Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-16
CLEVELAND STRIKE RIOTS.
Three Non Union Men Sent to Hospi-
tails Yesterday.

i
tails Yesterday.
ALL OF THEM BADLY INJURED BY
| BRICKS, STONES AND CLUBS
| USED BY SYMPATHIzERS OF
THE STREET RAILWAY STRIK-
| ERS-CARS HELD UP IN OUT OF
| THE WAY PLACES AND bonn
| BARDED BEFORE THE POLICE
| COULD BE SUMMONED.
| CLEVELAND, O., June 15.-While
| the sixth day of the street railway
mems strike started peaceably enough,
there was serious rioting before night
| fall and three non-union men were
taken to hospitals in consequence.
] The trouble began shortly after noon
near the Lakeview car barns, on
Euclid avenue. A crowd gathered and
union. men were riding without police
protection. A volley of stones and
bricks was hurled at the car and the
conductor, James Murphy, who came
from st. Louis, was hauled from the
platform. Murphy drew a revolver and
| fired into the air and then took to his
heels. The mob then assaulted some
| of the other non-union men on the car,
injuring them quite severely, but the
] baH ice ha,, ho
arrived.
Soon afterward another car was at
tackled, apparently by the same mob,
which had collected in another place.
There were several women passengers
| in the car, but that made no difference
| Bricks and stones were hurled through
/ the windows. The women screamed
and made rush for the doors and all
escaped injury.
The conductor, Anthony Wuerst. who
came from Milwaukee, did not fare so
| well. A brick struck him in the face,
| cutting bad cash, and a stone which
+! hit him on the head rendered him I'M
| conscious. The motorman, j. H. Fox,
also of Milwaukee, was hit by a shower
| of bricks and stones, and was so badly
/ hurt that he had to be carried with
Wuerst to the car barns. Both men
were subsequently sent to a hospital.
In this case as in the other, the mob
had dispersed when the police arrived.
A little later a third car was stopped
by crowd of men which had been con-
cealed in bushes at the side of the
street. Fifteen or twenty men boarded
the car and desperate fight ensued
between them and E. w. Newman and
c. W. King, the conductor and motor
man, both of whom came from Buffalo.
| Both men were chased from the car and
were beaten with clubs and kicked in
a brutal manner. Newman was so
badly injured that it was necessary to
send him to a hospital, after he had
been removed to the car barns from
private residence to which he had
been assisted by lady from the lawn
where he was left bleeding and semi
conscious by his assailants. This mob
disappeared before the police arrived,
most of the rioters having ridden bicy-
Giles which were concealed in a lot near
bv.
At $50 o'clock car left the Lake
view barns to town. At the corner Of
Anndale and Wade Park avenues it
was stopped by a crowd of men. who
began to hurl bricks and stone The
/ motorman, whose name is Schryver, and
who came from Cincinnati, left the car
and started to run. He was hit with
to escape and has not been seen since.
j. R. Leatherwood, of Cincinnati, the
conductor, stuck to the car. He was
finally hit in the temple with brick
and dropped to the floor of the car.
The crowd then dispersed. Leather
wood finally succeeded in running the
car back to the barns, when he be-
came unconscious and is now in a seri-
Gus condition. The police think this
mob was the same that attacked the
other cars, and they are convinced that
it is an organized band whose pur-
pose is to make systematic attacks up
on the cars.
There were two other incipient riots
during the day. One occurred on Will
son avenue, where crowd of men with
two furniture vans proceeded to block
the car tracks with barrels, tree trunks
and all sorts of rubbish. Two men
We're arrested. The police also dispers-
ed a mob on Prospect street which was
obstructing the passage of a suburban
car and two arrests were made
The company has offered reward of
$500 for information which will lead
I to the arrest of the men who attacked
! the cars to-day.
| YOUNGEST FEMALE PRISONER.
| Special to the Register
| PARKERSBURG, W. Va, June IS
| One of the youngest female prisoners
who ever appeared before Judge John