The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-23
LAST EDITION
SCORES INJURED.
Serious Outcome of the
Brooklyn Strike.
TENTH DAY OF The TROUBLE.
Wounded Men Kept Under Cover to
Avoid Arrest.
HENRY Aims DIED THIS MORNING
Every Part OF Brooklyn Where Cars
Run Patrollcd by Militia.

BROOKLYN, N. ", Jan. 23.-The injured
strikers or their friends, can be counted
by scores, but for the most part they have
been kept under cover in order that they
may not be prosecuted by the police for
creating disturbances at different times at
various points.
Henry Aims, who was shot by the militia
at Halsey street and Broadway and re-
moved to st. Mary's Hospital, last night,
died at 10:3o o'clock this morning.
This is the 10th day of the big strike
and still the result hangs in the balance.
The railroad companies can operate
their lines so far as the mechanical
arrangements go. Up to the present
time they have secured about 400 new men
to take the places of the strikers. 1t is
costing them a large amount of money to
do this, as they have to pay the expenses
of the men to Brooklyn and then
offer enormous sums of money to hold
them here. Then they suffer loss by the
fact that the motormen are
coerced into leaving the city,
and the conductors, after they have
collected days fare, are often pulled
from their cars and
Robbed of Every Cent
of the co npanies' money which they have
collected. The men who come TO Brook
lyn at the companies expense and are in
duced by the strikers not to go to work
are lionized. They are fed and filled
with whiskey, and when they are full
they join the ranks OF the mobs and are
really the most boisterous of its dis
turbers. Some, when they find out the
true condition of affairs here, for
the companies recruiting sergeants
are not as honest and explicit
in their statements as they might
be, sometimes, go to the office
of the railroad company and demand
they came, ana this is never denied them.
Some OF the men have come on here from
places as far distant as Buffalo, Chicago
and Cincinnati.
Despite the assurance of Mayor Schieren
that the military force in Brooklyn,
IS sufficient TO do all that is re-
qaired of it, it is believed that he has
made request that additional troops be
held in readiness for an emergency.
Every part of the city where the trolley
cars run is patrolied by the militia. They
are everywhere and could be massed in
large numbers a five minutes notice il
serious outbreak occurred. The police
are thus enabled TO attend 10 their
proper duties. In every quarter Of the
city wires were cut during the night,
and the stables and power houses OF the
companies were subjected to desultory
bonn bsrdment of stones. Few of the male
factors were placed under arrest for the
simple reason that IL all were punished
the city prisons
Could No. Hold Them.
On many of tho lines trolley linemen
have stopped work but so far as can be
learned they have not been called out as
an organization. 1t Is probable that the
electricians and expert mechanics en-
ployed by the company may SO refuse to
continue work.
Bernard OConnor OF 23S Thirty Ninth
street was arrested for cutting trolley
wires at Third avenue and Fifty-Sixth
street by Policeman Murray. George
McVey, OF 1881 Gates avenue, was arrested
by officer Bennett for pulling down wires
with a rope lasso at Gates avenue near
Hamburgh avenue early this morning.
The first car on the Myrtle avenue line
since the strike began was started this
morning from the stables at 4:07. Supt.
Brocton OF the Brooklyn Repair shop No.
2, says he has thirty electricians at work
and thirty assistants today and that he
has already done repairing on Fulton
street this morning.
Brooklyn City repair shop No. hns four
electricians and four assistants and they
have done repairing on Gates avenue to-
day.
Excitement has begun 10 run high at
Fifty Eighth street and Third avenue. A I
8 o'clock a wagon load OF about dozen OF
non-union men arrived there in charge Of
Troop A OF New York under command OF
Lieutenant Bagely. About n mile below the
depot on Third avenue large frank OF a
tree was taken off the track.
AT Fif,y-irst street and Third avenue,
tho strikers headquarters, lot of
stones Were Thrown
at the troops and the wagon. The troops
charged the mob aud drove them back
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