Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18
In the midst of the riot a baby car

In the midst of the riot baby car
riage containing a little child was
| overturned. The baby rolled around
under the feet CT the mob, and was
! badly tcampled On before finally res
cued. 1t was also hit by stone and
terribly gashed.
Not fewer than so people were club
bed by the police, bat only one man SO
far as known is fatally injured. He is
Edward Miller, whose skull was frac-
tured. DR.. George and Conrad McIn-
| tyre were also seriously hurt.
The usual lesser riots took place in
various sections of the city during the
Gay, and many arrests were made.
More serious trouble is feared for
Sunday On the part of laboring men.
The Big Consolidated Company de-
clares it will operate cars on several CT
the lines Sunday.
Fifty non-union men arrived in
Cleveland from Chicago this morning
ON Nickel Plate passenger train.
They mere met at the Euclid avenue
station by strikers, who told them of
the strike, and begged them not to go
to work. No attention was paid to the
appeals, the imported men not even re-
plying to the strikers.
A the car barns number of women
greeted the new arrivals with derisive
shouts and cries of "scab." 1t was
said at the barns that the company
had SEQ men in Chicago ready to come
to this city.
Tonight indignation mass meetings
were held. at which number of in
Icendiary speeches were made. Eugene
Debs, the agitator, addressed one at
Army and Navy Hall.
For few minutes this morning a
settlement OF the strike seemed at hand,
but complications arose which speedily
made the gulf between the men and the
company as wide as ever. A confer
ence had been arranged for 10 o'clock,
but the company officials at the last
moment refused to meet the strikers
committee, composed in part of general
officers of the union. The company
would meet union officials only as in
dividuals; they would have no dealings
with the union.
The strikers charge the company with
bad faith and have declared all negotia-
tons off.
In an interview regarding the possibility
of reaching a settlement of the strike,
President Henry a. Everett, of the Big
Consolidated. said this evening;
Our position is plain. We VIII not yield
an inch. The point at issue is whether we
shall retain the new men we. have hired.
We propose to keep every one Of them. The
strikers viii be taken back, but some of
them will have to be placed' on the extra
list Ike new men. All our former employe.
are now new men so far as the company
| is concerned, and will have to be treated
as such. We placed seventy-five new men
in service this morning and we are get
ting more all the time. We make no con-
tract or agreement with these new men as
TO the term of their employment, excepting
10 give tnem our WOfu OF nOnOr tnat they
will be retained in our employ. We shall
keep our promise in every instance"
Business Agent Pratt. the leader of the
strikers, said he did not believe a settle
ment was now possible. UNLESS the COM
| pany recognizes the executive committee
of the union" he declared. ''all negotia-
tons must end" He said the strikers
would not consent to any settlement which
did not reinstate the old men in their for
mer places. In his opinion. the breach was
as wide as when the strike was declared a
| week ago last night, and he saw no chance
| for an agreement.
| Tonight a meeting of citizens was held
at which resolutions were adopted de-
! nouncing the police and a committee was
appointed to call upon Mayor Farley and
make complaint against the officers. The
mayor told the committee to prefer
charges in writing if it had any to make.
and he would give the accused officers a
public hearing, but it was his purpose. he
| said, to enforce the law and prevent riot
! ing if possible.