The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-24

Cleveland, o., July ga Euclid ave-
nue. car. loaded with passengers. was
wrecked by an explosion of nitro-gIy-
cerine or gun cotton, shortly before II
o'clock tonight
The Injured.
Mrs. E. C. Martin, 10 Alanson street:
compound fractare of the skull. right
arm broken andsnternaI injuries which
may prove fatal.
f. c. Martin, right arm badly cut and
bruised about legs and body.
Mrs Catherine Harris, % Cornell
street; suffering from nervous prostra-
( ton.
F. a. Smith, 80 Vienna street; injured
about legs and body.
Albert L. Fassett, Il Wallace place;
legs injured.
Dora Schessler. IL Oakdale street;
| bruised about the body.
| The explosion tore out the front end
| of the car, smashed all the windows,
and destroyed the brake. After consid-
/ cradle difficulty the car was stopped
and call for ambulanceS was sent out
| The motorman, William q. Draggers
who came from Cincinnati. was dazed
by the shock, but the conductor. Frank
Schroeder of st. Louis. escaped in
| jury.
The force of the explosion was so
great that it shook all the houses in
| the neighborhoOd and was heard for q
distance of two or three miles. There
is no clue to the identity of the person
who placed the explosive on the track.
Persons living in the neighbOrhood say
they saw a man in a buggy stop at the
| corner of Kensington street, where the
explosion occurred and go out by the
railway track. He remained there for
a short time and then drove rapidly
away
Help For the Injured.
Within a few minutes after the explo-
sion a crowd of 1000 people assembled
and the injured, who were suffering
from the shock. We're cared for until
the ambulance arrived. None of them
were supposed to be dangerously in
jured their hurts apparently being con-
fined to bruises about the feet and legs.
Mrs. Martin tainted before she was
taken from the car. All were taken TO
their homes in ambulanceS. The motor
man on the car managed to get out of
the vestibule of the car and then fell
to the street, but he quickly recovered
and helped 10 extricate the passengers
from the wreck.
Passengers who were on the car say
the explosion seemed to lift the whole
front end of the car and it ripped UP
the floor for more than half the dis
in fact complete wreck. but strange
to say it did not leave the rails and
was taken to the barns by the next
outward bound motor.
The police were quickly summoned to
the scene of the explosion, and force
of men were detailed to investigate,
with a view of running down the person
who placed the explosive on the track.
A boy living near the corner saw q
mysterious men in the buggy. He said
he noticed the buggy drive up there
and stop and saw the man get out. He
fumbled about the rails for minute or
two and then jumped into the buggy
and drove away at gallop.
There seems to be no doubt now that
Mayor Farley will call the three or four
available militia companies in this city
in addition to those already under
arms. The call will include the bat
terry of artillery. and the governor may
be requested to send other troops to the
city.
Late tonight it was learned that Mrs.
Martin. one of the injured would prob
ably die. She suffered a compound
fracture of the skull. had one arm
broken and was otherwise injured. She
was with her husband, who was also
badly hurt.
The police are now out searching for
the buggy in which the dynamiter is
supposed to have ridden, and all sta
lions have been notified to be on the
lookout for it.
Later reports from those injured
show that they were hurt much worse
than at first supposed. 1t is now said
that Mrs. Harris suffered a fracture Of
the skull and may die. while A. F.
Smith had both legs broken. Three or
four persons in addition TO those whose
names are given above, were hurt, but
none seriously.
The Rioting Continues.
The rioting which continued last night
was renewed today and there We're sew
eral serious outbreaks of violence but
no clashes between the mobS and the
troops. Cars were started running as
usual this morning on all but one or
two lines. The mobs were astir early.
Soon after 10 o'clock a thousand or
more persons gathered on Burton street,
on the South Side, and proceeded to OBJ
struct the track When a car cana
along with two policemen on board it
was attacked with a shower of stones.
In spite of the policemen, the nom
union motorman and conductor were
handled One of them. named
had two ribs broken and
the other was badly bruised One of
the policemen fired at the mob. the bull
let striking man named Weinmck.
The mob assaulted the officers, both of
whom were struck repeatedly with
stones and but for the Intervention of
a priest of the Catholic church the oft1-
GERS might have been lynched- By this
time the cars had been mixed up in
the melee and patrol wagon of police
arriving, the rioters dispersed and the
cars were taken back to the barns.
There was serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of Pc
terie street. where a mob of 5000 as
sembled in the forenoon and INSTRUCTED
the track. Finally a car came along
from the Wilson avenue barns having
on board Sergeant Burrows, a private
Of the militia and Detective kelsoe.
Rioters Showed Fight.
The officer ordered the mob to dis