The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-23
.BLOODSHED At BROOKLYN
Seventh Regiment Fires Upon Mob
with Fatal Effect.
SITUATION GROWS SERIOUS
The Troops Unable to Preserve Order.
Mayor Schicren Issues Proclama.
tion in the Interest of Law and
Order-TrOublc Ahead.
BY the United Press.


By the United Press.
Brooklyn, N. Y, Jan. 22.-Mob vio-
lence continued in the presence of the
troops in Brooklyn today. Troops fired
upon the mobs tonight The 1000 men
of the First and Second brigades have
not restored order, and the Third bri-
gade has been notified to be in readi-
ness to proceed to the scene of strife
on short notice.
Adjutant General McAlpin, sent by
Governor Morton from Albany to ascer-
tain the exact situation has been here
and gone to report to the governor
tonight.
The mayor has issued an additional
proclamation as follows: Law and
order must prevail first in this COM
munity, must be respected by all, must
he enforced upon all, even if it takes
the entire force of the state"
The situation has grown more serious
during the day. Tonight the outlook is
most grave. The breach between the
striking employees of the trolley lines
and the companies has been widened
Dy the uay ) uOlllSS.
Master Workman Martin j. Connolly
declares that the troops of the Seventh
regiment raided a peaceable assem-
blage of workingmen, seized their
papers and records, and ran things with
a high hand. The militia admit throw
ing out a Gordon of soldiers for two
blocks from the Ridgewood depot and
incidentally pennng 200 strikers in odd
| Fellows hall for two hours while the
cars We're operated on the Gates Ave-
nue. line. They deny seizing books and
papers.
Fifteen linemen who went on strike
on their own accord early in the day
had been ordered back to work by Con-
nelly
When he heard of the affair at Ode
| Fellows hall he ordered all linemen tC
quit work tomorrow morning. If the
men obey there will be few cars oper
ated until their places are filed, if they
can be filled
A Council of War.
Mayor Schieren, Adiutant Genera
McAlpin, Brigadier General McLeer
and all the high officials of the civil anC
military authorities, held what may b,
termed council of war. The resul
may develop in action by the governor
sending more.
The car companies made some prog
ress toward resumlng traffic. More car:
were run on the lines which have beeI
open for three or four days and tw,
new lines Were opened. In one cas-
troops and police lined the route 70
blocks and shot at people in windows
who throw missiles, and in the othe
Troop a charged with drawn sabres t,
rescue a car in the hands of the mob
Both these affairs, in which troops fig
ured. took place in broad daylight
Minor disturbances We're reported from
various parts of the city. There wer
only dozen arrests in all that had con
nection with the disturbance. Polio
Commissioner Welles issued a genera
order threatening any officer with dis
mlssal who failed TO do his full duty.
Strikers captured many men hired b.
the companies to fill their places. i
some cases they used moral suasio
and in others it is said they Use
force to kidnap the non-union me,
: Tonight the Seventh regiment fired o
gang of men who stood opposite tn
Halsey street car houses, near Broad
way. Two men in the crowd We're st
riosly injured, and it is reported tina
the crowd carried away others wh
were wounded by bullets from the so
diers' guns.
Encounter at llalscy Street.
a charge was made by the military {
Broadway and Halsey streets at
( o'clock tonight Some small boys ha
= been jeering the soldiers and there va
Q but few men about. A drunken ma
; from New York started from John Coz
i, ways saloon on the corner to Gro!
Halsey street. He was fired upon al
hit in the face, sustaining "A compour
fracture of the jaw. His name
Thomas Aims. He will die.
G Mr. Mitchell. of the Brooklyn Cit
D railroad, was shot in the arm. Two
Y the bullets from the guns of the milit
Z went through the large plate gla
window of the candy store of job
Eckoff, at 1851 Broadway, narrow
missing the clerks behind the counte
Mr.. Eckoff's daughter, Sophie. who W;
V standing i'm front of the store, was ju
o missed by u bullet DR.. Wilson q
: tended the wounded man and was &
J. eye witness of the shooting. He sa,
there was but few people about ai
much less excuse for the shooting thu
last night. when a large crowd at Il
!, same place created quite a disturbanc
~ AT 1l.i0 THE neighborhood was almo
>, deserted, but the few men about we
excited over the occurrence. There We
less than twenty men present when II
shooting occurred. The companies d
not attempt to run cars until midn!gl
r They accomplished considerable
running at all anter dark. Some of q
last cars in had rough experience. ~
shooting was done by five of the men
the picket line which the Seventh rel
ment had established along Halls
r street to guard the car house. A doz
y people on the street had narrow ,
N capes.
'' At o'clock this morning reports
ceived at police headquarters from {
o. various depots stated that all w
70 quiet
,r ,r FOREST CITY CAUCUS.