The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-28
SEwARK's FlE-UP ENDED.
Scenes of Violence Last Night-Two Men
Injured.
SpeclaI % lhe Jerseg q III

Special to the Jersey City Ne'rS
NEWARK July Is, 1S9I.-The tie-up on
the Rapid Transit branch OF the Newark
Passenger Railway is practically ended.
The road is running today with nearly It's
full complement Of cars manned by men
from other branches of the Company.
None OF the strikers will be taken back.
according to President Barr, who says he
can get all the men he wants.
Newark had It's night Of terror last
night. The dying cause of the street car
men was famed into flame For mo-
meut IL q ickered and then 1t died. and
when the rising sun drove away the
shades of night it was to look down upon
a scene OF horror that Few towns OF the
81 ze of Newark have ever seen.
During the night the ringleaders of the
striking men, into whose hearts a thought
Of shame or respect for the safety Of
others never entered, followed by gangs
of half grown boys. hoodlums and toughs
from the lower sections of the city, as
saulted and nearly killed two men. em-
ployees OF the road they were fighting.
Numerous other men were struck by the
| flying stones and mud, and some of them
quite badly hurt
The two men, who are now confined to
their beds in a very dangerous condition,
are.-John McCraig. conductor; hurt
about the waist: f. G. MeHenry, con-
ductor, badly hurt about the head.
Though the strikers had been threaten
| ing all day, the serious trouble only set in
at ten o'clock in the evening. LII tile
groups of excited. angry men gathered in
the beer rooms in the worst sections Of
the city, where the lawless gangs have
their headquarters. The speeches and
harangues were f1erce and bloodthirsty.
The excitement became intense. Then
| all the hatred, the viudictiveness of the
| men came out, and headed BY The
drunken strikers, they rushed toward
that part OF the city known rs the mill.
upon Belmont avenue
AS the crowd drew near the poiut Of at
| tack the cooler heads quieted them. and
they proceeded the rest of the way IN little
groups aud stationed themselves in line.
The police Immediately OWNED the pur-
pose of the excited men and drove one
group away, but hardly had this been
| done before another cropped out of the
darkness at the poiut the police had pre-
viously deserted.
Every cur that happened along was
greeted with a shower of mud and rocks.
| Word was passed up along the line and
| the railroad men were in readiness for the
attack.
All the windows were lowered to save
| the glass. the motor m en- and conductors
placed themselves In protected positions
4 In tho car and the passengers were eau
| toned not toraise their heads above the
window sills.
Anumber OF the cars ran the blockade
| Ia safety, The first man really hurt SER
iously was Conductor McHenry. He had
! gone out with the strikers in the morning,
\ but had deserted them and returned to
| his work.
The assaultinR party naturally left es-
| pecially bitter toward him and the others
| who had done the same. McHeurJ was
| taking his car through the crowd OF
kstrikers and hoodluns, and had nearly
reached their limits when he was recog-
| nized apparently, ana q charge was i'm
| mediately made upon him and his car.
| The crowd boarded the car, going as it
was, at full speed. The ringleader, howl
| ing drunk, struck the conductor over the
| head He tottered back and very nearly
| fell off the car. Then the gang, thinking
| they had done for him, Jumped OF the
| car and es eRped in the darkness.
| McCrRig, the other man. seriously hurt,
| was also one Of tho deserters from the
ranks of the strikers. He had carried his
/ car through all the danger of the niaht
| and was returning to his home in Steuben
street. A gang Of men caught sight OF
him and followed niHn. He caught sight
\ of them over his shoulder and naturally
/ hurried. Stones began TO fall around
him. Ho turned all the way round, a
stone struck him in the chest near the
heart and he fell Both men were taken
| to their homes.
| It is believed that they will recover.
| The police naturally feel bad about tne
matter. aud denied this morning that
| there had been trouble. No arrests have
Been made. 1t was so dark that some OF
| the sssaulting men could not be recog-
| niZed.