The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-24
BROOKLYN STRIKE.
Efforts to Settle the Trolley Opera
 tors Strike Unsatisfactory.
THE CITY UNDER MILITARY RULE
Many Collisions with the Strikers-Th Strikers Tear Down and Cut tho Electric Wires More Soldiers
 Ordered To Report.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 21.-Every effort tt
 settle the strike of the trolley opera
 tives has been without satisfactory
 result The strikers through their
 executive committee have made con
 cession after conce ssion and the only
 point upon which they stood out wal
 that the companies should re-employ
 all their old men. This was fiatly re-
 fused by the presidents of the com
 panies. The day has been one of great
 disorder. The city is virtually under
 military rule. Streets are blocked against pedestrians by order of soldier'
 and anyone who stops to argue the
 point is told to walk around the block
 while q glistening bayonet is held
 within two inches of his face.
 The green hands had some rough ex
 periences all through the day, and a
 breakdown of any kind was the sigma
 for the formation of mob for the de
 molition of all the glasswork in the car. On the Court street and Fifth avenue lines fully half the cars are in very dilapidated condition. The various mobs that gathered at the car stables and along the tracks of the tied.up lines contained at least 30,00o people.
 Many cars went astray yesterday. The switches were broken and ob- stacles were heaped on the tracks; wires were cut at various points, and on the whole the day was full of petty annoyanccs for the railroad companies. Motormen abandoned their cars at various points, and in some instances left the city as soon as they possibly could, so serious did the situation seem. Blood was spilled in quantities, but no one was seriously hurt. At o'clock several shots were fired at car at Fifth avenue and Thirteenth street, bullets passing through the windows and embedding themselves in the wood- work. No arrests were made.
 An effort was made by the strikers | yesterday morning to coerce the men who were at work on the Second ave- nue line, which starts from the Thirty ninth street ferry, South Brooklyn, into joining the ranks of the Knights of Labor. Considerable excitement was caused in the neighborhood by the violence displayed by the strikers. AL though a number of cars are running on the various lines which are open, noticeable feature of the day was the comparatively few passengers who patronized the cars of the companies.
 The strikers continue to tear down and cut the electric wires. Between II and F o'clock Vanderbilt avenue car became derailed at Vanderbilt avenue and Pergen street. A large crowd of disorderly characters were attracted to the scene, but the police were numer- ous enough to drive them away, but not before the windows were smashed by stones.
 At l:30 in the afternoon car No. 16l of the Bergen street line became stalled on account of some defective mechan- ism in front of some empty lots be- tween Classon and Grand avenue This caused the stoppage of three other cars. At the back of the lot is l5-foot bluff. The crowd gathered there and l threw stones at the cars, demolishing | every pane of glass. The police charged, but the men made a determined stand. | The presence of the military caused an Bush street car houses of the Court | street line yesterday. The strikers | were orderly enough until green | motorman became mixed up in switch | at Hamilton avenue and Court street. | He could not eXtricate his car, and the | crowd gathered around him and guyed | him. Another car approaching the city had run through the crowd and | hurt two men and woman, who were taken away by the strikers, and their names could not be obtained. This made the crowd so angry that they be- gan to throw stones at the car, and smashed every window in it. The police charged, but were powerless to move the men. The line was blocked for half an hour. Great excitement ensued, and missiles were thrown at the motormen and police from the win dows of the houses on Court street. The police reserves were called out aud the crowd was dispersed in every direction. Court street was patrolled throughout the entire length by the police. The soldiers had to charge the crowd around the stable three times, but no one was injured.
 At , p. m. there was great excitement in Broadway between Moore and Flush ing. A Sumner avenue car was at tackled by mob and Capt. French, of the Nineteenth precinct, was struck in the face by brick thrown by some one in the crowd. The reserves of the Sixteenth and Nineteenth precincts and the mounted squad were called out for service on Broadway. There was great crowd of people numbering from 10000 to 15,000 extending over dis tance of miles on Broadway.
 Gov. Morton has ordered the First brigade of New York city to rep ort at Brooklyn.
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