The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-25
STREET CAR BLOWN UP
Riotous Scenes Mark the
Cleveland Strike.
SIX BADLY HURT; ONE FATALLY.
Two PoIicemes, One OF Whom Had Shot
a Woman, Saved From Probable Lynch
ing by n Priest - Cars Blocked and
Stoned-Troops on Duty.

CLEVELAND, July 2I.-A Euclid ave.
nue. car, loaded with passengers, was
wrecked by an explosion of nitrogly-
cerine or gun cotton.
The injured were:
Mira. E. g. Martin, 10 Alanson street,
compound fracture of skull, right arm
broken and internal injuries. Likely to die.
r. A. Smith, both legs broken.
E. q. Martin, right arm badly cut and
bruised about legs and body.
Mrs. Catharine Harris, 25 Cornell street,
suffering from nervous prostration.
Albert Il. Fassett, IL Wallace place,
legs injured.
Dora scbessler, IL Oakdale street,
bruised aBoutSthe 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 Qt ST -LLQgis, escaped injury
] The force OF the explosion was sc
great that it shook all the houses in the
nelghborhood and was heard for dis
tance eff two or three miles. There Is
no clue to the identity of the person
who placed the explosive on the track
Persons living in the neighborhood say
they saw d Nan in buggy stoph at the
corner of Kensington street, where the
explosion occurred, and get out by the
railroad track. He remained there q
short time and then drove rapidly away.
| CLEVELAND, July 24.-The riotin g
was renewed in this city and there were
several seri0as outbreaks Of violence,
but no clashes between the mobs and
| the troops.
Cars were started running as usual
on all but one or two linesS 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 q 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 were 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 man named
Wennick. The mob assaulted the Of
ticers, both OF whom were struck re-
| peatedly with stones, and but for the
intervention OF priest of the Catholio
| 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 q serious disturbance On
the Broadway line at the corner of
Petrie street, where q mob of 5000 as.
sembled and obstructed the track. Fin
ally car came along from the Wilson
avenue barns, having on board Sergeant
| Burrows and private of militia and
| Detective Kelso. The officer ordered
the mob to disperse 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 q sharp fight for a
| few minutes, during which a perfect
shower of stones fell about the detective
and the soldiers, smashing the car
windows.
No one was seriously hurt, and after
arresting two of the rioters and placing
them on the Cur 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 u jeering mob, and 10
arrests We're made there with the assist
ance OF the police.
| A mob oil 1000 conceived the idea of
blocking the track on Orange street by
| placing big boulder in the middle of
Che street and building u fire around it.
| The plan worked successfully, and cars
| were delayed Tor nearly au hour, when
| tue police drove the mob away, put the
| tire out and gave the street railway men
| u chance to move the stone. Three men
| were sent TO the hospital with wounds
made by potlcemen's clubs at the end of
this riot.
| AS result of the shooting of the
| driver OF grocery wagon III South
| Brooklyn Saturday afternoon by nom
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
subsequently bailed out by the COM
pany.
A small riot was started at the corner
| OF Pearl street and Franklin avenue,
when II young woman struck q man
who asked her to board u non-uniOn car.
| A crowd of union sympathlzers stoned
cars and squad of police finally cleared
| the street.
The company sent a note to the state
board of arbitration declining to arbi.
| trate the differences, in which it says
"This company fully appreciating the
| sincerity of your desire to bring about q
readjustment with It's former employees,
| begs to say that the men who went out
| on Monday last are not in the employ of
| the company, and there is nothing to