The sun., 1895-02-06

Manhattan avenue and Thomas Wilson, 20
years old, OF 2B0 Manhattan avenue.
BOYS PAID TO STONE CARS.
In addition to these arrests and about half an
hour after the riot happened, the police arrested
two boys, Christopher Fisher, 10 years old. .of
OF 400 Manhattan avenue. these boys we're
caught throwing stones at the car. When they
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men whom they didn't know but who they did
know hung out around the strikers heod9uar-
ters, had naid them fifteen ccnts each to throw
stones at the cars. They added that this was
not the first JOB OF the kind they had had.
The men who were arrested were held on
charges Of melting to riot and OF stone throwing.
Campbell was held ON an additional charge for
4sB Warren street. Aftcrhe had returned from
the strikers headquarters with the last three
be relieved from duty until morning. and went
home A physician examined him there. and
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lice say that there can be Eo doubt but that the
attack on the car was premeditated. The fact
armed with clubs. and that they did their work
so,quickly, they say, is proof of that
Last night the mOtorman and conductor who
ran away turned up. They had been beaten by
the mob.
CAR HELD Up IN JEFFERsoN AVENUE
Another car was held up in jefferson avenue.
II was Greene and Gates avenue car, and there
were no special policemen on 1t To protect IL, the
officers having been withdrawn from that line
from out OF town. lilo and the motorman were
the only persons apparently besides the men
Trned The conductor @ says that the car was
brought to a standstill by an obstruction on the
track, and that the moment y stopped gang
motorman over the head, and seized the power
handle.
gang threw stones at the car which smashed
every window in It. broke some of the castings,
finally carried the motorman off and started up
jefferson avenue with him. The conductor,
platform a. soon as the mob had left the car,
found the power handle and started the car on
slowly. He ran it until it reached the corner of
Reid and Putnam avenues. Policeman George
w. Brown, was on duty three blocks up the
street, at the corner of Reid avenue. He saw
the car stop. and saw that 1t didn't start again.
He ran down as fast AS ho could, expecting
trouble, although he saw no one but the man on
the front platform.
The conductor was debating whether to go
ahead when Brown got there. Brown wanted
told him that his motorman was being kid
mapped and was somewhere In jefferson av-
enne. Brown hustled down To- jefferson avenue
the conductor after him. The gang had the
motorman up the street some distance from he
corner and were arguing with him. When the
conductor pointed out Edward Wells. 80 years
old. of 52l Hancock street, as the man he had
lcemnn arrested him. The motormsn went
back with the conductor and the car went Oh to
the end OF the trip.
TWO FUNERALS RUN Down
During the early hours of the day there was
average every half hour all accident
somewhere, in which either wagon was
more accidents even than on sunday, when the
record for collisions since the strike began was
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first work they have done for months; They
haven't sufficient clothing to, protect them in
weather such AS yesterday. and nqmbness from
the cold. added TO ineXperience in handling cars
in a big city, was responsible. probably. for tbs
greater numberof the accidents. 80
One of the most distressing accidents of the
day happened in broadway. where cross;town
car ran Into "A hearse. smashed the rear wheels.
and tumbled the casket out into the street: The
casket contained the body of Mamie koehane,
the two-y year-Old daughter of Cornelius koehsne.
The funeral party had come across the ferry and
was on its wa; TO the cemetery. The Gross-town
os cas was N2 3H 1t W9s guarded by Special
apulis was the motorman and Henry {. Bellin of
Oshkosh the conduct9ri, Fl, The car was going
sI@vatea yaiIrosd train, and The driver
should have done. Neither did the trolley
car. The result was u collision. The driver
m head adj and G'' bcdy Tie heavy glass in the con-
veyanGe was broken. The father of the child.
who was i'll the coach following the hearse;
jumped out. aud. picking. the cssket up carried
it 90 his coach and put 1t INSIDE. There were
hundreds OF people on the street at the time OF
the accident and they crowded around the car
and the wrecked hearse and threatened the lives
of the motorman and conductor. Those wanted
to get away. but scared that they
couldn't. some men in the crowd who ought to
have known better, yelled; xiii the motor
man: Kill him; he ought to be Killed
Dineen drew his revolver and threatened to
shoot the first man who offered to lay hand on
his charge. He swung his club about and kept
on the railroad men. sergeant Hayes was two
blocks away. He ran up and pushed his way
get back. and when they didn't obey he drew
his cluo and. with Dineen's aid, drove them
and Belin were put in that and were hurried of
to the station house to prevent any possibility
and nd occupied @ by Mrs Msdigan, 81 years old. Of
OF the Newtown line as Mrs. Madigan and her
stepson were returning from the cemetery;
near the corner of llavemeyer street the car
overlook it. John Irwin, the motorman. rang
his bell to warn the driver to get of the track
The coach did start 10 turn out, and Irwin.
thinking that it would get out of the way in
ment @ the front platform, struck the rear
wheels OF the coach, threw them over,
tda S Of M arssF hS GGs hRa
Dowd climbed out of the coach as soon as he
was able TO. The shock had been so severe that
for for Mrs Madigan, who, it was thought. was
badly hurt. y crowd gathered in the street;
Kill him" at the mo,orman. The police ar
rived in time to prevent the crowd from acting
and conductor and took them away for their
own safety. The ambulance surgeon found that
Mrs. Madlgan suffered only from snoCk, anu
after he had attended to her and her stepson
they proceeded on their way in another coach.
CARS COLLIDE WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH
VEHICLES.
Ralph avenue car Ala smashed into a milk
wagon driven by Henry Roach of 20 Garden
street, at the corner of Broadway and Walia-
bout. The pole of the wagon was broken the
horse was hurt, and Roach was thrown out and
severely bruised. Car S26 OF the sumner av-
enue line ran into car % of the Broadway line
at broadway and Throop avenue. The sumner
avenue got the worst or the collision some
of the fixtures being damaged. The passengers
in both were badly scared. A Myrtle ay- |
enue car ran into Smith street car at Myrtle |
avenue and Jay street, where the lines cross |
each other. The motorman of the Myrtle av- |
enue car saw the danger of a smash-up just in |
time and succeeded in reducing the speed of his |
car before the collision. Nevertheless, the |
Smith street car was struck blow which did |
considerable damage.
i.orimer street line car No :, 2,03?, in charge OF
MotOrman George Muligan and Conductor |
George Is. Robertson, ran into truck driven by |
Charles Scheiver of 81 D Grand street, on Man |
haitian avenue. between Noble and Collier |
streets. The car was going Mt a good speed, and |
it struck tho rear wheels of the truck aud tossed