Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-30
A BIG STRIKE.
Every Line of Street Cars in the City of
New York Except Two Tied Up.
Between Four and Five Thousand Men on
Strike-NumerOus Collisions Between
the Mob and the Police
GREAT STRIKE 1NAUGuRArEp.


NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-With two ex-
ceptions every line of street cars in this
city is tied up When the last night trip
was made each car was run into the
stables and at a. m. the great strike
commenced. Up to this hour no disorder
has been reported. superintendent Muir
ray and Inspectors Steers, Williams and
Conlan have been at the police head
quarters since daybreak confering with
the officers of the surface roads. Two
police patrol wagons are there III readi-
ness for any emergency and large num-
Der of reserves are quartered in the build
ing. About sixty of the latter have been
ordered to guard the Sixth avenue stables,
where the most trouble is feared.
Many men on this road are eX-strikers
of the Third avenue road and do not care
for repetition Of their lockout, but they
viii be closely watched by their brother
workmen. The men at present en-
ployed on the Third Avenue road are
many of them union men, but they are
not strong enough to go out The terms
of the men are in brief 81 % per day of
ten hours work instead of twelve hourf
Peter NJ. TOmery, an Italian, on his
way last night to the Eighth avenue
stables TO look for work was set upon,
kicked, beaten brutality and stabbed in
the face. The assailants escaped as the
police appeared. Tomery was taken to
the hopital unconscious and will probably
die. He was stabbed i'll
the temple, his cheek cut through,
several teeth knocked out and his skull
fractured The strikers number between
1000 and 5000men. The tie-up on the
Dry Dock and East Broadway was a SYM
of I,a
up, Deacon Richardson, peresident of
Atlantic avenue line of Brooklyn, being
large stakeholder in the Dry Dock and
East Broadway company. They had no
trouble about hours or pay.
A LIVELY ROW
occurred at Grand street this morning
when a crowd ofIstrikers tried to overturn
a car. A bowling mob of strikers sur
rounded the car the minute it came from
the barn. A large body of police sur
rounded the car and the mob did nothing
more than yell, but when the car started
the crowd began to make mischief. A
truck was driven on the tracks but was
removed and the car passed on. Hats
were made on almost every block. At
Grand and Attorney streets the
crowd surrounded the car and
unhitched the horses. They were
given sharp blow and started off
almost dragging the driver over the front
of the car. The police all this time had
collected in force and had hand-to-
hand fight with the mob. Despite the
police, however, the mob lifted the car
bodily and slung it across the track. The
policemen kept dashing out all the time
and attacked the struggling strikers
A moment or two of this and the crowd
became disoTdered and began TO scatter
and the police gained the day The
police captured one of the ringleaders
and in court he was fined.
The car was Tighted, the horses hitched !
TO it and it was taken back to the stable
No more violence was attempted An
other effort viii be made to run car
during the day. The scenes at the other |
stables were somewhat similar. Large |
crowds surrounded the buildings, but up
TO IL 'clock no dangerous act of violence /
had been reported. All the residents of |
the district IN the neighborhood of VestTy 1
street, through which the Grand street |
cars run, sympathize with the strikers |
Hearing that car was coming this morn
ing they gathered al the trucks and wa /