The herald., 1895-01-25
WAR STILL ON IN BROOKLYN
Strikers Routed at the Point of
Bayonets.
Women Take Cars From CIR cen
M0tormen.
Several Lively Rows Between the Peii &C
and the Meb-An Increase In Pay
Promised on One Line.

avenue roads today. The wires between
Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth streets were
cut off after midnight. and as q conss-
quenoe the electric lights in the depot
went out. leaving Captain Thorne and
his detsch ment OF the Twsnty-third
regiment in total darkness. The wires
were not repaired until 10 O'Clock, when
traffic was resumed. and at midday 16
cars were running. as against 20 yester-
day. The foreman said he was unable
10 operate greater number, as some o
the new men had been transferred to
Green Point.
During the night and early morning
the full strength of the Twenty-third
regiment. with the exception OF Com
panies F. g and H. were placed on duty
along the road to Flatbush avenue.
QUELLING RIOT.
At IL O'Clock, police on duty at TWEEN.
ty.fifth street and Third avenue, had a
lively time putting an end to riot,
which had broken ou. there. About 70
persons collected at this point end
jeered the soldiers who were under arms
there. The mob continued increasing
until noon, when a stone was hurled by
one of the crowd, striking a policeman.
This was followed by several others,
and then the police and militia charged.
The mob rushed along the avenue and
Into side streets. Many of them res
csived bsyonet thrusts from the militia
men, while the clu bs of the police were
used with telling effect on the heads of
the rioters.
i, The police arrested John Tigh, Charles
Burke and Stephen Cannon. When
conveying them to the station the
prowd attacked them and endeavored
30 rescue the prisoners. After des-
Iperate conflict, during which more
3tones were thrown and blows struck
Isn both sides, the three stone throwers
were locked up.
At Twentieth street and Ninth avenue
the strikers during last night cut the
iced wires, return wires and support
wires 90 far as Flatbush avenue, dis
tance of over mile. The feed wire on
Twentieth street between Seventh and
Eighth avenues was also destroyed.
PLAN TO BURN DYNAMos.
The wires at Fifteenth street and
Second avenue were cut down early In
the morning. A number of trolley cars
stood at Ninth avenue. which were
wrecked and rendered unfit for use.
The most serious attempt to prevent
the running OF cars over the Third
evenue line was made at Sixty-fft
street and Third avenue, where plot to
burn out the dynamoa in the depot was
nearly successful. 1t was evidently the
work of skilled electricians. The wires
we're cut and guy ropes were attached to
them. by which they were drawn down
and grounded on the posts OF the elevated
road. But the scheme waa discovered
In time to Illustrate the plan. The line
men on all the Atlantic cars struck.
This act and the lack OF passengers
prevented them from running cars on
Eighth and Ninth avenues and Nine.
the various depots expressed them.
selves as fairly we'll satisfied with their
treatment, but all appeared DESTROYS
shat the strike would soon terminate
and allow them to return to their homes.
CARS CAPTURED BY WOMEN.
At Thirteenth street and Fifth avenue
tWo women iabout whom gathered
crowd of men, hailed q Fifth avenue
car. When it stopped they boarded it.
They then drew pistols from under
their shawls and ordered the conduc-
tor and motermen to stop work. The
men leaped from the car and left the
Invaders in possession. One OF the
crowd started the car. jumped off be.
fore it had gained much Roadway.
When the car passed the stables at
Twenty-fourth street it was travelling
at Q high rate of speed.
One of the men standing there noticed
the car was running wild and jumped
aboard the rear end and soon had it at a
standstill. Another gang Of strikers at
tempted to pull the motormsn off his
platform, but he fought them off. He
was very roughly used in the scrimmage
and had his jaw broken. Colonel AUS
tin of the Thirteenth regiment said, in
reference to the shooting of the man
Karney. that it was perfectly justifiable
that ct the time he WAS throwing mis-
siles at the militia. Sergeant Schri-
YER and Adjutant Broom had been
severely injured. In the future. how
ever, he should instruct his command
not to shoot when q person refused to
halt, but to place him under arrest. He
had sent pickets to the houses along
Hicks street to warn the residents to
stay within doors and keep their win
dows closed. They had gone to the
roofs oil the houses and removed piles of
bricks which had been gathered there
with the evident intention of using them
as missiles.
THE ATLANTIC AVENUE LINE.
President Norton of the Atlantic
Avenue company says go far as his lines
ere concerned the strike is at an end, for
they can get all the men and conductors
for whom there are places. A new de-
vice to impede che operation of railways
was adopted at Bergen street and Troy
avenue on the Atlantic avenue, where
switches were cemenJed during the
night. New employees 20 about out
side the militia lines at their peril.
One who disguised himself as an old
soldier was spotted by the strikers and
badly beaten.
Instances of violence toward the new
men have been frequent and quite a
number of arrests were made during the
day of men guilty of assaults. Several
wire cutters also fell into the hands OF
tho police and il is O notable fact that
they were strikers.
Long stretches of wire have been car
Yied away in some localities. and gem
eral disposition shown to injure the prop.
erty of the street railway companies as
much as possible. On some lines cars
were in % early 40 O'Clock. but on
others they con tinued to make their trips