The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-13

The Street-Car Company Attempts to Run
Cars and Makes q Failure.


The Street-Car Company Attempts to Run
Cars and Makes q Failure.
MINNEAPOLIS. April 12-The street-car
company made it's first formal attempt to
raise the strike shortly after o'clock this
afternoon The move was made at the
Fourth-avenue car barns. A special detail
of policemen was on hand to ride in the
car and see that order was kept. President
Lowery and Manager Goodrich drove to
the spot in carriage to see the first wheel
move. The car proceeded on its way, but
had not gone twenty feet before it was
stopped by the men, the horses unhitched
and the car showed backed in the barn.
The car carried Sergeant Helm and several
policemen, but they made no attempt to
arrest any one.
A few minutes before o'clock this after
noon there was a serious disturbance on
Washington avenue. near First avenue,
south. A Fourth-avenue car had with
great difficulty made Its way. to- the turn
table and was on its way back. 1t was
surrounded by huge and excited crowd,
members of which hurled missiles of all
sorts at its occupants. Finally some one
set the brake on the rear platform and
stopped it. AT this juncture a squad of
from the Central Station and rushed at full
speed into the crowd, with clubs drawn.
Once In the center of the crowd, they ar
rested three men and retreated. The crowd
ting very violent. To make matters worse,
number of express wagons filled with
strikers drove in front of the car and sue
ceeded in filling up the street SO as to make
blockade. The driver of the car finally
unlocked his horses and went of, amid the
cheers of the crowd, leaving the car stand
ing on the track.
At 4:29 another car made its appearance
on Washington avenue, from the barn.
The mounted police made a way for it
through the crowd, and it finally reached
the turn table. On its way back, the car
was blOckaded by two wood carts, which
were dropped on the corner of Washington
and Hennepin avenues. The crowd hOOted
and yelled, and then the car stuck. Finally
the driver became disgusted, and, unhitch-
ing his horses drove Oft. By this time there
were two stalled" cars on the avenue and
huge crowd. The situation was getting
serious. The police arrested another man,
and took him off to the station. There had
been great deal of rotten egg and stone
throwing, and excitement ran at fever
heat. Three mounted policemen lost their
heads and charged upon the crowd, throw
ing down several people and lnjuring a
time: and one man was numerically
dubbed by six or seven policemen. The
noise frightened the car horses still
more, and the drivers and officers
found 1T expedient to take them
away from the car. the crowd readily
yielding to such move. After lingering
while, and finding it impossible to hitch
up again, the horses were removed again to
the stables. and the attempt to move the
cars abandoned for the time. After this,
the crowd became less demOnstrative, and
gradually thinned out, leaving the two cars
on the track-One near Hennepin avenue
and the other near Third avenue, south.
Thus ended the day in which President
Lowery prOphesied that he would have all
the cars running on every line before night.
There was a good deal of good
natured fun at the expense of the
police this afternoon, and not a
little indignation at some of the unneces-
sary clubbing. The arrest of Frank Hoov-
er, a well-known member of the Typo
graphical Union, was something in the way
of joke on the police, as he had nothing
to do with the affair, but was simply a
spectator. One of the policemen accident
ally shot dog, and the poor brutes blood
was, as far as is known, all that was spilled
on this, the second day of the strike.
ST. PAUL, April 12.-The street-car strike
extended to this city this afternoon, when
ali the men except those on the cable lines
went out. The cause of the strike is the
same as that at Minneapolis-the men OBJ
ject to the reduction of 25 per cent. in their
wages, which has been ordered. Every
thing is Uuiet.