Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-22
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the companies. They number about 500 and may he claSscd as experts. Their sym pathies have been with the strikers all along. They have thus far responded to all rails to repair wires cut by strikers or their allies. Now. however, they say that 1t is evident the companies arc waging merciless warfare upon those who went nut last week, and they profess to fear that some day their turn may come to suffer for what they term capitalistio op- pression.
 They have let iU be understood that to- day they will not go out to repair cut lines, even at the risk of dismissal. They will not strike they say. They will mere. Iy refuse to p,rform the work required of them and put upon the companies the onus of discharging them.
 A car started from the Ridgewood sta ton of the Brooklyn Heights company was asSailed with volleys of stones and bricks from windows and vacant lots be- fore it had proceeded far on its way down town. A private soldier in command or dered his men to shoot, and two volleys were fired in the direction of the rioters, who. however, were ohScursd by the dense fog. About 350 bullets were sent shriek- ing in search of victims, but how many, if any. of them found human targets can not at present be determined.
 Tho militiamen's orders were that when they shot it should be to kill Policemen also did some shooting at this point, with what effect is as uncertain as in the case of the militiamCn. It is asserted by the militia officers that they only ordered the volleys when tho violence of the mob made 1t necessary to do so.
 Policemen stoned From Housetops.
 On tho samc line a car started out an l,.,,, l,4 rs~ TaA and Stuyvesant avenues The police es- Corting it essayed to drive off the rioters and while doing so were fired upon from n house. Two policemen were wounded one in the arm and the other in the hand
 As trolley cars Nos l540 and 1924 of the Gates Avenue line in charge of Mo tormen Theodore Alter and William Es- sell. wore passing through Gates avenue. near Central avenue Wy were asSailed with fuSillado of stones from the house tops and windows on Ioth sides of the ave nuc. The crowd which lined the sidewalks joined in the attack and sent volley after volley into the cars.
 Patrolmen George Shaokelton, Dennis BushC and James L. Coolihan were severe ly injured Coolihans nose was broken, and Bushe and Shackelton received several confused wounds about tho face The cars were stopped. when the stone throwerS ran away. The pnliccmen's wounds were dressed by an ambulance surgeon in the Ninth precinct, to which station tho in jurcd were conveyed.
 Thomas Horan, 19 years old, of l9 Six teenth street was busily engaged in punch ing tho head of Conductor Henry Path of car No 502 of tho Court Street line while on his mp town trip. Horan was arrested by Policeman Martin Casey, who brought him before Justice Tighc of tho Butler street police court. Justice Tighc sent Horan to the Kings county penitentiary for 90 days
 Policemen shot hy strikers.
 While thrco rars of the Gatcs Avenue line wcro on their way down town they wCr' surrounded by n bowling mob at Gates and StuyVcSant avenues Missiles of every description were hurled Rt the men in charge of the cars and at tho pc lice who wrro c>corting them. A portion of the mob gathered on the housctops in the vicinity, and from this vantage ground bricks taken from the chimneys were hurled with terrible offcCt on tho police several of whom were badly injured.
 Emboldoncd hv the fact that the latter woro comparatively pOwerless to make re siStance tho mob pressed forward, and a number of shots were fired. two of which took efTtct on Policeman Patrick Colligan. B years old, and James Began, 3l years. of tho second precinct, who formed a DOT lion of the guard ncgan was shot through the arm and Colligan through tho hand. They were taken to a ncighbOrlng drug store, wherc their wounds were dressed by Ambulance Surgeon My lod who was sum moncd, after which they were taken to their homes. Colligan lives at 52l Henry street and Dcgan at 237 Huntington street. Tho mob after this succeeded in wreck ing tho three cars. which were taken down opposite the Ninth precinct police station, on Gates avenue. by reserves which had been summoned from thcre and which finally succeeded in dispensing the crowd. Captain l\itycr learned that the shots i came from a house in the nCighbOrhood He forced his way up stairs with two of his men and arrested a woman named . Kate Carney. who it i> believed, either did the shooting or is aware who did it | The woman was put ill a patrol wagon, but a mob intercepted the Y, hiclc and pelted ! 1t with stones. Mrs. Carney was hit on the head with n rock and received n severe scalp wound
 Elmer P. Van Dyke. aged 23 years, of S5 West Twelfth street. New York, a member of the sixteenth regiment, foll from the second story of tho Thirteenth l Regiment armOry at Flatbush avenue to
 
 n height of 20 feet. He sustained com pound fracture of the skull and a lacerated wound on the face He was removed to Sency hospital and treated there. It is stated that Van Dyke was intoxicated at i the tim0
 Major kipp Injured.
 Major kipp of the seventh regiment was standing in front of the Halsey street stables when a stone was thrown at him from vacant lot. It struck the major on the shin and paralyzcd his leg from the knee down. It was thought his leg was broken.
 Examination showed a bad gash in the shin and this was bandagcd. In an hOul the major was able to use his leg again. md he limped around the rest of the night. His men werc terribly inccnsed against the mob, and every order to extend the lines or make a charge was obcyed with alacrity.
 \ soldiers Poor Aim. Late last night a mob of strikers gath cred aroundNthe Third avenue station oi the Brooklyn City railroad at Fifty eighth street, whoro several companies of tn,
 Twenty third regiment arc on guard. One of tho strikers threw stone into tho | building where some soldiers were sleep ; ing and n member of Company l fired
 shot at the man. but failed to hit him
 This had the effect of disporsing thu
 crowd. and although another shot wa fired at tho fleeing man no damage wa ! done.
 It was decided by the officials of tn
 road to send out car No. l615 of the Gate
 Avenue line Tho bowling mob, whicl had approached as near the stables as pos
 sible, by this time had grown to immens proportions, and when the commander O
 the militia received the word that ca
 was to be sent out he prepared for trouble The three companies of the battalion o
 duty were drawn up in front of the car
 They had been instructed that if an
 stones wore thrown at them they were {
 fire. The men were all well supplied wit