The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-01-21
Militia Forced to Charge the
Strikers in Brooklyn.
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN WOUNDED
Strikers Are Thought to Have Made
Arrangements to Confer With
the Railroad Omcials.


men are under arms in Brooklyn to-
night. Rioting has been the order of
the day, and the strikers had some ser.
ious clashes with the militia. In many
instances non-union men were badly
hurt, and 80 fierce were the attacks of
the strikers tonight 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 she authorities for
many years. The board of mediation
and arbitration has given up its attempt
at reconciling the two factions. Com
missioners Robertson and Purcell have,
apparently, abandoned any hope of
effecting a compromise.
Rumors were abroad throughout the
day that the elevated road men would
go out in sympathy with the surface
men. 1t is stated by elevated leaders
that it was not unlikely that general
strike would be ordered Monday. Grand
Master Sovereign is expected in Brook
lyn tomorrow, and will attempt to do
what the board of arbitration has failed
to do-conciliate the presidents of the
roads. There was conference of police
captains tonight, and it was decided to
rigidly enforce the excise law tomorrow.
superintendent Campbell, of the police,
tonight issued statement that he had
been notified that the Brooklyn Railroad
Company will put their lines in opera
ton tomorrow. The superintendent of
police, in conjunction with the militia,
will make special preparation for the
opening of this line. Notice is given
that further force of the militia will
not be ordered; the impression having
obtained tonight that the strikers had
made arrangements to meet the railroad
officials on their own ground.
The militia at the Jamaica car stables
were forced to charge big mob three
times since 6 o'clock this morning. The
first time the strikers gathered around
| the stables in the streets and jeered the
soldiers. Colonel Eddy, who was in
charge, drew his men up in line and
gave an order to charge. The mob was
driven back to the houses on the oppo-
site side of the street, and fell pell-mell
through the doorways and down cellars,
and, in fact. wherever they could find a
place of escape. One person, Charles
Wilson, was injured by being stabbed in
the back with bayenet. He was taken
to hospital established by Assistant
Surgeon Belcher in one of the empty
carhouses, where his wound was dressed.
At z 10 a. M, and again at / rs p. M,
the militia charged the mob, which had
become again threatening. The strikers
and their friends who had begun to
gather in front of the carhouses, jeered
the soldiers. There were several per-
sonal encounters between the guards
and the mob, which began to close
around the carhouses. Colonel Eddy
called on his reserves, formed them into
line, stretched them along the street fol-
distance of $50 feet, and then gave the
order to advance. Some of the strikers
and their sympathizers took issue with
the militia and stopped to argue the
point. The temper of the crowd neces.
STATED charge. Again the soldiers ad.
vanced on the mob and drove it from the
street at the point of the bayonet. A
second man was wounded. His name i:
Thomas Nolan, a compositor. He fell
and was struck on the knee with bay
onet. He was removed to his home.
Late tonight, before the talk of con