Evening journal., 1895-01-26
MORE MOB VIOLENCE.
Prospects of Defeat Make the
Brooklyn Strikers Savage.
RIoTING BEYOND THE CITY LIMITS.


men and Capture the Nonunion Trolley
Employees.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 26 The strike Of the
motormen and conductors Of the Brooklyn
trolley lines is on the wane, and Brooklyn
is gradually recovering from the shock ex-
perienced nearly two weeks ago, when its
transportation facilities were so seriously
crippled.
Mayor Schieren expressed the opinion
this morning that the strike was over, SO
far as 1t would affect the convenience Of
the public.
Colonel Appleton Of the Seventh regi-
ment said he expected to be relieved from
detail very soon.
Master Workman Connolly still main
tains that the strikers will win, but q
dozen strikers applied to the Brooklyn
City railroad for reinstatement and were
put to work.
Street car officials say they will be glad
to take back the old men, but they will
not be allowed to displace the new ones
taken on. More Ours were run Friday
than ON any day since the strike.
Mayor Schieren declares as q result OF
personal inspection that the lines arc CIV
ing good service The mandamus which
it is sought to have issued TO compel the
companies to run cars is not Of much inn
portanoe under these circumstances.
The temper Of the strikers showed an
excess Of bitterness in the later hours Of
the day, but they do not manifest san
guine spirit any more.
A Priest QueIls a Mob.
The most serious disturbance occurred
at Greenpoint in opening up the Flushing
and Graham Avenue line. There were no
militiamen stationed at that point, and
the police force was not strong enough to
cope with the mob of 1000 which made
riotous demonstrations and stoned the
cars.
Father p Il. O'Hare Of st. Anthony's
| church had given Mayor Schieren an as
surance that be would be responsible for
| the maintenance of order at this point. In
| his zeal to keep his agreement he per-
suaded a new motorman to leave his car
in order to remove the cause of the trou-
BILE. Then he read to the mob q message
from Mayor Schieren saying that unless
order was preserved he would have to send
militia. The crowd then dispersed, and
the stalled cars were run back to the de-
pot, but no further attempt to run them
was made for the day.
At Maspeth a lot of nonunion men were
taken from q car and looked up in hall
by the strikers. When released, some OF
them claimed they had been maltreated.
The demonstrations Of the day were
confined principally to wire cutting and
to small and unorganized attacks on the
street car property or on the militia. An
effort is being made to secure an indict.
ment for murder against the militiamar
who shot Thomas Kearney, the tin roofer,
on Hicks street, who died Thursday as q
result Of his wound.
Rioting at Greenpoint.
The disturbance, which had been pre-
viously pretty evenly distributed over thu
city, seemed 70 concentrate itself in Green
point.
From the time the cars on the Green
point and Cross Town lines were started
IN the morning until they were stabbed
at dusk Greenpoint was a scene Of contin
uous petty rioting, varied by little shoot
ing from the crowd and return OF thi
compliment from the police Every ca
run on the Cross Town line returned t
the depot with windows smashed.
Policeman Frank Connolly had hi
cheek opened by blow from a stone, ant
Officer Emil Wrights face was seyerel.
bruised by a chunk Of coal Only ten po
lioemen were available for duty In the dis
trict and as no militiamen have beel
drafted into the locality the rioters ha'
everything to themselves.
Rev. Patrick f. o Hare spent the great
or part Of the day in visiting the differen
points where the strikers and their friend
were congregated and exhorting them t
abstain from violence, but his efforts avail
cd but little. AS soon as he disappears
the attacks on the cars and their crew
were repeated with more vigor than ever.
The Greenpoint cars were the first t
start and had only gone two blocks fro1
the depot when they were stoned The
continued their down town trip to receiy
the same treatment in Williamsburg, an
on the up town journey were the object
for volleys Of missiles from almost ever
corner Bonfres were lit on the tracks
which wore Blocked with ash barrels A
soon as the Instructions were removed an
the cars had passed they wore thrown o
the line again.
At Manhattan avenue and Kent stree
the Cross Town cars were held up by th
: crowd and the windows smashed. Polio
Captain Rhoads, with Sergeant Lynch, q
J once hastened to the scene. They ordere
; the crowd to disperse, but were answere
, BY volley Of stones and Jumps Of Goa
The two officers and four other policome
used their clubs freely and drove off th
q mob. Captain Rhoads was struck in tt
9 neck with potato thrown by woman.
7 The police then returned to the dspo
i AS soon as they had gone the mob rea
sembled and stoned car No. 1918, whic
: was the first car that came along II
Q motorman became completely scare'
) jumped from the platform and ran ava.
Q A young fellow wrenched off the mot,
key and made off with it. The crow
, wrecked the car before the next one a
, rived, when car No. 1913 was brougl
2 back to the stable.
Priest Persuaded Nonunion Men to Out
The next car run got on the wror
"a track, and there was another delay, whiC
! the strikers utilized by smashing the Wi
i dows. The green motorman. learning b
1 error, started to bring his car back al
i dashed into car running in the opposi
"A direction.
= This caused block on the road, al
y soon long line of cars was tied up
q front Of Smith & Gray's clothing stor
n the windows Of which were smashed
Father O'Hare here appeared on L
scene and besought the mob TO absta