The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-25
RIOT ON ELECTRIC ROAD
ON CLoDFELTER's INTER-
URBAN LINE WANT WAGES.
Gatherers Returning to knights
of Labor-DubIin Reunion.
,ecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
PARAMOUNT. Ind, June PA riot of
strikers occurred on the Clodfelter electric
railroad, in Madison county, five miles
south of this city this morning, in which
David brook, gang foreman was serious
~ wounded and several others sustained in
juries. Ross & Cochran are the subcon-
tractors of the Indianapolis, Anderson 6,
Marion Electric Railway, or the Clodfelter
electric railroad as it is better known, and
have been working nearly a hundred men
the past three weeks, and it is claimed have
paid none of the laborers A gang of about
thirty at work near SummitVille when
Cochran drove up in a carriage. The men
demanded their money and he told them
he promised TO pay to-day. After some
conversation three of them made a dash for
him, but David brook, a foreman on the
line, stepped in front and tried to pacify
the men, which he was unable to do. brook
was struck in the forehead by a large
bowlder hurled by James Stanley, and is in
a serious condition in his boarding house
severely beaten with clubs Frank Maus
the indianapolis brewer, is the president of
the company. Contractor Cochran escaped
uninjured Stanley went to SummitVille,
and at last accounts had not been arrested.
CIodfeIter's Road Needs Money.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, June 24.-The Marion
Chronicle to-day has the following explain
ing the situation on the Clodfeter electric
road: There are signs that the affairs of
the Clodfelter Interurban Railroad are ap-
preaching a crisis. The cause of it is the
inability-or what amounts to the same
thlng-the refusal OF the men in charge of
the enterprise to meet the pay rolls and
to date. When work was resumed on the
line three weeks ago it was promised that
all bills should be promptly met. This has
not been done Demands We're met with
promises, and the fulfillment of promises
mas been postponed until the patience of
the workmen has been well nigh exhausted.
The last date when it was promised that
money should positively be paid was last
Monday but Monday came and no pay.
Then Clodfelter was to be in Paramount
yesterday sure, but instead of coming to
Paramount Clodfelter telegra phed Pearson
and some of the contractors to meet. him at
the Spencer House, at Indianapolis, to
confer with Frank Maus, VINO is presumed
prise. What was accomplished al this con-
ference or what conclusion was reached
has not yet appeared
The riot near Paramount this morning is
then described, after which the Chronicle
story says:
To-day, according to arrangement. an
to have arrived from Chicago to lay steel
under contract of Victor +. Maggi & Co.
Messrs. Maggi and WisWel arrived in the
city on one of the morning trains, but they
did not bring their force of Italians with
them. Mr.. Maggi said to a representative
of the Chronicle this afternoon that his
company had learned that the steel was not
on the ground, and hence 1t was useless to
bring their force of workmen here and keep
them at a useless expense. He said, how
ever, that he knows what he is talking
about when he says the road will be built.
The failure of the company to get the steel
here is because the Ncke1-plate road from
which the steel was contracted, refuses to
ship the same until it is paid for. The
Nickel-plate is relaying its track with
seventy-pound rail, and has contracted to
deliver to the Clodfelter company the sixty
three-pound rail that it is discardihg. 1t Is
simply question of credit, and the Nickel
plate will not ship until the steel is paid
for in advance or until someone who is re-
sponsibe will vouch for the payment of
the material. Mr.. Maggi expects the at
mCsphere to clear within a day or two, so
that the constructing Of the road can be
pushed"