The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-07-29
RIoTINe STRIKERS
SERIOUS OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENCE
AT CLEVELAND.
Car Loaded with Passengers I,
Wrecked by an Explosion OF
Nitro Glycerine and Four Person.
Badly Injured-sticks and stones
Are Freely Used by Strikers Who
In Large M0bs Attack Cars in
Various Parts of the Cttx-police
Have Their Hands Full-Many Ar
rests Are Made.

cleveland, OnlO, July 25.-The riot
ing which continued throughout Sat-
urday night was renewed yesterday
and there were several serious out
breaks of violence, but no clashes be-
tween the mobs and the troops. Cars
were started running as usual in the
morning on all but one or two lines.
The mobs were astir early. Soon after
10 O'Clock q. thousand or more persons
gathered on Burton street on the South
side and proceeded to obstruct the
track. When q car came along with
two policeman on board it was at
tackled with a shower Of stones. In
spite of the policemen the non-union
motorman and conductor were rough
~ 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 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 a
serious disturbance on the Broadway
line at the corner Of Petrie street.
where a mob Of 5000 assembled in the
forenoon and INSTRUCTED the track.
Finally a a came along from the Will
son avenue barn, having on board
Sergt. Burrows and a private of
militia and Detective Kelso. The Of
fcer ordered the men to dispense when
the motorman attempted to remove
the obstruction from the track, but the
rioters showed fight. Then Sergt.
Burrows and the n soldier, with
fixed bayonets, faced the mob and at
tempted to clear the way. There was
a sharp fight for a few minutes, dur
ing which a perfect shower Of stones
fell about the detective and soldiers,
smashing the car windows. No one
was seriously hurt, and after arresting
two Of the rioters and placing them on
the car it was returned to the barn.
The police afterwad charged the mob,
making several arrests.
In the afternoon a mob of 1000 con-
ceived the idea of blocking the track
Oh Exchange street by placing a big
ONsuAOSA III IAC lStui " lAO SIAONS
and building q fire around it. The plan
layed for nearly an hour when the po-
lice drove the mob away, put out the
fire and gave the street railway men a
chance to move the stone. Three men
were sent to the hospital with wounds
made by policemens' clubs at the end
of this riot. AS the result Of the shoot
ing of a driver Of a grocery delivery
wagon in South Brooklyn by n non
union conductor the mayor of that
place issued an order to the marshal to
arrest all non-union men who carried
weapons. Cars were stopped and each
conductor found with a revolver was
arrested. They We're subsequently
bailed out by the company. A small
riot was started ut the corner of Pearl
street and Franklin avenue, when a
young woman who struck a man who
asked her to b..ard a nOn-union con-
ductor. A ":s.cwd Of strike sympa-
thizers stoned the cars and a squad of
police finally cleared the street. The
company sent n note to the state board
of arbitration declining to arbitrate the
differences. A Euclid avenue a
loaded with passengers was wrecked
by IN explosion of nitro-glycerlne or
gun cotton shortly before II o'clock
last night. -Four persons were badly
hurt. The explosion tore out the front
end of the car, smashed all the win
adows and destroyed the brake. After
considerable difficulty the car was
stopped and a call for ambulances was
sent out. The motorman. William
Dragyers, who came from Cinsinnat1,
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 q distance of two or
three miles.