Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-23
SOME BLOOD IS SHED.
Cleveland Mob Tackles a Deter
mined Motormau.
BE FIRES UPON HIS PROSECUTORS.
"A Striker Shot In the Lcs-Othcr
Riotous Scenes Enacted During
the Dny-A Fair Prospect
of settlement.

the Dny-A Fair Prospect
of settlement.
Cleveland, o., June FL. = Cars were
running during the day on all lines
opened by the street car company since
the strike. Trouble was looked for on
the South side and strong force fpo-
lice was on hand to preserve order. No
crowds were allowed to gather.
AT one o'clock in the afternoon the
special committee of the city council
appointed to try to settle the street car
strike met the representatives of the
strikers and the company face to face.
The members hope to open the way for
the settlement of the trouble
Both sides were represented by attor-
neys and they were requested by the
committee to state their respective po-
sitions in writing Pending prepare
taken.
As has been the rule since the strike
began riotous disturbances broke out
Tuesday about noon. A crowd boarded
a Wade Park avenue car near Indus
and Anndale avenues, and beat the non
union motorman into insensibility. The
conductor deserted his car and fed.
Another Wade Park avenue car was
stoned and one on the Euclid avenue
line was attacked. 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 es-
capped as best they could when the
stones began to fly. but the conductor
and motorman were struck repeatedly
The latter drew 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 conduc-
tor, was hit in the leg by a bullet, which
was extracted.
Other Outbreaks.
There were two incipient riots late
in the afternoon. AT the corner of Cen
trail and Wilson avenues a crowd of
1900 persons INSTRUCTED the passage of
two crosstown cars. Bricks and stones
were thrown and the windows of the
cars broken. One of the nonunion mo-
tormen, who gave his name as Charles
Jones, of Grand Rapids, Mich, was hit
with brick and so badly injured that
it was necessary to send him to hos
pital. Later a car on the South side
line was attacked near the suburb of
Brighton. The motorman and con-
ductor were chased into the woods by
a mob and they had not returned when
it came time to stop running cars. No
arrests were made in either case.
After the Nonunion Men.
The people of the South side nursed
their wrath all day. They made no at
tempt to interfere with the running of
cars on the Clark avenue line so long as
there was police protection, but in the
evening there was determined effort
to get at the nonunion men who were
taken into the Holmden avenue barns
to operate the cars from that end of the
line. Soon after dark mob OF 5000
people assembled. There were 20 po-
Hoemen at the barns, but they were
powerless to handle the mob. Fences
were torn down and the crowd broke
into the barns. In the meantime the
nonunion men had escaped to the attic
and the rioters contented themselves
with smashing few of the cars. BY
that time several wagon loads of police
had arrived and the mob was dispersed
at another place on the South side
switches were torn up and the track
blockaded.
Men Make a Concession,
The disturbances continued through
out the day. and at night a big mob
surrounded the South side barns of the
Big Consolidated company, determined
to get at the nonunion men who are
housed there. While the sympathizers
OF the strikers We're hurting bricks and
stones at nonunion motormen and con-
ductors special committee of the city
council was trying to get the repre-
sentatives of the strikers and the Off
GERS of the company together, and it
succeeded to the extent of inducing the
strikers to submit proposition in
writing and getting the consent of
President Everett, of the Big Consoli-
dated, to submit the same to the board
OF directors in the morning. The strik-
ers' proposition abandons the demand
for the recognition of the union. but
asks that all the old men be taken bacl,
save those who may be convicted in
court of destroying property. The mem
bers of the council committee believe
settlement is in sight.
Another Strike.
-Four hundred employees of the Cleve-
land Foundry company struck late
Tuesday afternoon because the com
pany refused to discharge man who
had ridden OH a Big Consolidated car.
The man was foreman. When it be-
came known that he had ridden on a car
the molders went to the officers of the
company and demanded his discharge.
The officers refused to comply with the
demand, and all the men walked out of
the works. This is the first strike in
the nature of a sympathetic demon
stration that has taken place.
Dan CoushIan Indicted.
Chicago, June 21.-Tuesday night the
grand jury voted indictments against
Daniel Coughlin and William Arm
strong. Coughlin was indicted on the
charge of offering "A bride to Juror John
T. Taylor. He was also indicted with
William Armstrong. his bartender. on
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