The morning call., 1895-01-20
CHARGED By MILITIA.
Strikers Riot in the City Of
Brooklyn.
STREETS Held By A MOB.
Strong Forces Sent Out by the Local
Authorities.
POLICE AND THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS
Find Their Hands Full in Protecting the
Property Of the Streetear
Companies.
POLICE And THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. 19.-Three thou
sand men are under arms in Brooklyn to-
night. Rioting has been the order of the
day and the strikers had some serious
clashes with the militia
In many instances non-union men were
badly hurt, and so fierce were the attacks
OF the strikers tonight that the soldiers
had to resort to the bayonet. Several
| strikers or sympathizers were bayoneted,
and the situation is considered The gravest
that has confronted the authorities for
many years.
The board of mediation and arbitration
has given up its attempt at conciliating
the two factions. Commissioners Robert
son and Burcell have apparently aban-
doned any hope of effecting a compromise.
Rumors were abroad throughout the day
that the elevated road men would go out
in sympathy with the surface men.
1t is stated by the al" leaders that it
was not at all unlikely that a general strike
would be ordered Monday morning. Grand
Master Workman Sovereign is expected in
Brooklyn tomorrow and he will attempt
to do what the board of arbitration has
failed to do, conciliate the presidents of the
various roads.
Superintendent Campbell of the police
tonight issued a statement that he had
been notified the Brooklyn Railroad Com
pany will put their lines in operation at
O'Clock tomorrow. The Superintendent of
Police, in conjunction with the militia,
will make a special preparation for the
opening of this line. Notice is given that
further force of militia will be ordered
out, the impression having been obtained
late tonight that the strikers had made a
present arrangement to meet the railroad
officials on their ground.
The militia at the Jamaica car stables
charged big mob three times since 6
o'clock. The first time the strikers gath
cred around the stables and ieered the SOL
diers. Colonel Eddy, who was in charge,
drew his men up in line and gave an order
to charge. The mob was driven back to
the house on the opposite side of the street,
and fell pellmen through the doorways
and down cellars, and in fact wherever
they could find place to escape. One per-
son, Charles Wilson, was injured by being
stabbed in the back with bayonet He
was taken to hospital established by AS
clSbdhb 0ulSOO bClCl1Cly LII Ol1C Vi IuG
empty carhouses, where his wound was
dressed.
At 7:10 and again at 7:15 the militia
charged the mob, which had become
threatening. The strikers and their friends
had begun to gather in front of the car
house and jeered the soldiers. There were
several personal encounters between the
guards and the mob which began to close
around the carhouse. Colonel Eddy called
on his reserves in the rear, formed them
into line, stretched them along the street
for distance of $50 feet and then gave the
order to advance.
Some of the strikers and their sympa-
thizers took issue with the militia and
stopped to argue the point The temper of
the crowd necessitated a third charge
Again the soldiers advanced on the mob
and drove it from the street at the point of
the bayonet. A second man was wounded.
His name is Thomas Nolan, compositor.
He fell and was struck on the left knee
with bayonet in the hands of some IN
known man. He was removed to his home.
BROOKLYN, 1915 P. M.-Strikers have
been rioting for the last three-quarters of
an hour in the vicinity of the car stables
on Jamaica avenue. In the Twenty sixth
Ward they hurled bricks and stones in
every direction. The military scattered
the crowd time and time again. Several
men and women were wounded. Eugene
Williams was stabbed in the back by a
bayonet. Phillip Tighe was also stabbed
by a bayonet.
A woman whose name could not be
learned, while attempting to pass through
the line, received a similar wound from a
guardsman whose bayonet was pointed in
the direction of the fleeing crowd. The
militia drove the rioters down Alabama
and Georgia avenues several times chasing
them for four blocks. The situation at
this place is serious one. Several ambu-
lances have been sent to the scene of the
rioting.
II P. Mt is rumored that a man has
been killed by the militia in Eastern New
York. The rioters are still excited. The
militia under Major Cochran of the Thir-
teenth Regiment charged the strikers sew
eral times. One hundred mounted police
have been sent out.
A squad OF 100 policemen has also been
sent to the spot.