The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-20
RIOTINGIN BROOKLYN
The Strikers Fight Desperately
With the Militia.
NOT AFRAID or The HAyoNETs.
Though the xresps Charge Repeatedly
the Battls-ssvsral Woundsd.

are under arms today prepared to put
down any violence on the part OF the
striking street. railway men or sympa-
thizers. The first appearance OF the
soldiers upon the sect was greeted with
jeers and kissing from the men and
boys who thronged the shoroughfares.
wilita women at tho windows OF tene-
naent houses shook their fists and Ut
tered inaprecatsons. Detacsaznenss OF
troops were then sant to the stations OF
oil the trolley lines which the conipan-
les. propose 10 operate today.
The calling out of the troops caused In
dignation among the labor unions. Mas
ter Workman Connolly said a general
strike might be ordered before Sunday.
At noon there was no change In the num-
Der of roads In operation. The first DEM
onstration OF violence toward the sol
dier5 took place at the Halsey street
depot. where Corporal Cherry. Of COM
pany /, Forty-seventh regiment. was
knocked down and severely beaten. Sew
erai cars were attacked by mobs and
the motormen and conductors severely
beaten.
Companies r and G. Forty-seventh reg
imenf. were sent to the East New York
depot on Fulton street at noon. A crowd
of strikers had collected there to pre-
vent the cars being started The police
charged the mob and used clubs freely.
Two strikers were badly hurt.
Nearly I6oo strikers and sympathizers
wayiaid two" broadway cars near Flush
ing avenue and carried OF the motor
men and conductors as prisoners. Two
cars on the Fulton street line, one flying
a United States mail flag, reached Will
ans Place and Fulton street at 1:40
p. m. About 100 strikers chased four
policemen. the passengers and the nom
union men from the cars.
The militia at the jamaica car stables
were forced TO charge a big mob three
times since G o'clock. The first time the
strikers gathered around the stables IN
the streets ana jeeTed the soldiers. Col
Eddy. who was in charge, drew his men
up in Ene and gave an order to charge.
The mob was driven back to the house
on the opposite side of the street and fell
pell NELL through the dooswsys and down
cellars ard. In fact. wherever they could
find a place OF escape. One person.
Charles Wilson. was injured by being
stabbed In the back With a bayonet- He
was taken to a temporary hospital. estab-
lished by Assistant Surgeons Beichcr in
one OF the empty carhouses. where his
wound was dressed.
At 7:fn, and again at $50, the militia
again charged the mob, which had become
once again threatening. The strikers ard
their friends had begun to gather in front
of the carhoafses and icered the soldiers.
There were several personal encounters
between the guards and the mob which
began 10 close around the carhouse. Col.
Eddy called on his reserves, formed them
into lire, stretched them along the street
for "a distance OF 20 feet. and then gave
the order to advance. Some of the strik-
ers ard their sympati1.zers took issue
with the militia and stopped to argue che
point. The temper OF the crowd recessi-
tated third charge. Again the soldiers
advanced on tho mob ARD drove It from
the street at the point of the hayonet. A
second man was wounded. Hts name is
Thomas Nolan. compositor. he fell aad
was struck ON the left knee with q bay
onet. He v.as removed to his home.
t0.40 p m The strikers have leen riot
Ing for the last th-se-ausvters OF an hour
In the vicinity OF the car stables on ia
maicl avenue In tire Twen.y-ssxth wa-a
they are hurting bricks and stones In ev-
cry iirectfoa The military scattered the
crowd time and again. Several men and
women We're wounded. Eugene Williams
was stabbed In the hack by q baycuet.
EehiEEp Tigae was also stabbed by a bay
onee. A woman. whose name could not
ba learned white attempting 20 pass
tz-ougsa the lire received a wound by a
baycnet- The militia drove the rioters
sfown Alaasaara ard Georgia avenues sew
e-ai tsnses chasing chem for four blocks.
The situa1ioTa AZ this pzsee Is serious
enc. Several anshasaroea have been sent
20 tire scene CT the riot
II p N II is rss1gsarsat that a man has
been kilsei by ti1e militia IN Eastern New
York The rioters are sin racti1g TIE
militia. nazs- Mai Cosaran. OF tae Thtr-
teensh regiment. CHARGED tire strikers sew
eTal times. One hundred snoun.e.i Police
have been ssnt ext. 4 squad Of 100 po-
ltssrear ssss afsc s.e-sn sent 20 Tire spot.
Justice csslssu has densezs tire applsca-
ton for a nrsg c5snpealing the Rzookiyn
heights Railroad rsusrsny TO sRcw caEse
u ay tssey sssosalt not run ears On Fulton
stree. ana other ianes.