, 1890-07-04
MGBBED BY STRIKERS.
Terrible Riot in the Streets of
New York City.
A Fight for Points Proves a
Battle for Blood
Salt Lakes Opera House
Burned Down.


NEW York, July 3.-lt has been
feared for some time that starvation
would force the striking cloakmakers to
acts of violence. These fears we're real
lied today. 1t has been a matter of COM
mon notorieiy for several days past that
these unfortunate people have actually
been in awful straits, and not a few have
been confronted with the necessity of
leaving their homes for the lack of money
TO pay rent Last night several families
were out on the streets all night, and the
men this morning were driven to the
point OF desperation and about 200 of
them went over to their old workshops.
They massed in front of Never JON
asson 4 Co.'S place and the Mercantile
Cloth company, two of the largest estab-
lisbments in the city. Joseph Lureburger.
a buyer in the employ OF Meyer J onasson,
came down the street. When the strikers
saw him they made a rush at him.
Lereburger was badly beaten before he
managed to escape from the mob. The
success of the attack upon the first victim
seemed to turn the usually peaceful men
into a body of rioters. They ran down to
Jonasson's store. The front doors being
open, a few of the holder ones entered
and seized an Office boy, Charles Buttner.
and in a second be was receiving the same
kind Of blows which fell upon Lereburger.
VIM. Washer, an operator; Joseph
Roedelbeimer. a packer, and Bookkeeper
Sims were next to receive similar treat
ment as accorded the other two. Two
Italians were then attacked. but drew
weapons and the strikers fed.
The mob next gathered around a cloak
maker named Kunze. He did not get
away so easily as the other men. When
the police, who had been notified, came
running down the street the strikers
scattered. but lett Kunze on the sidewalk
bleeding from half a dozen severe cuts in
the head. They must have kicked him
as his wounds were serious.
All this time another detachment Of
strikers was busy two blocks away. They
were the men who had been in the en-
ploY Of the Mercantile Cloak company.
and they gathered there just as they did
in front of Meyer Jonasson & Co.'S, and
waited for the scab workmeu to come
along. They were rewarded just before 8
O'Clock when they surrounded two men
and struck them badly halt a dozen times
and then chased them up stairs. &.
All thlb was kOluk Ou Hu duRIf
mob Of striking cloakmakers had collected
at the corner of Rivington and Eldridge
streets, determined to obtain work or pre-
vent the bosses from employing non
union workers. Samuel Villet, a Pole.
bad about a score of men making cloaks
for him. He didn't like the looks of the
strikers and accordingly he locked and
barred his door. About ll:3O. when the
crowd was Isroest V,llat and b,a am
srrlkefs had broken open the door and a
mob OF about thirty, led by Abram
Rosenbury. rushed in upon them. They
demanded that all hands stop
work, and meeting with no success
b~egan.to threaten and intrmidate Villet
and his workmen. The strikers threw
out OF the windows the plush cloaks be-
ing made. Pandemonium reigned and
the streets in that vicinity were filed with
a surging rlass of people. Villet became
terrorized, and after receiving an ugly
slash across the right eye with a knife he
whipped out a revolver and fired two
shots. One bullet lodged in the back of
Abram Rosenberg, and with a shrek he
staggered ont on the street. At this mo
ment the police arrived. They captured
Villet and eighteen others and carried
them off to jail. Rosenberg was removed
to a hospital. where he lies in a precari.
Gus condition.
Tonight 200 Jews on the east side
mobbed the driver OF a loaded cloak
manufacturer truck on which also rode
a policeman. The latter caught the mob
leader and let his club fall on his head SC
often that he collapsed and tie crowd