Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-24
after the episode at Odd Fellows hall he
 declared again that the linemen were on
Shot on n Roof.

As a company of the Twenty-third regi- mont was escorting R Hicks street car Thomas Carney of 4Sl Union street, it is alleged by the soldiers. threw number of bricks at it and tho soldiers as it was pass ing 444 Hicks street. Some of the soldiers said they were hit by the missiles, and one of their number took deliberate aim and shot Carney in the side. The man was so seriously injured that the chances of his recovery arc but slight
 Carney was at work on the roof at the time and was attracted to the edge by the excitement of the crowd below in con sequence of the passage of the first car through Hicks street. The feeling in the neighborhood is very hard against the rail- road companies. Carney became imbued with the spirit of the crowd and yelled from his elevated post, "Ah, you scabs, go to your homeS"'
 He then began throwing bricks and pieces of tin at the car and the soldiers, who were then directly beneath him. Sev- eral of the company raised their rifles, but Carney refused to desist. He yelled de- risively again and threw another missile.
 Some of the soldiers faced him, took aim, and as brick flew toward them one of the company took aim and fired The bullet sped true to its mark and hit Car ney in the side. He fell back to the roof and the car went on its way. The crowd hisscd, and the excitement was at Q high pitch
 The police and military officers proceed ed to the roof by mean of a ladder. They found Carney lying unconscious in a large pool of blood.
 He lay there until he could be removed to the Long Island College hospital. A doctor who made an examination said that Carney wound is fatal. The coro- nor was notified.
 In his antemortem statement to Coro- ner Kene. Carney said: II was at work on the roof of the house at the corner of Hicks street and Harrison avenue with a man named Terence O'Neil. was on the cornice, and l saw the soldiers on Hicks street below me. Some one of them yelled at me, Get back I started to go back in fact l started to run back-and I heard gunshots, and I was hit in the hip l had not thrown anything from the roof at the soldiers. nor did O'Neil, who was working in the middle of the roof We had been at work on this roof for Michael Healy since morning
 Some Reckless Shooting.
 Rigid orders have been given to the militia doing picket duty to keep the win dOws of all houses closed and free from spectators. The soldiers arc subjected to some provoking insults in carrying out their orders.
 While doing duty on Irving avenue, near Myrtle avenue, Private Foster of Company G ordered man from a window and was rrearod 10 one Of these insults. After TO- peatcd orders had failed to have tho de- sired effect he fired a shot which entered the window sash. The window was closed
 Cars with broken windows are frequent. ly returning to Ridgewood over the Myr- tie Avenue line Police Captain Kitzsr went out with squad of men and cleared { that part of Gates avenue where most of the brick throwing had been indulged in.
 Special Officer Bernard Donnelly, who wore No. l754 shield, was stripped of his official equipage for refusing to do his duty.
 As car 949 of the Third Avenue line was passing Butler street on its return trip half dozen bricks were thrown after the vehicle from house roofs. Inspector Mclaughlin sent down a squad, who went through the building from which the bricks were thrown without finding the guilty parties.
 While car '45 of the same limo was on it's way to tho stables. big chunk of lead was thrown from a window. The police man in the car jumped of to arrest the , offender, but nobody was in sight The lead was evidently thrown from one of the open windows in the neighborhood. While car 925 was going down town. R brick was thrown through a window at Fifty second street
 Captain Rhodes of the Seventh pre- cInot, with Sergeants Knapp and Lynch lnd number of men, cleaned out Kehrs Iaioon at the junction of Fulton street and Jamaica avenue. where n number of strik- ns and sympathizcrs were congrcgating The men made no resistance whatever. Tho captain informed the proprietor that ho would closo the place entirely if he did not keep that element away.
 Troop \ Charges n Crowd. Therc was more excitement in tho To- ,ality of the Third Avenue railroad depot i than thero has been since the strike com. mcncod An attempt was made to run l :Ir5 over the line, and tho announcement ! Ahat the road was to be operated reused i tho strikers and their friends from the l state of QuieSCencc in which they havo for the past ten days basked. The barns at | Third avenue and Fifty-eighth street pre- sentod busy scene when Court street and Halsey street car reached the depot l filled with 50 nOnunion mon, who were at onco lodged in the depot.
 Every corner on the east side of the ave nuo was throngcd by the strikers and their 1 sympathizers, while in front of the stables were drawn up 100 men of the Twenty third regiment under Captain Thorne. The strikers cOntc2tcl themselves with hoot- ing and jecriHg the militia, but commit | ted no act which warranted their disper- sion.
 Some hours pre- Fious to the running of the first car the repair wagon of the Brook 1 lyn Heights company went down Third ! avenue to clear the track between Fifty first and Fifty second streets.
 The block between thoso two streets was piled with bricks. stones. lumber and I trunks of trees which had been cut in the vicinity so as to render tho running of oars an impOssibility. The repair wagon was manned by l2 men and escorted by Troop A.
 When they reached the Pequod club. the strikers headquarters at Fifty fifth street. somo 800 men who had assembled there jeered and denounced the escort and hurl- cd several volleys of stones at the men who were removing the obstacles.
 Lieutenant Bagley, who was in charge of the troop. called on them to dispcrse.
 The strikers replied by another ava lancho of stones. Lieutenant Bagley then ordered his men to charge and strike the rioters with the flat of their sabers On this being done, the strikers ran away. When the railroad employees finished their work the strikers rcassembled and follow ed up the escort and renewed the stone throwing, when tho cavalry again charged them with naked blades Some of tho strikers received sword thrusts, but man aged to escape. No further disturbance occurred during the day.
 Soon after the nonunion mon reached the depot l2 mounted police of the second squad rodo up and formed in line outside the barn. Every available man in the Twenty third regiment was under arms. and from Fifty ninth street to Seventeenth street the sidewalks were fringed with mi litiRmen.
 Finally car was run out. No violence was done, and its course was unhindered Twelve moro cars were run during the day on this line