The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-01-22
MEAGER CAR SERVICE
The Citizens Of Brooklyn Badly Oh
for Transportation.
LINEMEN JOIN THE STRIKERS.

Miiitianen, Ordered to 'shoot to KILL"
Fire Over Two Hundred Shots Into a
Mob. but 1t Is Not Known That Amy Were
Observation-Disclosures and Police Injured.
BROOKLYN, Jan 22.-The depot of tho
Third avenue railroad at Third Av'nue
and Fifticth street was garrisoned yester
day by Companies II, G and X Of the
Twenty-third regiment. Captain Thorne,
OF Company f, was In command. The do
tachment numbered ESQ men. In tho
afternoon the military forces were changed,
Captain Louis Wendel's First battery and
two companies of the Seventh regiment,
under Captain Rhoads, guarding the depot.
-Four large cannon were planted so as to
rake every avenue Of approach, and the
scene was quite warlike. Two other com
panies guarded the power house at Second
avenue and Fifty second street.
Rioting had been expected at the stables
OF the Atlantic avenue road at Fifth ave-
nue. and Twenty fourth street, but quiet
prevailed during the day. The scene pre-
sented a more animated appearance than
that at the Third avenue depot, as large
crowd was in evidence during the day, but
no disturbance took place. The company
ran twenty eight cars, the service being
said the cars were running on three min
utes Roadway. In addition to the $50 mil
itiamen there was on duty a strong force
of police under command of Captains
Clayton and Kenny.
A dense fog set In during the afternoon,
and at @ O'Clock 1t was announced that no
cars would be run after s p. IN.
Elmer p. VanDyke, aged rs years, o
member of the Sixteenth regiment, fell
from the second story of the Thirteenth
regiment armory at Flat Sush avenue to
the roof Of the Long Island railroad depot
last night and sustained compound frac-
ture Of the skull.
East New York was quiet all day. 10
had put on moro military appearance
however, by the addition OF a battery Of
artillery to tho infantry forces stationed at
the Alabama avenue depot of the Fulton
avenue railroad.
The strikers to the number Of couple
of hundred held continuous meeting at
their headquarters in the Pequod club,
Third avenue and Fifty-flfth street. A
committee of citizens waited on all the
storekeepers to ask for donations for the
strikers. At o'clock last evening $3.50 in
cash had been subscribed besides barrels
of potatoes, sacks of -four, tea, coffee,
bread, tomatoes and all kinds of groceries.
The Pequod club resembles large gro
Gerry store and the citizens and committee
were kept busily engaged distributing tho
supplies to the men and their families.
The men claim they are in position to
hold out for six months.
Before daybreak yesterday morning the
overhead wire on the down town track
was cut. Three repair wagons came on
the scene at O'Clock in the afternoon and
after an hours work the wire was put in
working order.
The ranks of the strikers were swelled
by the addition of gangs Of tramps and
loafers from New York. All day long,
through the rain and fog these hoodlums
tramped from New York over the Brook
Ign bridge bound for the point where their
instinct told them there would most likely
be trouble 1t is estimated that during
one hour 5000 persons crossed the bridge
by way of the promenade.
The officials of the Brooklyn, Queens
County and Suburban road informed Po-