The Owosso times., 1899-06-23
WHOLE DAY OF RIOT,
Closing with a Night Attack on
Street Car Barns, Reported
from Cleveland.
POLICE ARE NOT IN THE WAY.

Mob storms the Barns and smashes Some
Cars, but Fails to Get the Nom Union
Men 1t Was After-Other Outbreaks
Council Committee Trying to Secure q
Settlement.
Cleveland, June 21.-While the pros
poets for a settlement of the strike Of
the street railway men are brighter
than they have been at any time since
the trouble began, there was more seri-
Gus rioting yesterday than at any
previous time. The disturbances began
early in the morning, continued
throughout the day, and last night a
big mob surrounded the south side
barns of the Big Consolidated company.
determined to get at the non-union men
who were housed there. While the
strikers were hurting bricks and stones
at non-union motormen and conductors
a special committee Of the city council
was trying to get the representatives Of
the strikers and the officers of the COM
pany together.
Men Submit "A Proposition.
1t succeeded to the extent of inducing
the strikers to submit proposition in
writing and getting the consent of
President Everett. Of the Big Consol-
dated, to submit the same to the board
Of directors today. The strikers propo-
sition abandons the demand for the
recognition of the union, but asks that
all the old men be taken back save
those who may be convicted in court of
destroying property.
These Were Incipient Riots.
There were two incipient riots late
yesterday afternoon. At the corner of
Central and Wilson avenues a crowd of
1000 persons obstructed the passage of
two cross-to cars. Bricks and stones
were thrown and the windows of the
cars broken. One Of the non-union
motormen, who gave his name as Chas.
Jones, Of Grand Rapids, Mich, was hit
with a brick and so badly injured that
1t was necessary to send him to a hos
pital. Later a car on the south side line
was attacked near the suburb of Brigh-
ton. The motorman and conductor were
chased into the woods by a mob and
they had not returned when IT came
time to stop running cars. No arrests
were made in either case.
Attack on the south side Barns.
The strikers and sympathizers of the
south side nursed their wrath all day.
They made no attempt to interfere with
the running of cars on the Clark avenue
line so long as there was police protec-
tion, but last evening there was a de-
termined effort to get at the non-union
men taken to the Holmden avenue
barns to operate the cars from that end
of the line Soon after dark a mob of
5000 people assembled. There were
twenty policemen at the barns, but they
were powerless to handle the mob
Fences were torn down and the crowd
broke into the barns. In the meantime
the non-union men had escaped to the
attic and the rioters contented them
selves with smashing few of the cars.
BY that time several wagon-loads of
police had arrived and the mob was
dispersed. At another place on the
south side switches were torn up and
the track blockaded.
Newest Style Of sympathic.
Four hundred employees Of the Cleve-
land Foundry company struck late yes
terday afternoon because the company
refused to discharge a man who had
ridden on a Big Consolidated car. The
man was a foreman. When it became
known that he had ridden on a car the
molders went to the officers of the COM
pany and demanded his discharge. The
officers refused to comply with the de-
mand and all the men walked out Of the
works. This is the first strike In the
nature Of a symathy demonstration that
has taken place.