Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-03
SERIOUS CONFLICTS.
CLEVELAND Strikers dubbed Into Sub.
mission BY lhe Police.
FATAL WORK OF STRAY BUtLrL
Hullla Ordered Out aud they Ul.f- the
Sr.ctS W h level
rayOntts.

CLEVELAND, o., July 2.-The r'rike
At tho Brown Hosting companyt
works has reached point where the
authorities, as well ~ the strikers, are
in no mood for trliling. When TIE
pon.unIon men left tue works q, .
O'CLOCK this afternoon there wus riotlng.
Two hundred and fllty police emerged
from the gates guarding 900 wofRm,n.
An immense crowd had gathered n
block away, but the lolice took new
route and oluued ihHm Tor the moment
The strikers at w a yell nnd ran, soon
nyertakInR tho marching column
hnoting and yelling. A huge moving
van was Ia tue rear filled with etfikcrs,
anu with II d email wagon laden with
empty toet bJttlus. The police Gus.
p,e,sd that tho bIttICs were inienuUI
~ missiles, and cont ello1 the waron
TO tutn back. At Mtiaon aud Euclid
hvenure n railroad train blocked tue
way nnd hn effort was made
to drive the van through the
guard OF tho police. Onicofs dragged
. 10 the ground tho driver, Ecu w.
Hearne, n moving contractor, and the
man on the seat bthido him, W. j.
O'Neill, n paviug contractor. Thosr
men resisted ana tue police used their
Cube on them with such effect that
theIr h ads were soon swollen, masses
u cuts. one mans ankle was broken.
The striKtrs IN vain Jumped out and
the police charged the crowd. Frank
CoOpenheukef, n mAohiuist tetutnlug
from work, anu not n Htfiktf, wac
caught ia tho crowd anu teVofely
clunued ON the mead. Hearno was at.
rested anu locked up.
Tue strikers dispersed before the on.
slaug ht VI the police, and the nun.unlOn
men were sent nome,
Meanwhile u tragedy had taken place
ut the Brown works, Albert Saundets,
young student ut Case School Of Ap-
Piled Science, has been working for the
Brown company during vacation for
the practical knowledge II would give
him. lie did not leave with tho non.
union men under police guard, but
mUuuted his bicycle aud sJught ~
reach homo alone. As he turned ~
Hamilton street, knOt of strikers eaw
him anu shouted 10 him 10 stop. He
did not obey ana they began to throw
stoIes anu bricks nj HIM. a brick
struck him on the head and knocked
him Oh his wheel, and no claims that
alter no was down they continued 10
stone him. Rising to his knees no
drew his revolver anu fred. The bali
missed his Assaiiants, sped across n
vacant lot and buried itself In the
breast OF William Rs,tger, ono OF tho
strikers, who was walking through M
alley with several Companions. Roit'
ger was sent to hospital where he
died In few minutes.
Patrolman gibbons heard the shot
fiteu, And rushing up seizoi young
Saunders and hurried bin into tue
ufiios OF the Bishop. Baboock company.
IuA wonderfully short space OF time
furious mob packed tho streets ~ TAT
Hs tho eye could reach hnd purged
against tho front OF the Office demand-
that Saunders DO given up 10 II.
some one brought rope anu the cry
TO lynch him was raised, A few began
~ p1y nj tho windoWB OF tue 1nieu
WHOM PaltulmAu Gibbons, who wa
onoeA union workman, addressed tue
mob anu pattiy quieted n. Two paltJ
wagon lCads OF police arrived, Rnd a
guard was posted in front Of the huiil'
irg. Long before this Mayor Mo
kisson, Police Director Abbott Lieut.
Jvl. whitney Of the Filth regiment
aud others were gathered Tor contu,t
alton In the city hall. WOOD OF th'
critical condition OF Affairs was telo
phoned 90 them from tbs Bishop
Babeock Office, aud u request maui
Tor militia,
The mayor responded by oEderln;
the Cleveland city guards anu com
pany Il to the sceue OF tho riot. 1h'
guards arrived firat, iutt M tho moi