The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-21
IIILITIAMEN ALSO In ACTION.
Soldiers Hold Their Position by a
Display Of Bayonets.
TROLLEY WIRES ARE FREQUENTLY CUT.
Cars Wrecked and the Guardians Of the
Peace Bombarded by Immense Crowds
of Infatuated Rioters.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. 20.-There were
but few evidences of the turbulent scenes
of the night before when the Sabbath sun
rose over east New York, and scarcely a
sign of life was observed save in the vicinity
of the stables of the Fulton-avenue and the
Broadway lines.
At 1850 A. NJ. the police arrived, LIS
strong. Captain German assumed COM
mand of both the police and the National
Guard. The morning passed very quietly,
the crowd which gathered being composed
largely of spectators. The tearing down of
the trolley wires a few blocks away pre-
vented the running of any cars and as a
consequence the strikers kept in the back
ground until the repairs had been COM
pleted. The arrival of the construction
wagons, however, acted like torch to a
magazine and big crowd at once tiocked
about the tracks, stretching for mile
along the avenue, waiting for the cars they
knew would soon be sent out.
At noon detail of sixty men from each
of the companies of the Fourteenth Regi-
ment, under command of Captain W. L.
Garcia, relieved the First battalion of the
Thirteenth Regiment, Major Cochran, and
after the guard was posted preparations
were made for starting the cars. Twenty
two motormen were reported as ready to
start, but only ten cars were sent out. The
ground in the immediate vicinity was
quickly cleared, a small detail from the
Forty warning the crowd back to
eastward, and couple of mounted police
working them in the opposite direction.
ha Had Cr011r
which showed that but few beligerents
were present.
AT AS P. NJ. two cars were ready and as
the clock struck 2 both civic and military
forces made the move. A car rolled out OF
the shed and without an error was
switched on the track leading down to
Fulton ferry. 1t was surrounded by twelve
guards under the officer of the day, Lieu
tenant Little of Company E, Fourteenth
Regiment, and, preceded by Sergeant
Reinels and six mounted policemen, began
its Journey, Captains German and Ennis
with 100 patrolmen following. The mill
tary halted at their picket line, and the
police alone accompanied the car down the
avenue. The other nine cars followed at
intervals of few minutes. All went well
lOI Unity IulllutCSI WHICH tllC IOllCC 1CoCl Z
was seen to halt. A detachment was then
sent ahead in the patrol wagon at full
| speed.
! On the avenue near Hopkinson avenue
! the mob had taken possession of the build
ing material in front of row of brick
| buildings under construction and hurled it
over both tracks between the short time OF
the passing of the second car and before
the third had reached the point.
| There were many women and children
in this mob, and a scene of turbulence was
enacted, lasting long time after the OBJ
| structions were removed. The strikers in
the meantime had succeeded in securing
/ the desertion of four motormen, and a sec
ond blockade occurred near Saratoga ave-
nue. and the cars were ordered back to the
stable, all reaching East New York in a
somewhat battered condition, with the ex-
ception of one, the latter being taken back
| by striker who had big placard on his
breast reading "K. of L. He was cheered
all along the line. There was very little
of excitement in other directions in East
! New York during the day.