Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-25
WHAT WAS DONE ON THE LINES.
a Few Incidents Showing How Strike Mat
ters are IroSressinE.

4 Few Incidents Showing How Strike Mat
tiers are Progressing.
BEooKLYN, Jan. 25.-Mattcrs We're COM
paTativcly quiet on the Third and Fifth
avenue roads. At il O'Clock the police on
duty ut Twenty-fifth street and Third
avenue had lively time putting an end
To riot which had broke out there.
About 1JD persons collected at this point
and jcercd the soldiers. The mob con-
tinucd increasing until noon when n
stone was hurled by one of the crowd,
striking policemen. This was followed
10y several others and then the police and
militia charged, and gave a good many in
the mob sore heads and bayOnet tlirustS.
The police arrested John Tighc, Charles
Burke, and Stephen Cannon. When con-
yoying them to the station the crowd at
tackled them and eHdeavorcd to rescue the
prisoners. After n desperate conflict, dur
ingswhich more stones were thrown and
blows struck ON both sides, the three riot
crs Were locked up. At Twentieth street
and Ninth avenue the strikers during the
night cut down the feed wires return
wires, and support wires rs far rs Flatbush
avenue, a distance of over a mile The
feed wire in Twentieth street between
stroycd The wires at Fifteenth street
and Second avenue were cut down early
in the morning. number of trolley cars
stored at Ninth avenue near Greenwood
cemetery, were wrecked and rendered to-
tally unfit for use.
The most serious attempt to prevent
the running of cars over the Third ave
nuc line was made at SiXty-iifth street
and Third avenue, where plot To turn
out the dynamos in the depot was nearly
successful Ii was evidently the work of
skilled electricians. The wires were cut
and guy ropes were attached to them by
which they were drawn down and ground
cd ON the posts OF the elevated railroad.
The scheme was however, discovered in
time to frustrate the plan. The linemen
on all the Atlantic avenue lines have
struck
At Thirtieth street and Fifth avenue
two women about whom was "a crowd uf
men hailed Fifth avenue car, and when
it stopped they boarded it. They then
drew pistols from under their shawls and
ordered the conductor and noturman to
stop work The men lcapcd from the car
ani left the invaders i'm possession. One
oil the crowd then started the car. jump
ing oil before it had gained much head
Z
Twcnty-fourtk street it was travelling ut a
high rate Of speed, but a motor1nan
Jumped aboard and stopped Il.
Another gang of strikers attempted 60
pull the moto-man off his platform, but
he fought them of. He was very roughly
/ trrat,ti in the scrimmagc and had his Jaw.
broken Not more than half the lincucn
have rcyarici the order tn strike. Prcsi-
dent Norton, of the Atlantic Avenue
! company. siys that so far as his lines ar,
concerned tn. strike is at an end, for lie
I ma, all the motormcn ani conductors for
whom there are places. There has, how
ever I.,rp sninc<HconVCnicncr on the lin, :
I by the cutting of wires Most of the At.
I lantic avenue men are at work as usual.
\ new device to impcie the operation oi
railways was adopted at Bergen street and
/ Troy avenue on the Atlantic avenue line.
where switches We're ccncntcd during the
night New employees 60 about outside oi
/ the militia line at their peril One who
disguised himself in an old army coat wa.
/ spotted by the strikers and badly beaten.
| Several wire cutters fell into the hand.
I of the police and il i n notable fact tha,
/ they were strikers. Long stretches OF wirC
! have been carried away in ssSiIe localities
I and general disposition shown TO injurt
! the property of the street railway com
psnics a much as possible. Traffic j:
/ no; yet continued through the night rs ii
{ was before the strike. On some lines ears
/ were run in as carly as y. in-, but ou
I Others they continued 10 make their trips
Z as late aS ~ H. IN. The streets generally
present an aspect of tranquility
| The oniv wav to cure catarrh Is &c