The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-03
ANARCHY SUCCEEDS ORDER.
STREETS OF CLEYELAND SCENE OF
 4 MAD RIOT.

4 MAD RIOT.
 One Life Went Out-Reason Departs From Strikers of Brown Hoisting Works-Po-
 lice PowcrIcss-Four Companies of Mili- tia Restore Order-Police Charge Mob
 and Latter Retaliate-H Hundreds Injured. Cleveland, July 2.-Shortly before the hour of quitting work this afternoon several strikers marched up to the Brown hoisting works with a big ham mer on which was written in big black type Browns Scabs." At 4:S0 o'clock the workmen were marshaled into line and surrounded by 150 policemen with | clubs in hand marched out. The crowd gave way and the procession moved up 1 Hamilton street, to Case on the way to the St. Clair street cars. The crowd fol- lowed, yelled and made lively demon- stration.
 l Contrary to the mayors orders the | police allowed the mob to follow. The officers marched to Wilson avenue. At | the Fourth precinct station near Euclid | a halt was made and the workmen were sent into the station. Then the police formed across the street The mob, which had followed, had been re- | inforced by thousands of workmen re- | turning from other shops and the by l streets were packed. Suddenly fifty l policemen under command of Captain English charged, and there ensued the most terrific exhibition of clubbing | Cleveland has ever known.
 The police who were tired from their 1 long extra labors fought viciously and soon a hundred men were lying on | the ground or crawling or being carried away. The mob broke and soon Will son avenue was cleared. The police | made another charge into Euclid ave- nue, where another fierce clubbing en- sued. This seemed to break the mob's spirit, and the crowd finally dispersed and the workmen who were in the sta- | ton were sent to their homes under police protection
 | During the fight the police captured five of their assailants each. of whom was in a bad condition from clubbing. l William Hearn, a furniture van driver, | allowed the strikers to crowd into his | wagon, and then crying 'give them he'll" drove right into the police lines with his horses on 8 run. Several po- 1 licemen were knocked down before the l team was captured. Hearn was drag ged from the wagon and clubbed into
 insensibility. His skull is fractured and his face and head cut and bruised fearfully.
 Steve O'Donnell, who was on the wagon, has broken head and arm.
 Herman schaels. q blacksmith, has a I terribly cut head and was trampled on.
 James Cox and Charles Cuppenbecker
 were each badly cut about the head.
 Charges of rioting were presented
 against the five prisoners. The mob
 managed to carry away all of the l others who were injured so as not to be able to walk. A conservative esti
 mate is that fifty men were injured by the clubbing.
 Ten students of a scientific school in
 this city have been working at the l hoisting works making a practical study of mechanical work. Up to to-
 day they had waited until the non- union workmen had been escorted away
 and then went home unmolested. This l afternoon one of them, A. G. Saunders.
 aged nineteen, left on his wheel as
 usual. He was assailed with cries of "scab" and stones thrown at him. When
 he had reached a point about block
 away he was struck by a stone and | great gash cut in his head. He fell
 from the bicycle and the mob now | howled Kill the scab" and made a
 rush for him. As he rose he drew a l revolver and shot William Rettger, aged nineteen, through the heart Rett-
 ger was brother of the baseball | pitcher formerly with the Clevelands,
 but now with the Milwaukee team.
 The squad of police left to guard the Brown works witnessed the shooting and charging down the street rescued 1 Saunders, who was again on the | ground being kicked and buffeted. The l police drew their revolvers and by great efforts got the injured youth into
 the office of the Bishop works The
 mob outside, which had swelled to B. GOO, infuriated by the sight of the dead
 man, howled lynch him." and were preparing to charge on the building in which the police had taken refuge when a police reinforcement attacked the
 rear and clubbed their way to the | building. The crowd was then kept at
 bay until company of militia march l ed to the scene, when the mob scat
 tered and Saunders was taken to the
 central police station.
 The whole section of the city where
 the workmen in the hoisting works live
 is in state of ferment, as threats have been made to burn tonight the residences of the men who are work
 ing. There is also apprehension that the trouble has only begun and that 8
 strike of iron workers embracing every branch of the industry in Cleveland may come about. Four companies of
 militia are under arms at their respec- tive armories and will be used to keep
 tthe peace tomorrow. The mayor to-
 night issued a riot proclamation forbid ding all unlawful or disorderly assem- blages.