The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-22

BsookLYS. n. Y, Jan. 2l.-yiolonce
and bloodshed constitutes tho record OF
the eighth day Of the electric street
railway opera,ives' strike. Three
militlamen are In hospitals with broken
heads, two having suffered a. the hands
OF riotous men or women, while tho
third was the victim Of his own caro-.
l.s'ness, having fallen out OF second
story window. A score or more police.
men are suffering from bullet wounds
or contu,ions OF the head and body,
disabling them for the time being.
To what extent tho rioters have sut-
isred cauno. even be conjec.ured. II
they escaped punishment 1t was not the
fault OF the militiameu. who. in accord
ance with their orders, fired Ms directly
at their assailauts as q dense fog. which
completely hid objects at thirty yards
distance, would permit. The strike is
not ended and order Is not restored.
MILITARY FORCE INSUFFICIENT.
Seven thousand national Guardsmen
and fifteen or sixteen hundred police.
men have no. to-day been strong
enough to make tho resumption OF the
stree. railway traffic in Brooklyn practi.
cable. In fact the gain over last Satur.
day is scarcely percep.ible. Tho call
ing out of the First brigade, composed
OF New York City regiments, has seemed
rather to add to the tension than to
bring solution OF the difficulties. Tho
task OF restoring peace aud order over
nearly 200 miles OF street car line is a
vast one.
The new levy numbered not far from
1000 men. They were moved across
the great bridge early in the day. The
various companies went by elevated
trains, wherever 1t was possible, 10 the
points which they had been ordered.
Generally speaking the greetings they
met with on the streets were lar from
friendly. Boys guyed and men jeered
them as they passed through the sec
lions Inhabited by laboring people. The
elements which early In the day we're
suspicious, sooE took an untriendly
aspect.
4 Scotch mist settled down all over
the city, increasing in density as the
evening approached, and added to the
difficulties which attended the carrying
out OF the announced intention OF the
street car companies upon lines not
operated since the strike was declared.
Such attempts in this direction as were
made were futile. A car started from
the Ridgewood station OF the Brooklyn
Heights company little after O'Clock,
aud wa. assailed with volleys OF stones
and bricks from windows and vacant
lots before /. had proceeded far on its
vay down town. A private soldier MAS
struck on the head with stone and dis.
abled.
THE SOLDIERS SHOT TO KILL
The officer in command ordered his
men to shoot and two yoileys were fired
toward the windows and house-tops
from which missiles had mostly been
hurled. The soldiers aim was, how
ever, rendered uncertain by the dense
Jog. The militiamen's orders were that
II they shot 1t should be to kill. Police.
men also did some shooting at this
point, with wha. effect is as uncertain
Es is the case o! the mili.iamen.
On the same line q car started out an
hour later and was beset by riotern at
Gates and Stuyvesant avehues. Tho
police escorting it esaayed TO drive Off
the rioters and while doing 80 were
fred upon from house. Two polico-
men we're wounded, one in the arm and
the other in The hand. A detail OF
police entered the housc and arrested
Kate karney who was caught in the ac.
o! hurling missiles from tho window.
4. the time this was occurring n skirm-
ish between another mob and the police
escort upon the snme line wcrs In pro-
gress few squares nearer the bridge.
In this fight three patrolnen received
painful injuries by being struck with
stones. Officer Colligan'u no,e was
broken.
Foug MRS WOUNDED.
Tho Haley s.reet line was also the
scene OF several lively encounters. In
one OF them Private Ennis, OF tho
Seventh regiment, wa. Knocked sense.
lc:. by a stone thrown by n rio.er
Several shots were fired into tho crowd.
and rumor has 1t that four men were