The evening world., 1890-07-03
BLOOD Spilled
Battle on Broadway Between Striks
Ing and Working CIOakmakers. (
Five Men Wounded Before ths Poll
Reserves Reach the Spot.
An East Side Non Union Shof
Attacked by Strikers Later.
Abraham Rosenberg Shot In thI
Back During the Fray.
Hunger and Despair Increasing q
Bitterness of tho Labor Fight, z

The bitterness which has been brovlH'
between the striking cloNkmnkcrs Andlih|
manufacturers eliminated in \ lively q
on Broadway this morning.
At 4 o'clock from 900 to 400 Of the striIl
ing operatives, made desperate by thei'
protrncted fight against their employera
attacked the employees OF Meyer Jonassou
& Co., at ass broadway, between Leonard
and Franklin streets. 4
| BLOOD FLOWED FREFLY.
| Operatives, shipping hands, clerks al
| boofkcerers were assaulted and blo0o
| flowed freely from many scalp wounds. e
The injured were:
WILLIAM VIsNER, aged twenty-five, opert.
tive. Of 21o Second avenue. severe Fcalt
wounds, taken to Chambers Street Hospital.
RonERT SUSoN, bookkeerer, slight scalp
wound.
CHARLES BUTLER, stock clerk. slig
scRlp-wound.
- KUSzE, operative, badly bruised; ser
home.
JOSEPH FrEDESHEIMER. shipping depArts
mcnt. badly bruised. n
Another considerable party Of strikeri
made demonstration in front Of the fAc5
tory OF the Mercantile Cloak Company al
3D4 Broadway. but while threats wenk
freely ma lie the strikers failed to make q
attack.
When their employees appeared and tried
to enter the shop, they were pummelled b
the strikers, who forbade them with vehe|
ment GesticulationH to enter. Some werl
frightened away by the crowd and ESCAPED
unmo osted.
Those wEo persisted were seized d
hustled away by force. There we're quit
number of these, and in n few mimi
Broadway for two blocks was the scene Of
dozen running fights, with ono helpless md
in each case tho centre OF fighting cyclor
of enraged men.
For n time the riot threa tened TO become
most serious affair and the reserves at Il
Leonard street and Elizabeth street poli
stations were promptly summoned to the|
scene.
STREAM OF BLUECoATs.
In three minutes patrolman armed wit
formidable night sticks rushed onto the
scene from Leonard street led by RoundAl
mau LondriGan.
They were followed a moment later by
stream OF bluecoAts under Roundsm
Mccain. who filed out from Franklin sir
from the Sixth Precinct
TIE PIdHT QUICKLY OVER.
But the riot which the police had B,
called TO quell was not there.
The fightirg had lasted hardly a momen
and the strikers hal dispersed.
Not an arrest was male and mona OF til
assaulted employees of Jonnsson Il Co. coul
a - A
UMRREILls THEIR wEAPoSs.
Most OF the men who were assaulted aS
that the strikers were armed with kniv
pIs tolls, Cubs, sandbags and pieces OF lei
pine and tired to ere ate the impress sSion thu
they had come in force for the purpose Of
making the attack.
When closely questioned by THE EvENISq
WORLD reporter, however, not one Of theul
could say that he had seen any Of thes
weapons. but had been told that they wei
Ised.
One of them. Robert Simon. Of 30 Hen = F
street, said that the strikers hal use
nothing more deadly than umbrellas.
hey used them with sufficient force 10 tet
III piece 0f scalp over his 7 Rht car.
Officer Seaman, of the ST cot CleAnink
quad, who was near the scene OF the ri,
'ut who failed to make an arrest. report
L the Elizabeth street stAtiOn-h house III
he assaI!ants were Italians. but that th
'nly used their um brellas tor weapons.
WHAT THE sTRIKERs SAY.
lie thought that they had not premS
ated the attack bat because they had th
umbrellas on account OF The rain they u
lsed them.
The strikers claim that they VI
resent on peaceful mission. sim
o prevent. II they could, the illf
Il their places with "scSb lEbo
hat they were tsunted by the scabs wi
heir starving condition, and the result VI
lac unorgauized and indiscrminAte attac
THE ATTACKED MEN's STORY.
Charles Butler, of 230 East One Hundni.z
nd Twelfth street. is the stock clerk of
I'm and h's desk is nearest the BroAdW
ntrAnCe.
When the riotinE began he says the strike
an in, dragged him from behind his des
nj into the street, aud lie sGid that he hN
D run the gauntlet to Canal street, bel
dubbed all the way.
Young BuIler only suffered a slight sIsIH
ouud, aud his story 10 the eject that
lTikers had all sOrts Of deadly WeSpOns
lueh doubted because Of his escape "A
lch slight injury, He acknowledged
c did not see the knives he ttlked GboHk
HOW TnEY wERE INJUREr.
Bookkeeper Robert Simon was told
ouldn't enter the office; Wss pounded
ie head and ran across the street 10 esea
joseph LoeTbuTger, buyer, ESs driven Il
le West Shore Railroad Office on the rorns
Franklin street
Joseph Frisdenheimor. OF 90 East Fourl
rect an employee in the shipping dspI
snt, was dubbed severely about the
ID honda
WilliGm YishsT, an operative, Fesidiu
10 sseend EEsnus, had tus ssFsTs