Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-18
STRIKERS RIyI AT NIGHT
One Brooklyn Policeman Fatally
 Hurt While Guarding Men.
WOMEN ACTIVE IN THE FIGHTS.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 1S.-Still the great trolley strike remains unsettled. and both the officials of the companies and the strik- srs claim to be sure of victory. Aside from the breaking of the strike on tho De Ealb and Franklin Avenue lines of the Brooklyn and Newtown Ra ilroad com pany and the running of n few cars on the Putnam Avenue line of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad company, the situation is practically unchanged.
 The terms of settlement on the Dc Kalb and Franklin Avenue lines provide for working day of ten hours. but the other points asked by the strikers were not con ceded except as to tho number of trip cars to be run. the number being fixed at not more than ore third the full number of cars on the lin as.
 Mayor Schieren gave out a statement in l which he said: 'I have conferred with a committee from the strikers and with the | railroad presidents. but we have reached no conclusion. The officials of the railroad | companies remain firm in the stand which they have taken, and say that the men may go back on the old agreement if they wish to. but there will be no treaty with | the strikers executive committed. Mayor Schieren, while expressing be- lief that the strike would soon come to an end. seemed to think that all the efforts on his part were wasted. He said that President Lewis had laid the blame of the stoppage of traffic on the city. declaring | that had tho companies been afforded prop | CT police protection the cars on all of the lines would have been running on sohed- ulo time The disturbances of the day were of a trivial nature, the strikers ap- parently holding off until the decision of their eXemployers could be learned.
 Policeman Probably Killed.
 The disturbed feeling of the day was crowned at II 80 last night with a riot that may result in the death of a police man. A gang of IS nOnunion men, who had been fetched from Philadelphia, were held all day in the Atlantic Avenue road offices at Atlantic avenue and Third ave- nue. It was thought best to keep them there during the day.
 Last night it was decided to send them to the depot at Fifth avenue and Twenty third street to be ready to take out cars ip the morning The policemen under com mand of Sergeant Murphy escorted them. As they reached Fifth avenue and Twen, ty fifth street a mob of strikers fell upon them. Stones and bricks were thrown ir showers, and the small police escort rec
 
 tho crowd of excited men around tn en- devoted its efforts to protecting the non union men rather than making any effort to charge the attacking party.
 A heavy paving stone struck Policeman Murray on tho side of the head. He drop ped to the street unconscious, and two o his companions stood on each side of hin to protect him from the missiles. The DO lice finally drew their revOlvers, and th' crowd retired
 An ambulance was summoned, ani Murray, still unconscious. was borne t. the Norwegian hospital It was found that his skull was fractured
 During the melee other policemen wer cut and bruised by the flying stones. N arrests were made as it would have beeI moro than the lives of the squad of police i mon were worth to attempt such n thing Several of the nonunion men ran into tn, crowd in the height of the excitement ant were lost to sight
 The Brooklyn Heights Railroad com pany started the Putnam Avenue and Hal sey Street line These cars run from Full ton ferry through Fulton street. past tn bridge, to Putnam avenue out Putnam t Nostrand avenue, to Halsey street, t. Broadway. The car depots are at Halse, street and Broadway. and in this neigh borhood q crowd of nearly 5000 person gathered and hurled stones and curses a every car that passed.
 Opposite the depot is long, high boar fence, and on Halsey street there is blocl of small, low stopped houses. Still furthe down Halsey street are open fields on bctl sides of the tracks. Sixty policemen hat their hands full keeping the rioters il check until nightfall.
 Woman Throws n Paving Stone.
 Fifteen of the officers were mounte, under Captain Dunn. When the first ca was run out of the depot, the men ol , horseback and on foot were drawn in lin on both sides of tho tracks for block. In the face of this formidable force woman suddenly leaped through a breal in the fence and hurled paving stono a the car. The crowd shouted encourage ment, but tho woman was quickly arrest ed. She said she was Annie Knox of l5S Broadway. She was poorly dressed, pal and haggard, but she fought desperatcl with the policemen and cursed tho nonun ion men all the way to the Fourteenth pre- cinct station house.
 Two blocks from the depot a shower c stones and bricks struck tho car again, an Motorman James Dixon and Conducto William Dollinger lodged. Half the win dows in the car were broken. The mount
 
 tered the crowd over the adjoining streets A few blocks farther down the street tn car jumped the track.
 The second car was taken out by Motor man Curtis and Conductor Henderson The police rode beside it for severa blocks 4 few stones were thrown at tn police and one horse was badly cut on tn flank. Women gathered on the stoops c the houses and shook their fists at the non union men as they passed on their cars some of them screaming opprobrious cpl thets at the top of their lungs. Every ca was stoned, and one of tho missiles struo Policeman Irving on tho head, breakin his helmet. He arrested Charles Fitzsim mons of 1922 Myrtle avenue. and at tn station house a cobblestone was found il his pocket
 Motorman Dixon, who took q car out became so frightened when two block away from the depot that he reversed tn trolley pole and ran the car back to tn depot The mob stoned him and brok three windows in the car. He refused t go out again.
 Philip Coney of 1563 Broadway. Fran Cunningham of 7S7 Madison street an James Kelly of McDougall street wer captured in one of tho many rushes tn police made on the mob Several kniye were found in their possession. Sergean Slocum said he saw all three of then throwing stones
 Indian Policeman Hanged. . NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C., Jan. 18.- Louis Victor, an Indian policeman, wa | hars For thu yI0urtiar pf hfs uncla