the end of the strike, trade would
be practically nothing. If the struggle
continues long between the car men
and the syndicate, a wholesale reduction
of forces in the retail stores down
town is among the probabilities.
A movement of this kind might easily
mean loss of employment to many hun
dred persons. One of the local papers
has report that meeting of anarchists
was held this afternoon to lay plans for
taking advantage of the general turmoil
of the strike. The idea of ''terrorizing
the capitalists" by resort to dynamite
is said to have been discussed. Four
teen pertons are reported as being pres
ent at the meeting. One Johann Wulff,
claiming to have been sent from New
York by committee of which Justus
Schwab is chairman, is represented as
having been the leading spirit. The
story is not generally credited.