The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-07-25
A CAR WRECKED.
1t Was Blown Up by Strikers With
NitrOglycerin or Gun Cotton.
Five Persons Were Badly Injured. Two or
Three robably Fatally Houses in
the Vicinity OF the Explosion
Were Shaken-Arrests.


night was renewed Sunday, and there
were several serious outbreaks of VIC.
lence, but no clashes between the
mObs and the troops.
Cars were started running as usual
Sunday morning ON all but one or 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 obstruct the track.
When car came along with two po-
iceman on board, it was attacked with
shower of stones. In spite of the
policemen the non-union motorman
and conductor were roughly handled
One of them named McDermott had
two ribs broken and the other was
badly bruised. One of the policemen
fired at the mob, the bullet strik
ing a man named Wennick. The
mob assaulted the officers, both
of whom were struck repeat
eddy with stones and but for the
intervention of a priest of the Catholic
church near at hand the officers 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 Broad
way line at the corner of Petrie street
where mob of 5, 900 assembled in the
forenoon and INSTRUCTED the track.
AS a result of the shooting Of the
| driver of grocery wagon in South
Brooklyn Saturday afternoon by nom
union conductor, the mayor of that
village Sunday issued an order to the
marshal to arrest all non-union con-
| ductors who carried concealed weapons.
Every car was stopped and each con-
ductOr found with a revolver was ar
rested. All were subsequently bailed
out by the company.
A small riot was started at the corner
of Pearl street and Franklin avenue
| when a young woman struck man
who asked her to board a non-union
car. A crowd of union sympathizers
stoned cars and a squad of police finally
cleared the street.
The company Sunday sent a note to
the state board of arbitration declin-
| ing to arbitrate the differences.
A Euclid avenue car, loaded with
passengers, was wrecked by an explo-
sion of nitroglycerin or gun cotton
shortly before II o'clock Sunday night.
-Four persons were badly hurt, the
names of the injured being:
Mrs. E. c. Martin, 70, Alanson street,
compound fracture of the skull, right
arm broken and internal injuries which
may prove fatal.
E. c., Martin, right arm badly cut
and bruised about legs and body.
Mrs. Catherine Harris, % Cornell
street, suffering from nervous prostra-
ton.
+. A. Smith, 90 Vienna street, injured
about legs and body.
Albert E. Fassett, - Wallace place,
legs injured.
Late Sunday night it was learned
that Mrs. Martin, one of the injured,
would probably die. She suffered a
compound fracture of the skull, had
one arm broken and was otherwise in
jured. She was with her husband
who was also badly hurt.
The explosion tore out the front end
of the car smashed all the windows
and destroyed the brake. After con-
siderable difficulty the car was stop
ped and call for ambulances were
sent out. The motorman, William
Draggers, who came from Cincinnati,
was dazed by the shock, but the con-
ductor, Frank Schroeder, of st. Louis,
escaped injury.
The force of the explosion was sc
great that it shook all the houses in
the neigh borhood and was heard for q
distance of two or three miles. Per
sons living in the neighborhood say
they saw man in buggy stop at the
corner of Kensington street, where the
explosion occurred, and get out by
the railroad track. He remained there
a short time and then drove rapidly
away.
Passengers who were on the car say
the explosion seemed to lift the whole
front end of the car and it ripped VI
the floor for more than half the dis
tance from the front end. The Cal
was, in fact, a complete wreck, but
strange to say it did not leave the rail!
and was taken to the barns by the mex
outward bound motor.
The police were quickly summoned
to the scene of the explosion and /;
force of men was detailed to ivestigat,
with a view of running down the per
son who placed the explosion on tn
track.
Trolley lar strike Practically at an End
NEW YORK, July 24.-The trolle!
car strike, both in Manhattan anC