Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-21
SERIOUS RIoTING BY CLEVELAND
STRIKERS YESTERDAY.
NON-UNION MEN ASSAULTED
CARS STONED AND A NUMBER OF
PERSONS INJURED.
Strikers Abandon Demand for RecoE-
milton of Their Union, but In
sist That All Old Men BE
Taken Back - Settle
ment in Sight.

CLEVELAND, O., June 2O-While the
prospects for settlement of the strike of
the street railway men are brighter tonight
than they have been at any time since the
trouble began, there has been more serious
rioting to-day than at any previous time
| The disturbances began early in the morn
ing, continued throughout the day, and to-
night big mob surrounded the south side
barns of the Big Consolidated Company, de-
| termined to get at the nOn-union men who
were housed there. While the sympathiZ-
| ers of the strikers were hurling bricks and
stones at non-union motormen and con-
ductors a special committee of the city
| council was trying to get the representa-
| tiVeS of the strikers and the officers of the
| company together, and it succeeded to the
| extent of inducing the strikers to submit to
a proposition in writing and getting the
consent of President Everett, of the Big
Consolidated, to submit the same to the
board of directors in the morning.
The strikers proposition abandons the
demand for the recognition of the union,
but asks that all the old men be taken
back save those who may be convicted in
court of destroying property. The members
| of the council committee believe a settle
ment is in sight.
Cars were running during the day on
| all lines opened by the street car company
since the strike. No crowds were allowed
to gather.
AS has been the rule since the strike
began, riotous disturbances broke out to-
day about noon. a crowd boarded u Wade
Park avenue car near Indus and Anndale
avenues, and beat the non-union motorman
into insensibility. The conductor fled from
his car. Another Wade Park avenue car
} was stoned and one on the Euclid ave-
nue. line was attacked Many women were
on board and shrieked with terror as the
stones crashed through the car windows
One woman tainted. At the corner oi
Wilson avenue and Quincy street, one mar
was shot and others had narrow escapes
The passengers escaped as best they coulG
when the stones began to fly, but the con,
ductor and motorman were struck repeat,
= edly. The latter drew a revolver and nreC
three times into the crowd. He then pu
on all speed and ran his car out of the
mobS reach.
: George Berg, ,Jr.,. striking conductor
4 was hit In the leg by bullet. which wa:
: extracted. No arrests were made.
$ The crew of Scovil avenue car No. q
/ was badly beaten by ten men. The CA
3 was on its way down town. At Wlllsol
3 ing thereafter one or. two more mel
= boarded the car until there We're ten pas
r men gave him, 5o-cent piece. AS Clarl
9 started to make change, he was strucl
, on the head from behind by q couplin
u u of the other men then jumped upon hin
e and pounded him into insensibility. Tn
others turned their attention a; 9ns0 to the motor
was hit on the head and body, and san
to the floor unconscious. By this time tn
| car, running at high speed had reache
v Hackman street. Here the men all left th
car.
A block further on, Clark, the motormar
received sufficiently to shut off the curren
J. and bring the car to a stop, After a shor
a wait, 1t was run back to the barn. Bot
u men We're badly hurt
f. on Euclid avenue car, was struck flu
~ in the face by stone He was uncon
% scious and covered with blood when hel
h There were two incipient riots late thi
ct afternoon. At the corner of Central an
3- obstructed the passage of two cross-tow
E. cars. Bricks were thrown and the window
= of the cars broken.
I'd One IF the non-union motormen WI
w gave his name as Charles Jones, of Gran
D. Rapids, Mich, was hit with brick an
i'd so badly injured that it was necessary
t. send him to a hospital. Later a car on Il
ID South Side line was attacked near the sui
urb of Brighton. The motorman and col
ductor were chased into the woods by
mob and they had not returned when
came time TO stop running cars. No a
II; rests were made.
al The people of the South side nursed the
8 IS wrath all day. They made no attempt
- interfere with the running of cars on Il
~ ~ Clark avenue line so long as there W;
as as police protection. but this evening the
,u iv was a determined effort to get at the no
y union men who were taken to the Hole
NJ den avenue barns this forenoon to opera
the cars from that end of the line Sot
after dark mob of 5000 people assemble
There We're twenty policemen at the barr
but they We're powerless to handle t
p mob.
Fences were torn down and the croy
broke into the barns. In the meantin
the non-union men escaped to the attic a
ng the rioters contented themselves wi
M smashing few of the cars. By that tir
- several wagonloads of police had arriv
p and the mob was dispersed. At anoth
its place on the South side switches were to
up and the track blockaded.
I'm Four hundred employees of the Clevela
ed Foundry Company struck late this afts
* noon because the company refused to d
charge a man who had ridden on a L
he Consolidated car. The man was a foremG
All When 1t became known that he had n
he den on a car the molders went to the
fees of the company and demanded his d
charge. The officers refused to conn
with the demand and all the men walk
out of the works. This is the first stri
his in the nature of a sympathy demonstrate