The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-20
STREET CAR STRIKES.
Trolley Men d New York Have Joined the
Brooklyn Strikers
SITUATION HAS ASSUMED A SERIOUS PHASE
Fights Occurred with the Police I'm
which Several Persons Were
Seriously Injured.

New York, July 1s.--New York trolley
men Joined the Brooklyn trolley men to-
day In their big strike. The center oil
operation In New York was on Second
avenue. where early this morning dyna-
mate was used in an attempt to blow
down the elevated railroad structure
Scores Of people were seriously injured IN
the Second avenue district. Tonight that
great thoroughfare was crowded with a
jeering, bowling mob almost It's entire
length. The great tenementS gave tortn
their workingmen residents, who backed
up the strikers in many fierce struggle
with the police and with the men there
were many women and children. They
stoned every car that passed over the
tracks, hurled rocks and chunks OF iron
and vegetables of various nature from the
roof of houses and from the windows;
they barricaded the streets with paving
stones, tore up the street irons, choked
UP the slots with wire and spikes and
blockaded the thoroughfare.
They had many a hand-to-hand con-
fict with the patrolmen placed along the
line OF the injured the exact number
can not be known. Several people were
removed to hospitals with broken bones
and torn scalps. At least one striker or
sympathizer had his skull fractured and
able passengers on the cars received bad
wounds and It was impossible for pas
sengers on Second avenue to so much
above Fourteenth street. 1t was the hope
of the strikers to make deep impression
by their success in Second avenue and so
far as rioting was concerned they and
their sympathizers made It,
AT 1920 tonight ell operations on the
Second avenue lines were suspended.
None of the officials of the company would
assign a reason for withdrawing the cars,
but the strikers claimed that the company
did not have men enough to run them,
On other lines the strike was not at any
time prominent during the day. Today
motormen on the Eighth avenue line to
the number of 100 or more organized and
declared a strike. They thereupon set to
persuade their fellow workmen 10 leave
the cars. They met with fair success. To-
morrow they declare the Eighth avenue
line will be tied up No acts of violence
were committed on the Eighth avenue line
Louis Minkus, who was injured in one
Of the riots, was found to have fractured
skull and will probably die. Captain
Schmittherger, who was in charge of the
police at Second avenue and Ninety second
street. was roughly handled by the mob
tonight, being severely beaten before as
sistance reached him.
In Brooklyn the car service was serious
ly crippled, but there was little disorder
The strike ordered this morning on the
lines OF the Metropolitan Street railway
infused new spirit into the Brooklyn strike
The arrest of twenty-one men charged
with conspiracy TO destroy the elevated
railrc ad this morning at Fifth avenue and
Sixth street had little effect on the public,
although 1t was expected that public sym
pathy would turn against the strikers.
The car service was very poor. In the
early part OF the day So per cent OF the
cars on the Brooklyn Heights system were
operated, but this was lessened to consld-
cradle extent later in tho day. On the
Nassau line cars were worked on half
headway all day. The scarcity of passen
gers on the Nassau cars leaving the foot
OF South Eighth street for Canarsie,
Hamburg avenue and Brownsville was
mere noticeable than any day since the
strike begun. The traffic on Flatbush
avenue, running as far as Vernon avenue.
was paralyzed On the Green Point aud
Cross Town line there was hardly more
than half as many cars as compared to the
number operated yesterday. Along the
Franklin and Manhattan avenue the crowd
was active and slight disturbances oo-
CURED. Only few Bergen Beach cars
were run.
The twenty-one men who were arrested
Rockaway avenues, were arraigned in the
afternoon before Magistrate Bremen
They pleaded not guilty and demanded an
immediate hearing. The original charge
OF vagrancy was dismissed and they an
swered to charge of conspiracy substan-
tiated by the affidavit of William Ashby,
an investigator, who deposed that on Mon
day evening he had attended meeting at
Carberry hall and that there was talk of
buying dynamite the use OF the dynamite
to be contingent on the action OF tho en-
gineers OF the elevated railroad concerning
the proposition TO strike II the elevated
employees refused to go out somebody sug.
gested dynamite should be used to blow
them up. Such remarks, said Aehhy. were
followed by 1--WE WILL"
Ashby further stated that he saw O'Hara
and three others leave the hall saylng
they had the stuff with them and that
they had In their pockets packages rolled
In brown paper.
The prisoners counsel caused a sensa-
tion when he said Your honor, admit
conspiracy, but 1t Is a conspiracy by
politicians and the police to deprive these
men of their liberty
Magistrate Bremen overruled him and
held the prisoners in bonds Ct $3.50
O'Hara, the man who Ashby says Carried
dynamite. stated that he and his compan.
Ions had nothing whatever to do with the
dynamite explosion and that they had
fallen asleep in Carberry hall while wait
Ing for the returns from tho meeting at
Cooper Union and were asleep at the time
the explosion happened. The first they
knew Of the explosion was when they were
aroused by the police. The neighborhoods
supposed to be frequented by men of an
archistic tendencies are being closely
watched by the police.
The Fifth and Third avenue lines shut
down early in the afternoon and the en-
n q -fn,s
one-third schedule. Four hundred and
nifty police were transferred from Brook
lyn to Manhattan borough tonight in anti
cipation of trouble with strikers on the
Metropolitan Street railroad system.
II the strikers wanted to make plenty
OF work for the police and at the same
time get Into strike where they could
depend upon popular sympathy. they made