The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-24
MORE RIOTS IN CLEVELAND
STREET CAR STRIKE rs ASSUMING
DANGEROUS CONDITIONS.
The Police and Militia Have Their
Hands Full in Keeping the Cars In
MOtfOn-RaiIrOad Officials Refuse TO
Arbitrate the Differences With the
Strikers,

Cleveland, O., July 29.-The rioting
which continued throughout last night
was renewed to-day and there We're sew
eral serious outbreaks of violence, but
no clashes between the mobs and the
troops. Cars We're started running as
usual this morning on all but one or
two lines The mobs We're astir early.
Soon after 10 O'Clock thousand. or
more persons gathered on Burton street
on the Southside and proceeded to OBJ
struct the track. When a car came
along with two policemen on board it
was attacked with a shower of stones.
In spite of the policemen the non-union
motorman and conductor were roughly
handled. One of them named. McDer-
mott had two ribs broken and the other
was badly bruised. One of the police
men fired at the mob, the bullet striking
a man named Wennick. The mob as
saulted the officers, both of whom were
struck repeatedly with stones and but
for the intervention of a priest of the
Catholic church near at hand the Off
GERS might have been lynched. By this
time three cars had been mixed up in
the melee and a patrol wagon load of
policemen arrived, the rioters dispers-
ed and the cars were taken back TO the
barns.
There was a serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of Pet
re street, where a mob of 800 assem-
bled in the forenoon and obstructed the
tracks Finally a car came along from
the Wilson avenue barns having on
board Sergeant Barrows and private
of militia and Detective Kelso. The Of
ficer ordered the mob to disperse when
the motorman attempted to remove the
obstruction from the track, but the riot
ers showed fight. Then Sergeant Bur-
rows and one soldier, with fixed bayo-
net, faced the mob and attempted to
clear the way. There was sharp fight
for few minutes, during which a per-
feet shower of stones fell about the de-
tective and the soldier, smashing the cur
windows. No one was seriously hurt
and after arresting two of the rioters
and placing them on the car, the car
was returned to the barns. The police |
afterward charged on the mob making
several arrests.
The military guard at the Holden ave-
nue. barns on the southside were annoy
ed during the greater part of the day |
by jeering mob and fifteen arrests
were made there with the assistance of
the police In the afternoon a mob Of |
], 900 conceived the idea of blocking the
track on Orange street by placing big |
boulder in the middle of the street and
building a fire around it, The plan
worked successfully and cars We're de-
layed for about an hour when the ploice
drove the mob away, put out the fire
and gave the street railway men
chance to move the stone. Three men
were sent to the hospital with wounds
made by policemen's clubs at the end
of this riot.
AS result of the shooting of the driv-
er of a grocery wagon in South Brooklyn
Afternoon by a non-union con-
ductor the mayor of that village to-day
Issued an order to the marshal to arrest
all non union conductors who carried
weapons. Every car was stop
ped and each conductor found with
revolver was arrested. All We're subse-
luently bailed out by the company.
A small riot was started at the corner
If Pearl street and Franklin avenue
when a young woman struck man who
asked her to board a non-union car A
crowd of union sympathizers stoned
,ars and a squad of police finally clear
ID the street.
The company to-day sent a note to
he state board of arbitration declining
% arbitrate the differences, in which it
,ays: 1.-THE company fully appreciating
he sincerity of your desire to bring
lbout readjustment with its former
employees, begs to say that the men who
vent out on Monday last are not in the I
mploy of the company and there is.
lothing to negotiate about or to arbi- I
rate"