The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-20


' by oefock t the crowd in this vicinity
finished their 81. cent wine dinners at the neigh.
Of h" occasion sal led f9rth TO take part II the
performance At first they .contented them:
TSSs H the rsck but " presently they became
more bold and began 70 throw sto29es Near ,n
cS mSTe msd tS E PS
street station and ten men from the detective
ITO hell with the scabs" shouted man in
HOT FGGHrING IN LOWER SECOND AVENUE.
The crowd started forward TO charge q car
mob fought too. and pressed IN 50 close that the
tnge. Thinking that they had the cops at a
dis.&dySntage. they began 70 yell ,m
TSs TIN the wsf r S9s auSsrry
charged the mob on the Hank and 0P Rs So IL
snG, weT. he crowds for il the mtee the
that the polite, , ESairolod. breaking up every
srHpE ~ os sE,II'i there was fight at Eighty
third street. The police fought the rioters
thore for ten minutes. and finally put them to
rsania station was hit in the left temple with
stone and was forced to retire from duty, The
| ambulance surgeon who was summoned SAID
TINT concussion Of the brain might ensue.
PASSENGERS HURT.
Although Inspector Harley and Inspector
Grant, with 100 reserves. were stationed at
prevent large crowd from gathering or act,
Of lawessness from being perpntrated. Al =
Just Opposite the police at that point when
the mob suddenly charged, upon the car
ssa!"d in i9e t car, with his Vic Sns
The Hr%T" by the rioters Se1 ask hin
several inches long His wife became hysteri-
cal and he was ,helped to a nelGhb9rinS drug
ambulance surgeon. lie was removed to his
home in a wagon, weak from loss of blood
E@Sg Fas S SIC was s moSS e at
street The motorman escaped injury. bYt
him, was hit in The stomach with 9, stone that
doubled hlm up Ike a IackEnife He soon re-
en t Of S TN M
in reach. One of the women passengers OF the
car was hit IN tho breast with 3, stone ard
Conductor Rowland was hit in the small OF the
hack and in The side with stone and ,,, wns os 80
whe the stabes were reaehed The @
dispersed the crowd after ten minutes Of
Another fight had occurred at seycnty;se
enth street and Second avenue at 10 oG'ock;
WIS onif one wMS r"eeman On s the earIdaliinger
Of the BROOKLYN force. He got of the car in
drew ri his r hopss woa
the crowd. but they only pressed tho closer.
howiing all the time at the conductor and the
front o.; the car and then shouted to the motor
man to follow; He warned the crowd that he
refused refuse to bulge. and as talIirSer was about
to carry his threat into execution a sInad Of
at Fighty-sXth street came up on a gallon and
dispersed the crowd
SPIKED THE SLOT
At $50 o'clock the police stationed at Ninety
seventh street wondered what gnng OF men
did not seem to be contemplating any violence.
but were Iust standing there. and accordingly
hammer on iron were heard and the police. be
the trolley slot. charged them and dispersed
,Enm S0thn .E seemed to have been accom- !,
WA VA" brought up with a bump. Then It was
seen that the strikers had driven a spike in
I'M 1t so %s G GSnf nnt IT 5o9
ears running again Meanwhile the rioters
stood Mt safe distance, and tainted the police,
At $40 o'clock word reached the police at
10th street and Second avenue. It was said
Two patrol wagons full Of poi scmen 70 ,thss
had been misplaced and that the car had
jumped from the track at the same time burn;
ns the as and tried to breat ThS
lice fought hard. and when the reinfo rcem ents
the G0wl ana Gu to Eh Three
men, who was said to be from Brooklyn. had
.n enileptic IT. The car was towed back into
At 900 o'clock by some means the strikers
s SIC II putting so large fagstope on
/, two pol iccmen. the mot orinan and the conduc-
tor OF III" first gar to be st"rred were unable
, IL" wrrrking wagon came TO their assistance
Will" the wreckinE crew was rigging small
again and Ieercd and shouted at them The
mounted police came M on n run and charge
into tho crowd. knocking many persons down
The Ston" delayed the running OF the cars FOL
half an hodr
, SHORT CIRCUITED THE CONDUIT.
About o O'Clock word was received at the
power house that at various points along thG
street many Of the ears were coming to a stop
For a while IT. puzzled The trolley people e
discovered that the strikers were short cir,
! cutting the conduit 10y dropping in the slot
Of wFr In sSh T"y that ii 1hfE wou
%%""si i, .r"@Ssso@s Of "S any snriossd 3
) presence 81 the short circuit until the car ar
rived at the point OF contact, and then Iona
nShcd out. Inside Of half an hour more thar
, 100 places We're short crcuited IN this manner
persons away from the slot After that the
trouble was not SO great
, little after y o'clo"k by big crowd The con
duetor was. struck by broken bottle Two
policemen from the car red away the crowd
Az seventy sixth street thu same car was
stoprad by stones on tho track A crowd clio sec
In on the car aud s'onr,i it. When ono of Tia,
pol lcemcn reached for his hip pocket there va;
l shout. Look out; he's going 20 shoot" anc
. the crowd scattered.
, At Go'ciork n man ran into the East Sixty
I seventh street police station md told tho Ser
8 geant that crowd was tampernG with the
t Second avenue slot at SXty-secund street De
: tcc,ivos Lang and Collins went there and fount
4 eight men commenting with self-satisfactioi
5 on their achievement in having choked thu
| northb1und slot with scrap iron. The detcc
tives changed the gleee Of three OF them t.
: Shorchach OF 324 West Fortv-seventh street
. Waiter Hicks Of 100 West Fifteth street an,
. Michael Maxwell ot 144G Lexington avenue a!
Z mOtOrmen.
POLICEMAN BADLY HURT
= Word reached Police Headquarters about
r o'clock that n crowd waa making things live
: along Second avenue, between Forty secoEt
p and Forty-hfth streets. throwing stones AM
placing distractions across the tracks. Wor
:. Tns sent TO tho Enst Thirty NTH and Eas
4 Fity-!lrSt street stations, AMI Capt Lantry
o with thirty mon. and SorgMnnt Tnnnnn. wit