The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-24


shoulder with his club-musket, smash
ing the musket and knocking the man
down. He. also jahbed his bayenet into
another man deep enough to draw
blood Both men We're taken away by
their friends.
Fifty nine cars in all have been run
out of the East New York depot today.
At s O'Clock this evening, as the cars
began to come in, they were held in
che depot for the night. Quiet pre-
vailed at RidgeWood at o'clock this
evening. The cars had at that time
stopped running. The militia, was then
Withdrawn from the. streets in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the stables, hav
ing been relieved by a detachment of
police. The Majority of the men are
sleeping in the car shed tonight.
Supt. Harris, Of the Suburban rail
road at Summer avenue and Bergen
street, was arrested by Lieut. Clayton
and Mcleod. of Company F, Seventh
regiment, this afternoon, for persisting
IT. moving cars in which the members
| or the regiment were sleeping. The
soldiers say that Mr.. Harris for the
last few days has amused himself by
ordering the movement Of tine cars in
which they have been sleeping, COM
pelling them TO seek new quarters He
was told to change his tactics, but at
2:05 he ordered the men to leave one of
the cars. When they refused. he
| turned on the power and tried to move
1t out of the depot. He was then ar
rested and taken before the colonel.
Breeze with Mob.
| About I o'clock this evening MEM
bers OF the First regiment had a breeze
With a mob of $50 men who had
smashed the windows of cars Of the
Ralph avenue line at Ralph avenue and
Sumpter street. Colonel Green, of the
ISeNenty-hrSt, hearing the rumpus, tele-
pAoned TO Captain k5Ck, who WAS
stationed near the disturbed district,
and the latter, with 20 men, hurried to
| the scene and jabbed and butted the
crowd away, so the cars resumed their
| TRIP, accompanied 10y the troops.
| AT RidgeWOOd at s o'clock this even
ing William Vending, P. J. Mackey, j.
Martin and Fred Kreig, special police
! men, walked into the Bushwick avenue
| car stables and, surrendering their
SHE'D, refused to work any longer
| FROM early morning until past noon
there was more excitement in the
vicinity of Third avenue and the rail-
road depot than there has been since
the strike commenced
The barns at Third avenue and
tlfty-eighth street presented a busy
scene ait IL o'clock when a Court street
and a, Halsey street car reached the
depot filled with fifty non-union men,
who We're at once lodged in the depot.
! Each corner on the east side of the
avenue was thronged by the strikers
and their sympathizers, while in front
| OF the stables were drawn up 100 men
of the Twenty-third regiment under
captain Thorne. The strikers contented
themselves with thooting and ieering
| the militia, but committed no act which
warranted their dispersion.
| Some hours previous to the running
of the first car the repair wagon of the
Brooklyn Heights company went down
Third avenue to clear the track be-
| tween Fffty-f1rst and Fifty-second
] streets. The block between these Two
streets was filed, with bricks, stones.
| lumber and trunks of trees, which had
| been cut in the vicinity 50 as to render
| the running of cars an impossibility.
| Inc repair. wagon was manned by
| twelve men and escorted by troop A.
VoIIeys of Stones.
When they reached the Pequod club
the strikers headquarters at Fifty-flfth
/ street-some three hundred men, who
had assembled there. jeered and de
nounced the escort and hurled several
4 Foifeys Of stones at the men who were
removing the obstacles. Lieutenant
/ Bagley, who was in charge of the
troops, called on them to dispense
The strikers replied by another
laValanche OF stones. Lieutenant Bag
Hey then ordered his men to charge
and strike the rioters with the fat
of their sabres. On this being done
1.-THE strikers ran away. When the rail-
way employees finished their work
the strikers Teassembled and followed
up the escort and renewed the stone
throwing, when the cavalry again
charged them with naked blades
Some of the strikers received sword
. thrusts, but managed to escape Nc
further disturbance occurred during
1.-THE day.
At the strikers headquarters the
men were still confident, and said thai
if it took 500 men to run one car, the
: company would not continue long
| They also ayerredi that the number al
''sscabs" secured for employment was
| far below the number required.