St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-28
PARALYzED PEELERS.
Indianapolis Officers Suffer
Severely at the Hands Of
Strikers.
Attempts to Move the Mule
Chariot S Resisted With
Desperation.
MODS Assail Every Car and
MODS Assail Every Car and
Effeetually Prevent Their
Use.
Several Policemen Slugged
in Bad Shape--Numerous
Arrests.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 27.-To-
day has seen some rather riotous dem
onstrations in connection with the
street railroad strike. but the casualties
have been limited to few cracked
heads and Slightly larger namber Of
black eyes. Tonight both sides to the
controversy appear as determined
as ever, and express and baggage
wagons, hastily filled with rough
seats, are furnishing the popular
means Of rapid transit at 10
cents trip. The victory of today's
battle seems to rest with the strikers,
for they have succeeded in preventing
the running of cars and demonstrated
that there were no deserters from their
ranks. They have also convinced
nearly everybody that the company's
claim of having sufficient men to run
its cars was false.
The first attempt to move cars was
made in the outskirts of the city.
Mayor Sullivan, with Chief of Police
Colbert and thirty-six patrolmen, ap-
peared there shortly before z o'clock
this morning. The mayor addressed
the assembled strikers, telling them
that they must do no violence. Soon
the big doors of the barn were opened
and seven cars driven out. They
quickly moved down Massachusetts
avenue to Pennsylvania avenue, and at
the Grand Opera house
One Hundred Strikers Met Them
with shout. They grabbed the brides
OF the mules and brought the car to
standstill. The police climbed down
frem the car, jerked out their clubs. and
after fastening the traces that the strik-
ers had unlocked, the car was escorted
around the circle. When the car reached
Washington street bowling mob of 100
persons was after it. Not far behind was
No. SO, with Joseph Cochran and A. +.
Rork as driver and conductor. In
front of the surgical institute mere
help reached the cars. The cars
stopped and police reinforcements ar
rived. A Surging mass blockaded the
street. A third car coming down
Georgia street was held up. The po-
licemen were too few to look after the
mules and the rear OF the car, and each
one was lifted from the track and
turned crosswise of the rails.
The crowd was wild. The strikers
pushed against the police, trying to I'M
hitch the mules, and shouting "scab" at
the extras. Each policeman had his
club in his hand, but did not use it.
Turned crOSSWays on the track, the
cars stood there for ut least half an
hour, The crowd thickened every min
ute. Finally Capt. Dawson, forming
his men i'll long rows on each side of a
car, gave the word. The mules were
whipped, the crowd yelled and strug-
gled, and the car started.
And it Went.
Every effort was made to break
through the lines of police. without sue
cess, and the car was run to the Louisi-
ana street stables. where the crowd de-
serted it. Another was started the same
way, but some man slipped in and I'M
hooked the traces. Then the strikers
grabbed the car and ran it down to the
stable by hand, amid the plaudits of the
spectators.
A car with four policemen and a
driver left the stables at about $50 and
proceeded south on Alabama to Market
street, where it was met by crowd of
strikers and others. The car turned
west on Market street and then around
the circle.
The crowd grew larger as the car con-
tinued on its journey, and by the time
it had reached Georgia street. dense
mass of people were collected, and at
the corner of Georgia and Illinois. ey-
erybody assisted in bringing the car to a
standStill by pushing it from the track.
BY hard work the car was again replaced
on the track, and started on its Journey.
Then was heard the cry, Here comes
another" and the police were power
less to prevent the grand rush that was
made for
The Mule Chariot
rounding the Georgia street corner.
heading north on Illinois. Pennsylvania
reached, a determined stand was made
by the strikers. In vain did Supt. Col
bert shout and try to beat the crowd
back. In vain did his men try to follow
his example. They fiattened them up
against the car, and in a trice
had it crosswise Of the tracks,
where it stood for fifteen or twenty
minutes. The crowd became larger
and noisier and rained volumes of abuse
upon the driver, whose face was any,
thing but fearless. All the adjacent
windows were thronged with people
who waved their handkerchiefs and
gave query evidence of sympathy with
the men.
A lull seemed to ensue after the first
wild demonstration, and Supt. Colbert
took advantage of it to organize his
men for fresh attack. The crowd
was pushed back and the driver ordered
to move on. He applied the lash, but
the car could not be budged. That
seemed to infurlate the crowd, and they
bust into the widest of yellS, and few
stones commenced flying into the car.
One of them struck the driver, while
another lodged in the bosom Of a re-
porter standing on the front platform.
Then the police began to make arrests,
and men were yanked indiscriminately
out of the crowd and hustled off to the
patrol wagon. The car was gotten on
the track, and, after violent effort,
started. 1t proceeded forward north on
Pennsylvania, in spite of the attempts
of the men to push it from the rails.
The policemen
Drove the Men Back.
and the mules were whipped up, going
at lively rate. In front of the Grand
opera house the car was again brought
to halt by a board being placed on the
track, but soon the obstruction was
taken away, and the car continued on
its journey over this line.
About 80 the corner of Georgia and
Illinois streets was the scene of another
bitter fight. A Car rounded the corner,
and the big crowd intercepted 1T.
Prominent among its members was a
burly negro. who was first in trying to
stop the car, The officers laid hold of
him TO place him under arrest. With a
yell the crowd sprang upon the officers,
and the negro was Wrenched from their