The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-22
STONED BY STRIKERS.
Warm Work for BrOOklyn'S
lIilitiaImen.
NOBODY KILLED AS YET.
TroIIeymen Charged With Fixed
BayOnetS.
CARS RUN GUARDED By THE POLICE.
New York People Gather Supplies and the
Men Are Confident That They
Will Win.
Charged With Fixed
BayOnets.
CARS RUN GUARDED BY THE POLICE.

BROOKLYN, N V, Jan. 2I.-Violence and
bloodshed constitute the record of the
eighth dav OF the electric streetcar opera
tives' strike. Three militiamen are in hos
pitals with broken heads, two having SUI
fered at the hands of riotous men and
women, while the third was the victim of
his own carelessness, having fallen out OF
second-story window. a score or more
policemen are suffering from bulletwounds
or contusions of the head and body, dis
abling them for the time being. To what ex-
tentthe strikers have suffered cannot be con-
jectured. II they escaped punishment 1t
was not the fault of the militiamen, who,
in accordance with orders fired as directly
at their asSailantS as a dense fog which
completely hid objects thirty yards in the
distance would permit. The strike IS not
ended and order is not restored.
Seven Thousand National Guardsmen
and 1900 or 1900 policemen have not to-day
been strong enough to make traffic ON the
street railway in Brooklyn practicable.
In fact the gain over Saturday IS hardly
perceptible. The calling ont OF the First
Brigade, composed OF New ! ork City regi-
ments, has seemed rather 10 add 10 the
tension than to bring 4 solution OF the
difficulties The task of restoring peace
and order along nearly 200 miles of street
railway is a vast one. The new levy mum
bered not far from 1000 men. They were
moved across the great bridge early in the
day. The various companies went by ele-
waited trains wherever it was possible TO the
points where they had been ordered.
Generally speaking the greeting they met
with on the streets was far from friendly.
A Scotch mist settled down on all the city,
Increasing in density as the evening APP
preached and added TO the difficulties.
A car started from Ridgewood station OF
the Brooklyn Heights Company little
after o'clock and was assaulted with vol
leys Of stones and bricks before it'proceeded
far A private soldier was struck on the
head with a stone and disabled. The
officer in command ordered his men tc
shoot and two volleys were fired toward
the windows and housetops, from which
the missiles had been mostly hurled. The
soldiers aim was bad, however, and rem.
dered uncertain by the dense Jog. The
policemen also did some firing at thi.
point, with what effect IS as uncertain a!
il the case of the militiamen. 1t is assert
ed by the militia officers that they only
ordered the volley when the violence o
the mob made it necessary.
On the same line car started out al
hour after and was beset by rioters at Gate
and StuyveSant avenues. The polio,
escorting it essayed TO drive off the rioters
and while doing so were fired upon from
house. Five policemen were wounded
one in the arm, another in the hand an(
three others received painful injuries b,
being struck with stones.
The ranks of the strikes viii probably b.
recruited tomorrow by the 600 hnemen
who until now have remained in the EN-
ploy of the company. They have let it b
understood that tomorrow they will no
so out to repair cut lines, even at the risl
of dismissal This Will win the strike, the.
say They win merely refuse to perform
the work required of them and put on tn
companies the onus Of discharging them
In the Board of Aldermen this Afternoon
resolution was introduced by Mr.. Cohen
which proposes to oblige corporation
operating street railways by electricity t.
employ as motormen only such persons a
shall have passed satisfactory examina
ton as to their qualifications. The boar,
voted without dissent the approval of
memorial, signed by about sixty property
owners, which calls for measures whicl
shall compel the street-railway compsnie
to operate the usual number of cars o.
their lines, or else request the Attorney
General to bring proceedings for the an
nulment of their charter.
The officers OF the companies are fearful
Of more trouble through the night. TIL
railroad companies claim their cars wi
be run from the depot at Z O'Clock in tn
morning.