Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-31

drivers and $50 stablemen are wanted to
take the place of the strikers. All new
Corners are notified that those who go TO
work now viii be retained in the employ
OF the company, whatever the result OF
this strike may be.
1I:20 a. m.-About fifty applicants
for positions have been accepted and at
that hour twenty-six cars had been start
ed. Six old drivers reported for duty
before noon and were put to work. Cars
are being run only as far down as Four
tenth street, and as far up as Thirty
sixth street. The avenue is lined with
people watching the running cars and
evidently expecting a collision. Super
intendent Foulk of the Ninth avenue car
line stated that his road would not send
out cars until the trouble was over. He
did not care 20 invite riot. At IL 'elock
a mob of strikers gathered at the corner
of Bedford and Carmine streets,
overturned half a dozen wagons on
the Sixth avenue tracks and also
compelled two ashmen to dump their
loads on the track and thirty milch
cans and q lot of paving stones were
scattered along the entire block. Two
policemen, Byrns and Shannon, at
tempted to control the mob, but made
the head and Byrns was hurt by the dis
charge of a pistol into his face. A squad
arrived under the command of Capt.
Copeland and the mob dispersed.
The first car on the Belt line was start
at II :33 this morning, escorted by 100
policemen. No obstacle was encountered
until below Fifty-ninth street, where
two vehicles, wagon and truck, were
found overturned on the track. The ear
did not proceed further, but turned
around and went back to the depot
Three arrests were made during the pro-
gress of the car. No other car will be
run on that line to-day.
STRIKERS DISCHARGED.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The fact that
the public has not been entirely bereft of
surface street car transportation has been
a disquieting element to the strikers in
their determined effort to stop the run
ming of Third avenue ears. In this the
strikers have been entirely unsuccessful,
and now doubts have crept among them
and were to-day uttered by the men as
car after car was trundled out from the
various depOts ''Some have gone back
to work and IN not going 20 be frozen
out and left, - said striker of q group
VIII CHI this afternoon stood watch
ing the passage of a car
driven by men whom they knew.
This feeling was found to have grown
widely to-day, though specifically the
men all endeavor to be brave. Some are
actually so, some are not. SupeFin-
tendent Skitt of the Fourth avenue line
late this afternoon stated he then had
under protection 80 new men, and some
of the strikers had come back, but of
these he selected only the best ones.
They would be taken however, only one
by one individually, upon application.
About 4 'clock this afternoon
MOB OF MEN.
gathered at Ninety-fifth street and Sec
ond avenue and after q long discussion
started to Third avenue under the leader
ship of a striking driver named Michael
J Mahr When one of the Third avenue
''scab'' cars came along the order was
given, 600 for it!'' and the crowd
obeyed. Three cars were overturned and
stones and other missiles few in volleys
at the drivers and conductors, and the
traces of the harness were cut. Detect
i've Sergeant Cottrell singled out Mahr as
leader of the mob and placed him under
arrest at the point of revolver. The.
mob made several Intellectual attempts
to rescue their leader. Meanwhile two
patrol wagons, filed with police officers
and a reserve from an adjacent police
station, were dispatched to the scene
and secured peace by the use of clubs.
Car No. 10Y, of the Fourth avenue
line, on its way up town, at Seventy
second street was attacked by
crowd of about fifty strikers, who
had hidden behind q brick pile.
They stoned it with bricks and
stones. All the windows were broken,
though two passengers, who were aboard,
were uninjnred.