The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-07-03

ne w rs NhOl ny u Noh-N hloniSt W no had
Been Attacked by the Mob, and This In
cident Led to the Calling out of the Mil
itary.
CLEVELAND, July 3-The strike at the
Brown Hosting company's works has
reached point where the authorities as
well as the strikers are in no mood for
trifling. When the non-union men left the
works at 3 o clock last evening there was
rioting. Two hundred and fifty policemen
emerged from the gates, guarding fifty
three workmen. An immense crowd had
gathered Il block away, but the police took
new route and eludcd them for the mo-
ment.
The strikers set up yell and ran, soon
| overtaking the marching column, hOOting
and yelling. A huge moving van was in
the rear, filed with strikers, and with it
! small wagon laden with empty beer bot
ties. The police suspected that the bottles
were intended as missiles, and compelled
the driver of the wagon to turn back. At
Wilson and Euclid avenues II railroad
train blocked the way, and an effort was
made to drive the van through the guard
of police. The officers dragged to the
ground the driver, Fred w. Hearn, a NOV
ing contractor, and the man on the seat
beside him, w. j. O'Nen, paving con-
tractor. These men resisted, and the po-
lice used their clubs on them with such
effect that their heads were soon swollen
masses of cuts O'Neil' 5 ankle was broken.
The strikers in the van jumped out, and
the police charged the crowd, using their
clubs on all the heads within reach. Frank
| Coopenheiker, Il machinist, returning from
work and not II striker, was caught in the
crowd and severely dubbed on the head.
| Hcarn was arrested and locked up The
| strikers dispersed before the onslaught of
the police, and the non-union men We're
| sent home
Meanwhile a tragedy had taken place at
the Brown works. Albert G. Saunders, a
| young student at Case School Of Applied
| Science, whose father lives at 331 Prospect
street, has been working for the Brown
company during vacation for the practi-
cal knowledge it would give him He did
not leave with the non-union men under
| police guard, but mounted his bicycle and
sought TO reach home alone.
As he turned up Hamilton street knot
of strikers saw him and shouted to him to
stop. He did not obey and they began to
throw stones and bricks at him. brick
struck him on the head and knocked him
was down they continued to stone him.
Rising to his knees he drew his revolver
and fired. The ball missed his assalants,
sped acres, IA vacant lot and buried itself
in the breast of William Rcttger one of
the strikers, who was walking through an
alley with several companions Rcttgcr
was sent to n hospital where he died in n
few minutes. He was single man, %
| years old
Patrolman Gibbons heard the shot fired.
and rushing up seized young Saunders
and hurried him into the Office of the
Bishop Bubcock company. In a wonder
fully short space of time IA furious crowd,
which packed the streets as far as the eye
could reach, surged against the front of
the office, demanding that Saunders be
given up to it. Some one brought rope,
and the cry to lynch him was raised A
few began to pry at the windows Of the
Office. when Patrolman Gibbons, who was
once Il union workman, addressed the mob
and partly quieted it, Two patrol wagon
loads of police arrived, and guard was
posed in front of the building.
Long before this Mayor McKisson, Po-
lice Director Abbott, Lieutenant Colonel
Whitney, of the Fifth regiment, and Others
were gathered for consultation In the city
hall Word of the critical condition of
affairs was telephoned to them from the
Bishop Babcock office and a request for
militia. The mayor responded by order
ing the Cleveland City Guards and Com
pany + to the scene of the riot
The guards arrived first, Just as the mob
was preparing for another effort to cap
ture Saunders. AS the soldiers came down
the street the mob shrieked and howled
and the guards We're compelled TO open a
way for themselves with leveled bayonets.
Several men and boys were wounded
slightly by the soldiers The guards formed
in front of the office, and just then Com
pany F was seen coming.
Amid "A frenzy of excitement on the part
Of the dense crowd, patrol wagon was
backed to the door of the office and
Saunders was jerked into it and made to
lie on the bottom. The guards formed
around il with bayonets at charge - and
they forced their way to the Central police
station part of the bowling mob surging
along with them. Saunders, whose head
is badly cut up and his body mass Of
bruises, is a prisoner charged with the
killing of Rettger.
Company f, in command Of Major Lie
bich, marched to the center of the crowd
that remained behind. The soldiers were
menaced and jeered. Major Liebich halted
his men, drew his revolver and declared
that upon the slightest tattempt at violence
he would give the command to fire, After
that the noise ceased and the crowd scat
tered, the company returning to quarters.
The mayor caused proclamation de
claring the riot act to be in force to be
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