Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-24
RIOT IN CLEVELAND
Gets to the Point Where Loaded
Street Cars Are Wrecked
with Nitro.GIycerine.
ONE WOMAN WILL PROBABLY DIE,

Mayor WIN Call for More City Troops and
May Call on the Governor-strike Lead
ers Declare for Force as Necessary
Evansville. Ind, on the Edge of strike
Bioodshed - New York's Strike Seem.
Ended-Other Strike News.
Cleveland, July PA Euclid ave-
nue. car loaded with passengers was
wrecked by an explosion of nitro
glycerine or gun cotton shortly before
IL O'Clock last night. The names OF
the injured are: Mrs. E. c. Martin,
compound fracture of the skull, right
arm broken and internal injuries
which may prove fatal; E. C. Martin,
right arm badly cut and bruised about
legs and body; Mrs. Catharine Harris,
suffering from nervous prostration; !;
F. A. Smith, injured about legs and
body; Albert E. Fassett, legs injured; !;
Dora SchessIer, bruised about the
body. Mrs. Martin will probably die
The police are now out searching for
the buggy in which the dynamiter is
supposed TO have ridden, and all sta
tions have been notified to be on the
lookout for il.
Only Clue to the Miscreant.
The police were quickly summoned
to the scene of the explosion, and a
force of men was detailed to investi-
gate. with view to running down the
person who placed the explosive on the
track. A boy living near the corner
saw the mysterious man in the buggy
He said he noticed the buggy drive
up there and stop and saw the man
get out. He fumbled about the rails
Tor minute or two and then jumped
into the buggy and drove away at a
gallop. The explosion tore out the
front end of the car, smashed all the
windows and destroyed the brake
After considerable difficulty the car
was stopped and call for ambulanceS
was sent out. The force of the ex-
plosion was so great that it shook all
the houses in the neighborhood and
was heard for a distance of two or
three miles.
Effect of the Explosion on the Car.
Within few minutes after the ex-
plosion a crowd of a thousand people
assembled, and the injured were cared
for until the ambulances arrived. Pas
sengers who were on the car say the
explosion seemed to lift the whole
front end of the car. and it ripped up
the floor for more than half the dis
tance from the front end The cor was
in fact a complete wreck. There
seems to be no doubt now that Mayor
available military companies in this
city in addition to those already under
arms. The call will include the battery
of artillery, and the governor may be
requested to send other troops to the
city.
Continuous Rioting for Hours.
In the vicinityof the Holmden avenue
barns last night there was continuous
rioting for three or four hours. Every
car that passed was attacked with
stones, and several pistol shots were
fired at them. There was a lively
fusillade at one time, the non-union
crews returning the fire. The only
person hurt was a woman who was
shot in the finger as she stood in her
doorway. The police made twenty-five
arrests in that neighborhood. Rioting
continued all along Broadway last
night, and it took three squads of po-
lice as many hours to escort three cars
distance of four miles to the barns.
Fifteen or twenty of the rioters were
taken into custody.