The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25

A nearby window was broken by the bull
let The old woman leaped into the room
and closed the window
Matters were comparatively quiet on the
Third and Fifth-avenue roads to-day The
wires between Sixticth and Sixty-fifth
streets We're cut after midnight and. as a
consequence the electric lights in the depot
went out, leaving Captain Ihorne ana his
In darkness The wires were not repaired
until 10 o'clock. when traffic was resumed
as against twenty yesterday The foreman
said he was unable to operate a greater
number, as some of the new men had been
transferred to Greenpoint
During the night and early morning the
full strength of the Twenty-third Regiment.
4, was placed on duty along the road to
Flatbush avenue.
ENCOUNTER WITH A MOB.
At IL o'clock the police on duty at Twen-
ty-fifth street and Third avenue had a live
ly time putting an end to riot which had
broke out there. About seven hundred per-
sons collected at this point and jeered the
soldiers who were under arms there. The
mob continued increasing until noon, when
a stone hurled by one of the crowd,
striking policeman This was followed by
several others and then the police and mi
litia charged The mob rushed along the
avenue and into the side streets. Many Of
them received bayonet thrusts from the
militamen, while the clubs of the policemen
We're used with telling effect on the heads
of the rioters. The police arrested John
Tigh, Charles Burke and stephen Cannon.
When conveying them to the station, the
crowd attacked them and endeavored to
rescue the prisoners After a desperate con-
fict, during which more stones were
thrown and blows struck on both sides. the
three stone-throwers were locked up
At Twentieth street and Ninth avenue the
feed wires, return wires and support wires
as lar as Flatbush avenue, a, distance of
over mile. The feed wire in Twentieth
street, between Seventh and Eighth ave-
nues, was also destroyed. The wires at
Fifteenth street and Second avenue were
of trolley cars standing at Ninth avenue
near Greenwood Cemetery, were wrecked
and rendered unfit for use
The most serious attempt to prevent the
running of cars over the Third-avenue line
was made at Sixty-fifth street and Third
mos 10 IN the depot was nearly successful.
It was evidently the work of skilled cleo
We're attached to them, by which fhsv Were
drawn down and grounded on to the posts
or the elevated railroad. The scheme was,
however, discovered in time to Illustrate
the plan.
The linemen on all the Atlantic lines
passengers prevented the management from
running the Seventh and Ninth avenues and
the F'ifteenth-street cars at all to-day.
Inc militia in the various depots ex-
with their treatment, but appeared desirous
|
allow them TO return to their homes
A CAR RUNS WILD
AT Thirtieth and Fifth avenue two men
about whom was a crowd of men, hailed a
Fifth-avenue car and when it stopped they
boarded it. They then drew pistols from
under their shawls and ordered
the conductor and motorman to
stop work. The men leaped from
the car and left the invaders in pos
session. One of the crowd then started the
car, jumping off before it had gained much
headway. When the car passed the stables
at Twenty-fourth street it was travelling at
/ high rate of speed. One of the men
standing there noticed that the car was
running wild and jumped aboard the rear
platform and soon had it at a standstill.
Another gang of strikers attempted to pull
the motorman off his platform, but ne
Iougnt them OF. He very roughly
treated in the scrimmage and had his law
broken. -"
Not more than half the linemen have re-
garoed the order to strike.
Inomas kearney the roofer who was
sIioI snol on house top by a militiaman in
HICKS street yesterday, died to-day. Colonel
Austin, of the Thirteenth regiment said in
reference to the shooting that it was ter-
feetly justifiable as the mob at the time was
throwing missiles at tie militia. Sergeant
Schriver and Adjutant Broom had been
severely injured. In future, however he
should instruct his command not 20 shoot
when person refused to halt, but II place
him under arrest. He had sent pictxets 10
the houses along Hicks street to warn The
their windows closed. They had gone to The
roofs of the houses and removed piles of
bricks which had been gathered there with
the evident intent of using them mis-
siles in pelting the militia and the cars.
President Norton. of the Atlantic-avenue
company, says thai SO far as his Zines are
concerned, the strike is at an end f,j- he
has all the motormen and conductors for
whom, there are. places There has. how
hpau inco0VpOianpa an Ia
by the cutting of wires. Most of the At
lantic linemen are at work AS usual.
A device to impede the operation of
the. railways was adopted at Bergen street
and Troy avenue on the Atlantic-avenue
line where switches were cemented during
the night.
New employees go about outside of the
militia line at their peril. One who dis
spotted by the strikers and badly traten.
Ten experienced trolley men who had been
brought here from Pittsburg Yesterday by
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company,
deserted the Flatbush cars in which they
were in charge in a body this afternoon
at briggs and Manhattan avenues and the
adjacent streets. and We're brought TO the
strikers headquarters at Mugges Hall at 10
O'Clock this evening; Altogether twenty-ol;e
men arrived from Pittsburg and five stole
away from the stables last night undetected
and ten of the remainder soon As they
got a chance to-day did likewise.
STORY TOLD BY DESERTERS.
The story told by the ten is decidedly
Nii6doCbf
the rest of the twenty-one in Pittsburs by
j. C. Kincaid. They all experienced,
having been employed there by the Man.
chester Traction Company. Kincaid
sured them that there was no trouble What
ever, and gave them to understand that
the strike had been settled amicaply. They
were guaranteed 81 for a day of ten hours
work, their fare to New York s10.50, being
paid by the company Their pay was to
date from their arrival here. The first part
of the bargain, they allege carried
out, but although they have been here since
yesterday morning they have not received
a cent AThey were taken to the Halsey
street stables, where the presence of the
militia and the general aspect speedily gave
them an idea of the actual situation. They
asserted that they did not want to fill the
strikers places, but they were carefully
guarded and could not get away. They
We're taken to-day to the Flatbush stables.
Here they were given cars to run out They
acted as though apparently satisfied, but no
sooner had they arrived at a safe distance,
than the leader jumped off his car and nine
motormen followed. The cars were s.ban-
doned. Policemen were seen later on tow
ing the cars honewaro. The Pittsburg men
are all married and say they are going
back to that city as soon as possible
At Brooklyn Heights railroad depot, at
nd TIVE .ofh hfrlc-