The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-20
THE SPREADING STRIKE.
Streetoar Men on Manhattan Island
Join the Striking Army.
LIVELY FIGHTS WITH POLICE.
Several Riots on Second Avenue-Po-
licemen Injured and q Boy Dying
With a Fractured Skull - Alleged

Several Riots on Second Avenue-Po-
licemen Injured and q Boy Dying
with Fractured Skull Alleged
Brooklyn Dynamiters Held For Trial.
New York, July 2O.-Despite the pro-
tests Of General Master Workman Par
sons, strike was ordered yesterday
morning on the lines Of the Metropoli-
tan street railway in New York. If the
strikers wanted to make plenty of
work for the police and at the same
time get into district where they
could depend on popular sympathy,
they made wise selection in taking
the Second avenue line for the prin.
cipal fight Of the strike.
Several times during the afternoon
the police were called upon to Quell
riots in Second avenue, but none was
of serious import The real trouble did
not begin until the thousands of work.
ing people who live along that great
thoroughfare came home from work.
By o'clock Second avenue from
Tenth street to the stables at Ninety
sixth street, and even as far as One
Hundred and Tenth street, was filled
on both walks with dense mass of
people, all eager for trouble. Police
Captain Donahue had sent out squad
OF men to keep people out Of the mid
die of the street, SO that no tampering
with the slot might occur. But his men
were like SO many chips on a river
when the tide is strong, and they were
tossed hither and thither. They used
their clubs with all their power, and
the only result was to anger the crowd
SO that little discrimination was shown
between the police and the car men
when bricks were thrown.
At about o'clock great crowd
gathered between Forty-second and
Forty-fifth streets and attempted to
overthrow the cars that came along
about 30 minutes apart. Policeman
owen Donovan, who was on car
bound south, was hit on the head with
brick and knocked off to the pave
ment. His left eye was almost knocked
out. He was taken to the hospital.
Louis Minkus, a 9-year-old boy, got in
front of policeman's club and in the
excitement the bluecoat made no dis
tinctions The boy was knocked over
and was carried home with fractured
skull. He will probably die. Mike
Sheridan, strike sympathizer, was
also taken home with fractured skull
Another crowd got together in a
minute or two at Fifty-fifth street and
Second avenue and when a car bound
down came along it met a perfect
shower of bricks, stones and other mis-
siles thrown from the street, the win
doWs Of flats and the roofs. The wo-
men were perfect furies. While car
was passing Seventy street,
with Policeman Gallagher as an escort,
a score or more of the mob tried to
board it to take off the conductor and
motorman. Gallagher got off, and
drawing two revolvers walked ahead of
the car, clearing the track. Some one
threw brick and hit Gallagher on the
leg, cutting him badly. Twelve mount
ed policemen came down the avenue
to the rescue and dispersed the crowd
for the time being
The cars coming into the stables
from down town looked as If they had
run the gauntlet of Balaklava. Win
doWs were broken and sides denied in,
and more than one motoiman left his
post with the statement that he had
all he wanted.
One car which had Ill fares and
transfers rung up at Fourteenth street
had only the motorman, conductor and
police escort of two men aboard when
it reached Eighty-ffth street. Several
of the passengers had been hit and
wounded and got off the car further
down town.
A great many men were injured all
along the lie. Policeman Olson, of
the Kings Bridge mounted squad, was
thrown from his horse during a fight
near Ninety-fourth street. His leg was
broken and he received internal in
juries A motorman was struck on the
chest with brick near the uptown
car stable and seriously injured. Sew
eral passengers received nasty scalp
wounds from stones thrown by the
mob.