Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
MARRIED BY RIOTING.
Sunday in Cleveland Is Marked
by Exciting Events.
Turbulent Actions of Strikers and
Their sympnthizers Culminnte in
Blowing Up street Cnr-sIx
Passengers Badly Hurt.


Cleveland, o., July pa Euclid ave-
nue. car, loaded with passengers, was
wrecked by an explosion of nitro
glycerin or gun cotton shortly before
IL o'clock Sunday night. Six persons
were badly hurt The victims are:
Mrs. e. C. Martin, 70 Alanson street
compound fracture of the skull. right arm
broken and internal injuries which may
prove fatal.
e. C. Martin, right arm badly cut and
bruised about legs and body.
Mrs. Catharine Harris, 25 Cornell street,
suffering from nervous prostration.
Il. A. Smith, 50 Vienna street, injured
| about legs and body.
| Albert E. Fassett, IL Wallace place, legs
| injured.
Dora schessler, Il oakdale street, bruised
| about the body.
Mrs. Martin will probably die. She
suffered u compound fracture of the
skull, had one arm broken and was 9TH
erwise injured. She was With her hus-
band, who was also badly hurt. Three
or four other persons, in addition to
those whose names are given above,
were hurt, but not seriously.
The explosion tore out the front
end of the car, smashed all the
windows and destroyed the brake.
After considerable difficulty the car was
stopped 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 eX-
plosion was so great that it shook all
the houses in the neighborhood and
was heard for a distance 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
neighborhood say they saw a man in
; a buggy stop at the corner of Kensing-
ton street, where the explosion oc-
Cured, and get out by the railroad
track. He remained there short time
and then drove rapidly away.
The police are now out searching for
the buggy in which the dynamiter is
supposed to have ridden, and all sta
tions have been notified to be on the
lookout for it.
; An Exciting Sabbath.
The rioting, which continued
throughout Saturday night, was re-
newed Sunday, and there were several
serious outbreaks of violence, but no
I clashes between the mobs and the
n troops. Cars were started running as
y usual in the morning on all but one or
t two lines. The mobs were astir early.
= Soon after ten o'clock thousand or
n more persons gathered on Burton
t street, on the South side, and proceeded
to obstruct the track. When a car came
=. along with two policemen on board, it
v was attacked with a shower of stones.
: In spite of the policemen the nonunion
" motorman and conductor were roughly
l. handled. One of them, named McDer-
i mott, had two ribs broken, and the 9TH
: er was badly bruised. One of the po-
> licemen fired at the mob, the bullet
,r striking a man named Wennick. The
d mob assaulted the officers, both of
i whom We're struck repeatedly with
e stones, and but for the intervention OF
d priest of the Catholic church near at
hand the officers might have been
y lynched. By this time the cars had
st been mixed up in the melee, and pa
lie troll wagon load of police arriving, the
l. rioters dispersed, and the cars were
~ taken back to the barns.
D. There was a serious disturbance on
al the Broadway line at the corner OF
IA Petrie street, where a mob of 5000 as
i sembled in the forenoon and obstructed
rs the track. Finally car came along
a. from the Wilson avenue barns, having
ID on board Sergt, Burrows and private o.
militia and Detective Kelso. The officer
ordered the mob to disperse, when the
motorman attempted to remove the oh
struction from the track, but the riot
- ers showed fight. Then Sergt. Burrow,
and the one soldier, with fixed bayonets
faced the mob and attempted to cleal
the way. There was sharp fight for
u few minutes, during which perfec
It shower of stones fell about the detec
" tive and the soldier, smashing the ca
50 windows. No one was seriously hurt
- and after arresting two of the rioters
ie and placing them on the car it was re
IL turned to the barns. The police after
le ward charged the mob, making severa
H. arrests. The military on guard at tn
H. Holmden avenue barns on the Soutl
lie side were annoyed during the create
IN part of the day by Il ieering mob, and
III arrests were made there with the as
er sistance of the police.
OF Woman Shct.
tn In the vicinity of the Holmden avenu
X barns Sunday night there was cor
IT. tinuous rioting for three or four hours
"a Every ear that passed was attaclle
&C. with stones and several pistol shot
90 were fired at them. There was Il livel
us fusillade at one time, the nonunio
nd crews returning the fire. The only pei
ey son hurt was a woman who was shot i
of the finger as she stood in her doorway
'r- The police made 25 arrests in tina
ms neighborhood. Riodng continued a
" along Broadway at night, and it too
to three squads of police as many hour
r. to escort three cars distance of fou
OF miles to the barns. Fifteen or 90 of til
rioters We're taken into custody.
Two Lives LosSsA~
TO Nashville Tenn. July PA seriol