The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-21
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
Fruttless Efforts to Settle the Strike
Encounters with MObs.

settle the strike of the trolley line opera
tives have been without satisfactory result
The strikers, through their executive COM
mittee, have made concession after conces-
sions and the only point upon which they
stood out was that the companies should
re-employ all their old men, This was fatty
refused by the presidents of the companies
at conference with Mayor Schieren this
afternoon, at which were present Messrs.
Connolly, Best and Giblin. of the strikers
executive committee, and Presidents Lewis,
Norton and Wicker of the Brooklyn
Heights, Atlantic and Brooklyn and Queens
County systems of trolley lines, respectively.
President Lewis made it point that he is
in honor bound to retain the men he has
employed since the strike began. This the
strikers will not accede to.
This has been a day of great disorder
The city is virtually under military rule
Streets are blocked against pedestrians by
orders of soldiers and any one who stops
to argue the point is told to walk around
the block, while the glistening bayonet is
held within two inches of his face Thous-
ands of morbidly curious citizens fiocked to
the scenes of the riots last night and helped
to swell the crowds that gathered to do
mischief.
The green hands had some rough expert
of any kind was the signal for the forma-
ton of savage mob and for the rapid
demolition of all the glass work in the
car On Court street and Fifth avenue
lines, fully half the cars are in very dilap-
idated condition. The various mobs that
gathered at the car stables and along the
tracks of the tied-up lines contained at
least $4,000 people.
Many cars went astray to-day. The
switches were broken and obstacles were
heaped on the tracks; wires were cut at
various points and, on the whole, the day
was full of petty annoyances for the rail-
road companies Motormen abandoned their
cars at various points and in some instances
left the city as soon as they possibly could,
so serious did the situation seem. Blood
was spilled in quantities. but no one was
seriously hurt.
NO LINES OPENED.
No new lines have been opened to-day as
President Lewis promised they would. Sup
erintendent Campbell said early this morn
ing that he had received no official notice
from the railroad companies that they
were about to open new lines, consequent
ly the police were not notified by him to
do So The same lines were in operation
to-day that were running yesterday. On
Bergen street, where yesterday there was
great Qeal Oh OlSIuUdIiC6s illlc NdIS WCiC
running this morning and both along the
line and at the stables Of the company
at Sumner avenue and Bergen street, every
thing was quiet. At the stables two conn
panies of the Thirteenth Regiment were
guarding the property Of the company.
From midnight last night there were
the usual number of minor disturbances
likely to occur at such a. time At $50 a. m.
the wire on the uptown track al Sack
man street, on the Fulton-avenue lire, was
cut and was in a very dangerous condi-
ticn to passers-by. These breaks were
promptly repaired by the trolley company s
repair wagon. On upper Broadway the
wires of the Brooklyn Queens County and
Suburban road were also cut.
About O clock this morning a mob of
strikers marched down Ninth avenue to
Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street.
They numbered three hundred and were
supplied with drums, with which they made
the night hideous in that immediate neigh
borhood They filed by the militiamen
and jeered them, but the soldiers paid
no attention to the abuse the strikers soon
grew tired and disappeared
An effort was made by the strikers this
morning to coerce the men who were at
work on the Second-avenue lne which
starts from the TwentyN ferry,
OOuln bTOOhiyI, lnlO JOlDlIS the ranks OF
the knights of Labor. Considerable ex-
element caused in the neighborhood
by the violence displayed by the strikers.
Although number of cars were running
on the various lines which are open a
noticeable feature of the day was the COM
paratively few passengers who patronized
the cars Of the companies. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY considered too great a risk to ride
in them by the public
In consequence of the orders of the police
the liquor saloons throughout the city were
closed at midnight and in the neighbor-
hoods where the strikers were congregated
they were kept closed all day.
Mr.. Holcomb, of District Assembly No.
75, knights of Labor, said the strikers.
so far as he knew, Were not in favor
of a sympathetic strike of all of the labor
organizations.
All morning the Mayor was conferring.
with the members of his Cabinet and was
in constant communication with representa-
tives of the labor organizations. 1t was
rumored this morning that additional troops
were to be called out. Mayor Schieren was
asked if this rumor had any foundation in
fact. He replied that he had no intention
of asking the Governor for more troops.
AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET.
There was a great deal of excitement in
the neighborhood of the HaIsey street
stables of the Putnam-avenue line at noon
to-day when a large crowd of riotous
strikers began to force back the soldiers
defending the stables. They were kept back
at the point of the bayonet and desisted
from their hostile demonstration.
Malcolm w. Wood, the militiaman whose
skull was fractured last night by brick
thrown at him by strikers from the Ala
bama- a-avenue station of the Union Elevated
railroad, was taken from St. Mary's Hos
pftal to his home to-day. He rested quietly
during the night and was visited by his
parents 1t is believed he will recover
The strikers continued to cut the electric
wires, but the cars were not running on
the Fulton street line to-day no great in
convenience was caused the companies.
Between IL and II o'clock a Vanderbilt
avenue car became deraied at Vanderbilt
avenue and Bergen street. A large crowd
of disorderly characters was attracted to
the scene, but the police were numerous
enough to drive them away, though not be-
fore the windows were smashed by stones
At 1:30 this afternoon, car No. 1e1 of the
Bergen-street line became stalled on ac-
count of some defect OF mechanism in
frout Of emmy lots afuyaa,, I1o~~o..