Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-20
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was to drag up the heavy iron covers
that cover the conduit manholes.
These were turned on and thrown in
to the holes, leaving about half of the
cover projecting and making a most
effective barrier. At 8 o'clock there
was a block at Eighty-eighth street.
Some one jammed the slot with wire,
and it was half an hour before the
cars could proceed.
A great many were injured all along
the line. Policeman OLSON, of the
Kingsbridge mounted squad was
thrown from his horse during a fight
near Ninety-fourth street. The horse
was struck on the head with a stone
and was SO frightened that it reared,
throwing its rider heavily. The po-
liceman's leg was broken and he re-
ceived internal injuries. A motorman
was struck on the chest with a brick
near the uptown car stable and SER
iously injured. Several of the pass
engers of one of the cars going up
town near Tenth street received nasty
scalp wounds from stones thrown by
the mob.
The Brooklyn police on duty along
Upper Second avenue declared that the
riot was infinitely worse than any that
had taken place in Brooklyn. The
crowds were so much greater anG
much more anxious for fight.
The rioting that took place in New
York this afternoon and tonight was
OF serious nature, infinitely fercei
than any that has taken place yet in
the borough across the river. Scores
Of people were injured, and severely
injured, in the Second avenue district.
Tonight that great thoroughfare was
crowded with a jeering, bowling mob
almost its entire length. The great
tenements gave forth their working
men residents who backed up the
strikers in many a fierce struggle
with the police and with the men were
many women and still greater num-
bers of children. They stoned every
car that passed over the tracks; they
hurled rocks and chunks of iron ana
vegetables of variety of nature from
the roofs OF the houses and from the
windows; they barricaded the streets
with paving stones, tore up the street
irons ,choked up the slot with wire
and spikes and blocked the thorough
fare. They had many a hand to hand
conflict with the six hundred patrol
men that had been placed along the
line.
or the injured the exact number
cannot be known. Several policemen
were removed to hospitals with broken
bones and torn scalDs. At least one
striker or strike sympathizer, had his
skull fractured, and boy had his skull
fractured. Innumerable passengers on
the cars received bad wounds
and it was impossible for passengers
On Second avenue to go much above
Fourteenth street
1t was the hope of the strikers to
make deep impression by their success
III Second avenue and so far as rioting
was concerned they and their sympa-
thizers made 1t.
On the other lines throughout New
York the strike was not at any time
prominent during the day..
Tonight, however, the motormen ON
the Eighth avenue line to the number OF
100 or more, organized and declared a
strike. They thereupon set about to
persuade their fellow-workmen to leave
their cars and with sufficient success tc
have cars running on only hourly
schedule before midnight.
Tomorrow, they declare, Eighth av-
enue will also be tied up. The officials
Of the Sixth avenue line made the state
ment tonight that the cars on this av-
enue were moving about the same as
ever