The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-27
The Rioting by the Strikers Con.
tlnucd i'll Cleveland Sunday
and Sunday Night.
EMPLOYERS REFUSE TO ARBlTRATE.
A Car Loaded With Passengers Was
Wrecked by NitrogIyccrin or Gun
Cotton on Euclid Avenue.
Five Persons Were Badly Injured. Two or
Three Probably Fatally-Houses In
the Vicinity OF the Explosion
Were shakrn-Arrcsts

&c ""'N" SOHtihucu thrOugnOut saturday
e night was renewed Sunday, and there
l. were several serious outbreaks of VIC
Il lence, Tut no clashes between the
e mobs and the troops.
o Cars were started running as u>ua,
4 Sunday morning on ali Tut one or or
two lines. The mobs were l,tir carly.
c Soon after 10 O'Clock Il thousand or
Y more persons gathered on Burton
c street, on the south side, and proceeded
I to obstruct the track.
: When ear came along with two po-
S liccman on board, it was attacked with
t a shower of stones. In spite OF the
I policemen the non-union motorman
and conductor were roughly handled.
One of them named McDcrmott had
, two ribs broken and the other was
, badly bruised. One Of the policemen
!, fired al the mob, the bullet strik-
, ing man named Wennck. The
mob assaulted the officers, both
! OF whom were struck rcpcat-
edly with stones and but for the
Intervention of n 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 Pctrie street
where 4 mob OF 5000 assembled in the
forenoon and obstructcd the track.
AS result of the shooting OF the
driver Of a grocery wagon in South
Brooklyn Saturday afternoon by a non
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 revolver was ar
rested. All were subsequently bailcd
out by the company.
A small riot was started at the corner
OF Pearl street and Franklin aycnue
when young woman struck IA man
who asked her to board n non-union
car. a crowd Of union sympathizers
stoned cars and a squad of police finally
cleared the street.
The company Sunday sent note to
the state board of arbitration deciin-
ing to arbtratc the differences
A Euclid avenue car loaded with
passengers, was wrecked ly an cxplo-
sion Of ntroglyccrin or gun cotton
shortly before IL o'clock sunday night.
-Four persons were badly hurt, the
names of the injured being:
Mrs +. c. Martin, -, Alanson street, I
compound fracture of the skull, right
arm broken and internal injuries which '
may prove fatal c
Z. c. Martin, right arm badly cut y
and bruised about legs and body
Mrs. Catherine Harris, % Cornell )
street, suffering from nervous prostra- c
ton.
I. a. Smith, 60 Vienna street, in jurcl
about legs and body. I
Albert +. Fassctt, II Wallace place, r
legs injured. l.
Late Sunday night it was learned I,
that Mrs. Martin. one of the injured, +
would probably die. She suffered r,
fracture OF the skull had d
,ne arm broken and was otherwise in Il
ured. She was with her husband u
Who was also badly hurt. CO
The explosion tore out the front end Il
# the car smashed all the windows
md destroyed the brake. After con-
iderablc difficulty the car was stop
'ed and call for ambulances were |;
ent out. The motorman, William II
)raggcrs, who came from Cincinnati, u
vas dazed by the shock. but the con- Il
uctor. Frank Schroeder, Of 81. Louis, ii
scaped injury. cr
The force of the explosion was SO
rcat that it shook all the houses in
he neigh borhood and was heard for a -
VI wv VI thltC ,b
ons living in the ncighborhood say -
hey saw man in a buggy stop at the H.,
orner Of Kensington street, where the
xp,osion occurred. and get out by
ne railroad track. He remained there
short time and then drove rapidly on
way. St
Passengers who wers on the car say IN,
lie explosion seemed TO lift the whole vi;
ont end of the ear and it ripped up
he floor for more than half the dis ~
nee from the front end The car
as. in fact. a complete wreck, but Oh
range to say it did not leave the rails fr
I'd was taken to the barns by the next Nd
Inward bound motor.
The police were quicaly summoned
the scene of the explosion and a to:
rec of men Was detailed To iyestIgate TO,
ith view of running down the per- Isl
n who placed the explosion on the
lck.
Tho Dewey Home Fund.
WAsmISGroS, July .l.-Thc receipts on
r the Dewey home fund Thursday 'e'
lountcd to s349, making Sli,,7 in all. POI