The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-24
ANARCHY N CLEVELAND
X Crowded Streetoar Blown Up on
Exohd Avenue.
SIX PASSENGERS WERE WOUNDED



Cleveland. July 24.-The rioting
which continued throughout Saturday
night was renewed yesterday and there
were several outbreaks of violence, but
no clashes between the mobs and the
troops.
Cars were running as usual yester-
day morning on all but one 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 proceed
ed to obstruct the track When a car
came along with two policemen 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 striking man named Wennick.
The mob assaulted the officers, both OF
whom were struck repeatedly 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 three cars had
been mixed up In the melee and a
patrol wagon load of police arriving,
the rioters dispersed and the cars were
taken back to the brans.
There was a serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner Of
Petrie street, where mob Of 5000 as
sembled In the forenoon and obstruct-
ed the track. Finally car came along
from the Wilson avenue barns, having
on board Sergeant Burrows and
private of militia and Detective Kelso.
They ordered the mob to dispense when
the motorman attempted to remove the
obstruction from the track, but the
rioters showed fight. Then Sergeant
Burrows and the one soldier, with
fixed bayonets, faced the mob and at
tempted to clear the way. There was
a sharp fight for few minutes, dur
ing which a perfect shower of stones
fell about the detective and the SOL
diers, smashing the car windows. No
one was seriously hurt, and after ar
resting two of the rioters and placing
them on the car it was returned to the
barns. The police afterward charged
the mob making several arrests.
The military on guard at the Holm
den avenue barns on the South Side
were annoyed during the greater part
of the day by jeering mob, and Is
arrests were made there with the as
sistance of the police.
In the afternoon a mob of 1000 con-
ceived the idea of blocking the track
on Orange street by placing a big
boulder in the middle of the street and
building a fire around it. The plan
worked successfully and the cars were
delayed for nearly an hour, when the
police drove the mob away, put out
the fire and gave the street railway
men chance to move the stone. Three
men were sent to the hospitals with
wounds made by policemen clubs at
the end of this riot.
A small riot was started at the cor
ner of Pearl street and Franklin ave-
nue. when young woman struck
man who asked her to board nom
union car A crowd of union SYM
pathizers stoned cars and a squad of
police finally cleared the street.
A Euclid Avenue car, loaded with
passengers, was wrecked by an explo-
sion of nitro-g lycerine of gun cotton
shortly before II o'clock last night.
Six persons were badly hurt, the
names of the injured being Albert E.
Fassett, F. A. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. e. G.
Martin, Mrs Catherine Harris and
Dora Schlessler. 1t is feared that Mrs
Martin, one Of the injured, will die.
She suffered compound fracture Of
the skull, had one arm broken and was
otherwise injured. 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 a call for ambulances was
| 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 so
| great that it shook all the houses in the
! ncighhorhOod and was heard for a dis
lance of two or three miles. There is
no clew to the identity of the person
who placed the explosive on the track.
Persons living in the neighbOrhOol
say they saw ID man in buggy stop at
the corner Of KensingtOn street, where
the explosion occurred, and get out by
the railroad track He remained there
short time and then drove rapidly
away.
In the vicinity of the Holmden ave-
barns last night there was continuous
rioting for three or four hours. Every
car that passed was attacked with
stones and several pistol shots were
fired at them. There was a lively
fusillade at one time, the non-union
crews returning the fire. The only per.
son hurt was a woman, who was shot
in the finger as she stood in her door
way. The police made rs arrests in
that neighborhood.
Rioting continued all along Broad.
way last night, and it took three
squads of policemen as many hours tc
escort three cars a distance of foul
miles to the barns. Fifteen or twenty
of the rioters were taken into custody
There seems to be no doubt now thai
Mayor Farley will call out the tire,
of four available military companies il
this city, in addition to those already
under arms, and the governor may bt
requested to send other troops to tn,
city.