The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-21
NON-UMOn EMPLOYEES
hM ROUGHLY HANDLED
Cleveland Strikers Show No
Mercy to Their Enemies.
MoToRMEN BADLY eEATEN.
Cars Attacked ~ Desperate Mea-
Mob Atsenpss 70 Capture the
seutA Side Darns-lAAAea.
tioas 81 N Agreement.

CLEVELAND. o., JunA N-Whiis the
prospects fer 4 settlement of the strike Of
the street railway men aae brighter to-
night than they have been at any time
since the trouble began. there has been
more serious rtoting today than at any
previous time The disturbances began
early In the morning. continued throughout
the day. and tonight = big msb surrounded
the South side barns Of the Ag Consolt-
dated Company, determined TO get at the
non-unIon men who were hopasSd there
while the sympathieers Of the otglteee
we're hurting bricks tnd stoneo - the Aon-
union motormen and conductors. special
committee cf the city council Was trying
TO get the representatives Of the strikers
and the officers OF the company .o&etApf.
and i, succeeded to tho extent Of indueAg
the strshers t. sassnit . peopsaittoa -
writing ana getting the consent Of Prssi-
dent Everett. of the Hlg consoltdateAs -
suhmit the s.me 10 the board of directore
Ia the xhofnlns. 1As stf1ksfs' pfcposltion
Abandons the demand foe the recoenaion
OF the union. but asks that ali the old men
be taken back. except those who may b
convicted In court Of destroying property.
lieve q settlement II In sight
A. has been the rule siAee tho strike be-
xas, riosous disturbances broke out today
about noon. A crowd boarded Wade
park car and beat the non-union motorman
into insenssbility. The conductor ned. An
other wade park car was stoned. and
Euclid avenue car attacked Many women
en- board ehrieked with terror - stones
crashed through the car windows. Al the
corner OF Wilson avenue ana Quincy Sta
sson, one man was shot and others had
narrow escapes. Tho passengers escaped
as best they could when the stones began
70 fiy, but the conductor and motorman
were struck repeatedly. The latter drew
4 revolver and Ared three times into the
crowd. No arrests were made.
The crew Of Q Scoyiiie avenue car was
badly beaten by ten men. The car Was on
Its way downtown. A. Wilson avenue one
man gos on, and NJ every crossing there
AFTER one or two more men boarded the
car. until there were ten passengers. When
Harry c. Clark the conductor. was taking
up fares, one OF the men gave him my
c<nt piece A. Clark started 10 make
change he was struck on the head from
behind by a coupling pin In the hands OF .
passenger Several OF the other men then
Jumped upon him and pounded him into in
ssnsshsiisy The others turned their atten-
ton 20 the motorman. whose name h John
Clark. He was also hit On the head and
body. He sank. on the noor unconscious.
BY this time the car. running at high
speed. had reached Hackan street Here
ire men left the car block further on
Nrx~f~
~ TO shus on the rurrea; and bring the
car 20 q stop After a shor; wait Il was
run back 10 the barn. Both men we're bad
iy hurt
A. W. Weight. a letter carrier. riding on
a Euclid avenue car was struck fun IN she
face by a stone. He was unconscions and
covered with bioc3 when help reached
him
Late this afternoon. at Central and VIII
son avenues. a crowd OF sl0g persons OBJ
ssructed the passage cs tive eross-sown
cars Bricks were thrown and the win
dows Of the earn broken. One of the non
unson snosorrnen vas hit by a brick and
so badly injured that II Was necessary 90
sena Rim 20 q hospital Later car on
the sossh ssa~ line was attacked near the
suburb cf Brighten. The moso-man and
conductor we're chased into the woods by
. mob
The people Of the South slse naYsed their
wrath all day. They made no attempt 10
interfere with TIRE running of cars en thA
Clark avenue lire 40 long as thsre Was
police protection but this evening there
was determined effort 70 get at the noa-
unfan men who were sxksB 90 the Hnslen-
den avenue harms this afternoon - cp~Y-
are the cars from that end of the ltns.
socn after dark . r=sob of s.ass peopss 49,
semhied- There were twenty policemen
n the barns. bot they wese powerie~s -
handie the msh rences were torn Down
and the crowd hrots into she harms. IA
the meantime the non-arson snen had
e~cap~si 30 the attic. and she rioters con-
sensed themselves With smashing . few
81 .hs ezTx- Fy that sfmets<rersi wseon
leads of rOsscemen k4d arrived and Tie
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