The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-01-24
Violence Continues

Brooklyn, Jan. %. Violence and
blOodshed constitutes the record Of the
eighth day of the electric street rail
way operatives strike. Three mill
tiamen are iii hospitals with broken
heads, two having suffered at the
hands OF riOtous men or women, Whilt
the third was he victim Of his own
carelessness, having fallen out OF 4
second story window. A score or
more policemen are suffering from
bullet wounds or Commissions or thu
head and body, disabling them for
the time being.
A Scotch mist settled down on all
the city, increasing in density as
the evening approached, and added TO
the difficulties which attended the car
rying out of the announced Intention
of the street car lines upon lines not
operated since the strike was declared.
Such attempts in this direction as
were made were futile. A car started
from the riBdgewood station of the
Brooklyn Heights company little at
ter 5 O'clock and was assailed with
volleys Of stones and bricks from win
dows and vacant lots Before it had
proceeded far on It's way down town.
A private soldier was struck In thu
head with a stone and disabled. The
officer in command ordered his men
to shoot and two volleys were fred In
the direction OF the rioters who, how
ever, obscured by the dense fog. About
$50 bullets were sent shrieking in
search if victims, but how many, If
any of them, found human targets,
cannot be determined at present. The
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1t would be to shoot to kill. Police.
men also did some shooting at this
point, with what effect is as uncertain
as in the case Of the militiamen. 1t
is asserted by the militia officers that
they only ordered the volley when the
violence Of the mob made it necessary
to do so.
Some Shooting.
On the same line car started out
an hour later and was beset by rioters
at Gates and Stuyvesant avenue. The
police esc0rting it assayed to drive off
the rioters and while doing so were
fired upon from house. Two police
ven were wounded, one in the arm
and the other in the hand. A detail
of police entered the house and ar
rested Kate Carney, who was caught
in the act of hurting missiles from
the windows. At the time this was Oc..
curing a skirmish between another
mob and the police escort upon the
same line was in progress few
squares nearer the bridge. In this
fight three patrolmen received pain
frl injuries by being struck with
stones. Officer Colligan's nose was
broken.
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 thrown by rioter.
Several shots were fired into the crowd
and rumor has it that four men were
seen to fall. If that Is the case tho
wounded were carried away by theil
friends. At the Halsey street depo
car was pelted with stones and stick:
and the windows broken and the
woodwork smashed. The two police
guords fired their pistols into the
crowd, which dispersed. Whether or
not any one was struck is not known
Shot BY Soldiers.
BROOKLYN, Jan. I3.-The first fatal
encounter of the great strike took
place this mo! nins, when in an en-
courier with a few boys at the Halsey
street station, a volley was fired by the
militia. Henry Ahrens of New York
city was fatally shot, musket ball
entering at his mouth and passing
through his head. Another man, whose
name is Williams, was wounded in the
arm. The shooting had the instant ef-
feet of dispensing the mob. The ninth
day of the tie-up closed without bring
ing material change in the situation.
1t was a day Of alarming rumors,
which fortunately proved to have no
foundation. There were numerous
brushes between the police and mill
tia on one side and the strikers or
headstrong, law-defying sympathizers
with their cause on the other. The
linemen's strike, which was to have
tied up the trolley lines more effectual-
ly than had been done by the strike
of the motOrmen, conductors and other
employees, was called off before it
was fairly on, and later in the day
the mandate of Master Workman
Connolly was promulgated, calling
upon the lincmen to abandon their sit
uations in the morning. What in
auenced the strikers managers to call
the linemen strife off thus quickly,
and then to order it on again cannot
now lie told. The reason assigned for
the latter act is palpably but a pre-
text. The effect Of this move, which
the strikers have compared to the
playing of
A High Trump Card
remains to be demonstrated. The de-
velopments Of the day have not been
reassuring On the whole. In spite Of
the fact that there are under arms in
this city 5000 of the state soldiery,
and 1,5OO policemen are on duty. in
termural traffic is suffering a virtual
paralysis, in which all the industries
of the city participate to a greater or
lesser degree; lawlessness is rampant,
and altogether conditions are such as
may we'll excite the gravest apprehen-
sion. The disorderly element in the
city has been largely recruited from
New York and other cities, and has,
as Is usual in such cases, arraigned
itself with the strikers, a selfish adj
vocacy Of whose cause affords a pre-
"Ht for the preparation of graver
crimes than have vet marked the