The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-24
Sharp Fighting Between Strikers
and Police in Cleveland.
IN A SHOWER OF STONES
Non-Union Men Were Roughly Handled.
Saved From ynching by Priest.
The Company Refuses to
Arbitrate.


the troops. Cars were started, running
as usual this morning on all but one or
| two lines. The mobs were astir early.
! Soon after 10 o'clock a thousand per-
sons or more gathered on Burton street
on the south side 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
| McDermott, had two ribs broken, and
the other was badly bruised. One Of
| the policemen fired at the mob, the
bullet striking man named Wennick.
The mob assaulted the officers, both
| of whom were struck repeatedly with
| stones, and but for the intervention of
a priest of the Catholic church the Off
| GERS might have been lynched. BY this
| time the cars had been mixed up in the
| melee, and a patrol wagon of police ar
irving, the rioters dispersed and the
| cars We're taken back to the barns.
| There We're serious disturbances on
| the Broadway line at the corner of Pc
| trie street, where mob of 5000 assem-
| bled in the forenoon and obstructed the
| tracks Finally a car came along from
| the Wilson avenue barns having on
board Sergeant Burrows and a private
of the militia and Detective Kelsoe.
The officer ordered the mob to dis
perse when the motorman attempted to
remove the obstruction from the track,
but the rioters showed fight. Then
Sergeant Burrows and the one soldier
with fixed bayonet charged the mob
and attempted to clear the way There
was a sharp fight for a few minutes,
during which a perfect shower Of
stones fell about the detective and the
soldier, smashing the car windows.
No one was seriously hurt and after
arresting two Of the rioters and placing
them on the rear end, the car returned
to the barns. The police afterward
charged the mob, making several ar
rests The militia on guard at the
Hollenden avenue barns on the south
side were annoyed during the greater
part of the day by a jeering mob, and
Is arrests were made there with the
assistance of the police.
In the afternoon a mob of 900 con-
ceived the idea of blocking the track
on Orange street by placing a big boul-
der in the middle of the street and
building a fire around it. The plan
| worked successfully and cars We're de-
layed for nearly an hour, when the po-
lice drove the mob away and put out
the fire. Three men We're sent to the
| hospital with wounds made by police
mems clubs at the end of this riot.
AS result of the shooting of the dri-
yer OF grocery wagon in South Brook
lyn yesterday afternoon by a non union
conductor. the mayor of that village
to-day issued an order to the marshal
to arrest all non-union conductors who
carried concealed weapons. Every car
was stopped and each conductor found
with revolver was arrested. All We're
subsequently bailed out by the COM
pany.
ner of Pearl and Franklin avenue when
young woman struck man who
asked her not to board a non-union
car A crowd of union sympathiZers
stoned cars, and a squad of police fin
ally cleared the street. The company
to-day sent note to the state board
of arbitration declining to arbitrate the
differences, in which it says:
This company, fully appreciating
your desire to bring about a readjust-
| ment with it's former employees, begs to
say that the men who went out on
Monday last are not in the employ of
the company and there is nothing to
negotiate about or arbitrate."
A Euclid avenue car, loaded with
passengers, was wrecked by an explo-
sion of nitro o-glycerine or gun-cotton
shortly before II o'clock tonight Four
persons were badly hurt, the names of
the injured being Albert f. Fassett, f.
T.. L.
tin.
The explosion tore out the front end
of the car, smashed all the windows
and destroyed the brake. After consid-
cradle difficulty the car was stopped
and call for ambulances was sent
out. The motorman, William Drag
gers, who came from Cincinnati, was
dazed by the shock, but the conductor,
Frank Schroeder of st. Louis, escaped
injury.
The force of the explosion 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 clue to the identity of the person
who placed the explosive on the track
Persons living in the neighborhood say
they saw man in buggy stop at the
corner of Kensington street, where the
explosion occurred, and get out by the
railway track. He remained there for
a short time and then drove rapidly
away.
Within a few minutes after the eX-
plosion crowd of a thousand people
assembled. and the injured, who were
suffering from shock, were cared for
until the ambulance arrived. None of
them We're dangerously injured, their
hurts being confined to bruises about
the feet and legs. Mrs. Martin tainted
before she was taken from the car.
All We're taken to their homes in am
bulances. The mOtorman on the car
managed to get out of the vestibule of
the car and then fell to the street, but
he quickly recovered and helped to eX-
tricate the passengers from the wreck.
Passengers who were on the car say
the explosion seemed to lift the whole
front end of the car, and it ripped up
the floor for more than the distance
from the front end. The car was, in
fact, complete wreck, but, strange to
nd
taken to the barns by the next outward
bound motor. The police were quickly
summoned to the scene of the explosion
and a force of the men were detailed to
investigate, with a view of running
down the person who placed the eX-
MI ha