The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-07-22
THE STRIKE SPREADS.
rroIieymen in New York City Quit
Work-serious Rioting Occurs
and Many Are Hurt.

icy men joined the Brooklyn trolley
men Wednesday In their big strike.
The center OF operations in New York
city was on Second avenue; the excite
ment in Brooklyn conferred in the vicin-
~ OF Thirty-sixth street and Fifth ave-
nue., where early Wednesday morning
dynamite was used in an attempt 10
blow down the elevated structure.
The rioting that took place In New
York was of a serious nature, infinitely
fiercer than any that has taken place
yet in the borough across the river.
Scores Of people were injured, and Sc
verely injured, in the Second avenue
district. At night that great thorough
fare was crowded with jeering, howl
ing mob almost its entire length. The
great tenements gave forth their work.
ingmen residents, who backed up the
strikers in many a fierce struggle with
the police, and with the men were many
women and still greater numbers of
children. They stoned every car that
passed over the tracks. they hurled
rocks and chunks of iron and vegetables
of variety of nature from the roofs
OF houses and from the windows; they
barricaded the streets with paving
stones, choked up the slot with wire
and spikes and blocked the thorough
fare.
They had many handto-hand con-
ilict with the 600 patrolmen that had
been placed along the line. OF the in
jured the exact number cannot be
70
moved 10 hospitals with broken bones
and torn scalps. Al least one striker, or
strike sympathizer. and boy had their
skulls fractured Innumerable passen-
geTs on the ears received bad wounds,
and il was impossible for passengers
on Second avenue TO go much above
Fourteenth street. IL was the hope OF
the strikers TO make deep impression
by their success i'm Second avenue, and
so far as rioting was concerned they
and their sympathizers made II.
At 1920 p. IN. all operations on the
Second avenue lines were suspended.
None Of the officials of the company
would assign reason for withdrawing
! the cars, but the strikers claimed that
the company did not have men enough
to run them. The last car was housed
about 1880 and IA heavy guard Of police
men put about the power house. De-
electives were posted on the elevated
structures to watch the surrounding
\ streets and prevent anyone from throw
! ing explosives on the building The
! cars on the Sixth avenue line ran all
evening, each car escorted by n guard
| OF two policemen. The cars on both the
Madison avenue and Lexington avenue
/ lines were run with but very little i'm.
terruption. The officials declared that
| all of the men were az work and that
there was no possibility of n strike
! there.
About 100 motormen employed on
the Eighth avenue line held n meeting
at night, effected an organization, and
declared n strike in operation. Gen.
eral Master Workman Parsons ad.
dressed the meeting. attacked Presi
dent Nreeland. exhorted the men "a
keep sober and refrain from acts OF
violence, and placed the whole blame OF
the trouble on Tammany Hall. At ten
o'clock half the cars were taken off the
Eighth avenue line without warming
and at fl o'clock all the cars save eight
were taken off, and these were run on
an hourly schedule. No arrests wer,
made i'm connection with the strike on
this line up TO n late hour, and no acts
of violence were reported. The strik.
ers promised that by to-day they would
have all the men out on Eighth avenue
In the borough of Brooklyn the
strikers made some gains so far as TN,
diminishing of trolley car traffic was
concerned. Fewer ears were running
on the lines. But the dynamite out
rage in the early morning hours was
undoubtedly a severe setback To tn,
strikers. The police I'm connection with
the blowing down of the two elevated
columns moved rapidly and made NOR,
than score OF arrests. rs OF the men be
ing held by the courts. The strikers
deny any knowledge Of the dynamiting
and General Master Workman Parsons
has offered n reward OF $500 if II can b,
proved that a striker is responsible fol
IL. President Rossiter, OF the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company. has offered
| itNNiR VI PisH'b ipi liit tOlNitAlOU -
the perpetrator. Several thousand po
licemen are guarding the power houses
and the plants Of the companies i'm
volved In the strike.
The strikes now in progress in this
city affect all the surface lines of tn,
Brooklyn Transit company in Brook
lyn and all the electric lines o.
the Metropolitan Street Railway com
pany on Manhattan Island. On boil
sides OF the river the elevated trains
are running as usual. In Brooklyn th'
Coney Island and Brooklyn companies
lines have not been involved, and OF
Manhattan Island the 1875 miles of hors,
and cable road owned by the Metro
politnn Street Railway company ar,
open. as well ms all the lines Of tn,
Third Avenue company. The Unior
company In Bronx borough and tn,
Long Island City company in Queens
borough have had no trouble. The eIe
Il l.