The age-herald., 1899-06-21
GAR WAS FURIOUSLY STONED
On Another Line Crew of Car Were
 Beaten InSenSible.
CAR RAN WITHOUT MoToRMAN
Until the Poor Fellow Finally Recover ed to Shut OfCurrent-Prosp Bright Last Night for
 Speedy Settlement

Cleveland, O., June 2O-While the pros- poets for a settlement of the strike of the street railway men are brighter tonight than they have been at any time since the trouble began, there has been more serious rioting today than at any previous time. The disturbance began early in the morn ing. continued throughout the day and to- night a big mob surrounds the Southside barns of the big consolidated company de- termined to get at the non-union men who are housed there.
 While the sympathizers of the strikers were hurling bricks and stone at the 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 company together, and it succeeded to the extent of getting both sides to submit propositions in writing. The strikers proposition 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 de- stroying property.
 Cars Were Stoned
 As has been the rule since the strike be- gan, the disturbances broke out about noon. A crowd boarded Wade Park avenue car near Lindus and Anndale avenues and beat the non-union motorman into insensibility. The conductor fled from his car. Another Wade Park avenue car was stoned and on the Euclide line was at tackled. Many women were on board and shrieked with terror as the stones crashed through the car windows. One woman tainted At the corner of Wilson avenue and Quincy street one man was shot and others had narrow escapes. The passengers escaped as best they could when the stones began to fly, but the conductor and motor man were struck repeatedly. The latter drew a revolver and fired three times into the crowd. He then put on all speed and ran his car out of the mob's reach
 George Berg, Jr., striking conductor, was hit in the leg by bullet, which was extracted No arrests were made
 Passengers Attack Crew
 The crew of Scoville avenue car No. PA was badly beaten by ten men. The car was on it's way down town. At Wilson avenue one man got on and at every cross ing thereafter one or two more men boarded the car, until there were ten passengers. When Harry Clark, the conductor, was taking up fares one of the men gave him a 50-cent piece. As Clark started to make change he was struck on the head from be- hind by a coupling pin in the hands of passenger. Several other men jumped upon him and pounded him into insensibiltty. The others turned their attention to the motorman, whose name is John Clark. He was also hit on the head and body. He sank to the floor unconscious. By this time the car, running at high speed, had reached Hackman street. Here the men all left the car. A block further on Clark. the motorman, recovered sufficiently to shut of the current and bring the car to a stop. Af- ter a short wait 1t was run back to the barn. Both men were badly hurt.
 A. Weigel, letter carrier, riding on Euclide avenue car, was struck full in the face by a stone He was unconscious and covered with blood when aid reached him.
 There were two incipient riots late this evening. At Central and Williams avenues a crowd of 1000 persons obstructed two cars and threw bricks and stones through Jones. was hit with a brick and badly in- iured. Later a car on the southside line was attacked near Brighton and the motor man and conductor were chased into the woods by a mob. No arrests were made in either case. A mob of 5,000 people this even- ing made a determined effort to get at the non-union men who are in the aolmden avenue barns. There were twenty police men at the barns but they were powerless Fences were torn down and the crowd hroke into the barn. In the meantime the non-union men had escaped and the rioters contended themselves with smashing few of the cars. By that time several wagon loads of police had arrived and the mob dis persed. At another place on the Southside switches were torn up and the track com pletely blocked.