The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-01-31
THE GREAT STRIK g.
VIOLENCE AND DLOODSHED Al
BROOKLYN. ,..- Il
The Street Car Strike ut Brooklyn
Stin Continues but Is Nearing an
End-Many Of the Companies are
Running Cars.

The Street Car Strike ut Brooklyn
Still Continues but Is Nearing an
End-Mnny Of the Companies are
Running Cars.
Brooklyn, Jan. 26.-At II o'clock the
police on duty at TWenty-fifth street
and Third avenue had lively time III 4
putting an end to riot which had
broken out there. About 700 persons
collected at this point and jeered the
soldiers who were under arms there.
The mob continued increasing until
noon, when a stone was hurled by one
Of the crowd, striking policeman.
This was followed by several others,
and then the police and militia charged
the crowd. The mob rushed along the
avenue and into the side streets. Many
Of them received bakonet thrusts from
the militiamen, while the clubs Of the
police were used with telling effect on
the heads Of the rioters. The police
arrested John Tighe, Charles Burke
and Stephen Cannon. While convey
ing them to the station the crowd at
tackled them and endeavored to rescue
the prisoners. After a desperate con-
t1ict during which more stones We're
thrown and blows struck on both
sides, the three prisoners were locked
up.
At Twentieth street and Ninth ave-
nue. the strikers during last night cut
down the feed wires, return wires and
support wires as far as Flatbush ave-
nue., a distance Of over a mile. The
feed wire on Twentieth street be-
tween Seventh and Eighth avenues
was also destroyed. The wires at Eff
teenth street and Second avenue were
cut down early in the morning. A
number Of trolley cars stored at Ninth
avenue near Greenwood cemetery
were wrecked and rendered totally un-
fit for use The most serious attempt
to prevent the running Of cars over the
Third avenue line was made at Sixty
| fifth street and Third avenue, where
| a plot to burn out the dynamos in the
depot was nearly successful. 1t was
evidently the work Of skilled electri-
clans.
Justice Gaynor, of the supreme
| court, handed down his decision to-
| day on the application Of Joseph
Loader for mandamus to compel the
Brooklyn Heights railroad to operate
It's cars IN sufficient numbers to accom-
modate the travelling public on the
|
and Gates and the Tompkins avenue
lines. He signifies his intention of
granting a mandamus. the form to be
determined on the argument of the
counsel in court tomorrow
Brooklyn, Jan. 81. - There is no
change in the street car strike. Both
sides express confidence. A dozen men
are said to have applied for reinstate-
ment to-day, but on the other hand
the strikers claim that they are Undue
ing lew men to leave as fast as they
arrive.
A dynamite cartridge exploded in
front of 476 Myrtle avenue. Many
windows were broken but nobody was
injured. What is supposed to be a
dynamite cartridge was picked up
this morning by a man who brought
it to the First precinct station. The
man said he found it at the corner Of
FlatbuSh avenue and Fulton street,
one Of the business stations Of the
city and where several car lines pass.
The object was found on the car track.
1t is covered with a coating of tar, has
a fuse at one end and is about five
inches. long. The police Immediately
brought it to Police Superintendent
campbell, who decided to send it to
the navy yard. where an examination
will be made.
There were many fights between the
police and strikers, but no one was
seriously Injured.
''This is the most encouraging day
we have had during the strike" said
Master Workman Thomas Murray to
| the Associated Press renOrtnr as no
entered the strikers headquarters.
'If you will sit down here for a while
l will show you why we are so much
encouraged. We are getting the new
men away from the railroad company
as fast as they arrive. This morning
| we induced twenty new men to leave
their posts at Ridgewood, and so far
! to-day we have rescued thirty men at
the other end Of the line, to say moth
ing of the number we stopped before
they reached this side of the river
from New York. We nave done all
this, remember, without any violence
or intimidation, and the new corners
have in every case yielded willingly.
We bring them to our Headquarters,
warm and feed them and furnish a
ticket to return home, no matter how
far away they may live. They have
been deceived in coming here. They
claim they knew nothing Of the strike,
but after getting to Brooklyn they are
compelled to earn enough to get back.
Some of them forfeit what money the
company owes them and are glad to
get off as easily as that"
1t Nears an End.