The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-01-25
FIRE INTO THE MOB.
TROOPS USE THEIR GUNS ON
BROOKLYN STRIKERS.
Day of Riot and BIoodshcd-Seven
Thousand Soldiers and the Entire
Police Force Fail to Cope with the
Street Car Strikers.
Strike May Spread.

Violence and bloodshed marked the
eighth day of the electric street railway
operatives strike in Brooklyn. three
miitamen are in hospitals with DrokSi
heads, two having suffered at the hah,s
of riotous men and women, while the oth-
er was the victim Of his own carelessii"ss,
having fallen out of a second-story wan
dow. A score or more of policemen are
suffering from bullet wounds or confn-
sions of the head and body, disabling
them for the time being. To what extent
the strikers have suffered cannot be con
jectured. If they escaped punishment IL
was not the fault Of the militiamen, who,
in accordance with orders, fired rs direct
ly at their ASSISTANTS os dense tOS,
which completely hid objects at thirty
yards distance, would permit The strike
is not ended and order is not restored
Seven thousand national guardsmen
and 800 or 600 policemen were not on
Monday strong enough TO make the re-
sumption of the street railway traffic IN
Brooklyn practicable. In fact, says Il
dispatch, the gain over last saturday IL
scarcely perceptible. The calling out OF
the First Brigade, composed of New YORK
City regiments, has seemed rather to add
to the tension than to bring solution OF
the difficulties. The task of restoring
peace and order along nearly 200 miles OF
street car line is a vast one. The new
levy numbered not far from 1000 men,
They were moved across the great bridge
early in the day. The various companies
went by elevated trains whenever it was
possible to the points to which they had
been ordered. Generally speaking, the
greetings they met with on the streets
were far from friendly. Boys guyed and
men jeered them as they passed through
the sections inhabited by laboring people.
The elements which early in the day
were suspicious soon took on an unfriend-
ly aspect. A Scotch mist settled down on
oil the city, increasing in density as the
evening approached, and added to the diff
ficulties which attended the carrying out
of the announced intention of the street
car companies to run cars upon lines not
operated since the strike was declared
Such attempts in this direction as were
made were futile. A car started from the
Ridgewood station of the Brooklyn
Heights Company little after > O'clock
and was assailed with volleys of stones
and bricks from windows and vacant lots
before it had proceeded far on its way
downtown. A private soldier was struck
In the head with stone and disabled.
The officer in command ordered his men
to shoot, and two volleys were fired IL the
direction of the rioters, who, however,
were hidden by the dense fog. About go
bullets were sent in search of victims, put
how many of them found human targets
cannot ut present be determined. The
militiamen's orders were if they shot it
would be to kill. Policemen also did some
shooting at this point, with what effect is
as uncertain as in the case of the militi.l-
men. 1t is ascertained by the militia
officers that they only ordered the volley
when the violence of the mob made it nee
essary TO do so.