Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-01-25
POL|CE KEPT BUSY.
Big MObS of Strikers and SYM
pathiZerS Make Trouble
In Brooklyn.
CITY UNDER MILITARY. RULE.
All Efforts to Settle the Strike
Have So Far Proved
Unavailing.

Have So Far Proved
Unavailing.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 81. Every effort to
settle the strike of the trolley operatives
has been without satisfactory result.
The strikers, through their executive
committee, have made concession after
concession, and the only point upon
which they stood out was that the COM
panies should re-employ all their old
men. This was fatty refused by the
presidents of the companies at the con-
ference with Mayor Schieren during the
afternoon.
This has been day of disorder. The
city is virtually under military rule.
Streets are blocked against pedestrians
by an army of soldiers. Thousands Of
morbidly curious citizens focked to the
scenes Of the riots and helped to swell
the crowds that gathered to do mischief.
The green hands had some rough ex-
periences all through the day and a
breakdown of any kind was the signal
for the
Formation of q Savage Mob
and the demolition Of all the glass work
in the car. The various mobs that gath
'sred at the car stables and along the
tracks Of the tied-up lines contained at
least 1000 people,.
Many cars went astray, switches were
broken and obstacles heaped on the
tracks, wires were cut at various points,
and on the whole the day was full of an
noyance for the railroad companies.
Blood was spilled in quantities, but no
one was seriously hurt.
Mayor Schieren has issued proclama-
tion requiring all persons within the
limits Of the city to refrain from un-
necessary assembling during the present
disturbance and until quiet is restored.
He gives notice that the police have been
ordered and the militia requested to dis
perse any unlawful assemblage.
Carried Few Passengers.
Although number of cars were run
ming on the various lines which were
open, noticeable feature of the day was
the comparatively few passengers who
patronized the cars Of the companies.
It was evidently 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 up tight at midnight and in
the neighborhood where the strikers
were congregated they were kept closed.
All the morning the mayor was con-
ferring with the members of his cabinet
and was in constant communication
with representatives Of the labor or
ganizations. There was
Great Deal of Excitement
in the neighborhood Of the Halsey street
stables of the Putnam avenue line at
noon, when 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 de-
sisted from their hostile demonstration.
Malcolm w. Wood, the militiaman
thrown at him by strikers from the Ala
bama avenue station of the Union Ele-
waited railroad, was taken from St..
Mary's hospital to his home. 1t is be-
ieved that hu will recover.
The strikers continue to tear down
and cut the electric wires, but as the
cars were not running on the Fulton
street line no great inconvenience was
caused the companies.
Several Policemen Injured.
At 1870 p. m. car No. l61 of the Ber-
gen street line became stalled on ac-
count of some defective mechanism.
This caused the stoppage of three other
cars. A crowd gathered and threw
stones at the cars, demolishing every
pane of glass. The police charged, but
the men made determined stand, being
led by a man named Gallagher. Sew.
eral of the policemen were cut by flying
stones and pieces of brick, but none
seriously. Cooking utensils and other
household goods were hurled at the po
lice from the windows of houses in the
neighborhood and boiling water was
thrown from the upper floors.
Mob of Four Thousand.
At the Alabama stables Of the Fulton
street line of the Brooklyn Railroad
company, the scene Of the furious con
f1ict between the militia and strikers
there was crowd of 1000 strikers an6
their friends. The military kept then
well back from the railroad tracks
which were obstructed from time tt
time with ash barrels and old iro1
stoves. At 2 o'clock two cars wert
started from the depot and got as far a
Summers street, where they were
stopped by pile of building materia
placed upon the track for a distance O.
250 feet. At p. m. there was great ex
citement in Broadway in the eastern
district, between Moore and Flushing
avenue. A Sumner avenue car was at
tackled by mob and Captain French O
the Nineteenth precinct was struck il
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