The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-04

During tho day yesterday nothing
very starting in connection with the
street car strike occurred, Four cars
were on the South Side route and were
fairly well patronized. The strikers had
out altogether some eight or ten cabs
and wagons, most Of them on the South
Side, and carried good many people,
The strikers union committee in con-
junction with the Ohio Valley Labor
Assembly is hunting around after more
cabs, when they will have more fire..
quent trips to all parts Of the city reach
ed by the street railway.
Throughout the day there was q
crowd OF men and large boys gathered
in front OF the Drover's home, in upper
Benwooa, who placed distractions on
the tracks. When car would como
along and the crew got of to remove
the stones, they would be assailed by n
shower Of mud from the crowd, accom-
panied by taunts and boots. Why
doesn't the Benwood police put stop
to such disgraceiul proceedingsP The
same applies to the crowd OF men who
gather in front Of the saloon oppo'
site the Forty.eighth street street
car barns, and use vile language direct
ed at the street car crews as they come
in at the barn. That also is in the juris-
diction Of the Benwood authorities and
should BIO stopped.
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
In Wheeling nothing OF interest or
importance took place during the day
except one incident on the Sonth Side
in the afternoon. Shortly after o'clock
north bound electric car was coming
up Eotf street, when about fifty feet
from the curve at Twenty-seventh, the
motorman noticed an obstruction on
the curve. He succeeded in stopping
the car before striking it. The conduc.
tor got off and attempted to kick away
the obstruction, which was piece Of
street car rail about eighteen inches
long. Itdidn't bulge. and investigation
showed that the rail had been spiked
down onto and across the track. But
for the fact that the obstruction was
seen in time q bad smash up would
have surely taken place. For daring,
this outrageous piece OF work knocks
the record. 1t must have taken at least
ten or fifteen minutes to nail the rail
down. Where was the policeman who
is supposed to patrol that beat? The
obstruction was removed with the aid
OF a crowbar, when the car proceeded
on ita way.
TROUBLE ON THE SOUTH SIDE. 9e
Last evening about s:15 o'clock an
electric car was going down the loop on
the South Side. When the car was 60
ing past the La Belle store on Chapline
street, below Thirty.6rst street,
an obstruction in the shape OF
a big stake driven in the ground
in the middle OF the track was
met. The motorman, on account
OF the darkness, did not see the stake,
so the car crashed right onto it. The
fore part OF the car did not strike 1t, but
near the center it struck, and being
driven in an oblique direction,
raised up and was forced through the
floor, creating a panic among the pas
sengers and crew who thought dynamite
or something as bad, was being intro
duced into the warfare on the street
railway. Fortunately none Of the
machinery was injured, and the car
went on down to the Forty-eighth street
barns.
About half past eiehtlastnight a large
crowd gathered at the corner OF Main
and Twenty-third streets, and some per.
sons unknown threw couple Of bricks
through the windows OF south bound
! loop car. Police assistance was called,
and an officer put on the scene, when
the crowd dispersed and everything was
quiet during the remainder Of the even
ing,
The last car came up from the Forty.
eighth street barns at $3.50 with the
company's men.