New-York tribune., 1899-07-20
A DAY OF RIOTING.
SECOND-AvE. THE SCENE OF MUCH
VIOLENCE.
POLICE CHARGE MoBs AGAIN IND AGAIN
MANY SLIGHT INJURIES ON BOTH
sIDEs-cARs ARE STOPPED
AT NIGHT.


sIDEs-CARs ARE STOPPED
AT NIGHT
From early morning till late at night Second.
ave. rang with shouts, screams and curses. with
the noise OF missiles breaking windows. and
the unpleasant sound OF police clubs striking
the heads limbs of rioters Nearly all the
violence Of the strike confined TO this thor
oughfare and II got more than its fair share Of
excitement
IT bad enough in the day time, but when
night settled down and thousands OF men who
had been at work since morning filled the
streets looking for trouble and something to
throw at the non-strikers. the panorama from
Astor Place TO the Harlem River was a fierce
one.
In several instances policemen were severely
hurt. In others they were unable to hold rioters
when they had caught them though many ar
rests We're male. Revolvers were drawn fire.
quently and threats TO shoot were uttered but
up to early hour this morning no report was
received OF shot beins actually fired. Cars
ceased being sent out a. 1920 o'clock.
About o'clock citizen. greatly excited. ran
into the East Sxty-seventh-st. police station
and told Captain Donahue that the strikers In
Second-ave were trying to blow up the road.
He said he saw them drop what looked like a
gaspipe dynamite bomb into the slot between
Sxty-seventh and Sixty-eighth SITS.
Captain Donahue a. once sent Detectives Lang
and Collins and several patrolmen out with or
ders TO arrest every one IN sight. They FOUND
seven or eigh. motormen in uniform walking
along the avenue and they commanded them TO
halt Three OF the mer we're placed under ar
rest and taken to the station. They gave their
names and addresses at John shorback. Of No.
| Wait ~
No. 100 West Fiftieth-st and Michael Maxwell.
of No 14S6 Lexington-ave.
All admitted that they strikers. but de-
MED all knowledge of the outrage complained ~.
! They were locked up however. and charged
with violating Section go # the Penal Code.
, This provides for a long term OF imprisonment
! for any person who Injuries property In strike.
! The citizen making the complaint left the sta
/ tion at once. and his name is not known The
! police and some of the railroad inspectors
| dragged the conduit for the supposed bomb
| and were unable to find II.
| Captain Donahue then sent out twenty men
in plain clothes, one to each block, to watch the
J slot and with orders to arrest anybody found
! in the middle OF the street. Sergeant Lane ana
| sixteen men from the West Side Court were held
| in the East Sixty-seventh-st. police station IN
reserve Thirty two men were held in reserve
in the Central Park station.
STRIKERS GOOD CHOICE.
II the strikers wanted to make plenty Of work
for the polic. and at the same time get into
district where they could depend on popular
! sympathy they made wise selection In taking
the Second ave line for the principal fight OF
J tho strike
Several times In the afternoon the police were
called on TO auell riots in Second-ave. but none
were of serious consequence. But the real trouols
! did not begin until the hundreds OF thousands
y, working people who live along that great
thoroughfare began to come home from work
The avenue is lined on both sides with great
| double tenement houses and these are filled 10
the roof with men, women and chdren-the lat
ter in great numbers.
As man after man got home and had his
| sumner he took his place either on the roof or
| down in the street When the women had nm
lshed their work they Joined the men, ana the
| children in hundreds also got ready TOT ne
fun" as they expressed 1t. BY o'clock sec
ond-aye from Tenth-st. to the stables at Nine-
ty-sixtb-st and even as far as One-hundred-
andtenth-st. was filed almost from curb 10
curb and on both walks with dense mass oi
people all eager for trouble
cantain Donahue. of the East Fifty-frst-st.
|
squad Of men to keep people from the middle OF
the street so that no tampering with the siot
,,iebt occur But his men were like so many
| ohin. In the North River when the tde ~
strore and they were tossed hither ana tnlther.
Tbev used their clubs with all their power ana
the only result to anger the crowd 80 ""on
that little discrimination was shown pe'"een
the police and the "scabs" when brieks "ere
thrown. 1t was much the same way All a'ons
| the avenue.
About o'clock great crowd gathe'e" w
tween Forty second and Forty y-hfth-sts' ana a'-
! tempted to overturn the cars that came aiohs'
about thirty minutes apart
| Policeman owen ConOvan. who was on o"i
hound south, was hit on the head with ornuN
! and knocked off his seat to the pavement "
| left eye almost knocked OUT he ""'
| 70 the Flower Hospital
CLUBS USED FREELY.
Jouis Mnkus nine years old OF NO o. r's'
! Thirty-ninth-st., got In front OF pohoe"a
cluh and n the excitement the piuecoa' "n''
! no distinctions The boy was taken u .'
u,ouer Hospital and 1t is said that his Skull ID
fractured and that he may die.
,,,ohael she-idan thlrty-two years old. or NO
90 East Forty seconds ST, was hit on the heaa
wito brick and taken home Win "ha' 10
thought 10 be fractured Skull
The news OF the riot was sent ihto 'he na.'
Thirty -hfth-st. station where oersean. y 80
and forty policemen were on reserve iheS so'
-, or rho double quick and dispersed the crowd
Thav arrested Charles Hartung, forty-eight
,,aar. old Of No 800 East Forty y-eighth-st-'
o,erk and Thomas Confrey, twenty-seven years
o,d a laborer. OF No. 30S East Forty-ninth-sI
Another crowd got together In minute OF
60 AZ FIFTY ffth-st. and second-ave. ana when
a car bound downtown came along II met
nerfect shower Of bricks stones and other ms
s,le, thrown from the street the windows oI IN.
g." .na the roofs The women we're perfect