The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-19
STREET CAR STRIKE,
Philadelphia Officials Being Kept Bus,
Increased Police Service


PHILADELPHIA December Ig-Today-s
events were continuation of those OF
last night. for neither strike leaders. the
Traction officials nor the mayor and
tho other heads OF departments sought
their homes during the night. Active
work was resumed as early us n. M,
when strikers committee went to tho
PENNSYLVANIA station and interrupted a
delegation OF wurkcrs from Baltimore.
The atory goes that these men had been
sent Tor by the Traction people to take
the place OF the strikers, but the latter
in1ntoO the newcomers to return to Rail-
tmore and paid their fares. a dinercut
story was told In this connection by the
strikers tonight. They assert that sew
cral carloads of men had been made up
al Baltimore bu, had been unable TO
leave the city because of tho refusal OF
all engineers hoiplRing 10 the brother
hood 10 carry the men.
Enough special mon had been sworn
In during the uish, TO raise the number
OF ryhuemcn 20 over sAM ana every one
OF these were ON duty. Along Market
street two mounted pohcemon were sta
toned NJ each corner throughout each
district in addition 10 three or four men
on foot. II Was apparent that the mob
H'AliIcd the changed condition Of anuirR
| and there was practically no attempt to
resume yesterdays rioting except IN one
| or two Instances IN the outlying sections.
Following an order from Director Hclt-
lor any gathering Consisting 81 more than
! hvr persons were Instantly dispersed,
ThronRhout the day spnsmodic attempts
TO keen several nf the lipes In motion were
made, h1t N every Instance the crawling
| cars contained more OFFICERS than pnssen-
gers ON MARKET atrcet the cars were
running With mn aggregate OF four police
mon on Che IRON, and rear platforms aud
surrounded 10y "a cotdon of mounted ufh-
Gers. These formidable proceSsinus were
Invariably greeted with hGols aud cries Of
ridicuic
Tho earliest report OF trouble ou,ne from
the Ridge avenue depot At o'clock n
car with 1uartetto of policemen started
out, \ shor, distance away, however, an
obstacle wns encountered in tho shape Of
u hesir OF debris piled on the track TO the
height OF car a mob surrounded tho
ear and was only restrained from violence
by the sight of cleaning revolvcra IN The
hands 20 tho pchce. When the dchria had
been cleared away the car moved on, hut
had not proceeded more thnn u fvw feet
wh'n there was a fusilude of Hticl,s and
stones. Two attempts were made TO stop
cars In the mil district. but the police,
win the AID OF lhcir clubs, drove on the
mob
\, noon n mail cur was started from the
fldSo aNonhc depot with a new crew and
n fun complement OF clerks. The depot
was surrounded by mob OF two or threA
thousand persona but they allowed the
cnr to got away, and then, led by the wife
OF n mutoImau. an assault wac made on
the ear and the woman herself dragged
her husband from tho platform The OUT
break waa only queliol by %hc arrival OF
u regular car loaded with policeman THIS
war attached to the rear of the mall car
ana Uncle Sans vehicle was pushed
around the route
a Firth and Sixth street car WINS attach
ed down town by n crowd OF such mnsni~
tndn that Mo, police werc temporarily
oyot wheined. \ number OF rioters board
ed the f.Hut Platform ana raincd blow
after blow on the motormnn, who wal
only saved by the arrival OF an additional
detachment Of police.
hs n
occurred at Twelfth and Market streets
this AFTERNOON. An in'mtnfe crowd WAS
rongTngatrd there which the pollcc at
tcnptei To diHperac. several men tried
TO incite the mob to Violence aud an Of
fort was mndr 10 arrest one Of these
leaders lnRtantiy - large portion of the
crowd bee tmc unruly and made an un-
organized charge on the police. The nH-
pect of utnlr7 grew 80 thionlonihS thnt
several Of the mounted officers were COM
ptlIod 10 fire several shots into the afr.
nus put q sudden eud To the uprising.
hut 1t led 70 many sensational reports OF
strikers being shot dcwn.
Tho strikers committee was practically
IN session All day receiving reports nnd
directing teo y9rious aun .on ~, nor.
than POO employees of the Peoples branch
had Joined the association, ana thpsc
strIkors' ranks tomorrow. Ths, II true.
win badly cripple the Fourth and Eighth
street liroa,
mDse meetings oloso to the vnious de-
nar,ments.
A COMMITTEES of Grand Army mon called
ON tho mayor and offered us services In
enlipting 800 soldiers ~ policemen should
tho occasion demand u.
The most important develonmcnt %,
the n ftarnonn was the Issuance 10y Uniitd
states Marshal colesworthy Of tho fol-
lowing notice:
Information having hccn given mr. ~
Postmaster Carr and United states Dis
trai Attorney ingrnhnm that trolley
malta are obafructod, application can be
MAN In me Thursday December ~, Mt
10 p. M for appointment as special Dep
utV mnrshals, =,
"Onlv able bodied dlscreot weii-reco'n-
monded mon nord amply.
'kiexandnr r. Colcsbury,"