Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-24
WILD M0BS IN DETROIT.
ONLY ONE ROUND TRIP MADE BY
STREET CARS YESTERDAY.

Miles of Track Blockaded-Cars Attacked
thizers-PoIice QueIl the Hob, but At
tempts to Run Cars Given Up.
DETROIT, April %. - The street car
strikers presented stronger front this morn
ing than at any time during the trouble.
The men were exceedingly active during
the night, aud evidently persuaded all
those still remaining faithful to desert their
posts, for this morning the roads are tied up
tight, only one trip having been made on
the Woodward avenue line.
The. spirit of destruction was also abroad
during the night, and the rails were torn up
in places on most of the lines in the city.
Barricades of blocks in length were put on
the rails during the night. Nearly the whole
police force was out this afternoon to keep
order during monster labor parade for shoe
makers and molders. Immediately after the
parade passed, IL was decided to start ten cars
for the evening service on Woodward ayenue.
The first car got away all right, followed by
patrol wagon containing ten officers A 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 cars was then
given up, but the first one out continued Its
perilous course being the target for anything
handy to the strikers the whole length of the
avenue, and meeting with the jeers and taunts
OF the people as it passed along. Two police
men were on every corner the whole length of
the route.
On the attempt to start on the return trip
burly man sat in dog cart directly across the
track. The policemen led his horse away. The
man whipped up his horse. overlook the car
and put his cart across the track again directly
in front of the street car team. His buggy was
smashed and he was thrown TO the ground. He
was finally overpowered and taken to the sta
tIon.
A car which had been lying at the river front
all day was then started up the hill In short
time about l5, 900 people packed the broad ave-
nue. from the north side of Jefferson avenue
down to the river. The 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
a number of buggies, trucks. etc., had been run
across the tracks. The dozen policemen on the
car tried to remove them, but could not.
Then Strathearn Hendrie, the Treasurer of
the company, got upon the front platform with
the driver pulling big revolver. Amid cries
of Kill hImp' "H ang him! etc, bricks began to
fly through the car windows. Hendrie's discre-
tion evidently got the better 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, but ferry
boat coming into the dock at that moment pre-
vented them. At this point the crowd was
charged by the police and dubbed unmerci-
fully. Revolvers were drawn, and for few
shed, but the police effected some arrests,
which quickly Quieted the crowd.