People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-01-24


the police and 5000 militia then on
duty were not sufficient to hold the
street railway strikers and their SYM
pathizers in check and prevent dis
tufbances, and telegraphed to Gov
ernor Morton at Albany. The gov
ernor had been warned and at late
hour held a consultation with Ad-
iutant General McAlpine and Assist
ant Adjutant General Phister, and at
its close telegraphed orders to Gen.
eral Fitzgerald, commanding the
First brigade of the National guard,
composed of 400 militiamen of New
York city of every branch Of the ser
vice, to call his men together and pre-
pare to come here this morning.
General Fitzgerald obeyed orders at
once and this morning 1900 New
York city militia marched across the
bridge and reported for duty here.
The troops with the assistance of the
police, are expected to guard the
property Of the surface railways,
which form a meshwork of rails and
wires throughout this city Of about
1000, 900 inhabitants
The refusal of the companies to
promise reinstatement of strikers
when the latter had indicated a will
ingness to cali the fight of uDon that
one condition, has had the effect Of
making many Of those hitherto peace
ably disposed desperate and ready TO
participate in acts ofviolence directed
against the property OF the corpora
tons
Acts Of violence in the supposed in
terest of the strikers have been con-
tinuous in one part Of the city or
another for the last forty-eight hours.
During last night trolley wires were
cut in all directions, those who per
formed the work escaping detection.
About 5 o'clock a mob numbering
1000 or more stoned Sumner avenue
car near Broadway and Flushing
avenue.
As Captain Louis WendelIs battery
was proceeding W Broadway to Hal
sew street under scort of the Sixty
ninth battalion, at the corner Of Hal
Soy street ami Broadway a mob OF
1000 men guyed and jeered the mill
tia and some few stones were thrown.
The crowd was so great that Major
Duffy ordered charge, and his sol
diers, with fixed bayonets, charged on
the mob and dispersed it Quite a
number Of men were trampled under
foot and some slightly wounded By
bayonetA
Twenty thousand men and boy:
hang about the stations where the
military are posted and annoy the
soldiers by jeering and pelting them
with stones. All night the picket:
were subjected to these attacks and
missiles few around them from the
darkness, but they could not retaliste
The Brooklyn Heights Railroad
company tried to run some cars or
the Fulton street line this morning
but had TO abandon the attempt, the
motormen being forsea by threats to
leave their ccss57S All the cars were
I stoned and the windows broken and
their motor boxes rendered useless
The company ran some cars on the
Court street and Putnam avenue ines
They were not mOlested.
A mob at the Halsey street depot
had scrimmage with the militia
early to-day. A man was noticed
sneaking to the rear Of the barn he
was halted By the piekets and refused
to give any explanation Of his actions
When the soldiers turned him back
into the crowd they were met BY q
volley Of stones Many of the men
received bad bruises, but before they
could make charge on the mob i
had dispersed.
The men hanging about the depots
are angry and threaten to burn the
barns simultaneously if the alleged
wrongs Of the strikers are not rene
died to-day.
At l2;l5 y N. two cars Of the Brook.
lyn Heights railroad reached Eas'
New York with forty new men They
were met at Simpkins avenue by
Sergeant Reimals Of the Third mount
ed squad and a troop Of policeman
who escorted tie cars to their desti
nation
Innumerable scrimmages between
the militia aud strikers occurred dur
ing the day but none resulted
seriously.
On eight lines ordinarily running
POS cars there are III cars being ruI
to-day with more or less regularity
There are many more lines upor
which there has been no effort to re
sumo traffic