Wichita eagle., 1889-04-13
STRIKERS IN THE LEAD.
Unsuccessful Attempts Made.to Start the
Minneapolis Street Cars.

MINNEAPoLIs, April 12-The street car
strike still continues. A few minutes be-
fore o'clock this afternoon there was a
serious disturbance on Washington ave-
nue. near First avenue south. A
Fourth avenue car had with great difficult
ty made its way to the turn table aud was
on its way back. 1t was surrounded by a
large and excited crowd who hurled
abuse of all sorts at its occupants. Final
ly someone set brake on the rear platform
and stopped it. At this iuncture a squad
of mounted policemen dashed out of the
alleyway from the central station and
rushed at full speed into the crowd with
clubs drawn. Once in the center OF the
crowd they arrested three men and re-
treated. The crowd was constantly aug
menting and was getting very
violent. To make matters worse
a number of express wagons filled with
strikers drove in front of the cars and sue
ceeded in filling up the street so as to
make a blockade. The driver of the car
finally unlocked his horses and went off
amid the cheers of the crowd, leaving the
car standing on the track.
AT 4:29 another car made its appearance
on Washington avenue from the barn.
The mounted police made 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
We're dropped on the corner of Washing
ton and Hennepin. The crowd hOoted and
yelled and then the car stuck. Finally the
driver became disguised, and unhitching
his horses drove off.
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
Oft to the station There had been a
great deal of rotten egg and stone throw
ing and excitement ran at fever heat.
Three mounted policemen lost their heads
and charged on the crowd, throwing down
several people and injuring a number.
Several arrests We're made at this point
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 it expedlent
to take them away from the car, the
crowd readily yielding To such a move.
After lingering a while and finding it i'm
possible to hitch up again, the horses
were removed TO the stables and the
attempt to move cars abandoned for the
time.
After this the crowd became less demon
stratlve and gradually thinned out, leay-
ing the two cars on the track. one near
Hennepin avenue and the other near Third
avenue south.
Thus ended the day on which President
Lowery proposed To have all cars running
on every line before night. There was
good deal of good natured fun at the ex-
pense OF the police this afternoon and not
little Indignation at some of the unnec-
essary clubbing
The arrest of Frank Hoover, the well
known member of the typographical
union, WAS something in the way of joke
on the police, as he had nothing to do
with the affair but was simply spectator
One of the policemen shot dog and the
poor CANNES blood was as far as is known
all that was spilled on this the second day
of the strike.
EXTENDED TO ST. PAUL
ST. PAUL April 70 The street car
strike extended from Minneapolis to this
city this afternoon, when all men except
those on cable lines went ont. The cause
of the strike is the same as that at Mime
apolis-the men object to reduction Of
y per cent in their wages. which has been
ordered Everything is quiet.