Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-26
MORE MOB VIOLENCE.
Prospects of Defeat Make the
 Brooklyn Strikers Savage.
RIoTING BEYOND THE CITY LIMITS

RI0TING BEYOND THE CITY LIMITS Mobs at Graenpoint and Ridgewood seIEe
 Cars, Smash Windows, shoot at Motor
 Employees.
 BROOKLYN, Jan. 26.-The strike of tho motormen and conductors of tho Brooklyn trolley lines is on the wane, and Brooklyn is gradually recovering from the shock ex- perienced nearly two weeks ago, whom its transportation facilities were so seriously crippled.
 Mayor Schieren expressed the opinion this morning that the strike was over, so far as 1t would affect tho convenience of the public.
 Colonel Appleton of the Seventh regi- mont said he expected to be relieved from detail very soon.
 Master Workman Connolly still main tains that the strikers will win, but a dozen strikers applied to tho Brooklyn City railroad for reinstatement and were put to work.
 Street car officials say they will be glad to take back the old men. but they will not be allowed to displace the new ones taken on. More ears were run Friday than on any day since the strike. .
 Mayor Schieren declares as a result of personal inspection that the lines are giv- ing good service. The mandamus which it is sought to have issued to compel tho companies to run cars is not of much i'm portance under these circumstances. The temper of the strikers showed an excess of bitterness in tho later hours of the day, but they do not manifest 0 san guine spirit any more.
 A Priest 0ueIls n Mob. The most serious disturbance occurred at Greenpoint in opening up the Flushing | and Graham Avenue line There were nc | militiamen stationed at that point, and the police force was not strong enough to | cope with the mob of 2,000 which made l riOtous demonstrations and stoned the cars.
 Father r. T. O'Hare of St Anthony's church had given Mayor Schieren an as surance that he would bo responsible fol the maintenance of order at this point. h his zeal to keep his agreement he per suaded Q new motorman to leave his car | in order to remove the cause of the trou ble Then he read to the mob a message from Mayor Schieren saying that unles: order was preserved he would have to send militia. The crowd then dispersed, and the stalled cars were run back to the de l pot. but no further attempt to run then was made for the day
 At Maspeth a lot of nonunion men wers | taken from u car and locked up in a hal | by the strikers When released, some o them claimed they had been maltreated. The demonstrations of the day wer, confined principally to wire cutting anC to small and unorganized attacks on thu street car property or on the militia. AT l = hninu nlRnA Tn ment for murder against the militiamaT | who shot Thomas kearney, the tin roofer ] on Hicks street. who died Thursday as l result of his wound.
 Rioting at GreenPoint.
 Tho disturbance, which had been pre- viously pretty evenly distributed over tn, l city, seemed to concentrate itself in Green point
 From the time the cars on the Green l point and Cross Town lines were started in the morning until they were stahleI | at dusk GreenpOint was a scene of Contin uous petty rioting varied by little shoot ing from tho crowd and a return of tn, compliment from the police. Every ca | run on the Cross Town line returned t' l the depot with windows smashed.
 Policeman Frank Connolly had hi cheek opened ny a blow from n stone, anI | Officer Emil Wrights face was severel! | bruised by a chunk of coal Only ten DO licemen were available for duty in the dis l trict, and RS no militiamen have beel drafted into the locality the rioters haI everything to themselves
 Rev. Patrick F. O'Harc spcnt the great CT part of tho day in visiting the diiforcn points where the strikers and their friend were Congregated and cNhorting them l. abstain from violence but his efforts avail cd but little. As soon as he disappearet tho attacks on the cars and their crow were repeated with moro vigor than ever.
 Tho Greenpoint cars wcro tho first L start and had only gone two blocks iron the depot when they wore stoned. The continued their down town trip, to recoiv the same treatment in Williamsburg, am on tho up town journey wcro tho object for volleys of missiles from almost ever Torner. Bontires were lit on the tracks which were blocked with ash barrels. A soon as tho Ol'struct 'ons were removed an the cars had passed they wero thrown ol the line again
 At Manhattan avenue and Kent stree the Cross Town cars wero held up by tn crowd and the windows smashed. Polio Captain RhOads. with Sergeant Lynch . once hastened to the scene. They ordere the crowd to disperse. but were answere by Volley of stones and Jumps of coal The two officers and four other pOliceme used their clubs freely and drove off tn mob Captain Rhoads was struck in tn neck with n potato thrown by n woman.
 The police then returned to the depot As soon ns they had gone the mob reas sembled and stoned car No 33l3, whic was the first car that came along. Tn motorman became completely scared jumped from the platform and ran away | fF ! key and made off with it, The crow wrecked the car before the next one al rived, when car No. 33lS was brougf
 back to the stable
 Priest Persuaded Nonunion Men to Quit Tho next car run got on the wron
 track and there was another delay, whic the strikers utilized by smashing the vii . dows. Tho green motorman. learning h
 error, started to bring his cor back an dashed into a car running in the opposit 3 direction.
 This caused block on the road, an
 soon a long line of cars was tied up
 front of Smith X Gray's clothing stor
 the windows of which were smashed T Father O'Hare here appeared on u
 sceno and besought the mob to abstai
 from violence He was accompanied |
 a number of respectable citizens. Fatht
 O'Hare entered into conversation wit
 some of the motormen. The persons wit
 him reasoned with the other nonunio 5 men. and in a few minutes the majorit
 of them abandoned their cars and pr 5 ceeded to the strikers headquarters, n
 companie5 by ap immense crowd, whiG - was cheering lustily.
 One of the motormen refused to lea
 his car. and after some conversation vii 3 Father O'Hare ho said; II belong to Blu
 falo. andI won't return unless get nlon'
 to do so. Ihave n wife and family to To
 after"
 You will be well taken care of If '