The Portland daily press., 1899-07-20
They Had Hand to Hand Conflicts
With Policemen.
Several Officers Taken TO Hospital and
One Striker Had Skull Fractured.

New York. July 19.-Mannattan trolley
men joined the Brooklyn trolley Inen.to-
day In their big strike. The centre Of
operations is Manhattan was on Second
avenue and the excitement In Brooklyn
centered in the vicinity of 36th street and
5.h avenue, where early this morning dy-
Mantle was used In an attempt to blow
down the elevated structurs. The rioting
that took place in Manhattan this after
noon and tonight was Of a serious nature,
infinitely fiercer than any that has taken
Scores of people were severely injured in
the Second avenue district. Tonight that
great thoroughfars was crowded with q
jeering, bowling mob, almost from the
Bowery to Harlem. The great tenements
gave forth their workingmen residents,
who baked up the strikers in many a
fierce struggle with the police, and with
the men were many women and children.
They stoned every car that passed over
the tracks, they hurled stones and
chunks Of iron and vegetables OF q varied
nature from the roofs of the houses and
the windows; they barricaded the streets
with paving stones, tore up the street
irons, choked up the slot with wire and
spikes and blocked the thoroughfare.
They had many hand to hand conflict
with the 600 policemen that had been
placed along the line. OF the injured the
exact number cannot be known. Sew
eral policemen we're removed TO hospitals
WITH BROKEN BONES,
and torn scalps. At least one striker or
strike sympathizer had his skull fract-
ured. A boy also had his skull fractured.
Innumerable passengers on thS cars re-
clved bad wounds. aud it was impossible
for passengers on Second avenue to go
much above 18th street.
1t was the hope of the strikers to make
q deep impression by their success Ia Seq
ond avenue and so far as rioting was con-
cernsd. they and their sympathizers made
It.
On the other hues throughout Manhat-
tan the strike was not at any time proini-
nent during the day. Tonight, however,
the motormen on the Eighth avenue line
TO the number of 100 or more organized
and declared o strike. They thereupon
set about to persuade their fellow work.
ilen to leave their cars, and with sutfic-
lent success to havo the cars running on
only an hourly schedule before midnight.
Tomorrow they declare the Eighth avenue
also will Re tied up The officials of tho
Sixth avenue made the statement tonight
tnat the cars on this avenue were moving
about the same as ever.
In Brooklyn the strikers made some
gains SO far as the diminishing Of trolley
car traffic was concerned. Fewer cars
were running on the lines. But
THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGE
in the early morning hours was undoubt-
e1ly severe setback to the strikers. The
police in connection with the blowing
down of the two elevated columns, moved
rapidly and made more than score Of
arrests, I6 of the men being held by the
courts. The strikers deny any knowledge
of the dynaniting. and General Master
Workman Parsons has offered q reward
Of $500 IL 1t can be proved that striker
is responsible for 1t. Presidens Rossiter
of the Brooklyn rapid transit company
has offered reward of $1,000 for the
conviction of the perpetrator.
Several thousand policemen are tonight
guarding the power houses and the plants
of the companies involved in the strike.
The police arrangements TO take care Of
rioters have been excellent so far, but this