The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-25
THE STRIKE.
The Trouble at Brooklyn Increas-
ing and Likely to Extend
THE MILITIA FIRE At THE MOB.
Policemen and Guards Pelted with stones
and Many Hurt-Employes on Jersey
City Lines May Walk
Ont.


BROOKLYN, Jan. 22.-Viulence and
bloodshed constitutes the record of
the eighth day of the electric street
car operatives strike. Three militia
men are in hospitals with broken
heads, two having suffered at the hands
of riotous men and women, while the
third was the victim of his own care
lessness, having fell out of second
story window. A score or more of po-
licemen are suffering from bullet
wounds or contusions of the head and
body, disabling them for the time be-
ing
To what extent the strikers have
suffered cannot be conjectured. If
they escaped punishment it was not
the fault of the militiamen, who, in ac-
cordance with orders, fired as directly
at their assailants asa dense fog, which
completely hid objects at 80 yards dis
tant, would permit.
Seven thousand national guardmen
and 1,50O or 1,6OO policemen have not
been strong enough to make the re-
sumption of the street railway traffic
In Brooklyn practicable. The task of
restoring peace and order along nearly
200 miles of street car line is a vast
one. The new levy numbered not far
from 4, 200 men.
A car started from the Ridgewood
station of the Brooklyn Heights COM
pany little after o'clock and was
assailed with volleys of stones and
bricks before it proceeded far. A pri-
vate soldier was struck in the head
with stone and disa bled. The officer
in command ordered his men to shoot
and two volleys were fred toward the
windows and housetops from which
missiles had mostly been hurled. The
soldiers aim was, however, rendered
uncertain by the dense fog. Police
men also did some shooting at this
point, with what effect is as uncertain
as in the case of the militiamen
On the same line car started out an
hour after and was beset by rioters at
Gates and Stuyvesant avenue. The
police escOrting it essayed to drive off
the rioters and while doing so were
fired upon from house. Two police
men were wounded, one in the arm and
the other in the hand. \ detail of po-
lice entered the house and arrested
Kate Carney, who was caught in the
act of hurling missiles from the win
dow. At the time this was occurring a
skirmish between another mob and the
police escort upon the same line was in
progress a few squares nearer the
bridge. In this fight three patrolmen
received painful injuries by being
struck with stones.
The Halsey street line was also the
scene of several lively encounters. In
one of them Private Ennis of the
seventh regiment was knocked sense
less with stone. Several shots were
fired into the crowd and rumor has it
that four men were seen to fall. At
the Halsey street depot car was
pelted with stones and sticks, the |
windows of which were broken and |
the woodwork smashed. The police
guards fired their pistols into the
crowd, which dispersed.
The ranks of the strikers will prob |
ably be recruited to-day by the line
men who, until now have remained in /
the employ of the company. They |
about 600 and NAV be classed
as experts. Their sympathies have
been with the strikers throughout.
Thsy have thus far responded to all
calls to repair wires cut by strikers or
their allies. They have let it be under
stood that to-day they will not go out
to repair cut lines even at the risk of
dismissal.
The executive committee of the strik-
ers were yesterday called before the
meeting to tell their story of the en-
ployment of incompetent motormen.
which. it is held. imperils the safety of
passengers, pedestrians and those driv-
ing upon the streets of the city. Mai.
McNulty made application to Judge
Cullen for an order upon the street
railway companies to show cause why
their charters should Dot be forfeited
for failure to keep their several lines
in operation. Maj. McNulty is a mer-
chant whose business suffers by the
of the railway traffic.
A TIE UP OF MORE LINES PROBABLE.
JERSEY CITY, n. j., Jan. 22.-It is
alleged that the employees of the Con-
'olidated Traction Co. in Jersey City
have decided to tie up the trolley roads
N the event of the brooklyn strike re-
;ulting in a victory for the men. The
Jersey City conductors and motormen
Ire members of the knights of
Labor and are well organized. The
leaders say the Newark employees of
the company will also strike if the
Brooklyn strikers win. The company
employs about 1,2OO men in New Jer-
sey, operating nine lines. The men
nave for several months been talking
strike. They sent petition to the
company several weeks ago asking for
wages and shorter hours, but
nave received no reply.