St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-04
CAST STONES AND BRICKS
Riotous Strikers Cause Considerable
Excitement in New York.
A BLOCKADE BY THE MOB
Officers Use Their Clubs Freely and
the Crowds Are Scat
tered.

New YORK, Feb. 3.--A riot occurred
on First avenue. near Thirty-ninth
street, this afternoon, during which a
number of persons were injured by
bricks and stones, and Officer Brennan
narrowly escaped bullet that was fired
from the roof of tenement. The
trouble began with an assault by
the crowd upon some cars on the
Thirty-fourth street branch of the
Third avenue line and some OF the For
ty-second street line. The streets were
finally cleared by large detachment of
police under Inspectors Byrnes and
Steers. The avenue had been crowded
all the morning with people who were
in an angry mood over the strike.
Some boys playing in the street
about o'clock rolled truck
from the curb across the car
track. The solitary officer in the vicin-
ity drovethe boys away and caught one
of them, whom he took to the station
house. When the officer returned the
crowd had increased in numbers and in
yiciouSness. The blue coat was received
with shower of stones. AT the same
time the mob seized some trucks and
upset them on the track, blockading
a Thirty-fourth street car. His Car
formed target for stones and bricks,
and its windows were
QUICKLY DEMOLISHED. ~
The passengers, among whom were
some women, fed in terrier. Mean
while the officer had raped tor assist
ance. and the Sixteenth precinct re-
serve was on its way to the scene. The
,ph RI crfr;r, tr,to
logs and all sorts of obstruc-
tons from neighboring stone yards.
wood yards, etc., and pilfng
them Oh the tracks. Thousands iof
men, women and children shouted ap-
proval from the windows and roofs of
the tenements which lined the street.
When the reserve came up they were
pelted with missiles both from the
rioters and from the people Oh the
roofs. The police force was too
small to make any impression
on the mob, and more help was
summoned. Some of the passengers
in the car had been hit and bruised.
One old lady tainted, and was cared for
in a neighboring drug store. The shot
which so narrowly missed Policeman
Brennan crashed through the window
of the car on which the officer was rid
fortunately, no one was seated in its
path. The shot seemed to come
FROM A HOUSE,
and some of the officers broke into the
building, but could find no one on whom
to fix the guilt. A big stone from roof
smashed hole in the top of Forty
second street car. which was in the
blockade. The stones were growing
more plentiful and the crowd more
demonStrative when carriage, con-
tanning Inspectors ByrneS and Steers
dashed around corner into the mob.
The officers jumped out and began to
ply their clubs. AT the same time two
patrol wagons hurried around another
corner. The men jumped out, formed
i'll line. and swept down the crowd. In
of people, all the rioters hav-
ing been driven down the
side streets. The policemen
remained stretched along the avenue
to keep it clear. Some men on the roof
of No. GOT threw some bricks, one OF
which crushed the helmet of an officer.
A detachment of officers raided the
house, but, after climbing four flights
of stairs, found the roof deserted. The
offenders had found refuge in other
tenements. This ended the trouble, and,
except Tor the occasional
THROWING OF A BRICK.
from some yard or other place of conceal
ment at an officer, there was no further
disturbance. Cars were kept running
Oh the avenue until 7:30 p. m. There
was no trouble of note on any other
East side line during the day. Nothing
of much interest occurred among the
tied-up line of road on the West
side to-day. The Broadway. Eighth
avenue, Seventh avenue and Belt Line
companies made nosa.tempt to run ears.
The Sixth avenue line was kept running
until $3.50 p. M, when crowds began to
gather at points along the road, and the
outlook was so threatening that the cars
were hauled off for the night. Already
an ugly affray had occurred in Carmine
street, one of the eats having its win |
dows smashed, and the police scattering
the crowd with some difficulty.