Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-06-16
REV ARDS FOR RIOTERS
Cleveland Car Magnates Offer
$500 Each For Them.
NON.UNIONISTS BADLY BEATEN,
Cars Were Stoned and the Men Who
Took Strikers Places AssauIted-Some
of Them Taken TO Hospitals-One Man
Was Seriously Hurt.

CLEVELAND. June 16.-Near the Lake
view car barns on Euclid avenue, q
crowd attacked car on which several
non- union men were riding without
police protection. \ volley of stones
and bricks was hurled at the car and
the conductor. James Murphy, who
came from St. Louis, was hauled from
the platform. Murphy drew revolver
and fired into the air and then took to
his heels. The mob then assaulted some
of the other non-union men on the Car,
injuring them quite severely, but the
rioters had disappeared when the police
arrived.
Soon afterward another car was at
tackled, apparently by the same mob
which hal collected i'll anolher place.
Bricks aud stones We're hurled through
the windows. Several women aboard
screamed and made Il rush for the doors
and all escaped injury. The conductor,
Anthony Wuerst, who came from Mil
waukee. was struck i'll the face with Il
brick, cutting d bad cash, and a stone,
which hit him on the head, rendered
him UncOEscIOuS. The mOtorman, j.
H. Fox, also OF Milwaukee, was hit by IL
shower of brick and stone and was SO
badly hurt that he had to be carried,
with Wuerst, TO the car barns. Both
men were subsequently sent to a hospi-
tai. The mob had dispersed when the
police arrived.
\ little later third Car was stopped
by Il crowd of men which had been
concealed i'll bushes at the side of the
street. About 10 or 20 men boarded the
aud 70 IlcynT sI1nd ha-
tween them and E. W. Newman and &.
w. King, the conductor and motornlan,
both of whom came from Buffalo. Both
men were chased from the car and We're
beaten with clubs and kicked III brutal
manuer. Newman was so badly injured
that it was necessary to send him TO Il
hospital, after he had been removed TO
the car barns from "a private residence
to which he had been assisted by lady
from the lawn, where he was left bleed
ing and semi-conscious by his assailant
This mob disappeared before the police
arrived, most of the rioters having rid
BICYCLES which were concealed in a
| earby.
Later on car left the Lakeview barns
for town At the corner of Anndale
and Wade Palk avenues it was stopped
by crowd of men, who began to hurl
bricks and stones. The motorman,
whose name is Schryver and who ctme
from Cincinnati, left the car and started
to run. He was hit with brick and
badly hurt, but he managed to escape
and has not been seen since. j. +.
Leatherwood OF Cincinnati, the con-
ductor, stuck to the car. He was finally
hit in the temple with a brick and
dropped to the floor OF the car. The
crowd then dispersed. Leatherwood
finally succeeded in running the car
back to the barns, when he became u=-
conscious and was in serious condition.
The police think this mob was the
same that attacked the other cars and
they are convinced that it is an organ
lied band whose purpose is to make
systematic attacks upon the cars.
There were two other incipient riots
during the day. One occurred ON Viii
son avenue, where crowd Of men with
two furniture vans proceeded to block
the car tracks with barrels, tree trunks
and all sorts of rubbish. Two men
We're arrested. The police also dis
persed mob on Prospect street. which
was obstructing the passage of a sub
urban car, and two arrests were made.
The company offered reward of $500
for information which will lead to the
arrest of the men who attacked the cars.