St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-22


Compromise Between Com
pany and Strikers.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,. Jan. 21.-Today
has been one of the most exciting in the
history of Bridgeport. Not since 1861.
when marching volunteers on their way
10 the front filled the streets, have the
residents been SO aroused. All day
excited crowds have thronged the
streets. and mob law has prevailed.
The police have been set at defiance,
and crowd of angry men have ruled
the town. The rioting was one of the
results of the discharge of five employees
Of the Bridgeport Traction company
yesterday and the strike which fol-
lowed. About 100 employees of the
company stopped work yesterday.
completely tieing up the road.
They held numerous meetings and
sent a committee to the managers
. OF the road in an effort to
bring about a settlement. In this city
they were unsuccessful. This morning
fifty men came up from Jersey City to
take the places of the strikers, and it
was announced that the company in
tended to run its cars today. The men
then held a long consultation, and de-
cided that they would not allow the
company to run the cars. They con-
cluded. however, to give the company
another chance for settlement, and sent
a committee to the owner and managers
OF the road. They were
DENIED AN AUDIENCE,
the managers refusing to meet them as
a committee or give reasons for the dis
charge of the men. They announced
that they would meet the dissatisfied
ones individually, but would not recOg-
nize them as an organization. The men
withdrew, and the strikers held brief
St sion, at which it was decided that
they would not return TO work, and
would prevent the company from
running cars. Meanwhile the company
was preparing TO start service, and at
9o'clock nine cars were run out of the
shops. They were in charge of the new
men from New Jersey, the stable hands
and dozen of the old men who re-
ported for work. The report that the
company was to start cars. and that the
strikers would try to prevent it, spread
rapidly through the city, and in short
time all of the strikers and hundreds of
sympathiZers gathered at the main sta
bic on Main street and along the streets
through which the road runs. AS soon
as all of the strikers were informed of
the refusal of the owners of the road to
arbitrate they proceeded to block the
tracks on every street. The yards of
the New York, New Haven d Hartford
railroad were raided, and railroad iron,
ties, coupling pins, boxes and barrels
were taken and
PILED ON THE TRACKS
at various points. Some of the cars
were moved out of the sheds. but were
unable to proceed bur short distance.
They we're surrounded by the strikers
and their friends, ana the crews were
compelled to leave them in the streets.
Police were summoned from headquar-
ters. and several cars were started with
three railroad employees and guard of
three policemen. The crowds quickly
drove the police from the cars, together
with the conductors and drivers. Sticks
and stones were thrown and the win
dows of the cars broken. Several police
men and railroad employees were Slight
ly injured. Main street in the vicinity of
the stables was the center of trouble.
fnf nrI,y
gathered and encouraged the strikers.
The men themselves, indeed, did not
take such an active part in it as the
young roughs. The demonstration be-
came so threatening that an alarm was
sent out from police headquarters and
all of the officers and specials who
could be summoned brought in. This
force was stationad along the tracks, at
the stables and OH the cars. The crowds
near the stables and along the road in
creased in numbers until nearly 10000
people were in the street. The presence
of the police did not, however, deter the
mob, and distractions Of all kinds were
piled on the tracks as rapidly as they
were removed. At intervals attempts
were made to move the cars,
and about noon several proceeded
short distance from the stable.
ATTACKED BY MOB.
At O'Clock car IN charge of five
policemen and several railroad en-
pioyes was attacked at the corner of
Congress and Main streets. Here a mob
OF about 1900 men and boys were gath
cred. They bombarded the car with
stones. breaking all of the windows and
injurimg several of those in charge. AT
Williams street, in East Bridgeport, 500
men and boys raided the yard of Jones
" Hoffman, contractors, and piled lum.
ber, trucks and other oDstructions OH
the tracks. At o'clock the company
succeeded in getting one car. strongly
guarded by police, over the entire line.
but this was the only one to make the
circuit during the day. At 6 o'clock a
patrol wagon filled with police and
three wagons with railroad employees
left the stables to bring back a wrecked
car at the corner of Congress and Main
streets. On arriving there they were
surrounded by mob, and a lively row
ensued, in which hostler employed
by the company had his nose broken
and another emplOye was badly bruised
about the body. The police and rail-
road men retreated and abandoned the
car. Meanwhile the mayor summoned
the police commissioners, sheriffs and
city officials, and conference lasting
three hours was held with the owners OF
the road. At the conclusion. of the
meeting it was announced that the
company had agreed to re-employ the
strikers with the exception of nine men,
Used His Wooden Leg.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21.-An unknown
man tonight, just as the Omaha train
was leaving the union dennt nnstrannad