The record-union., 1895-01-22
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

which is Unknown.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 2I.-Violence and
bloodshed constitutes the record Of the
eighth day Of the electric street-car OPP
eratives' strike Three militiamen are in
the hospitals with broken heads, two
having suffered at the hands of rioters,
while the third was victim of his own
careIessness, having fallen out of sec
ond-story window. A score or more OF
policemen are suffering from bullet
wounds or contUsions of the head and
body, disabling them for the time being.
To what extent The strikers have sut-
fered cannot be conjectured. If they es-
capped punishment 1t was not the fault OF
the militlamen, who, in accordance with
orders, fired as directly at their assallants
as a dense log, which completely hid OBJ
jects at thirty yards. would pemit.
The strike is not ended and order is not
restored. Seven thousand National
Guardsmen and 800 policemen have not
to-day been strong enough to make the
traffic on the street railroad in Brooklyn
practical. In fact, the gain over Satur-
day Is hardly perceptible. The calling
out of the First Brigade, composed OF
New York regiments, has seemed rather
TO add to the tension than to bring So
luton Of the difficulties.
The task of restoring peace and order
along nearly zoo miles of street railway is
a vast one. The new levy numbered not
far from 1900 mer. They were moved
across the bridge early in the day. The
various companies went by elevated
trains wherever it was possible to the
points where they had been ordered.
Generally speaking, the greeting they
met with on the streets was far from
friendly. a Scotch mist settled down on
all the city, increasing in density as the
evening approached and added to the diff
ticulties.
a car started from Ridgewood station
OF the Brooklyn flights Company little
after ) o'clock and was assaulted with
volleys of stones and bricks before it
proceeded far. A private soldier was
struck on Lhe head with stone and disa-
bled. The officer in command ordered
ljs men 10 shoot and TWO volleys were
: ired toward the windows and housetops
from which the missiles had been mostly
hurled. The soldiers aim was bad, how
ever. and rendered uncertain by the
dense fog.
The policemen also did some shooting
at this point, with what effect is as un-
certain as in the case OF the miIitiamen.
1t is asserted by the militia officers that
they only ordered the volley when the
violence of the mob made it necessary.
On the same line a car started out an
hour after and was beset by rioters at
Gates and Stuyvesant avenues. The po-
lice escorting it essayed to drive off the
rioters and while doing so were fired
upon from a house. Five policemen
were wounded, one in the arm and in the
hand, and three others received painful
injuries by being struck with stones.
The ranks Of the strikers will prob
ably be recruited tomorrow by the 600
linemen who, until now, have remained
in the employ OF the company. They
have let it be understood that tomorrow
they Will not go out TO repair cut lines,
even at the risk Of dismissal. This viii
win the strike, they say. They will
merely refuse to perform the work re-
quired OF them, and put on the COM
panies the onus of discharging them.
In the Board OF Aldermen this after
noon resolution was introduced by Mr..
Cohen, which proposes to oblige corpo-
rations operating street railways by cleo
tricity to employ as motormen only such
persons as shall have passed a satisfac-
tory examination as to their quaIifica-
tions. The board voted without dissent
the approval OF a memorial signed Inv
about sixty property owners, which calls
Tor measures which shall compel the
street railroad companies to operate The
usual number Of cars OH their lines. or
else request the ACtorney-General to
bring proceedings for the annulment of
their charter.
The officers of the company are fearful
of more trouble through the night. The
railroad companies claim the cars will be
run from the depot at o'clock in the
morning.
TWO POLICEMEN SHOT
BROOKLYN, Jan. 2l.-The depot on the
Third-avenue Railroad, on Third ayenue
and Fiity-sixth street, was garrisoued
to-day by Companies Il, q and X of the
Twenty-third Regiment. Captain Thorne
Of Company i was in command. The
detachment numbered 25O men. Com
panies II and l were quartered in the
powder-house at Second avenue and
Eifty-second street.
The strikers to the number of couple
of hundred held continuous meeting at
their headquarters. A committee Of citi-
zens appointed last night waited on all
the storekeepers in the vicinity for dona-
tions for the strikers. AT O'Clock this
evening $3.50 in cash had been subscribed,
besides barrels of potatoes, sacks Of flour,
tea coffee. bread, tomatoes, meat and all
kinds of groceries. The Pequod Club
resemb bled a large grocery store, and the
Citizens Committee was kept busily en-
gagged in the distri button of the supplies
TO the men and their families. TIE men
claim they are in position to hold out
for six months.
AT daybreak this morning the over
head wire on the downtown track was
cut. Three repair wagons came on the
scene at l O'Clock in the afternoon, and
after an hours work the track was put in
working order. II was announced ut
o'clock that no effort to makea trip would
be made tonight. The Atlantic road
ran twenty eight cars, the service being
fair.
In addition to $50 militiamen, there
was on duty a strong force of policemen.
A dense fog set in during the afternoon,
and at O'Clock it was announced that
no cars would run after o'clock until to-
morrow.