The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-28
RO||M N CLEVELAND
First Fatal Conflict of
the Strike,
MAKING USB OF DYNAMITE

throughout Sunday and Yesterday.
A Man Pursued and Fatally Shot by
Car Conduetor-The Tracks Block.
AIDED.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 23.-The riot
ing, which continued throughout last
night, was renewed today, and there
were several serious outbreaks, but
no important fights between the mob
and the troops. The cars were running
as usual. The mobs were astir early.
Soon after 1 o'clock a thousand or
more persons gathered on Burton
street on the south side to obstruct the
track. When a car came along with
two policemen on board it was attack
ed with a shower of stones. In spite of
the policemen h non-union motorman
and conductor were roughly handled.
One Of the policemen fired at the mob,
striking a man named Wentock. The
mob assaulted the officers, and but for
the intervention Of a priest the Off
GERS might have been lynched. BY this
time three cars had been mixed UP in
the melee and a patrol LOAF of police
arriving, the rioters dispersed and the
cars We're taken back to the barns.
There was a serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of
Peter street, where a mob Of a thou
sand assembled in the forenoon and
DISTRACTED the tracks. Finally a car
came along from the Wilson avenue
barns, having on board Sergeant Bur-
rows and q nriUato of militia ind no
tectlve kelsO. The officer ordered the
mob to disperse, but the rioters showed
fight. Sergeant Burrows and the one
soldier attempted to clear the way.
There was a sharp fight for q few min
utes, during which a perfect shower of
stones fell about the detective and the
soldier, smashing the car windows. No
one was seriously hurt.
A Euclid avenue car, loaded with
passengers, was wrecked by an ex-
plosion of nitro-glycerine or gun cot
ton, shortly before IL O'Clock tonight.
Four persons were badly hurt.
Cleveland, Ohio, July PA repeti-
ton of the wrecking of a Euclid car
was this evening attempted by strikers
or their sympathizers, in Brooklyn, a
suburb of Cleveland. An explosion took
place under the car, but failed to in
jure it materially. There were no pas
sengers aboard and the conductor and
motorman escaped unframed.
The day has failed to bring any re-
lief to the strike situation which is re-
garded as serious.
The state board of arbitration has
! practically abandoned their efforts to
cOnciliate the strikers and former en-
ployers. The resentment of the con-
ductors and motormen who quit work
and the more turbulent spirit of their
sympathizers is held in check to a de-
OrrQa hyy tho nrocQnnQ of tho nn1ino m
the militia, members of which ride in
the cars or are held in readiness at the
barns and terminals.
Small riots occurred during the day,
but, with one exception, they were
without serious results. In the death
of Henry Cornweits slain by a bullet
fired by Ralph P. Hawley, a conductor
on the Broadway line, is recorded the
first fatality Of the strike.
Shortly after noon Hawley's car APP
preached Orange street and was beset
by a crowd of men and boys. Cornweit,
the ~19-year-old son of a butcher, was
riding a horse and kept to the side of
the car, keeping pace with it for some
distance.
Various stories are told as to what
passed between the and the
boy, but the mob was suddenly called
to it's senses by the sight of Hawley,
who jumped to the street and started
in pursuit of Cornweit. The latter,
! closely ollowed by his pursuer, turn
/ ed up Perry street. At Woodland We
nue., the latter pulled his revolver and
fired. His victim fell fatally wounded
n died soon after being removed to
| the hospital.
The crowd which, before the Incl
dent, had been s. violent, was awed by
the seriousness of the affair, and per-
limited the conductor to walk back to
his car. He was arrested and taken to
the station where a charge of murder
was entered against him.. When the
car returned in charge of another man
and aden with police, thousands Of
people were crowded around the spot
! where the shooting occurred. The
track was blockaded and the stalled
cars bombarded with stones, pieces Of
| brick and sticks of wood. The police
managed, by using their clubs, to clear
the way after a delay Of about half an
hour.
The police believe they have a clew
to the man who placed nitro-glycerine
on the track, which last night blew up
| q Euclid avenue car n injured four
| passengers. Matthew Robinson, who
| was seen at 2 o'clock this morning,
driving a horse and buggy said to re-
! semble one in which the mysterious
wrecker rode, has been arrested. He
| ANAAA ~ 1oaiAA ~ 1Not @N
| less, n says he intended to deliver it
TO Charles SteimetZ, a liveryman by
whom Robinson is employed Mr.. Stei-
metz informed the officers that he
| rented the outfit last night to a man
| whom he identifies as having a dark
| mouStache.
With the exception Of the Mayfield
suburban, all the lines Of the Big Con-
| solidated have been in operation to-
| day, although their movements were
! necessarily hampered somewhat
R1oting broke out here afresh to-
| night and a second attempt to wreck
( a car was made. A Pearl street car,
! speeding south near Holmden avenue,
| carrying beside the motorman and
conductor, a guard, successfully ran
a gauntlet of missiles thrown from the
roofs Of houses, only to run n a can
| Of nitro-glycerine, which exploded with
| terrific force. The rear platform was
thrown off and the flooring wrenched
from its ~fastenings. The crew was not
injured, but emerged from the shat
tered ruin with their pistols drawn
and began firsing at what they thought
were a couple of men crouching as II
to hide themselves behind a small bill