Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-21
BARNS BOMBARDED BY BRICKS
Strikers Surround Street Car Plants Bent on
Reaching Workmen,
SPEEDY SETTLEMENT, HOWEVER, is IN SIGHT
Proposition is Submitted TO Company
by Discontinued Employees. Em-
bodying Terms which Are
Apparently Reasonable.

CLEVELAND, o., June 2O.-While the
prospects for settlement of the strike of
the street railway men are brighter tonigh.
than they have been at any time since the
trouble begun, there has been more serious
rioting today than at any previous time,
The disturbances began early in the morn
ing, continued throughout the day and to-
night big mob surrounds the south side
barns of the Big Consolidated company de-
termined to get at the nonunion men who
are housed there.
While the sympathizers of the strikers
were hurling bricks and stones at nonunion
motormen and conductors a special commit
tee of the city council was trying to get the
representatives OF the strikers and the off,
GERS Of the company together and 1t sue.
ceeded to the extent of inducing the strik-
ers to submit proposition in writing and
getting the consent of President Everett
Of the Big Consolidated to submit the same
to the Board of Directors in the morning.
The strikers proposition abandons the de-
mand 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. The members of
the council committee believe settlement
is in sight.
Street Cars Are stoned.
There were two incipient riots late this
afternoon. At the corner of Central and
Wilson avenues crowd of 1000 persons OBJ
structed the passage of two cross-town
cars. Bricks were thrown and the windows
OF the cars broken. One Of the non
union motormen who gave his name as
Charles Jones Of Grand Rapids Mich
was hit with a brick and SO badly injured
that it was necessary to send him to a
hospital.
Later a car on the South Side line was
attacked near the suburb of Brighton The
motorman and conductor were chased into
the woods by mob and they had not re-
turned when 1t came time to stop running
cars. No arrests were made.
The people of the South Side nursed
their wrath all day. They made no attempt
to interfere with the running of cars on
Clark avenue SO long as there was police
protection, but this evening there was a
determined effort to get at the non-union
men who were taken to the Hollenden ave-
nue. barns this forenoon to operate the cars
from that end of the line.
Soon after dark mob of 5000 people
assembled. There were twenty policemen
at 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 a 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.
Akron Cars Abandoned.
AKRON, o., June 2O.-Not car is run
ming on the Akron & Cuyahoga rapid transit
lines today. When the general officers
reached the offices today they found all
power shut off and the cars in the barns.
Some time ago there was a disagreement as
to wages and the matter was referred to
arbitration The report, which was sub
mitted last night, included clause provid-
ing for arbitration in the future and this the
company refused to accept. The men held
an all-night meeting and then decided to go
out on strike. Ne effort was made to run
cars today. conference is to be held this
evening between the employees and the COM
pany.
AS has been the rule since the strike be-
gan riotous disturbances broke out today
about noon. A crowd boarded Wade Park
avenue car near Lindus and Anndale avenues
sensibility The conductor fled from his car.
Another Wade Park avenue car was stoned
and one on the Euclid avenue line was at
t&"ked. Many women were board and
shrieked with terror as the stones crashed
through the car windows. One woman
tainted At the corner of Wilson avenue and
Quincy street one man was shot and others
had narrow escapes. The passengers
capped as best they could when the stones
began to fly, but the conductor and motor
man were struck repeatedly. The latter drew
revolver and fired three times into the
crowd. He then put on all speed and ran
his car out of the mobs reach. George
Berg, jr., a striking conductor, was hit in
the leg by bullet, which was extracted.
No arrests were made.
Train Crew Badly Beaten.
The crew of Scovil avenue car No. 224
was badly beaten by ten men. The car
was on its way down town. Al Wilson ave-
nue. one man got on, and at every crossing
thereafter one or two more men boarded
the car until there were ten passengers.
When Harry c. Clark, the conductor, was
taking up fares one of the men gave him a
fifty cent piece. AS Clark started to make
change he was struck on the head from be-
hind by coupling pin in the hands OF a
Several of the other men then
jumped upon him and pounded him into In
sensbility. The others turned their atten-
ticn to the motorman, whose name Is John
Clark He was also hit on the head and
body. He sank to the floor unconscious
BY this time the car, running at high speed
had reached Hackman street. Here the men
all left the car. block further on Clark,
the motorman, recovered sufficiently to shut
off the current and bring the car to stop.
A ftpr chnr
barn Both men were badly hurt
A. w Weigel, letter-carrier, riding on a
Euclid avenue car, was struck full in the
face by stone. He was unconscious and
covered with blood when help reached him.