St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-20
MOB FOUGHT FIERCELY.

A Score of People Wounded in
the Closing Battle.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 19.-About half-past
9 o'clock crowd of 5000 people gath
cred about the Alabama avenue car sta
bles of the Brooklyn City Railroad COM
pany, which was under the control of
the Thirteenth regiment. A number
of strikers were annoying the guards
that were posted in front of the stables.
Emboldened by the apparent indiffer-
ence of the soldiers, the strikers began
to hedge in OH the guard line. and about
one hundred and fifty new men
arrived on the scene at this time,
laden with stones ana missiles Of
every description. When the Off
GERS of the regiment saw those
new arrivals they promptly ordered a
charge OIL the mob. The mob retreated
down Alabama avenue in the direction
of Atlantic avenue, cOntesting
the ground fiercely. Shower after
shower of stones and Jumps of coal
and brickb bats we're thrown at the sol.
diers, who were compelled to resort to
such devices as striking at their oppo-
nents with swords, bayOnets and
dubbed muskets. After this charge
the troops withdrew to their quarters
in the stables.
The strikers gain Charged
on the picket line and again the troops
were ordered out. This time they
drove the strikers down East New York
avenue, up Fulton avenue and again
through Alabama avenue. This last
charge, officers declare who have been
through the Buffalo riots, was a
fiercer and more bitterly contested
piece of military duty than anything
they experienced while IN Buffalo.
Some of the strikers retreated TO the
roofs of the houses and heaved down
stones Oh the troops. Some idea Of the
violence of the fighting may be learned
when it is known that from the imme-
diate neighborhood fifteen ambulance
calls were sent to st. Mary's hospital.
Two of the national guard were carried
away from the scene of the conflict 10
st. Mary's hospital, one of whom was
Malcolm Wood, of Company E OF the
Thirteenth regiment, whose skull IS
fractured.
2. e. Williams. private of the Thir-
teenth regiment, tWenty.one years OF
age. who lives at corner Thirteenth
street and Third avenue, suffered Sc.
we're confusion of the leg. He was re-
moved from St. Mary'S hospital to the
Seney hospital. Those of the mob who
were most severely injured were:
Philip Tighe. severe scalp wounds;
Alexander Sands, thirty-fiye years OF
age, composition, three severe scalp
wounds; Eugene Wilkins. twenty-siX
years of age, 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.
The Battle Waged FIerceIy
up aud down the short block on Ala
bama avenue between the railroad depot
and Atlantic avenue. The soldiers
drove many strikers into the saloons
which lined each side OF the street, and
kept them prisoners within the doors.
They then drove the remainder Of the
rioters. aided by the police reserve
from the Seventeenth precinct station
house and mounted squad out of sight
across Atlantic avenue and down side
street. In the meantime additions TO
the strikers forces were being
made from the surrounding districts,
scores of sympathiZers from the ever
increasing mob mounted to the elevated
railroad tracks, and from this point of
vantage hurled missiles Of every con-
ceivabIe kind at the members of the
national guard, nearly half of whom
were struck and more or less Injured.
So serious, indeed, had the state of
affairs become that as soon as the Strlk-
ers had been driven from their van
tage ground, Maj. Cochran. in command
of the guards men, sent an emphatic
request to headquarters for re-
inforcgments. This appeal was re-