The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-25
First Fatality of the Cleveland
Street Railroad Strike.
BOY SLAIN BY CONDUCTOR
SITUATION IS REGARDED AS
GROWING MORE SERIOUS.
Efforts to Conciliate the Strikers and
Their Former Employers Have
Been Abandoned-Anoth Car
Blown Up With Nitro-glycerine
Last Night-No One Hurt.

Cleveland, O.. July 24-The day has
failed to bring any relief to the strike
situation, which is regarded as serious
The state board of arbitration has
practically abandoned its efforts to
conciliate the strikers and their former
/ employers. The resentment of the con-
ductors and motormen who quit work
and the more turbulent spirit of their
sympathiZers is held in check to a de-
gree by the presence of the police and
militia.
Small riots occurred during the day,
but with one exception they were with
Gus serious results. In the death of
| Henry Cornweit, slain by bullet fired
by Ralph p. Hawley, conductor on
the Broadway line is recorded the first
fatality of the strike
Shortly after noon Hawley's car was
approaching Orange street and was be-
set by crowd of men and boys. Corn
welt, the 19-year-old son of a butcher,
was aStride a horse, and rode to the
side of the car, keeping pace with it for
some distance. Various stories are told
as to what passed between the conduc-
tor and the boy, but the mob was sud-
denly called to its senses by the sight
of Hawley, who jumped to the street
and started in pursuit of Cornweit
The latter, closely followed by his pur-
suer, turned up Perry street. At Wood
land avenue the latter pulled his re-
vOlver and fired. His victim FELL with
CHASTITY wound in the left temple.
and died soon after being removed to
the hospital.
The Conductor Arrested.
The crowd. which, before the incl
dent, had been so violent. was awed
by the seriousness of the affair, and
permitted the conductor to walk back
to his car. He was arrested and taken
to the station, where a charge of MUIR
der was entered against him. When the
car returned in charge of another man
and laden with police, thousands of
people were crowded around the fatal
spot. The track was blockaded and
the stalled cars bombarded with stones.
pieces of brick and sticks of wood The
police managed by dint of using their
clubs to clear the way after delay of
about half an hour.
The police believe they have a clue
to the man who placed nitro glycerine
which last night blew up a Euclid av-
enue car and injured four passengers.
Mathew Robinson. who was seen at 2
o'clock this morning driving a horse
and buggy said to resemble the one in
which the mysterious wrecker rode,
has been placed in a cell Robinson
claims to have found the rig masterless
and took possession, intending to de-
liver it to Charles Steinmetz, a livery
man by whom Robinson is employed.
Mr.. Steinmetz informed the officers
that he rented the outfit last night to a
man whom he identified vaguely as
having a dark moustache.
With the exception of the Mayfield
suburban, all the lines of the big con-
zatf LOT in, lion
day. although their movements were
necessarily hampereu somewhat.
Another Car Wrecked.
Rioting broke out afresh here tonight
and a second attempt to wreck a car
was made. y Pearl street car, south
bound, near Holmden avenue, carrying
beside the motorman and conductor a
guard. successfully ran the gauntlet of
missiles thrown from the roofs of
houses, only to run into a can of nitro
glycerine, which exploded with terrific
force. The rear platform was torn off
and the flooring wrenched from its
fastenings. The crew was not injured.
but emerged from the shattered ruins
with their pistols drawn and began fir
ing at what they thought was couple
of men crouching as if to hide them
selves behind a small bill board.
The explosion was the signal for re-
newing the attack from the housetops
and alleys. Troop A, hurrying on horse
back to the scene. was bombarded
with giant fire crackers. One of these
exploded with such force that the
mount of one trooper was knocked
over, in his fall carrying with him two
other horses and their riders. Several
arrests were made. Pistol shots were
heard and one man was
slightly wounded in the arm, il is said.