Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-24
STRIKERS.
THE DETROIT STREET CAR COM
PANY IN TROUBLE.
Police PowerleSs and the Public Sym
pathizing With the Strikers.

DETROIT, Mich, April 23.-The stree,
| car strikers presented a stronger front this
| morning than at any time during the trou
bic, which began early in the week. The
| men were exceedingly active during the
night and evidently persuaded all those
still remaining faithful to desert their
posts, fcr> this morning the roads are
tied up tight, only one trip having
been made on Woodward avenue road
during the day. The spirit of destruction
was also abroad during the mig ut and rails
We're torn up on most OF the lines in the
city. Barricades of blocks in length were
put on the rails during the night and the
patrol wagons were kept going from place
10 place, but as they approached the scene
of some disorder the crowd dispersed. The
police department was totally unable to cope
with the trouble as the men were dispersed
in crowds al over the city.
Yesterday the employees of the Michigan
and Detroit stove works, TO the number OF
about 5000. struck and did not work to-day.
Their are mingling with the strikers and ell
couraging them in every way, in many III
stances showing more violence than the
strikers themselves.
The company insists that they could run
cars if proper protection We're afforded
them, as they say they have more than
enough applicants TO fill the vacant places.
As the men are so excited however, it was
lHOu8ul uCSl UOl W lEIlldlS lilGUE " llG
point Of violence.
While the street car company and its EN-
ployes are thus trying to settle their diff
ference, the public suffers greatly, as there
is no means of conveyance, and everybody
is walking. The strikers have the SYM
pathy of the people, who, in many in
stances, when cars have been running at
the beginning of the trouble. refused TO
ride on them.
Nearly the whole of the force was out
this afternoon to keep order during the
monster labor parade of the shoenakerS
and stovemolders, Immediately after the
parade passed It was decided TO start ten
cars for evening service on Woodward ave-
nue.. The first car got away all
containing ten officers. The second car
started Immediately after, without the ac-
companying protection, however, and the
strikers threw it on its side and across the
track. The attempt to start the cars was
then given up, but the first one out con-
tinued its perilous course, being target of
anything that came TO hand to the
strikers the whole length OF the
avenue, and meeting with jeers and
taunts of the people as it passed along.
Two policemen were on every corner the
whole length of the route and the car
eventually reached the river front in safety.
AS the car kept on its way small crowds
sent only a few stones as a parting salute.
A car which had been lying at the river
front all day was then started
up hill. Word was quickly passed
and in a short time about 1900
people hacked the avenue from the north
side of Jefferson avenue down to the river.
The car started up hill at breakneck speed.
The mob closed about the car. 4 man
leaped from among the crowd and
grasped the teams brides. The driver
whipped his horses. The man was
dragged from his feet and pulled
across the street, but he held on to the
horses and stopped the car. In the mean
time a number of baggage trucks, etc, had
been run across the tracks. \ dozen po-
icemen on the car tried to remove them,
but they could not. Then Strathearn
Hendrick, treasurer of the company, got
upon the platform with the front driver.
pulling big revolver from his pocket he
pointed it threateningly at the crowd. I'm
mediately cries of XIII him!'' Hang
him." etc, went up Bricks began to fly
through the car windows, and it looked as
if the car driver, policeman, Pendrick,
and all would be torn to pieces. Hendricks
sdiscretion evidently got the better part OF
his valor then, and the car was started
back to the river. The crowd pursued It,
and, unhitching the horses, tried to run the
car into the river At this point
the crowd was charged by the force
of police and dubbed numerically. Some
arrests We're made which quickly quoted
the crowd considerably. 1t began to rain
shortly after, and as no more attempts
were made to run cars the crowd gradu-
ally dispersed