Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24
STREET CAR STRIKERS BECOMING
ALARMINGLY UGLY.
MANY PERSONS INJURED
New York Trolley Men Join in the Big
Strike-Second Avenue Is the Scene
of Most of the Rioting-Cars
Wrecked With Bricks-CleVeland
Strike Still On.

trolley men joined the Brooklyn troll
ley men yesterday In the big strike.
The center of operations in ANEW York
city was Second avenue and in Brook
Ign they centered in the vicinity
of Thirty-sixth street and Fifth
avenue, where early Wednesday
morning dynamite was used in an at
tempt to blow UP the elevated struc-
ture.
The rioting that took place in New
York last night was of a serious nature
and infinitely f1ercer than any that has
taken place yet in the borough across
the river Scores of people were Sc
verely injured in the Second avenue
district. Last night that great thor
oughfare was crowded with jeering
mob, almost it's entire length. Of the
injured the exact number cannot be
known. Several policemen received
broken bones and torn scalps.
Riots on Second Avenue.
New York, July 20.-f the strikers
wanted to make plenty Of work for the
police and at the same time get into
street where they could depend on pop
ular sympathy, they made a wise sedec-
ton in taking the Second avenue line
for the principal fight of the strike.
Several hours Wednesday afternoon
the police we're called upon to quell
riots in Second avenue, but none were
serious. The real trouble did not begin
until the working people who live
along Second avenue came home last
evening. By 7 o'clock Second avenue
from Tenth street to the stables at
Ninety-seventh and even as far as
10th street was filed and on both
walks with dense mass of people
eager for trouble. The police seemed
unable to cope with the mob. They
used their clubs with all their power
and the only result was to increase
the anger of the crowd so
that little discrimination was shown
between the police and carmen when
bricks were thrown. About o'clock
great crowd gathered between Forty
second and Forty-flfth streets and at
tempted to overthrow the cars that
came along 80 minutes apart. Police
man Owen Conovan, who was on
car bound south, was hit on the head
with brick and knocked off his seat
to the pavement. His left eye was al
most knocked out. He was taken to
Flower hospital. Then a sergeant and
40 reserves were gotten out on the
double quick and dispersed the crowd,
making a number of arrests. Another
crowd got together in a minute or two
at Fifty-fifth street and Second avenue
and when a car bound down came
along it met a powerful shower OF
bricks, stones, and other missiles,
thrown from the street and windows OF
flats and from roofs. The cars coming
into the stables from down town
looked as if they had run terrible
gauntlet; their windows were broken
and their sides denied in. More than
one motorman left his post with the
statement that he had all he wanted.
A favOrite diversion for the mob was
to drag up the heavy iron pieces that
-
end leaving half of the cover project
ing and making an effective barrier.
At 8 o'clock there was blockage at
Eighty eighth street and it was half
an hour before the cars could be run.
Many men were injured all along the
line Policeman Olson of the Kings
bridge mounted squad was thrown
from his horse during the fight near
Ninety-fourth street. The horse was
struck on the head with stone and
became so frightened that it reared,
throwing it's rider heavily. The police
mans leg was broken and he received
>nueral other injuries. Several motor
men were hit with bricks near the up
town stables and seriously injured. A
passenger on car near Tenth street
received a bad scalp wound from
stone thrown by the mob. The Brook
Ign police on duty along the upper por-
ton of Second avenue declared the riot
infinitely worse than any that have