Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-24
THE STREET CAR STRIKE IN
BROOKLYN BECOMES SERIOUS.
Fhe strikers and Their SympathiG
ers Engage in a Battle with the
Militia, I'm Which n Number
Of People Are In
= jured.
THEY PREFER TO THE TorE.RoAD
Cftisens of Brooklyn DO Not Paton-
ise the street Cars Extensively,
as the Risk Ii Too Great.

bTOOhlyu, JAN ---1uc street CdE
strike has caused b,oodshed, and the
prospects are that more blood will be
shed before the trouble Is settled. The
militia was called out, but this seemed
to enrage the strikers rather than in
timidate them.
Rioting was the order of the day
yesterday, and the strikers had some
serious clashes with the militia last
evening. The presence Of the militia
did not seem TO tend TO prevent the
mobbing of numerous conductors ard
motormen who had taken positions
with the tied-up roads. In many in
stances %non-union men were badly
hurt, and so fie. ce were the attacks
Of the strikers that the soldiers had to
resort to the bayonet. Several strik-
ers or sympathizers were bayoaeted,
and the situation is considered the
srayeSt that has confronted the au-
shorities for many years. So threat
ening, too, had become the attitude
OF the mobs that 200 men, who had
been secured by the Brooklyn Heights
Railroad company, abandoned their
work in n body. The strikers threat
ened them with violence and death.
and the newly engaged not only left
work but departed from the city.
Even the board Of mediation and arbi-
tration has given Up s attempt at
~reconciling the w factions. Commits
sioners Robertson and Purcell have APP
parently abandoned any hope Of af-
fecting a compromise. for the present,
at least.
During the fight with the militia
some of the strikers retreated to the
roofs of houses and heavcd down
stones on the troops. Some idea Of the
violence OF the fighting may be
learned when il Is known that from
the immediate neighboorhood fifteen
ambulance calls were sem to st.
Mary's hos" it'll.
y. g. Williams. private OF the Thir-
teenth regiment. twcnty-one years Of
age, suffered Il severe confusion OF
che leg. Those OF the mob who were
most seriously i"!LrrG were:
Philip Tigh1. s2"ere scalp wounds.
Alexander Sands, t%hirty-five years
of age, a c~ompOsitOr, three severe
scalp wound.
Eugene wilkins. tw"nty-siX years OF
age, severely wounded In the thigh
from bayOnet thrust.
George Nolan. thirty years of age,
stabbed In the thigh, not dal gerously
wounded.
More Disturbances.
Brooklyn, Jan. 22.-There has been
no change in the condition of affairs
to-day. No new lines have been opcned
as President Lewis promised he
would. Superintendent Campbell said
early this morning that he had re-
ceived no official notice from the rail-
road companies that they were about
TO open up the lines, consequently the
police were not notified by Linn to do
so. From midnight last ni-At there
were the usual number of minor dis
t~urbances likely TO occur at such q
time. At 9 o'clock the wire on the up
town track at SaCkman street, on the
Fulton avenue line, was cut and WIS
In a very dangerous condition TO PISS
ers-by. These breaks were promptly
repaired by the trolley cOmpany's re-
pair wagon. On upper Broadway the
wires of the Brooklyn, Queens County
& Suburban railroad were also cut.
About 8 O'Clock this m orning Il mob
of strikers marched Gown Ninth ave-
nue. to Fifth avenue and Twenty
fourth street. They numbered 300 and
were supplied with drums with which
they made the night hideous In that
Immediate neighborhoOd. They filed
by the militiamen and jepred them,
but the soldiers paid no attention to
the abuse, and the strikers soon got
tired and disappeared.
An effort vas made by the strikers
this morning to coerce the men who
were at work on the Second avenue
line. which starts from the Thirty
ninth ferry. South Brooklyn. into join
Ing the ranks of the knights of Labor.
Considerable excitement was caused
I'm the neighborhOod by the violence
displayed by the strikers. Although a
number Of cars are running on the
various liEes which are open, a notice
able feature of the day was the COM
paratively few passengers who pat
ronized the ears OF the companies. 1t
was evidently considered
Too Great n Risk
90 ride In them by the public. In con-
sequence Of the orders OF the police
the liquor saloons throughout the city
were closed up tight at midnight. and
In the neighborhood there the strik-
ers were congregatec, they Were Kept
closed. Mr.. HOlcom, Of District AS
sembly No. 70, X. Of L., said the strik-
ers, 80 far as he knew, were not In
favor Of a sympathetic strike Of all
the labor organizations. All the MORN
ing the mayor was comforting with the
members Of his cabinet and was in
constant communication with repre-
sentatives of the labor organizations.
but all efforts to reach a compromise
were %unavailing. This morning a
Vanderbilt avenue car became de-
rallied at Vanderbilt venue and Ber-
gen street. A large crowd Of disorder
ly characters were attracted to the
scene but the police were hume. ous
enough to drive them away. but rot
before windows were smashed by
stones. Later car No. 161. OF the
Bergen street line, became stalled OF
account of some defective mechanism.
This caused the stoppage OF three 9th
er cars. At the back Of the lots is a
fifteen foot bluff. The crowd gathered
there and threw stones at the cars, de-