The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-07-28
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Sunday in Cleveland Is Marked
BY Exciting Events.
Turbulent Actions Of strikers and
Their synpathixers Culminate in
blowing Up = street Cnr-sIx
Passengers Badly Hurt.
! Cleveland, O., July a. "A Euclid ave
nue. car, loaded with passengers, was
wrecked by an explosion. of nitro
glycerin or gun cotton shortly before
II o'clock Sunday night. Six persons
We're badly hurt. The victims are:
Mrs. E. G. Martin, 70 Alanson street
compound fracture of the skull, right arm
broken and Internal injuries which may
prove fatal. -
E. c.. Martin, right arm badly cut and
bruised about legs and body. ,...
Mrs. Catharine Harris, rs Cornell street
suffering from nervous sprostration.
II. "A. Smith, So Vienna street, injured
about legs and body. z,.,1 NIX.
injured. ~. - -.
Dora schessler, II Oakdale street, bruised
about the body: - -
Mrs. Martin will probably die. She
suffered a compound fracture of the
skull, had one arm broken and was 9th
erwise injured. She was with her hus-
band, who was also badly hurt. Three
or four other persons, in addition to
those whose names are given above,
were hurt, but notseriously.. - Z
The explosion tore out the front
end of the car, smashed all the
windows and destroyed the brake.
After considerable 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 con-
ductor, Frank Schroeder, of St. Louis,
escaped injury. The force of the ex-
plosion was so great that it shook all
the houses in the neighborhood and
was heard for distance of two or three
miles. There is no clew to the identity
of the person who placed the explosive
on the track. Persons living in the
nelghborhood say they saw a man in
buggy stop at the corner of Kensing-
ton street, where the explosion oc-
CURED, and get out by the railroad
track. He remained there short time
and then drove rapidly away.
The police are now out searching for
the buggy in which the dynamiter is
supposed to have ridden, and all sta
lions have been notified to be on the
lookout for it. -;
An Exciting Sabbath.
The rioting,s which continued
throughout Saturday night, was re-
newed Sunday, and there were several
serious outbreaks of violence, but no
clashes between the. mobs and the
troops. Cars we're started running as
usual in the morning on all but one or
two lines. The mobs were astir early.
Soon after ten o'clock thousand or
more persons gathered on Burton
street, on the South side, and proceeded
to obstruct the track. When car came
along with two policemen on board, it
was attacked with a shower of stones.
In spite of the policemen the nonunion
motorman and conductor were roughly
handled. One of them, named McDer-
mott, had two ribs broken, and the 9th
er was badly bruised. One of the DO
hcemen fired at the mob, the bullet
striking a man named Wennick. The
mob assaulted the officers, both of
whom were struck repeatedly with
stones, and but for the Intervention of
a priest of the Catholic church near at
hand the officers might have been
| lynched. By this time the cars had
been mixed up in the melee, and a pa
troll wagon load of police arriving, the
rioters dispersed, and the cars were
taken back to the barns.
There was d serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of
Petrie street, where mob of 5000 as
sembled in the forenoon and obstructed
the track. Finally car came along
from the Wilson avenue barns, having
on board Sergt, Burrows and private of
militia and Detective Kelso. The officer
ordered the mob to dispense, when the
motorman attempted to remove the OBJ
struction from the track, but the riot
ers showed fight. Then Sergt. Burrows
and the one soldier, with fixed bayonets.
faced the mob and attempted to clear
the way. There was a sharp fight for a
few minutes, during which a perfect
shower of stones fell about the detec-
tive and the soldier, smashing the car
windows. No one was seriously hurt,
and after arresting two of the rioters
and placing them on the car it was re-
turned to the barns. The police after
ward charged the mob, making several
arrests. The military on guard at the
Holmden avenue barns on the South
side were annoyed during the greater
part of the day by a jeering mob, and Is
sistance of the police.
| Woman Shot.
In the vicinity of the Holmden avenue
barns Sunday night there was con-
tinuous rioting for three or four hours.
Every car that passed was attacked
with stones and several pistol shots
were fired at them. There was lively
fusillade at one time, the nonunion
crews returning the fire. The only per-
son hurt was woman who was shot in
the finger as she stood in her doorway
The police made 25 arrests in that
neighborhood. Rioting continued all
along Broadway at night, and it took
three squads of police as many hours
to escort three cars distance of four
miles to the barns. Fifteen or 20 of the
rioters were taken into custody.
Two Lives Lost.