The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-20
WOMEN AID RIOTERS.
A Cleveland Street Car Attacked
by Over Two Thousand.
MOTORMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED.

rho City Council Passes an Ordinance
Urged by the Union NJ Men--Railroad
President Declares Some of the Men
Can Never BE Re-employed.
Cleveland, June 2O.-Up to 4 O'Clock
in the afternoon yesterday promised to
be the most uneventful day in the big
street railroad strike. At that hour
another serious riot broke out in an
entirely new quarter, and one nom
union man was sent to the hospital in
consequence.
The company began yesterday the
operation of two new lines, those on
Scovill and Central avenues. The
cars were protected by policemen, and
until afternoon no trouble occurred.
Just before 4 o'clock two of the Scovill
cars approached the crossing of the
Pennsylvania railroad. There they
we're met by a mob of more than 2,0U0
men and women. One of the cars was
taken across the railroad safely, but
the other was held up by the mob. A
perfect shower of paving bricks and
stones fell about the car and crashed
against the vestibule at the front end,
behind which the motorman was con-
cealed.
Women threw bricks and handed
them to the men who were in the front
of the crowd. The windows of the
car had been lowered, and the bricks
crashed against the seats and fell upon
the floor of the car. The conductor es-
capped injury, but the motorman, A. T..
McGrew, of St. Louis. was struck on
the head with a brick and rendered
unconscious He was taken to a hos
pital. The patrolman on the car was
also hit with brick, but was not
seriously hurt. When a detachment
of police arrived the mob dispersed,
and no arrests were made
The demonstration which had been
planned for last night to influence the
action of the city council with respect
to the ordinance prohibiting the en-
ployment of motormeR who have not
had ten days experience operating cara
in this city, consisted of a parade in
the down town streets with torch
lights, drum corps and brass bands A
crowd of 5000 persons assembled, but
all of them did not participate in the
parade. The crowd was demonstrativc.
but not disorderly.
At the meeting of the council there
was a scene of great disorder The
gallery and lobby of the chamber were
packed by a large crowd, and every
speaker who was inclined to favor the
railroad company was hissed This
continued until Mayor Farley made a
speech, in which he declared that he
did not propose to submit to intimi-
dation.
The ordinance fixing the require
ments for motormen was passed under
a suspension of the rules. A resolu.
tion was also adopted requesting the
corporation counsel to report whether
the franchises of the company could
not be forfeited if it failed to run cars
on all its lines. Several other resolu-
tions were offered and referred to COM
mittees. A special meeting of the
council is to be held tomorrow even
ing, and in the meantime a committee,
which was appointed last night, will
seek to bring about a settlement of the
strike
The leader of the strike said today
that about the only question at issue
now was whether all the old men
would be reinstated if the strike was
declared off. The demand for abso-
lutte recognition of the union appears
to have been abandoned. President
Everett says he cannot agree to take
back all men, for some of them will
never be reinstated.