The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-11

--w and other cries augmented
the crowd and increased tho excitement
OF those already.in it.
When the first OF the crazy mob APP
preached the men. Tucker, who was un-
armed, put his right hand in his over.
coat pocket and pulling up pair OF
pillars as il he had pistol, he warned
the crowd back.
This caused pause, OF which Tucker
and Lotus took advantage to get away.
When they had gone some distance,
they missed Hartman, and looked
back,
Hartman, weak from loss of blood
and other effects OF the first assault on
him, had fallen in faint on the track,
and with incredible brutality and cow
ardice, the mob beat him with bricks
and stones, Kloss hit him in the back
OF the head with brick.
Eight or ten men were pounding the
unconscious man at once. He was
struck all over the head and face, and
one brutal assailant jumped with both
feet on the small OF his back, His con-
dition is best described in the words OF
DIR. Baguloy, who attended to his in
iuries, and who said: ale looked as il
he had been drawn up by the heels and
dipped in barrel OF blood"
Finally the man Ernest put the re-
volver he had taken from Newton to
Hartman's head. Then somebody,
said to be Charles Sylvis, one Of the
strikers, interiered and compelled the
roughs to desist
Hartman was gotten to the barn, and
after being attended to by the doctor,
he and Newton we're brought up town
to their homes in the city patrol wagon,
The company wanted to send them to
the hospital, but both refused togo.
-FOUR MEN ARRESTED.
Three police were present on the
Wheeling side OF the line most OF the day,
and one or two on the Benwood side. 1t
is said by witnesses MAT the BEN
wood police made no attempt to check
the disorder. An INTELIIGESCER re-
porter was in the barn late yesterday
afternoon when Tucker and another
man went out to run in two cars. The
ropes on the trolley polo had been cut.
While they were at work brick was
thrown at Tucker, but no effort to find
out who did it was made by the Ben.
wood officer.
A minute later another brick was
thrown, tho man who threw it being
named Schrumpf, Officer Casey, OF
Benwood was within two feet OF him,
and Officer Gately within three feet, but
all that was done was by Casey, who
remarked in persuasive tone, "Now,
don't do thatW
About 8 o'clock II car started up street,
run by Tucker. The same man Schrumpf
started toward it toassault Tucker, ours
ing and abusing him, but he was on the
Wheeling side of the line, and tho
police stopped him before he reached
the car.
Shortly after this Sheriff Matthews, OF
Marshall county, who had been sent for,
arrived from Moundsyille with q posse,
and he arrested the four ringleaders OF
the mob, who were arraigned and held
to answer at the next term OF the cir
cult court, bail being exacted in the sum
OF $500 in each case.
Yesterday John Cuniff, one Of the
strikers, charged with assaulting Hart
man some time ago, had hearing be-
foreSquire Arkleand was dismissed, ashe
could not DO identified as the offender.
William Meyer, another one of the men,
had hearing just after, on similar
charge, ami was also acquitted.
The feeling over yesterdays occur
rences was very warm, and the indgna-
ton over the cowardly action OF the
mob was not confined to any class.
People who had sympathized with the
strikers condemned these assaults as
bitterly as anybody else.