The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-24
THEY BLEW UP A STREET CAR.
CLEVELAND STRIKERS WRECK
PROPERTY AND INJURE FIVE.

Several Serious Outbreaks of Vio-
lencc During the Day-TrOops Not
Called Out, But Police Had IA Busy
Time-POliceman shot Striker
end Officers Would Have Been
Lynched Bat for PrieSt-Obstruc-
tiOns on the Tracks.
Cleveland o.. July 2S.-The rioting,
which continued throughout last night.
was renewed to-day, and there were sew
eral serious outbreaks of violence, but no
clashes between the mobs and the troops.
Cars were started running as usual this
| morning on all but one or two lines. The
mobs were asir cary. Soon after 10
o'clock a thousand or more persons gath
cred on Burton street on the South Side.
| to obstruct the track When a car came
along with two policemen on board it
was attacked with a shower of stones. In
| spite of the policemen, the non-union mo-
torman and conductor were roughly hand
| led.
One of the policemen fired at the mob,
! striking a man named Wennick The mob
assaulted the officers and but for the in
| terventon of a priest, the officers might
have been lynched BY this time three
cars had been mixed up in the melee and
a patrol wagonload of police arriving the
rioters dispersed and the cars were taken
back to the barns.
Serious Disturbance.
| There was a serious disturbance on the
| Broadway line, at the corner of Petrie
street, where mob of 5000 assembled in
the forenoon and obstructed the track
Finally a car came along from the Wilson
avenue barns, having on board Sergt
Burrows, a private of militia and Detec-
live Kelse. The officer ordered the mob
| TO disperse, but III rioters showed fight
| Sergt Burrows and the one soldier at
| tempted to Gear the way. There was a
sharp fight for a few minutes, during
which a perfect shower of stones fell
about the detective and the soldier, smash
ing the car windows No one was serious
iy hurt.
In the afternoon mob of 1,O00 blocked
| the track on Orange street by placing a
! big boulder in the middle of the street
and building a fire around it. Cars were
delayed for nearly an hour, when the po-
lice drove the mob away. Three men were
wounded by policemen in this riot. The
company to-day sent a note TO the state
board of arbitration, declining to arbitrate
the differences.
Blow Up n Car.
A Euclid avenue car, loaded with pas
sengers, was wrecked by explosion Of
nitro-glycerne or gun cotton shortly be-
fore II o'clock tonight. -Four persons
were badly hurt, the names of the injured
being:
Mrs e. c. 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 ana
bruised about legs and body.
Mrs Catherine Harris, % Cornell street
suffering from nervous prostration.
F. A. Smith, So Vienna street, injured
about legs and body.
Albert E. Fassett, 12 Wallace place, legs
injured.
Dora Schessler, Il Oakdale street, bruis-
ed about the body.
The explosion tore out the front end of
the car. smashed all the windows and de-
stroyed the brake. After considerable
difficulty the car was stopped and call
for ambulances was sent out The mo-
torman William Draggers, who came
from Cincinnati, was dazed by the shock,
but the conductor, Frank Schroeder of
St. Louis escaped injury.
The force of the explosion was so great
that it shook oil the houses in the neigh
borhood and was heard for a distance Of
identity of the person who placed the ex-
plosive upon the track. Persons living in
the neighborhood say they saw a man in
a buggy stop at the corner where the ex-
plosion occurred and get out by the rail-
road track He remained there a short
time and then drove rapidly away.
Within few minutes after the explosion
a crowd of a thousand peope assembled
and tie injured, who were suffering from
the shock, were carei for until the ambu-
fapces arrived. Mrs Martin tainted before
she was taken from the car. All were
taken 10 their homes in ambulances. The
motorman on the car mana ged to get out
If The Vcstlbue and then fell TO the street
but he quickly recovered and helped 10 ex-
tricate the passengers from the wreck.
There seems 10 bc no doubt now that
Mayor Farley VIII call out the three or
four available military companies in this
city, in addition to those already under
arms The ca1 win Include the battery Of
artillery. and the Governor may be re-
quested TO send other troops to the city.
In the vicinity of the Holmden avenue
barns tonight there was continuous riot
ing for three or four hours. Every car
that passed was attacked with stones and
several pistol shots were fired at them.
There was a lively fusilade at one time
the non-union crew returning the fire The
only person hurt was a woman. who was
shot IN the finger as she stood in her door
way. The police made twenty-five arrests
in that neighborhood,
Riotng continued all along Broadway
tonight, and it took three squads Of po-
lice as many hours 10 escort three cars
distance of four miles to the barns
Fifteen or twenty Of the rioters were
taken into custody.