The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-08
ANOTHER LITTLE RIOT.
Lively SCenes on tho Street last Evening.
An Electric n Runs into u Telegraph

avery scenes on mo street last Evening.
an I'es't'o .nr i'ans INTO u Telegraph
fo's-Th'nss Thrown Mt the Cars.
There was a lively scene on Main
street last night, beginning at Tenth
street when nm electric car nnlled around
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H'in s''ee' VI Aeh.., ano cu'u''.
mating Mt the creek yelling crowd OF
men and boys following the car all that
distance.
Tie cara came mt vcstcrdav affair.
noon abont 9 o,clock. xii nlono the
track on tle South Side biv and l;i,je
stones md other %obstructiona were
found IN tbe raila, md the necessity n
removing thepe made progress slow.
When tie car ran nm Market street
north Of tho creek. Chief of Police Dci.
bruppe and Officer Donley were r;diHy
along behind and Oalcera Cruicc and
Stanley In front. The officers left al
Twelfth street. No trouble was ex.
perienced until the car pot down into
the Sixth ward again. when sotnehodv
plastered superintendent LOTUS aud
others on the car with watermelon. On
the next up lrir the conductor, A coun.
tryman, deserted, and fled TO parts nm.
known.
Three round trips were made, tho only
obstacles being those on tho track. On
the fourth trip, the car reached Tenth
street about a auarter past seven While
It was lying OH tho Min street curve,
quite q crowd OF young mel and bows
gathered, md began to loot al tho bro.
pie on the car. These people were Sup.
c%rintcndent Lotus, +. b. Stanton, oper.
ator, and Charles Herbert, conductor.
Just rs the cur started somebody threw
a big clod of soft mud, striking Herbert
and covering him pretty we'll. On tho
up trip mud had been thrown on him
and a passenger who wore a silk hat,
1t ia said by those on tho chr that n
policeman was in tho crowd that follow.
ed the car, and that instead OF atte,npt.
ing to stop the annoyance, he had every
appearance OF encouraging Il, Stjcks
and clois were rained on the car,
and a large number OF boya climbed on
1t and began to ring up fares. MANY
men also stood up In the side OF the chr
md rode down street, while over a hun.
dred followed nlong beside and behind 1t.
Just above Fourteenth street the bows
tired OF the morolony of iinylinv the in.
dictator bells, and began to throw the
seats over aud back, making a terrific
din. The crowd rapidly grew larger, and
added to the racket by yelling.
Half way from Fourteenth street to
Sixteenth sombody had nut a railroad
torpedo on the track. and inst at that
point the uproar had become particu.
larIy d%eafening. When the torpedo
went Of with d tremendous report, the
boys and men on the car jumped of in "a
panic, thinking somebody had fired q
pistol. They quickly realize what made
the noise, though, and Jumped back on
the car.
Just as the car approached the B. <
0. crossing a brick was thrown from the
west side, striking Operator Stanton on
the head lust back of the right ear. and
raising a big lump, at the new B. < O,
switch the car struck either the clumsy
cross rail or an obstruction of come
other character, and Jumped the track.
The front car OF the two that had been
coupled together. ran into one of the
compauy's poles lust Mt tho north end Of
the wooden bridge. This elIectuallv
stopped progress, and the three men on
the car abandoned it, telling officer
| Moran it was in his charpe AZ repre.
sentative Of the city and Of tho INV.
After a while the hind car was pushed
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