The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-01-24
CAUSED BLOODsHED.

BLOODSHED.
THE STREET CAR STRIKE m
MROOKLyN becomes SERIOUS.
The Strikers and Their sympnthix-
ers Engage I'm u battle With the
People Arc Injured.
Brooklyn, Jan. 22.-The street car
strike has caused blOodshed, and the
prospects are that more blood will be
shed before the trouble is settled. The
militia was called out, but this seemed
to enrage the strikers rather than in
timidate them.
Rioting was the order of the day
yesterday, and the strikers had some
serious clashes with the militia last
evening. The presence of the militia
did not seem to tend to prevent the
mobbing of numerous conductors and
motormen who had taken positions
with the tied-up roads. In many in
stances non-uniOn men were badly
hurt, and so fierce were the attacks
Of the strikers that the soldiers had to
resort to the bayonet. Several strik-
ers or sympathiZers were bayOneted,
and the situation Is considered the
gravest that has confronted the au-
thorities for many years. So threat
ening, too, had become the attitude
of the mobs that 200 men, who had
been secured by the BrooklynAHeights
Railroad company, abandoned their
work in body. The strikers threat
ened them with violence and death.
and the newly engaged not only left
work but departed from the city.
Even the board of mediation and arbi-
tration has given up it's attempt at
reconciling the two factions. Commits
sioners Robertson and Purcell have ap-
parently abandoned any hope Of at
fecting compromise, for the present,
at least.
During the fight with the militia
some Of the strikers retreated to the
roofs of houses and heaved down
stones on the troops. Some idea of the
violence Of the fighting may be
learned when it is known that from
the immediate neighboorhood fifteen
ambulance calls were sent to ST..
Mary's hospital.
P. G. Williams, private of the Thir-
teenth regiment, twenty-one years Of
age, suffered severe confusion of
the leg. Those of the mob who were
most seriously injured were:
Philip Tighe, severe scalp wounds.
Alexander Sands, thirty-fve years
of age, compositor, three severe
scalp wounds.
More Disturbances.
Brooklyn, Jan. 22.-There has been
no change in the condition of affairs
to-day. No new lines have been opened
as President Lewis promised he
would. Superintendent Campbell said
early this morning that he had re-
ceived no official notice from the rail-
road companies that they were about
to open up the lines, consequently the
police were not notified by him to do
so. From midnight last night there
were the usual number of minor dis
turbances likely to occur at such a
time. At 8 o'clock the wire on the up
town track at Sackman street, on the
Fulton avenue line, was cut and was
in a very dangerous condition to pass
ers-by. These breaks were promptly
repaired by the trolley company's re-
pair wagon. On upper Broadway the
wires of the Brooklyn, Queens County
& Suburban railroad were also cut.
About 3 o'clock this morning mob
of strikers marched down Ninth ave-
nue. to Fifth avenue and Twenty
fourth street. They numbered 300 and
were supplied with drums with which
they made the night hideous in that
Immediate neighborhood. They filed
by the militiamen and jeered them.
but the soldiers paid no attention to
the abuse, and the strikers soon got
tired and disappeared.
An effort was made by the strikers
this morning to coerce the men who
were at work on the Second avenue
line, which starts from the Thirty
ninth ferry, South Brooklyn, into join
Ing the ranks of the knights of Labor.
Considerable excitement was caused
In the neighborhood by the violence
displayed by the strikers. Although a
number of cars are running on the
various lines which are open, a notice
able feature of the day was the COM
paratively few passengers who pat
ronized the cars of the companies. It
was evidently considered
Too Great n Risk
to ride in them by the public. In con-
sequence of the orders of the police
the liquor saloons throughout the city
were closed up tight at midnight, and
in the neighborhood where the strik-
ers were cor gregated, they were Kept
closed. MI. Holcom, of District AS
sembly No. Is, X. of L., said the strik-
ers, so far as he knew, were not in
favor of sympathetic strike of all
the labor organizations. All the morn
Ing the mayor was comforting with the
members of his cabinet and was in
constant communication with repre-
sentatives of the labor organizat tons,
but all efforts to reach a compromise
were unavailing. This morning a
Vanderbilt avenue car became de-
rallied at Vanderbilt avenue and Der.
gen street. A large crowd of disorder
ly characters were attracted to the
scene but the police were hume. GUS
enough to drive them away, but not
before windows were smashed by
stones. Later car No. 161, of the
Bergen street line hnoama ctollod o,,