Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-22

PLODED ON THE ROOF OF A
CONSOLIDATED CAR BARN IN
WHICH MANY. NON-UNION MEN
WE'RE HOUSED-A HOLE TORN
IN THE ROOF AND A CAR
STANDING BENEATH SKATER
ED-THE SHOCK WAS TERRIFIC
AND CAUSED THE GROUND TO
TREMBLE-WAS HEARD FOR
BLOCKS = THE NAVAL RE
SERVES CALLED UPON FOR
PROTECTION.
CLEVELAND, O., July PA dyna-
fife bomb was thrown upon the roof OF
the Big Consolidated Street Railway
Company's barn at Lake View at
two feet square was torn in the roof.
A Wade Park avenue car, which stood
directly beneath the hole, was also
wrecked, the roof of the car being torn
off by the explosive. The widest ex-
element prevailed among the men in
the barn. The explosion was heard for
blocks and hundreds of people were at
tracted to the scene. No one was in
jured. The identity of the perpetrators
of the outrage is not known. However,
the police are hard at work on the case,
Many of the windows in the big barn
were shattered by the explosion. The
shock was such as to cause the ground
to tremble and it seemed for few mo-
fall
The police suspect two men who were
seen about the building and acting in a
Suspicious manner. In the excitement
attendant upon the explosion they
were, however, successful in getting
away.
1t was not until late this morning
that the immense amount of minor dam
age done by mobs under the cover Of
night was clearly known at police head
quarters. Hardly a street traversed by
Big Consolidated lines escaped. Last
night and early this morning lawless
crowds were active destroying trolley
wires and feed wires and placing all
kinds of obstructioEs on the tracks.
Police Director Barrett stated this
forenoon that troops would doubtless
be called out soon to suppress mob vio-
lence.
THE action of the mobs Thursday
have dissipated what doubt there re-
manned as to the advisability of calling
out the militia said the director.
"Such condition of affairs as prevailed
throughout the city last night can no
longer be tolerated"
In anticipation of further rioting to-
night the naval reserve battalion has
been ordered to report for duty at its
armory at o'clock tonight.
An attempt was made to blow up a
street car with dynamite at $50 o'clock
this evening. The car was on Euclid
avenue returning to the Lakeview
barns when terrific explosion oc-
Cured under the wheels at Audale
avenue, opposite the residence of Henry
A. Everett, President of the Big Con-
soldated Street Car Company. The car
was nearly jolted from the track, but
was not stopped. The half dozen pas
sengers on board were badly frightened
but none of them was injured. No
harm was sustained by the car and it
passed on its journey. There is no clue
to the perpetrators.
About the same time on Pearl street,
on the South Side, three nonunion
street railway men who had left the
Holmden avenue barns to purchase TO-
bacco were pursued by bowling mob.
One of the fugitives fired revolver,
but hit no one and the bullet passed
through a large plate glass window
across the street. The street car men
sought refuge in store and at this
time the police arrived and charged into
the crowd, scattering it quickly. In
the confusion a number of women who
were in the crowd were thrown down
and a little girl was struck by police
mans club and severely bruised.
There is a strike among the linemen,
polemen and electricians of the Cuya-
hoga Telephone Company. The strike
is a serious one, and practically Grip
pies the construction work of the com
pany. The Cuyahogo Telephone Com
pany is a corporation which is man
aged by Henry A. Everett, president
OF the Big Consolidated.
1t was said that the telephone men
went out because they had been asked
TO do line work on the Big Consoli-
dated, the railway linemen having
struck in sympathy with the trainmen.
THE NEW YORK STRIKE
NEW YORK. July 21.-In the boroughs
of Manhattan and Brooklyn to-day the
strike situation, generally speaking re-
NAMED unchanged. On Manhattan Island
cars on all the lines of the Metropolitan
system were run on practically the usual
Roadway, and at night the cars on Sec