The San Francisco call., 1899-07-20

ond avenue. The excitement in Brooklyn
centered in the vicinity of Thirty sixth
and Fifth avenue, where dynamite was
used this morning in an attempt to blow
down the elevated structure.
The riOting that took place in New York
this afternoon and tonight was Of ser
ious nature, infinitely flercer than what
has taken place in the borough across the
river. Scores Of people were severely IN
jured in the Second avenue district. To-
night that great thoroughfare was crowd
ed with a jeerins, bowling mob, almost It's
entire length.
The great tenements gave forth their
workingmen residents, who backed up the
strikers in many a fierce struggle with
the police, and with the men were many
women and still greater numbers OF chill
dren. They stoned every car that passed
over the tracks. They hurled rocks and
chunks Of iron and vegetables from the
roofs Of houses and from the windows;
they barrlcaded the street with paving
stones. tore up the street irons, choked
up the slot with wire and spiked and
blocked the thOrOughfare; they had many
a hand-tO-hand conflict with the 600 pa
trolmen that had been placed along the
line.
Of the injured the exact number cannot
be known. Several policemen were remoy-
ed to hospitals with broken bones and
torn scalps. At least one striker, or strike
sympathizer, had his skull fractured and
boy had his skull fractured. Innumer-
a BILE passengers on the cars received bad
gers on Second avenue to go much above
Fourteenth street. The cars that ran the
gauntlet had many windows broken and
were badly battered.
II was the hope OF the strikers to make
a deep impression by their success on
Second avenue, and 50 far as rloung was
concerned, they and their sympathlzerS
on the other lines throughout New
York the strike was not at any time
prominent throughout the day. Tonight.
however, the mOtormen on the Eighth
avenue line to the number of 100 or more
organized and declared strike. They
thereupon set about to persuade their fell
low Workrnen to leave their cars and with
sufficient success to have running on only
an hourly schedule before midnight.
Tomorrow they declare Eighth avenue
will also be tied up The officials OF the
Sixth avenue line made the statement to-
night that the cars on this avenue were
moving the same as usual
Madison, Lexington and Fourth avenues
were but little affected to-day, but more
is promised Tomorrow. In the borough
of Brooklyn the strikers made some gains
so far as the diminishing of trolley car
traffic was concerned; fewer cars were
running on the lines. But the dynamite
outrage in the early morning hours was
undoubtedly a severe setback to the Str1k-
ers The police in connection with the
blowing down Of the two elevated col
umns, moved rapidly and made more than
a score of arrests, sixteen of the men be-
ing held by the courts. The strikers deny
any knowledge OF the dynamiting, and
General Master Workman Parsons has
offered a reward of 500 if it can be proven
that a striker is responsible for 1t. Presi-
dent Rosster of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company has offered a reward of
$1,000 for the conviction of the perpetra-
tors.
Several thousand policemen are tonight
guarding the power house and the plant of
the companies involved in the strike. The
police arrangements to take care of riot
ers have been excellent so far, but the
surging mobs on Second avenue tonight
were TOO much for them. More than a
hundred arrests were made and probably
as great a number of persons as that
were injured by the free use of the night
stick, but even Chief Devery believes, to-
pether with his inspectors, that more
forcibIe measures than that will have to
be adopted. New York has not seen such
rioting in many day.
General Master Workman Parsons an
nounced tonight, that he viii to-m9rrow TOW
Tetaries of all the labor unions in Greater
New York TO meet Friday night in the
Grand Central Palace to take some action
10 sustain the street car men in their pres
eut fight.