Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-24
On the Cleveland Street
Car System.
PASSENGERS INJURED
RiOting Continues and Police and Nom
Union Men Were Roughly Handled
--Stones Thrown at the Cars
Company Will Not Arbitrate.

which continued throughout last night
was renewed today and there were sew
eral serious outbreaks of violence, but no
clashes between the mobS and the
troops. Cars We're started running as
usual on all but one or two lines. The
mobs were astir early. Soon after 10
o'clock LOCO or more persons gathered on
Burton street, on the south side. and pro-
ceeded to obstruct the track. When a car
came along with two policemen on board
it was attacked with a shower of stones.
In spite Of the policemen the n%on-union
motorman and conductor were roughly
handled. One of them. named McDer-
mott. had two ribs broken, and the other
was badly bruised.
One of the policemen fired at the mob,
the bullet striking a man named Wein-
nick. The mob assaulted the officers.
both of whom We're struck repeatedly
with stones. and but for the intervention
of a priest of the Catholic church the Off
GERS might have been lynched. BY this
time the cars had been mixed up in the
melee and a patrol wagon of police ar
irving, the rioters dispersed and the cars
We're taken back to the barns.
There was a serious disturbance on the
Broadway line at the corner of Peterie
street. where a mob of 5000 assembled in
the forenoon and cbstructed the track.
Finally a car came along from Wilson
avenue barns, having on board Sergeant
Burrows and a private Of militia and De-
tective Kelsoe. The officer ordered the
mob to dispense, when the lnotorman at
tempted to remove the obstruction from
the track, but the rioters showed fight.
Then Sergeant Burrows and one soldier
with fixed %bayonets faced the mob and
attempted to clear the way. There was a
sharp fight for a few minutes. during
which a perfect shower of stones fell
about the detective and the soldier,
smashing the car windows. No one was
seriously hurt, and after arresting two of
the rioters the car was returned to the
barn. The police afterwards charged the
mob, making several arrests.
The militia on guard at the Holmenden
avenue barns on the south side We're an
nOyed during the greater part of the day
by a jeering mob, and Is arrests We're
made there with the assistance of the po-
lice. In the afternoon a mob of 1. 900 con-
ceived the idea of blocking the track on
Orange street by placing a big boulder
in the middle of the street and placing a
fire around it. The plan worked success
fully, and cars We're delayed for nearly
an hour, when the police drove the mob
away and put out the fire. Three men
were sent to the hospital with wounds
made by the policemen's clubs at the end
of the riot.
driver of a grocery wagon in South
Brooklyn yesterday afternoon by a non
union conductor. the mayor of that vii
lage today issued an order to the marshal
to arrest all non-union conductors who
carried concealed weapons. Every cal
was stopped and each conductor found
with a revolver was arrested. All We're
subsequently bailed out by the
A small riot was started al the corner OF
Pearl and Franklin venue, when a young
woman struck q man who asked her not
to board a nOn-union car. A crowd OF
union sympathizers stoned cars and q
squad of police finally cleared the street
The company today sent a note to the
state board Of arbitration declining to ar
i bitrate the differences, in which it says
This fully approaching the
sincerity of your desire to bring about d
reimbursement with its former employees
begs to say that the men who went GU,
on Monday last are not in the employ OF
the and there is nothing to ne
gotiate about or arbitrate.'
Ar Euclid avenue car loaded WIZ
passengers, was wrecked by an explosion
of nitro-glycerine or gun-cotton, shortly
DClolC IL
We're badly hurt. the names of the in
jured being: Albert +. Fassett, r. r.
Smith, Miss Harris. Mrs. F.. c. Martin
The explosion tore out the front end OF
the ear, smashed all the windows n de-
stroyed the brake. After considerable
difficulty the car was stopped and a cal
for ambulances sent out. The mOtorman
William Daggers. who came from Cincin'
natl, was daZed by the shock, but the con,
ductor, Frank Schroeder of st. Louis
escaped injury. The force of the explo-
sion was so great that it shook all the
houses in the neighborhood, and was
heard for a distance of two or three
miles. There is no clue to the identity OF
the person who placed the explosives or
the track. The persons living in tho
~neighborhood say they saw a man in q
buggy stop at the corner Of Kensingtor
street, where the explosion occurred, anc
get out by the railway track. He re-
manned there for a short time and theI