Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-21
WHOLE DAY OF RIOT,
Closing with a Night Attack on
Street Car Barns, Reported
from Cleveland.
POLICE ARE NOT IN THE WAY.

Mob Storms the Barns and smashes Some
Cars, but Fails to Get the Non-Union
Men L: Was After-other Outbreaks
Council Committee Trying to Secure a
Settlement PIttsburg MASSES and
Glasses" Cannot Affiliate Non-Un ion
Negro Miners Shot and Three Fatally
Hurt.
Cleveland, June 21.-whi!e the pros
poets for a settlement of the strike Of
the street railway men are brighter
than they have been at any time since
the trouble began, there was more seri-
GUS rioting yesterday than at any
previous time. The disturbances began
early in the morning, continued
throughout the day, and last night
big mob surrounded the south side
barns OF the Big Consolidated company.
determined to get at the non-union man
who were housed there. While the
strikers were hurting bricks and stones
at non union motOrmen and conductors
a special committee of the city council
was trying to get the representative of
the strikers and the officers of the COM
pany together.
Men submit Proposition.
1t succeeded to the extent Of inducing
the strikers to submit a proposition in
writing and getting the consent of
President Everett. of the Big CONSOLE
dated. to submit the same to the board
of directors today. The strikers propo-
sition abandOns the demand for the
recognition Of the union. but asks that
all the Old men be taken back save
those who may be convicted in court of
destroying property.
These Were Incipient Riots.
There were two incipient riots late
yesterday afternoon. At the corner of
Central and Wilson avenues crowd of
2.000 persons INSTRUCTED the passage of
two cross-town cars. Bricks and stones
We're thrown and the windows of the
cars broken. One of the non-union
motormen, wSso gave his name as Chas
Jones, of Grand Rapids. Mich, was hit
with n brick and so badly injured that
it was necessary to send him to a hos
Pital. Later car on the south side line
was attacked near the suburb of BriSh-
ton. The motorman and conductor were
chased into the woods by a mob and
they had not returned when IL came
time to stop running ears. No arrests
were made in either case.
Attack on the South Side Barns.
The strikers and sympathizers of the
south side nursed their wrath all day.
They made no attempt to interfere with
the running of cars on the Clark avenue
line so long as there was police protsc-
ton, but last evening there was a de-
ternined effort to get at the nOn-urion
men taken TO the Holmden avenue
barns to operate the cars from that end
of the line. Soon after dark a moo of |
8, Clo people assembled. There We're
twenty policemen al the barns, but they |
were powerless to handle the mob. |
Fences were torn down and the crowd |
broke into the barns. In the meantime |
the non-union men had escaped to the |
attic and the rioters contented them |
selves with smashing q few of the cars. |
BY that time several wagon-loads of |
police had arrived and the mob was
dispersed. At another place on the |
south side switches were torn up and !
the track blockaded.
Newest Style of Sympathic.
Four hundred EMPLOYEES of.the Cleve-