Evening journal., 1896-07-03
RIOTING IN CLEVELAND
Desperate Fight Between the
Police and a Mob.
STUDENT ON A BICYCLE ATTACKED

the Brewa Hoisting Works.
CLEVELAND. July s.--The strike at the
Brown Holstlng company's works has
reached point whore the authorities as
woll as tho strikers are insno mood for trl-
ding. When the nonunlon mon left the
works, there was ''rioting. Two hundred
and fifty policemen emerged from the
gates guarding 53 workmon. An immense
crowd had gathered block away but tho
police took a now route and eluded them
for the moment. The strikers set up yell
and ran, soon oyertaking the marching
column, hooting and yelling. A huge
moving van was in the rear, hllod with
strikers, and with it q small wagon laden
with empty beer bottles. The police sus-
pected that the bottles were intended as
missiles and compelled the driver OF the
wngon to turn back.
Al Wilson and Euclid avenue a rail-
road train blocked the way, and an effort
was made to drive the van through the
guard OF police. The officers dragged to
the ground tho driver, Fred W. Hearn, a
moving contractor, and the man on the
seat beside him, W. j. O'Neil, a paving
contractor These men resisted, and the
police used their clubs on them with suoh
effect that their heads were soon swollen
and bore numerous cuts.
O'Neil's nnkle was broken. Tho strikers
In the van jumped out, and the police
charged the crowd, using their. clubs on
all the heads within renoh. Frank Coop
enhoikor n nachinist returning from
work and not striker, WAS caught in the
crowd and sevaroly dubbed on tho hend.
Hearn was arrested and locked up Tho
strikers dispersed before the onslaught OF
the police, and the nonunlon men were
sent homo.
Meanwhile n tragedy had taken place
at tho Brown works. Albert G.. Saunders,
a young student at Case School OF Applied
/ Science, whose father lives at 33l Prospect
street. has been working for the Brown
company during vacation for the practical
knowledge 1t would give him. He did not
| ienvc with tho nOnunion mon under police
| guard but mounted his bicycle and sought
| to reach homo alone. As he turned up
| Hamilton street "a knot OF strikers saw
| him and shouted TO him TO stop He didn't
| obey, and thoy began to throw stones ard
/ bricks at him A brick struck him on the
head and knocked him off his wheel, and
ne claims that after he was down they
continued to stoDo him. Rising Go his
| knees, he drow his revolver and fired. Tho
ball missed his assRilants sped across a
i yaoan. lot and buried itself IN tho breast
| OF William Rettgor, ono Of the strikers,
| who was walking through an alley with
| several companions.
Rettger was sent 30 a hospital, whore
| he died In few minutes. He was n single
| man, 20 years old, boarding on Hoadley
street, and was a brethar of Pitcher Rott-
ger OF tho Milwaukee baseball club
FURIOUS Crowd Packed the Streets.
Patrolman Gibbons heard the shot fred
and, rushing up, seized young Saunders
and hurried him into tho Office Of tho
Bishop Dabcock company. In a wonder
fully short space OF timo a furious crowd,
which packed the streets as far as tho oyo
could roach, surgcd against the front Of
tho Office, demanding that Saunders bo
delivered to them Somo one brought q
rope, and cry Of lynching was raised.
They hogan 10 pry at the windows Of the
onco, when Patrolinan Gibbons, who was
onco a union workman, addressed the mob
and partly quieted IL. Two patrol wagon
loads OF police arrived, aud a guard wna
posted IN front of the building.
Long before this, Mayor Mcllissop, po-
lice Director Abbott Licutenant Colonel
Whitney Of the Fifth regiment and Others
were gathered for consultation la tho city
hall. Word Of tho crtlcal condition OF az
fairs was tolophoned 10 them from thr
Bishop Babcook Office and a request roadC
for militin Tho mayor responded by or.
dering the Cleveland City guards and
Company Il to the sceno OF tho riot. The
guards arrived first just as the mob WA
preparing for another effort to capture
Saunders. As the soldiers came down tn,
streut the mob shrioked and howlud, and
the guards were compelled to open wny
for themselves with levoled bayoncts. Sev
cral men and boys wore wounded slight,
BY tho soldiers. The guards formed ID
front Of the Office. and just than Conpan,
+ was sccn coming. Amid a frtnKy OF OK
cltenient on the part OF The dense crowd
patrol wagon was backed to the door 0
the Office, and Saunders was jorked int
1t and made to 10 ON the bottom IN
guards formoa atoanu Is wlth bayonets a
charge and they forced their wal
down Hamilton street, part Of the howl
ing mob surging along with them. II
heiRhten the excitement, Detective Spros
ty, as a warning, stood up In tho pntro
wagon and shot his cvolver into tho air
The wagon and the soldiers proceeded rap
idly until the crowd IN front had thinned
when the guard opened nnks, and tn
| wagon sped on TO the Central police statioi
at a run Saunders whose head is badl
cut up and bis body mass Of bruises,
prisoner, charged with the killing @
Rettgcr Company F, In command Of Ma
jor Liebich, marched to the center Of tn
crowd that rcmnined behind. The soldier
wero menaced and ieored. Major Liobio
halted his mon, drew his Bevolvor and de
clarod that upon tho slightest attempt a
violence no would give the command
fire. After that the noise ceased and tn
crowd scattered, the company rcturnin
TO quarters
, Tho mayor has caused a proclamation
declaring the riot act to be In force to b
posted IN this neighhorhood OF tho Brow
! works.
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