Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-01-26
BULLETS FOR MoBs.
Soldiers Fire Upon Rioters at
Brooklyn.
1t Is Not Known Whether or No Anyone
Was Hurt-The Troops Unable to
Suppress Lawlessness-Much
Disorder Prevails

BROOKLYN, Jan. 22.-Violence and
bloodshed marked the eighth day OF
the electric street railway operatives
strike. Three militiamen are in hos
pitfalls with broken heads, two having
suffered at the hands of riotous men or
women, while the other was the victim
of his own carelessness, having fallen
from roof A score or more of police
men are suffering from bullet wounds
or contusions of the head and body,
disabling them for the time being.
To what extent the strikers have suf-
fered cannot be conjectured. If they
escaped punishment it was not the fault
of the militiamen, who, in accordance
with orders, fred as directly at their
assailants as n dense fog, which COM
pletely hid objects at 3Oyards' distance,
would permit. The strike is not ended
and order is not restored.
Seven thousand national guardsmen
and 1,500 or 1000 policemen have not
been strong enough to make the re-
sumption of the street-railway traffic
in Brooklyn practicable. In fact, the
gain over last Saturday is scarcely per-
brigade, composed of New York city
regiments, has seemed rather to add to
the tension than to bring solution of
the difficulties. The task of restoring
peace and order along nearly 200 miles
OF street car line is vast one. The
new levy numbered not far from 1000
men. They were moved across the
great bridge early in the day. The va
rious companies went by elevated trains
whenever it was possible to the points
to which they had been ordered. Gem
orally speaking, the greetings they
met with on the streets were far from
friendly, Boys guyed and men jeered
them as they passed through the sec
tions inhabited by laboring people.
A car started from the Ridgewood
station of the Brooklyn Heights COM
pany little after o'clock and was as
sailed with volleys of stones and bricks
from windows and vacant lots before
it had proceeded far on it's way down.
town. A private soldier was struck in
the head with stone and disab bled.
The officer in command ordered his
men to shoot, and two volleys were
fred in the direction of the rioters,
who, however, were hidden by the
dense fog. About $50 bullets were
sent in search of victims, but how
many of them found human targets
cannot at present be determined. The
militiamen's orders were if they shot
it would be to kill.
Policemen also did some shooting at
this point, with what effect is as un-
certain as in the case of the militiamen.
1t is ascertained by the militia officers
that they only ordered the volley when
the violence of the mob made it neces.
sary to do so.
On the same line car started out an
hour later and was beset by rioters al
Gates and Stuyvesant avenues. The
police escorting it essayed to drive of
the rioters, and while doing so were
fred upon from house. Two police
men were wounded, one in the arm anG
the other in the hand A detail of po
lice entered the house and arrested
Kate Carney, who was caught in the
act of hurling missiles from the
window.
The Halsey street line also was the
scene of several lively encounters. IL
one of them Private Ennis of the
Seventh regiment was knocked sense
less by stone thrown by rioter
Several shots were fired into the crowc
and rumor has it that four mel
were seen to fall. If that is tn,
case the wounded were carried ava,
ty their friends. AT the Halsey stree
depot a car was pelted with stones anC
sticks. The windows were broken ant
the woodwork smashed. The two po
lice guards fired their pistols into tn,
crowd, which dispersed. Whether o
not anyone was struck is not known.
Police Officers Collins and Degal
were accidentally shot, supposed b.
Seventh regiment men, at Gates anC
Stuyvesant avenues, Monday evening
Their wounds are not serious Elme
p. Vandyke, of New York, a membe
of the Twelfth regiment, fell from
, the roof of an armory Monda,
evening and sustained a compoun,
fracture of the skull. Policemen
. Shackleton, Collision and Burke wer
seriously injured by stones throw
, from the roofs of houses Monday even
ing. Shackleton's skull was fractured
, President Lewis, of the Brookly
, Heights company, said late Monda
: afternoon, that about 145 cars wer
running on his line. The total nun
a Der of ears usually operated by Pres
Z dent Lewis system is lao. Presiden
a Norton, of the Atlantic avenue system
/. stated that he had operated 63 cars l
: all about 230 cars were moved in tn
4 city of Brooklyn Monday. The nun
Der in operation before the strike wa
i 1000.
= Killed During Gale.
a CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-Joseph Huntal,
Q laborer at Henry Peters factory at NJ