Evening journal., 1895-01-22
FIRED ON MODS.
Militia Poured Yolleys Into the
Brooklyn Rioters.
DAY AND NIGHT OF VIOLENCE
Many Policemen and Soldiers Injured
by Stones and Bullets.

and Nearly Two Thousand Policemen
Are Guarding the Lines, the Great Troll
ley System of brooklyn Is Practically
Tied Up as Much as 1t Was Eight Days
Ago Civil Authorities Extend Their
sympathy TO the strikers Companies
Have Too Few Green Hands to Man the
Cars-soleiers shot to kin.
BROOKLYN. Jan. 90 L Violence and
bloodshed constitute the record OF the
eighth day of the electric street railway
operatives strike Three miIitiamen are
in hospitals with broken heads, two hav-
ing suffered at the hands Of riotous men
or women, while the third was the victim
Of his own carelessness. having fallen out
Of second story window. A score or
more Of policemen are suffering from bull
let wounds and contusions Of the head or
body, disabling them for the time being.
To what extent the rioters have suffered
cannot even be conjectured. IL they es-
capped punishment, it was not the fault Of
the militiamen, who. in accordance with
their orders, fired as directly at their as
sailants as a dense fog which completely
hid objects at 80 yards distance would
permit. The strike IS not ended, and or
der is not restored
List of the Injured.
Following is list Of the days injured
rs far as obtainahle:
Dennis Bushe policeman. confused
wounds about the face caused by stone
throwing.
Collins, private Company Fl, Seventh
regiment, head cut open with brick in
Gates avenue riot; not seriously hurt
Patrick Coolihan, policeman, nose bro
hen by stone.
Patrick Calligan, policeman Of the Sec
ond precinct, shot in the arm near the
Ridgewood depot.
Campen, mounted policeman, Ralph
avenue station, head cut open by rock
thrown by a striker at Broadway and Hal
sey street
James Degan. policeman Of the Second
precinct, shot in the hand near the Ridge
wood depot.
Joseph Donnelly, conductor on trolley
car, knocked senseless by a stone while
running a car on Gates avenue.
Ennis private Company II, Seventh
regiment head cut open by a stone on
Gates avenue; sent to his home; seriously
hurt.
William Goldenberg, motorman. as
saulted by strikers and badly cut about
the head On Troy, near Atlantic avenue
Valentine Kussler of Sixty-sixth street,
Brooklyn, hurt in a collision at Bath juno
tion
Kipp, major Of the Seventh regiment,
struck by stone thrown from ambush
received a severe wound in the leg.
Markham, policeman, Cedar street sta.
kion, ankle sprained in the Gates avenue
eight.
Ryan, private in Seventh regiment
company i, struck in temple with mis-
sile in Gates avenue riot
Frank Ryan Of Sixty-third street. Brook
lyn. hurt in collision at Bath junction.
George Shaekleton policeman, contuseC
wounds about the face caused by stones.
Elmer p. Van Dyke private in Twelfth
regiment. compound fracture of the skull
broken jaw and fractured leg, caused by
fall resulting from an attempt to escapl
from guardroom; at Seney hospital; viii
probably die.
Wilson, policeman, Cedar street station
burt in the chest by flower pot thrown
from window by woman.
Josephine Zeiser of 2O1 Harrison avenue
Brooklyn, struck by car at Broadwa,
District hospital in a precarious condition
Unknown man fell from an g l." sta
tion on Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, Will
the Seventh regiment was firing ON tn
mob; taken to st. GATHERINGS hospital
will die.
Two unknown men suffering from sligh
sunshot wounds treatedat St. Catherine
hospital and sent home.
Few Cars Running Yet.
SeveR thousand national glardsmen an
1900 or ], 600 policemen were not stron
enough to make resumption of the stree
railway traffic in Brooklyn practicable
In fact, the gain over last Saturday
scarcely perceptible.
The calling out Of the First brigade
pomposed of New York city regiments
has seemed rather to add to the tensio
than to bring a solution Of the difficulties
The task Of restoring peace and orde
along nearly 200 miles of street car line
Is vast one.
A distended Japanese fan, the handl
representing the termini at the bridge an
Ferries to New York, is not an inapt pi,
ture Of the surface railway system
Brooklyn. Thus the various carhousos an
power stations are widely apart and trooT
detailed to guard one Of these are not IN
mediately available for service at anotht
should the occasion arise.
The new levy numbered not far frol
1000 men, They were moved across I'll
great bridge early in the day. The varior
rornpanies went by elevated trains, whe,
ever that was possible, to the points !
which they had been ordered. General
speaking, the greetings they met with 0
the streets were far from friendly Bo.
Euyed and men ieered them as they passe
through the sections inhabited by laborin
people. The elements. which early in Il
day were auspiclous, soon took on an III
friendly aspect
A Scotch mist settled down on all Il
city increasing in density as evening q
proa ed, and added to the diffioulti
which attended the carrying out Of Il
announced Intention Of the street car cor
panies to attempt the running OF cars
the evening upon lines not operated sin
the strike was declared. Such attemp
In this direction as were made were futil
Police Fire Into the Crowd.
The Halsey. Street line also was the scel
bf several lively encounters In one
Them Private Ennis Of the Seventh res
tne~-- was knocked sensoless with a stol
Thrown by rioter. Several shots We
fired Bto the crowd hut no one was hun