New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-31
LIVELY RIOTING IN CARMINEsT.
BIG CROWD STONE THE PoLIcE-A sEor FIREr
IN THE AIR AND VIGOROUS CLUBBING
END THE TRouBl

IN THE AIR AND VIGOROUS CLUBBING
END THE TROUBLE.
Superintendent Il. T. Moore, of the sixthave. lins,
said that meeting of the management Of that rail-
road had been called to take decisive steps the
policy TO be pursued, at present it thought
that the strike would not last long. Presidents
Frank Curtiss silent usual, and IN
to question whether he could sag any thing with
regard to the likelihood OF the running to-day,
replied II don't know anything about the road.n
He endeavored eject reporter from the company's
Offices, and called upon Inspector Williams 30 throw
the reporter out, but the Inspector smingy replied
that the reporter could get out without any as
sistance from him. About 80 p. m. proclamation
posted on the doors Of the company's stables
and the starters boxes the sidewalk by order
Of the president The placards, however, woro
quickly torn defaced. The notices read as fol-
lows:
To the Public.
Extracts from the Penal Code, ch. e76,
Laws OF 1881
section 635. Injury 10 railroad tracks,
ETC., how punished.
l. Displacea, removes, injuries destroys a rais
ment or structure, or any part thereof attached or
operated by steam or by horses or
2 Places any obstruction upon the track of such
s. wilfuny discharges loaded irearm, or pro.
eets Or throws stone or any other misss at rs.
is punishable as follows:
l. IT. thereby, the safety of any person is en-,
dangered, BY Imprisonment for not more than ten
years
more than 'Hsy @ es b 0 ns o o more er bs
two hundred and dfty dollars both.
of $3.50 for the arrest and conviction of any person
violating the above law on the line Of It's railroad
By order OF the Executive Commitfee,
FRANK CURTIsS, President.
The first run out yesterday morning was No.
at a n., driven By John Richardson, with William
Flynn conductor, and six policemen 10 protect
them. There were over 200 policemen at the stables
under command of Inspector Williams and Captain
Warts ready In Of any trouble along the ne.
Nothing Of any consequence occurred, however, and
fourteen more at five minutes head
was, Dai fhey did not run below csnslst. The first
and most serious trouble occurred at Carmine-st
about IL o'clock where the strikers had blocked tina
tracks by upsetting five milk wagons two trucks and
an ash cart between Bedford and Bleecker sts On
sxth-ave being seen by the crowd they poured
into CarmIne-st until It was estimated that they
numbered fully 1000 The officers jumped OH
the car and began 90 their clubs, assistance
being rendered by Officers shanahan and Byrnes, Of
the Ninth Precinct The crowd, however, poured In
from the side streets and alleys and for few min
utes tht police had a hard time. The crowd knocked
officer shanahsn down and he was roughly handled,
being begrimed with dit and much bruised. He
managed to hold on to his club, however, although
of the ringeaders tried to wrest II from him.
as things began to look serious Captains Brogan
and Copeland arrived on the with their reserves
and they received volley of stones, bricks and all
kinds of missiles The policemen laid about them.
with their clubs in every direction, and the crowd
became demoralized when Officer Banks fired his pfs-
toI in the air, and cry raised that some one had
been shot The police took advantage OF the disor-
der, and cracked heads and bleeding faces showed
the efcctual use made of their night sticks. Near
the close Of the riot, which lasted for nearly fifteen
minutes one Of the ringeaders arrested and
taken to Jefferson Market and the police compelled
gang of men TO clear the tracks. Several small
attempts were made block the tracks in
yarcst but the police kept the crowd in subsection.
At the uptown end of the line crowds of tho
strikers the side streets, but Inspector Will
fans with HIS men kept them well under control.
But there was slight skiimsh which occurred late
In the afternoon. At Fifticth-st crowd OF men
tried 10 stop car but they were driven back by
q platoon of under Detective-Sefgean
PRICE At Fifty-seventh Fifty eighth. and
Fifty-ninth sts.. another attempt made,
about A O'Clock. to block the track with
stones and to overturn truck The police keps
the track cleared and several of the strikers COB
badly knocked about aud cut by the pollcemens
clubs. All the tho road were called In by
. p. M, and the stables were closed.