The San Francisco call., 1899-06-21
R|OT|NG ALONG
TROLLEY LINES
Serious Disturbances at
Cleveland.
NON-UNION MEN INJURED
WOMEN SHREK IN TERROR
WHILE CARS ARE STONED.
Mob Surrounds the South Side Barns
of the Big Consolidated Com
pany, but tho Strike May
Soon Be Settled.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CLEVELAND. June 20.-While the pros
poets for a settlement of the strike of the
street railway men are brighter to-nlght
than they have been at any time since the
trouble began, there has been more seri-
Gus rioting to-day than al any previous
time.
The disturbances began early in the
morning and continued throughout the
day. and tonight a big mob surrounds
the south side barns of the Big Consol1-
dated Company, determined to get at the
non-unon men housed there.
While the sympathzers of the strikers
were hurting bricks and stones at the non
union motormen and conductors speclal
committee of the City Council was trying
to get the representatives OF the strikers
and the officers of the company together
and il succeeded to the extent of inducing
the strikers to submit proposition IL
writing and getting the consent OF Presl-
dent Everett of the Big Consolidated 10
submit the same TO the ooaru OIL uIl eItol tta ,
in the morning. The strikers proposiitiiomIi III
abandons the demand for the recognition
of the union, but asks that all the ola men
be taken back save those VINO may pc
convicted in court of destroying property.
The members of the Councll committee
believe a settlement is in sight.
AS has been the rule since the strike pc
gan riotous disturbances broke out t0-udE
about noon. A crowd boarded a Wade
and PARK avenue car near Indus and
Anu anndaie avenues and beat the non-union
motorman into insensibility me con
ductor fled from his car. AnotheT Maue. ,
park avenue car was stoned. and one on
the Euclid avenue line was attacked;
MANY women were on board and shrie<ed
with terror as stones crasheed tnr9ush 'ile
car windows. One woman tainted.
At the corner of Wilson avenue, and
Quincy street one man was shot ana otn-
ers had narrow escapes me paSSseneIhss p,Sn - .
ESCAPED as best they could When the
stones began to fly. but the conductor ana
motorman were struck repeatedly. , Inc
latter drew q revolver ana Hred tIree
speed and ran his car out or the mop
reach. .,,. o7,,oto,.
extTactedI WAS n1, d. No No arrests arr st were made.
Tate this afternoon at Central and Will
son avenues a crowd of 1000 persons oo-
cars Bricks were thrown and the Win
dows of the cars broken. One OF the non,
union motormen was hit by brick and
so badly injured that h, II was hecessaay feT aay
on the south side line was attacked near
the suburb of Brighton. The motorman
and conductor were chased into the WOODS
The people of the south side nursed
their wrath all day. They made no at.
tempt to interfere with the running of
as there was police protection. but this
evening there was determined effort to
get at the non-uniion men who were taken
to the barns this afternoon to operate
the cars from that end of the line. Soon
after dark mob of 5000 people assem-
bled. There were twenty policemen at
the barns, but they were powerless to
handle the mob. Fences were torn down
and the crowd broke into the barns. In
the meantime the non-union men had es-
caped to the attic and the rioters con-
tented themselves with smashing few
of the cars. BY that time several wagon
loads of policemen had arrived and the
mob was dispersed.