The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20

New York, July 19.-New York troll
ley men Joined the Brooklyn trolley
men to-day in their big strike. The
center of operations in New York citv
was on Second avenue. The excite
ment in Brooklyn centered in the yicin-
lty or Thirty-fourth street and Fifth
avenue, where dynamite was used this
morning in an attempt to blow down
the elevated structure.
Inc Hotins that took place in New
York this afternoon and tonight was
OF a serious nature, infinitely tiercar
than any that has taken place in the
borough across the river. Scores of
people We're severely injured in the
second avenue district. Tonight that
great thoroughfare was crowded with
jeering, bowling mob, almost it's en-
tire length. The great tenements gave
forth their workingmen residents, who
packed up the strikers in many fierce
struggle with the police, and with the
men We're many women and still
greater numbers of children. They
stoned every car that passed over the
tracks.
Missiles in the Air
They hurled rocks and chunks of iron
and vegetables of varied nature
from the roofs of houses and from tho
windows: they barricaded the streets
with paving stones, tore up the street
irons, choked up the street with iron
and spiked and blocked the thorough
fare; they had many hand-to-hand
conflict with 600 patrolmen that had
been placed along the line. OF the in
he art
known.
Several policemen We're removed to
hospitals with broken bones and torn
scalps. AT least one striker, or strike
sympathizer, had his skull fractured,
and a boy had his skull crushed. In
Vulnerable passengers on the cars re-
| ceiVed bad wounds and it was impossi-
Bile for passengers on Second avenue to
go much above Fourteenth street The
cars that ran the gauntlet had many
windows broken and We're badly shat
tered.
The strikers Object.
1t was the hope of the strikers to
| make deep impression by their sue
cess in Second avenue and. so far as
rioting was concerned they and their
| sympathizers made it,
! On the other lines throughout New
| York the strike was not at any time
prominent throughout the day. To-
| Eighth avenue line. to the number of
| 100 or more, organized and declared a
| strike. They thereupon set about to
| persuade their fellow workmen to leave
| their cars and with sufficient success to
| have running them on only an hourly
| schedule before midnight.
Dynamite Used in Brooklyn.
An attempt was made to blow up the
elevated structure at Fifth avenue apd
Thlrty-hfth street in Brooklyn early
this morning. The police say that it
was the work of the strikers or sym
pathizers. One of the pillars of the
structure was shattered by the explo-
sion of dynamite at 1:10 a. m The
entire base of the pillar was blown to
pieces and the sides of the pillar for
several feet We're torn away. Several
pieces of steel We're thrown through
neighboring houses. One piece of large
size, nearly an inch in thickness, was
blown through the brick wall of a
house at the corner of Thirty fourth
street and Fourth avenue, while still
another dashed through the iron railing
of the Greenwood sub-cemetery Sew
eral policemen, who We're ON duty in the
vicinity, hurried to the scene of the ex-
plosion, which was heard for a long
distance, but no arrests We're made. The
explosion caused delay in the running
of trains over the Fifth avenue line
for a time, and extra guards were sent
out to watch the structure. Fortunate
ly no one was injured
The following statement was issued
by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany at 2:05 this morning:
AT 1:20 o'clock this morning the stri
kers placed bombs under two columns
of the elevated structure at Thirty-fifth
street and Fifth avenue The bombs
were undoubtedly of dynamite. The
structure is high here and the tall col
umns were supported by masonry
These supports have been blown out.
and the columns are now hanging sus-
pended in the air from the structure,
The superintendent of the wrecking
crew. with all his men. is now at work
on the structure. They hope to have
enough braces in by morning so that
the regular traffic can be resumed with
safety. The police. by command of
Deputy Mckellar, are now on the scene
$50 men guarding our property
Fifty reserves have just been march
ed into the Fifty-first street police sta
ton in this city and it is reported that
Chief Devery has telephOned Sergeant
Justice to hold the men at the station