The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-20

tated a third charge. Again the soldiers
advanced on the mob and drove it from
the street at the point of the bayonet. A
second man was wounded. His name is
Thomas Nolan, compositor. He fell ana
was struck on the left knee with a bayonet
in the hands of unknown guardsmsn.
He was removed to his home.
A SERIOUS ENCOUNTER.
About half past o'clock tonight crowd
of 5000 people were gathered around the
Alabama car stable of the Brook
lyn City Railroad Company. which was un-
der the control of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment A number of strikers were annoying
the guards that were posted in front of the
stables. Emboldened by the apparent in
difference of the soldiers, the strikers be-
gan 10 hedge in on the guard line, and
about $50 new men arrived on the scene at
this tire, laden with stones and missiles
OF every description. When the officers or
tie regiment saw these new arrivals they
promptly ordered a charge on the mob.
The mob retreated down Alabama avenue
IN the direction of Atlantic avenue, con-
testing the ground fiercely. Show
er after shower of stones and
Jumps of coal and brickbats were
thrown at the soldiers who were compelled
to resort to such devices as striking at
their opponents with swords, bayonets and
ciubbad muskets. After this charge the
troops withdrew to their quarters in the
stables The strikers again charged on the
picket line and again the troops were or
dered out. This time they drove strikers
down East New York avenue, up Fulton
avenue and again through Alabama ave-
|. nue.. This last charge, officers declare who
nave been through the Buffalo riots, was
! fercer and more bitterly contested piece
Of military duty than anything they ex-
Fsrienced while in Buffalo. Some of the
strikers retreated to the roofs of houses
and heaved down stones on the troops.
Some idea of the violence of the fighting
may he learned when it is known that from
The immediate neighborhood fifteen ambu-
lance calls were sent to st. Mary's Hospi-
tal
Two of the national guardsmen who were
carried away from the scene of the conflict
to ST. Mary's Hospital were Malcolm w.
Wood, of Company F. of the Thirteenth
Regiment, skull fractured; p. c. Williams,
private of the Thirteenth Regiment, twenty
one years old. who lives at corner Thir-
teenth street and Third avenue suffered
severe contuson of the leg. He was re-
moved from st. Mary's Hospital to the
Seney Hospital Those of the mob who
Seney Hospital. Theose of the mob who
were most severely injured We're: Philip
Tighe, severe scalp wound. He was also
taken to ST. Mary's. Alex Sands, thirty
five years old, a compositor. three severe
scalp wounds. Eugene Wilkins, twenty-six
years old, severely wounded in the thigh
from bayonet thrust. George Nolan, thirty
years old, who was stabbed in the thigh
earlier in the evening, was not dangerously
wounded.
DRIVEN INTO SALOONS.
T1aah hot Ia 1o-~
short block on Alabama avenue between the
railroad depot and Atlantic avenue. The
soldiers drove many strikers into the sa-
looms which lined each side of the street
and kept them prisoners within the DOORS
They then drove the remainder of the riot
ers, aided by a police reserve from the
Seventeenth Precinct station house and
mounted squad, out of sight across Atlantic
avenue and down side street. In the mean
time additions to the strike force were be-
ing made from surrounding districts. Scores
of sympathizers from this ever increasing
mob mounted to the elevated railroad tracks
and from this point of vantage hurled mis-
siles of every conceivable kind at the men,
bers of the national guard nearly half Of
whom were struck and more or less in
jured
So serious indeed had the state of affairs
become that as soon as the strikers were
driven from their vantage ground Major
Cochran in command of the guardsmen
sent an emphatic request to headquarters
for reinforcements. This appeal was re-
sponded to, and two companies of the For
ty-seventh Regiment, Captains H. C. Lyons
and J. Hart, sixty men each, under COM
niand of Maj H. H. Quick, were on the
scene within very few minutes. BY this
time however, hostilities had ended. AT
midnight all was quiet on the battlefield.
A battalion of the Forty-seventh Regi-
ment was at East New York all day. In
the evening it was reinforced by the first
battalion of the Thirteenth Regiment
Previously, part of the Forty-seventh Regi-
ment, which was on duty at the Halsey-
street depot, had been sent to Jamaica ave-
nue.. The Twenty-third Regiment continued
to guard the Fifth and Ninth-avenue
depots of the Atlantic-avenue road and the
Flatbush depot Of the Brooklyn Heights
system Captain Thorn, of Company f, was
in command at Ninth avenue and Twen-
ty-third street; Captain Everts, of A. at
Ninth avenue and Twentieth street. and
Captain Stokes, of II, at F'latbush. The
second battalion of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment remained at Fulton street and Toll
kins avenue. J. Kline, with Companies D.
F and G, of the Fourteenth, held the Bsh
street depot: Captain Noble, with Com
panieS A and was at Richards and Cof-
fey streets Lieutenant Crane. with Com
panies H and K was stationed in the vi
cln1Iy Oh The penllentldTy on NOStrdnQ ave-
nue. Company c, of the Fourteenth guard
ed the Brooklyn Heights power house at
Third avenue and First street. Major Tobey
with a detail from II was at the Park
Plaza. Company F was held in reserve in
the armory.
AS the result of a conference between
the Mayors Cabinet and President Lewis
of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Com
pany, and President Norton, OF the At
lantc-avenue Company, arrangements
have been completed whereby the military
and police will give all protection neces-
sary for the opening of all the lines en-
braced in the Brooklyn Heights system.
Mr. Lewis said he would open most of
the lines of the Brooklyn Heights system
at o'clock Sunday morning. The railroad
officials suggested the points where more
protection was necessary. The Mayor
peremptorily notified them that efforts must
be made at the earliest moment to omen
all routes. The general manager of the
Queens County and Suburban Railroad
Company, Mr.. Walker. was conferred with
over the telephone, and said that he was
ready to run the full complement of cars
of his system, but that the police had been
unable to afford the protection to the cars
His men had been injured by the strikers
and the cars damaged. He declared that
it would be impossible to operate the svs-
tenn unless he could have protection all
along the roads. The conference was
ended after the Mayor had sent a request