Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-06-21
ASSAULTS BY RIOTERS.
Mob After Non-Unionists In
Cleveland Car Barn.
MEN BADLY BEATEN on CARS.
Que Operator Fired Into Crowd. a
striker Being Hit In the Leg-City
the strike.

CLEVELAND. June FLA big mob
surrounded the South Side barns of the
Big Consolidated company, determined
to get III the non-union men who are
housed there. 4 special committee of
the CITY council succeeded i'll inducing
the strikers TO submit Il proposition in
writing, and getting the consent OF
President Everett OF the Big Consoli-
dated to submit the same TO the board
| of directors. The strikers proposition
abandoned the demand for the recogni-
ton of the union, but asks that all tine
old men be taken back save those who
may be convicted i'll court of destroying
property.
\ crowd boarded Wade Park ave
nue. car hear Indus and Anndale ave
nues and beat the non-union motorman
into insensibility. The conductor de-
serted his car and fed. Another Wade
Park avenue car was stoned and one on
the Euclid avenue line was attacked.
Many women were on board and
sbriehed with terror as the. stones
crashed through the windows. One
wonfAn tainted. At the corner of Will
son avenue and Quincy street one man
was shot and others had narrow escapes.
The passengers escaped as best they
could when the stones began to fly, but
the conductor and motorman were
struck repeatedly. The latter drew u
revolver and fired three times into the
crowd. He then put on all speed and
ran his car out of the mob's reach..Geo.
Berg, Jr., striking conductor. was hit
i'll the leg by a bullet, which was eX-
tlacted. No arrests.
The men got OH Scovill avenue ear
No 224 at different crossings. When
Harry c. Clark, the conductor, was
taking up fares one of the men gave
him Il 10 cent piece. As Clark started
to make change he was struck OH the
head from behind by coupling pin in
the hands of another of the passengers
Several of the others then jumped Oh
him and pounded him into insensibility.
The others turned their attention to the
motorman, whose name is John Clark.
He was also hit ON the head and body.
He sunk to the floor in a semi -uncon-
scious condition. By this time the car,
running at high speed, had reached
Hackman street. Here the men all left
the car. \ block further ON Clark, the
motorman, recovered sufficiently to
shut off the current and bring the car
to stop. After a short wait it was
run back TO the barn. Both men We're
badly hurt.
\. w. Weigel, letter carrier, riding
on a Euclld avenue car, was struck full
i'll the face by stone. He was uncon-
scious and covered with blood when
help reached him.
At the corner of Central and Wilson
avenues crowd of 1000 persons OBJ
structed the passage of two cross-town
cars. Bricks and stones were thrown
and the windows Of the cars broken.
One of the non-union motormen, who
gave his name as Charles Jones of
Grand Rapids. was hit with brick and
so badly injured that it was necessary
to send him to a hospital.
Later car OH the South Side line
was attacked near the suburb of Brigh-
ton. The motorman and conductor
were chased into the woods by u mob
and they had not returned when it came
time to stop running cars. No arrests
were made in either case.
Four hundred employees of the Cleve-
land Foundry company struck because
the company refused to discharge man
who had ridden on Big Consolidated
car. The man was a foreman. When
it became known that he had ridden OH
a car the molders went to the officers of
the company and demanded his dis
charge. The officers refused to comply
with the demand and all the men walked
out of the works.