The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-01-25
DISORDER REIGNS.
No Signs of Settlement of the
Great Strike at Brooklyn.

Clashes Between Mobs and Peace Preserv-
ers-City of Sacred Edifces Transformed
Into an Armed Camp.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 20. - Violence and
possibly bloodshed constitute the record
Of the eighth day of the electric railway
operatives strike. Three militiamen are
In hospitals with broken heads, two hay
Ing suffered at the hands of riotous men
or women, while the third was the victim
OF his own carelessness, having fallen out
of second story window. A score or
more policemen are suffering from bullet
wounds and contusions of the head or
body, disabling them for the time being.
To what extent the rioters have suf-
fered cannot even be conjectured. IF they
escaped punishment. 1t was not the fault
OF the militiamen, who, In accordance
with their orders. fired as directly at their
assailants as dense fog, which completely
hid objects at 80 yards distance, would
permit. The strike is not ended and order
is not restored.
| Seven thousand National Guardsmen
and 1900 or 1900 policemen have not been
street railway traffic in Brooklyn praoti-
cable. In fact, the gain over last Satur-
day is 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.
No Change In the Situation.
ERoogxLxN, Jan "a TIs. ssiyssh day OF
the tie-up closed without bringing
terial change in the situation. IL was
day of alarming rumors, which forcu-
pately proved to have slight or no found
alton.
There were between daybreak and
nightfall numerous brushes between the
police and militia on the one side, and the
strikers or headstrong, law -defying sympa-
thizers with their cause on the other.
The linemen's strike, which was to have
tied the trolley lines more effectually than
had been done by the strike of motormen,
conductors and other employees, was called
off before it was fairly on, and, later on,
the mandate of Master Workman Con-
molly promulgate calling upon the line
men to abandon their situations this
morning What influenced the strikers
manager to call the linemen's strike of
cannot now be told. The effect of this
move which the strikers have compared
to the playing of high trump card, re-
mains to be seen.
The developments of the day have not
been reassurlng as a whole. In spite Of
the fact that there are under arms in the
city 5000 of the state soldiery and 1900
policemen are on duty, intramural traffic
Is suffering IA virtual paralysis, in which
all the industries of the city participate to
greater or lesser degree; lawlessness la
rampant, and altogether conditions are
such as may we'll excite the gravest appre-
hension.
The disorderly element in the city has
been largely recruit ted from New York
and other cities, and has, as Is usual in
such cases. arrayed itself with the strikers,
a selfish advocacy of whose cause may af-
ford pretext for the perpetration of
graver crimes than have yet marked the
progress of the pending contest.
The first probably fatal encounter of
the great strike took place about IL O'Clock
last night, when in an encounter with
few boys at the Halsey street station of the
Brooklyn City Railway company, a vol
lev was fired by the militia.
Henry Aliens of New York city was ia
tally shot IA musket ball entering his
mouth and passing through his head.
Another man, "A starter named Mitchell,
was wounded in both arms. The shooting
had the instant effect of dispensing the
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