The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-20
MIDNIGHT RIOTS IN BROOKLYN
Militiamen Charge the Car
Strikers.
Guarjsmen ROut Mob With Bay
Onets.
Many Persons IpJ ured and Ono Man RI
ported Knol- Mount Pol cs.
men MT to the Front.

| BROOKLYN, y. Y, Jan. l9.-Three Thousand
| men Il under arms in Brooklyn tonight
| Rioting ha been the order OF the day and th'
! strikers had some ser ous clashes with TIL
militia. In many instances non-union mel
were badly hurt, and so fierce were the alta *!
! OF the strikes to night TINT the soldiers had tt
resort to the bayonet. Several strikers sym
pathizcrs were bayonetted end the situation is
considered the gravest that has been confront
ed for IN my years.
The board OF m 'diation and arbitration has
ven up its attempt al reconciiug the two
factions CJmmsi oners Robertson and Pur-
cell have apparently abandoned any hope OF
effecting a compromise.
-Rumors were aboard throughout the day
that the elevate road would go out in sympa-
thy with the surface men, 1t is stated by the
elevated leaders that it was not at all like y
that a general str Ike would be ordered Mon
day. Gene;al Master Workman Sovereign is
expected in Brooklyn tomorrow and he will
attempt to do wnat the board of arbitration
has failed to do-concilate the presidents of
the various roads,
POLICE CAPTAINS CONFER.
There was Il conference of police captains
tonight and it was decided to rigidly enforce
the excise law tomorrow. superintendent
Campbell ofthe police tonight issued n state
lncDL lnlL ne nuu DecIi HOllIlsu tnuL inc BrOOk-
Ign Railroad company will put their lines in
operation at 8 O'Clock tomorrow. The super
intendent OF poll with the militia will ma Ike
special effort for tn opening OF the line. No
lice was given that a further force of militia
will be ordered out the i'm preston having OBJ
tanned late tonight that the strikers had made
an arrangement to meet the railroad officials
on their own ground.
1O:45 p. The strikers have been rioting
for the last three quarters of an hour in the
vicinity of the car stables of Jamaica avenue,
In the Twenty-sixth ward they ar, hurting
bricks and stones in every direction. The mil
itary scattered the crowd time and time again.
Several men and women were wounded.
Eugene Williams was stabbed 10 the back
by a bayonet. Phillip Tighe was also
stabbed by bayonet woman,
whose name could not be lea ned
while attempting to pass through the line,
received similar wound by a guardsman
whose bayonet was pointed in the direction of
the fleeing crowd. The militia drove The riot
ers down Alabama and Georgia avenues sever al
times, chasing them three or four blocks The
situation at this place is a serious one. Several
ambulances have been sent to thu scene of
the riot.
Il p. NIT is rumored that man hiss been
killed by the militia in Eastern New York.
The rioters are still riotng. The militia, under
Major Cochran of the Thirteenth regiment,
charged the strikers several times One hun.
dred mounted police have been sent out A
squad of 100 policemen has been sent to the
spot.
ROCKS THROWN FROM ROOFS ,.sss.
During the rioting in the vicinity of the Ala.
! bnma avenue horse barns some OF tn strikers
retreated to the roofs of houses and heayed
down stones onto the troops. Some idea OF the
violence of the fighting may be learned when
it is known that in the immediate neighboring
fifteen ambulance calls were sent TO st. Mary,s
hospital.
The battle waged fercely up and down the
short block on Alabama avenue between the
railroad depot and Atlantic avenue. The sol.
diers drove many strikers into the saloons
which lined each side OF the street and kept
tnem prisoners within. They drove the
remainder OF the rio ers, aided by the no.
lice reserve and mounted squad out of
sight and across Atlantic avenue and down a
sloe street. In the meantime additions to the
strikers were being made from csurrou nd.
ing stores Crowds of sympathizers from this
ever-increasing mob mounted to the elevated
railroad tracks and from this point of vantage
hurled missiles OF every kind at the membe rs
OF the National guard, nearly half
OF whom were struck and more
orlfless wounded. So serious indeed Ind
the state OF affairs become that as soon as Tho
strikers had been driven from their VANTAGE
ground, Major Cochran, in command of the
guardsmen, sent an emphatic quest TO head
quarters for reiniorcements. Two Companies
were soon upon the scene. By this time. how
ever, hostilities had ended, and at midnieh
all quiet on the battlefield
The following was given out at brigade head
quarters at p. m. Mayor Lchieren stated last
night he would request the executive commit.
tee OF the former employees and also the rep
resentatives of surface roads to call at his
house on Sunday morning for the purpose OF
suggesting that the strike matter be left for
adjustment to three disinterested citizens 70
b sppointed BY him.