The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-03
IN No MOOD FOR .TR|FL|NG
The Cleveland Strike Reaches a
Critical Stage
THE MILITIA ORDERED OUT
And the Mobs Quieted by q Threat
to Shoot
One Man Killed and nany Injured by Police
mems cIub-The Riot Act Read and
Declared In Force
Associated Press Special Wire.

| Associated Press Special Wire.
CLEVELAND, O., July 1.-The strike
at the Brown Hosting company's works
has reached a point where the authori-
ties as we'll as the strikers are in no
mood for trifing When the non-union
men left the works al o'clock this after
noon there was rotng. Two hundred
and fifty police emerged from the gates
guarding 5000 workmen. An immense
crowd had gathered block away, but
the police took new route and eluded
the trouble. The strikers set up yell,
and soon overlook the marching col
umn hooting and yelling, while huge
van was in the rear filled with strikers
and with it a small wagon, laden with
empty beer bottles. The police suspect
ed that the bottles were intended as
missives and compelled the driver of the
wagon to turn back.
At Wilson and Euclid avenues rail-
road train blocked the way, and an eff
fort was made to drive the van of the
strikers through the guard of the police
The officers dragged to the ground the
driver, Fred w. Hearne, moving con-
tractor, and the man on the seat be-
side him, w. j. ONeill, a paving con-
tractor. These men resisted and the
police used their clubs on them with such
effect that their heads were soon swollen
masses of cuts. One man ankle was
broken. The strikers in the van jump
ed out and the police charged the crowd
Frank Coopenhecker, machinist re-
turning from work, and not a striker.
was caught in the crowd and severely
dubbed on the head. Hearne was ar
rested and locked up.
The strikers dispersed before the on"
slaught of the police and the non-union
! men were sent home.
Meanwhile tragedy had taken place
at the Brown works Albert Saunders,
young student, at the Case school of
applied science, whose father lives at
331 Prospect street has been working
for the Brown company during vacation
for the practical knowledge it would give
him. He did not leave with the nom
union men under police guard, but he
mounted his bicycle and sought to reach
home alone. AS he turned up Hamilton
street a 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. A brick struck him on
! the head and knocked him off his wheel,
and he claims that after he was down
| they continued to stone him. Rising to
his knees he drew his revolver and fired
The ball missed his assaiants, sped
across a vacant lot and buried itself in
the breast of William Rettger, one of
the strikers who was walking through
an alley with several companions. Rett-
ger was sent to the hospital where he
died in a few elinutes. He was single
man 25 years old boarding on Hoadley
street, and was a brother of Pitcher
Rettger of the Milwaukee baseball club.
Patrolman Gibbons heard the shot
fired, and, rushing up, seized young
Saunders and hurried him into the office
of the Bishop-Babcock company. In
wonderfully short space of time an enor
nous mob packed the streets as far as
the eye could reach and 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 PATROL
man Gibbons, who was once a union
| workman, addressed the mob and partly
| quieted it. Two patrol wagon loads of
police arrived and a guard was posted
| In front of the building. Long before
| this Mayor McKisson, Police Director
| Abbot, LieutenantC Colonel Whitney of
| the Fifth regiment and others were
| gathered for consultation in the city hall.
| Word of the critical condition of affairs
was telegraphed to them from the
| Bishop Babcock Office and a request
made for militia. The mayor responded
by ordering the Cleveland city guards
| and company F. 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 howled and
| the guards Were compelled to open
way for themselves with leveled bayo-
nets. Several men and boys We're wound
ed slightly by the soldiers. The guards
formed in front of the office, and just
then company F was seen alighting
from street cars a block away Amid
frenzy of excitement upon 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 it
with bayonets a charge" and they
forced their way down Hamilton street,
part of the bowling mob surging along
with them. To heighten the excitement,
Detective Shrosty stood up in the patrol
wagon and shot his revolver into the
air. The wagon and the soldiers pro-
ceeded rapidly until the crowd in front
had thinned, when the guard opened
ranks and the wagon sped on to the
central police station on run. Saunders,
whose head is badly cut up and his body
a mass of bruises, is 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 upon the slightest attempt at
violence he would give the command to
fire. After that the noise ceased and the
crowd scattered, the company returning
to quarters. The mayor will cause a
proclamation declaring the riot act to be
in force to be posted in the neighborhood
of the Brown works tomorrow morn
ing
THE BEREA STRIKE
I .ITNEJ AND July Tho ctrilx