Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-01
FIRE INTO THE MOB.
TROOPS USE THEIR GUNS ON,
BROOKLYN STRIKERS.
Day of Riot aud B,oodshed-seven
Thousand Soldiers and the Entire
Police Force Fail to Cope with the
Street Car Strikers.
Strike May Spread.


Violence and bloodshed marked the
eighth day Of the electric street railway
operatives strike in Brooklyn. Three
militiamen are in hospitals with broken
heads, two having suffered at the hands
of riotous men and women, while the 9th
er was the victim of his own carelessness.
having fallen out of a second-story win
dow. A score or more of policemen are
suffering from bullet wounds or cont,i-
sions of the head and body. disabling
them for the time being. To what extent
the strikers have suffered cannot be con-
jectured. If they escaped punishment It
was not the fault of the militiamcn, who,
in accordance with orders. fired us direct
~ at their assailants us a dense Cog,
which completely hid objects at thirty
yards distance, would permit. The strike
is not ended and order is not restored.
Seven thousand national guardsmet
and 1900 or 1000 policemen were not Ola
Monday strong enough to max the re-
sumption of the street railway traffic in
Brooklyn practicable. In fact, says q
dispatch, the gain owe last Saturday is
scarcely %perceptible. The calling out of
the First Brigade, composed of New York
City regiments, has seemed rather to add
to the tension than to bring a solution of
the difficulties. The task of restoring
peace and order along nearly 200 miles of
street cur line is u vast one. The new
levy numbered not far from 1000 men.
They were moved across the great bridge
early in the day. The various companies
went by elevated trains whenever it was
possible to the points to which they had
been ordered. Generally speaking, tho
greetings they met with on the streets
vvoro for from fr;o,Ilv Rows uyyo1 aud
men jeered them Us they passed through
the sections inhabited by laboring people.
The elements which early in the day
were suspicious soon took on an unfriend-
~ aspect. A Scotch mist settled down ON
all the city, increasing in density as the
evening approached, and added to the diff
ficulties which attended the carrying out
of the announced intention of the street
car companies to run cars upon lines not
operated since the strike was declared.
Such attempts in this direction as were
made were futile. A car started from the
Ridgewood station of the Brooklyn
Heights Company a little after 5 O'clock
and was assaulted with volleys of stone
and bricks from windows and vacant lOts
before it had proceeded far on its way
downtown. A private soldier was struck
in the head with q stone and disabled.
b officer in command ordered his men
to shoot, and two volleys were fired in the
direction of the rioters, who, however,
were hidden by the dense fog. About $50
bullets were sent in search Of victims, but
how many of them found human targets
cannot at present be determined. The
milittamen's orders were If they shot it
would be to kill. Policemen also did some
shooting at this point, with what effect ia
a. uncertain as In the case of the militia
men. It IL ascertained by the militjn
officers that they only ordered the yolley
when the violence of the mob made 1t nee
essary to do SO.