The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-20
Cars stopped, Motormen Assaulted
Police Driven Away and Imported
Men Induced to Quit.
MANY PEOPLE BADLY HURT
SOME PRODDED WITH BAYONETs
AND OTHERS HIT WITH MISSILES.
Three Thousand Milftiamen and Hum
dreds of Police Unable to Maintain
the Peace-More Ordered Out.

BROOKLYN, N. Y. Jan. 19.-Three
lyn tonight. Rioting has been the or
der of the day. and the strikers had
some serious clashes with the militia
this evening. The presence of the
militia did not tend to prevent the mob
bing of numerous conductors and motor
men who had taken positions with the
tied-up roads In many instances nom
union men were badly hurt, and so
fierce were the attacks of the strikers
tonight that the soldiers had to resort
to the bayonet. Several strikers or SYM
pathizers were bayoneted, and the situa-
ton is considered the gravest that has
confronted the authorities for many
years. So threatening, too, had be-
come the attitude of the mobs that two
hundred men who had been secured by
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Com
pany abandoned their work in a
body tonight. The strikers threatened
them with violence or death and the
newly engaged men not only left work,
but departed from the city as well.
Even the board of mediation and arbi-
tration has given up its attempt at
reconciling the two factions. Com
missioners Robertson and Purcell have
apparently abandoned any hope of
affecting compromise for the present
at least, for after the board adjourned
this evening they left town. declaring
that the board had been able to accom-
plish nothing.
The most serious side of the matter
is the probabilities of a general strike
being ordered. Ranorsa were abroad
through the day that the elevated road
employees would go out in sympathy
with the surface men. These rumors
were denied as frequently as they were
made. Despite all contradictions, how
ever, several of the leaders of L men
said that the probability of a sympa-
thetic strike was great. Conferences on
the subject had been held. and it had
been decided to give the surface men
all the aid possible. 1t was said by the
l. leaders that it was not at all unlikely
that strike would be ordered on Mon
day morning. Grand Master Sovereign
is expected in Brooklyn tomorrow and
he will attempt to do what the board
of arbitration has failed to do-con-
ciliate the presidents of the various
roads Master Workman Connolly, how
ever said that he did not know of
Sovereign's rumored intentions of TAX
ing a hand in the question.
There was conference of police cap
tains tonight and it was decided to
rigidly enforce the excise law to-mor-
row. 1t was regarded by the authori-
ties as extremely necessary that no
liquor be sold to the strikers during the
present trouble, and hereafter a sharp
outlook will be kept on the saloons in
the vicinity of the car stables.
Superintendent of Police Campbell to-
night issued a statement that he had
been notified that the Brooklyn Rail-
road Company will put their lines in
operation at o'clock. These lines are
the Green Point, Myrtle avenue, Bates
avenue. Third and Hamilton avenue.
The Fulton-street line, Tompkins and
Sumner avenues were in operation to-
day. The superintendent of police, in
connection with the militia. will make
special preparation for the opening of
these lines. Notice is given that
further force of militia will be ordered
out, the impression having obtained
late tonight that the strikers had made
special arrangements to meet the rail-
road officials on their grounds.
1O:45 p. m.-Strkers have been rioting
for the last three-quarters of an hour in
the vicinity of the car stables on Jamaica
avenue. In the Twenty-sixth ward they
are hurting bricks and stones in every di-
rection. The militia scattered the crowd
time and time again. Several men and
women were wounded. Eugene Williams
was stabbed in the back by bayonet
Philip Tighe was also stabbed by a bayonet
A woman whose name could not be learned,
while attempting to pass through the line
received a similar wound by a guardsman
whose bayonet was. pointed in the direc-
ton of the fleeing CT owd The militia drove
the rioters down Alabama and Georgia
avenues, several times chasing them from
the stables as far as four blocks distant on
Atlantic avenue. The situation at this
point is a serious one Several ambulances
have been sent to the scene of the rioting.
II p. NIT is rumored that a man has
been killed by the militia in East New
York. The strikers are still rieting there
The militia, under command of Major
Cochran, of the Thirteenth Regiment
charged the strikers several times One
hundred mounted police have been sent
to the scene of the riot Soldiers are
charging the mob in all directions. Fifteen
ambulance calls have been sent out
squad of one hundred policemen has also
been sent to the spot.
80 p. m.-The strikers in East New
York have become somewhat quieter but
it is feared they will again become turbu-
lent soon. The officers have closed all sa-
looms. The military charges lasted from
p. to II p. m. The police, under Capt.
German, took hand in the outbreak, and