Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-01-24
EIGHT THOUSAND STATE SOL
DIERS NOW ON DUTY.
NUMEROUS SKIRMISHES TAKE PLACE.
Nothing Very Serious Has Yet Occurred
Both Sides as Determined ms Ever
Many Cars Wrecked and the
Strikers and Their sympathlx-
ers Charged with Fixed
BayOnets by Soldiers.

night Mayor Schieren decided that
the police and $1,000 militia then on
duty were not sufficient to hold the
street railway strikers and their SYM
pathizers in check and prevent dis
turbances, and telegraphed to Gov
ernor Morton at Albany. The gov
ernor had been warned and at late
hour held consultation with Adj
jutant General McAlpine and Assist
ant Adjutant General Phister, and at
its close telegraphed orders to Gen
eral Fitzgerald, commanding the
First brigade of the National guard,
composed Of 4,7OO militiamen of New
York city Of every branch Of the ser
vice, to, call his men together and pre-
pare to come here this morning.
General Fitzgerald obeyed orders at
once and this morning 1900 New
York city militia marched across the
bridge and reported for duty here.
The troops with the assistance of the
police, are expected to guard the
property of the surface railways,
which form meshwork of rails and
wires throughout this city of about
1000, 900 inhabitants.
The refusal of the companies to
promise reinstatement of strikers
when the latter had indicated a will
ingness to call the fight off upon that
one condition, has had the effect of
making many of those hitherto peace
ably disposed desperate and ready to
participate in acts of violence directed
against the property of the corpora
tions.
Acts of violence in the supposed in
terest of the strikers have been con-
tinuous in one part of the city or
another for the last forty eight hours.
During last night trolley wires were
cut in all directions, those who per-
formed the work escaping detection.
About o'clock mob numbering
1000 or more stoned Sumner avenue
car near Broadway and Flushing
avenue.
AS Captain Louis Wendelrs battery
was proceeding u Broadway to Hal
sey street under scort of the Sixty
ninth battalion, at the corner of Hal
scy street and Broadway mob of
1000 men guyed and jeered the mill
tia and some few stones were thrown.
The crowd was so great that Major
Duffy ordered charge, and his sol
diers, with fixed bayonets, charged on
the mob and dispersed it. Quite a
number of men were trampled under
foot and some slightly wounded by
bayonets.
Twenty thousand men and boys
hang about the stations where the
military are posted and annoy the
soldiers by jeering and pelting them
with stones. All night the pickets
were subjected to these attacks and
missiles few around them from the
darkness, but they could not retaliate.
The Brooklyn Heights Railroad
company tried to run some cars ON
the Fulton street line this morning,
but had to abandon the attempt, the
motormeIl being forced by threats to
leave their cars. All the cars were
stoned and the windows broken and
their motor boxes rendered useless
The company ran some cars on the
Court street and Putnam avenue lines.
They were not moleSted.
A mob at the Halsey street depot
had q scrimmage with the militia
early to-day, A man was noticed
sneaking to the rear of the barn. He
was halted by the pickets and refused
to give any explanation of his actions.
When the soldiers turned him back
into the crowd they were met by
volley of stones. Many of the men
received bad bruises, but before they
could make charge on the mob it
had dispersed.
The men hanging about the depots
are angry and threaten to burn the
barns simultaneously if the alleged
wrongs of the strikers are not reme-
died to-day.
At 1918 p. m. two cars of the Brook.
lyn Heights railroad reached East
New York with forty new men. They
were met at SimplSins avenue by
Sergeant Reimals Of the Third mount
ed squad and a troop of policeman,
who escorted the cars to their desti-
nation.
Innumerable serimmages between
the militia aud strikers occurred dur
ing the day but none resulted
seriously
On eight lines ordinarily running
POS cars there are Ill cars being run
to-day with more or less regularity.
There are many more lines upon
which there has been no effort to re-
sumo traffic