Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-24
STREETCAR BLOWN Up
Riotous Scenes Mark the
Cleveland Strike.
SIX BADLY HURT; ONE FATALLY.
Swo Policemen, One of Whom Had Shot
Woman. saved From Probable Lynch
ing by Priest - Cars Blocked and
Stoned-Troops on Duty.


Stoned-Troops on Duty.
CLEVELAND. July PA Euclid ave-
nue. car, loaded with passengers, was
wrecked by an explosion of nitrogly-
cerine or gun cotton.
The injured We're:
Mrs. T.. G. Martin, 10 Alanson street.
compound fracture of skull, right arm
| broken and internal injuries. Likely to die;
f. A. Smith, both legs broken.
T.. G. Martin. right arm badly cut and
bruised about legs and body.
Mrs. Ca;harine Harris. 25 Cornell street,
| suffering from nervous prostratiOn.
Albert L. Fassett. IL Wallace place,
legs injured.
Dora Schessler, II OakdaIe street,
bruised about the body.
Three or four others, not seriously.
The explosion tore out the front end
of the car, smashed all the windows
and destroyed the brake. After consid-
cradle difficulty the car was stopped and
call for ambulances was sent out.
The motorman. William Draggers. who
came from Cincinnati, was daZed by the
shock, but the conductor, Frank
Schroeder OF St. Louis, escaped injury
The force of tie explosion was sc
great that it shook all the houses Ill the
nelghborhood and was heard for Il dis.
tance ef two or three miles. There Is
no clue TO the identity of the person
who placed the explosive OH the track.
Persons living III the neighborhood say
they saw d man IL ii buggy stop at the
corner of kensiugton street. where the
explosion occurred. and get out by the
railroad track. He remained there "A
short time and then drove rapidly away.
CLEVELAND, July 24.-The rioting
was renewed i'll this city aud there We're
several serious outbreaks OF violence,
but no clashes between the mobs and
the troops.
Cars were started running as usual
on all but one or two lines. The mobs
were astir early. A thousand or more
persons gathered on Burton street, on
the South Side, and proceeded to OBJ
strubt the tracks. When a car came
along with two policemen on board it
was attacked with shower of stones.
In spite of the policemen the non union
motorman and conductor We're roughly
handled. One of them. named Nc
Dermott, had two ribs broken. and the
other was badly bruised.
One of the policemen fired at the
mob, the bullet striking Il man named
Wennick. The mob assaulted the Of
hcers, both of whom We're struck re-
peatedly with stones, and but for the
intervention of a priest of the Catholic
church near at hand the officers might
have been lynched. By this time three
cars had been mixed up in the melee,
and patrol wagon load OF police arriv-
ing, the rioters were dispersed and the
cars were taken back to the barns.
There was Il serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of
Petrle street, where a mob of 5000 as
sembled and obstructed the track Fin
ally Il Car came along from the Wilson
avenue barns. having on board Sergeant
Burrows and a private of militia and
Detective kelso. The officer ordered
the mob TO dlsperse when the motorman
attempted TO remove the obstruction
from the track, but the rioters showed
fight. Then Sergeant Burrows and the
one soldier, with fixed bayonets, faced
the mob and attempted to clear the
way. There was sharp fight for a
few minutes, during which IA perfect
shower of stones fell about the detective
and the soldiers, smashing the car
windows.
No one was seriously hurt, and after
arrestlng two OF the rioters and placing
them on the car it was returned to the
barns. The police afterward charged
the mob, making several arrests
The military on guard at the Holm
den avenue barns, on the South Side,
were annoyed by a ieering mob, and 10
arrests were made there with the assist |
ance of the police.
a mob OF 1,G0G conceived the idea of |
blocking the track ON Orange street by |
placing Il big boulder in the middle of |
the street alsd building a fire around it. |
The plan worked successfully, and cars
We're delayed for nearly an hour, when
tue police drove the mob away. put the |
fire out and gave the street railway men |
Il chance to move the stone. Three men |
We're sent to the hospital with wounds |
made by policemen $ clubs at the end of |
this riot
AS Il result of the shooting of the |
driver OF Il grocery wagon i'll South
Brooklyn Saturday afternoon by non.
union conductor, the mayor OF that vii
lage issued an order to the marshal to
arrest all non-union conductors who |
carried concealed weapons. Every car
was stopped and each conductor found |
with a revolver was arrested. All were
bailed ont by the conf
pany.
A small riot was started at the corner
Of Pearl street and Franklin avenue,
when Il young woman struck ii man
who asked her to board Il non-union car.
A crowd of union sympathlZers stoned
,ars and Il squad of police finally cleared
he street.
The company sent note TO the state
board of arbitration declining to arbi-
rate the differences. in which it says:
This company fully approaching the
sincerity of your desire to bring about a
'eadJustment with Its former employees,
oess 10 say that the men who went out
)n Monday last are not in the employ of
he company, and there is nothing to
negotiate about or to arbitrate."