The Columbus journal., 1891-05-06
CLUBS. AXES AND GUNS.
STRIKERS ARE RIOTOUS AND
POWERFUL.

Ghs Strost Car service In Detroit Para.
lyxed-Penn -ylvania Coke Workers In .
Pitch d Battle with Observation-Disclosures
and Ceath Result.
Near:y the whole Of Detroit's police
force was called out to keep order during
mcuster labor parade Of shoemak ers
and stove molders. which was melted by
the street car troubles Immediately
after the parade passed it was decided
70 start ten cars IOr evening service on
Woodward avenue. The first car got
away all right, followed by patrol
wagon containing ten officers. A second
ear started Immediately after without
the accompanying protection, however.
and the strikers threw it on its side and
across the track. The attempt to start
cars was then given Up, but the first one
out continued it's IeriIOus course. being
the target OF anything handy to the
strikers the whole length o. the
avenue. and meeting with the jeers and
taunts OF the peOp'e as it passed along.
Two policemen we're on every corner
the whO'e length of the route and the
car eventually reached the river front in
return trip there was q very exciting
scene. A burly man sat in a dog cart
directly acrO:s the track. The police
men led his horse away. The man
whipped up his horse, overlook the car,
and drove q ross the track again direct y
In front of the street-car. His buggy
ground He was finally OverpOwered
4 ~ ~L
kept on it's way the small crowd sect
only few stones as a parting salute A
car which had been lying at the river
front al day was then started
up the hill The word was quickly
passed, and in short time about
fifteen thousand people packed the broad
avenue from the north side OF Jefferson
avenue to the river. TIE car started up
the hill at break-neck speed. The mob
closed about the car. A 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 all the way across the
street. But he held on, ran the horses
into buggy and stopped the car. In
the meantime q number of buggies,
trucks, et.., had been run across the
track. The dozen policemen on the car
tried to remove them but could not.
Then Strathern Hendrie, the treasurer
of the company, got up on the front
platform with the driver. Pulling big
revolver from his pocket. he pointed
it threa:eningly at the crowd. Imme-
diate!y cries of "Kill him, hang him."
etc.. went up Bricks began to fly
through the car windows, and it looked
as if car, driver, policemen, Hendrie,
and all would be torn to pieces. Hen
dries discretion evidently got the better
of his valOr then, and the car was start
ed back to the river. The crowd pur-
sued it, and, unhitching the horses, tried
to run the car into the river A ferry
boat coming into the dock just that mo-
ment prevented them carrying out their
design. At this point the crowd was
charged by a force Of police and dubbed
numerically. ReVOlvers were drawn,
and for 4 few moments it looked as il
there was to be blOodshed, but the police
presented sturdy front and effected
some arrests, which quickly quieted the
crowd considerably. 1t began to rain
shortly after, and as no more attempts
were made to run cars, the crowd gradu'
ally dispersed.