The record-union., 1899-07-24
Were Several Serious Outbreaks Of
Violence on Sunday.
A Car Loaded With Passengers Was
Wrecked BY an Explosion.
The Front End of the Car Torn
Out, All the Windows Smashed
Persons Were Badly Hurt.

CLEVELAND (O), July 23.-The
fioting which continued throughout last
night was renewed to-day, and there
We're several serious outbreaks of vio-
lence but no clashes between the mobs
and the troops.
Cars were started running as usual
this morning on all but one or two lines.
The mobs We're astir early. Soon after
lO O'Clock thousand or more persons
gathered on Burton street, on the South
Side. and proceeded 10 obstruct 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 bad
ly bruised. One of the policemen fired
at the mob, the bullet striking a man
named Weinnick. 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 officers might have been
lynched.
By this time the cars had been mixed
UP in the melee, and a patrol wagon of
police arriving, the rioters dispersed
and the cars were taken back to the
barns.
There was a serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of
Peterie street, where a mob of 5000
assembled in the forenoon, and OBJ
structed the track. Finally car
came along from the Wilson-avenue
barns, having on board Sergeant Bur-
rows and a private of militia and De-
tective Kelsoe. The officer ordered the
mob to disperse when the motorman
attempted to remove the obstruction
from the track, but the rioters showed
fight. Then Sergeant Burrows and
the one soldier welded bayonets faced
the mob and attempted to clear the
way.
There was a sharp fight for 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 car it was returned to the
barns. The police afterward charged
the mob, making several arrests. The
avenue barns on the South Side were
annoyed during the greater part of the
day by jeering mob and fifteen ar
rests were made there with the assist
anee of the police.
In the afternoon mob of LOCO con-
ceived the idea of blocking the track
on Orange street by placing a big
boulder in the middle of the street and
hill G,.n TI,n No,
worked successfully and cars were de-
layed for nearly an hour, when the po
lice drove the mob away and put out
the fire. Three men were sent to the
hospital with wounds made by police
mems clubs at the end of this riot.
AS a result of the shooting of driver
of a grocery wagon in South Side yes
terday 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 concealed weapons Every car
was stopped and each conductor found
with revolver was arrested. All We're
subsequently bailed out by the com
pany
A small riot was started at the corn
er of Pearl and Franklin avenue, when
a young woman struck a man who
asked her not to board nom union car
A crowd of union sympathizers stoned
cars and a squad of police finally
cleared the street.
The company to-day sent a note to
the State Board of Arbitration declfn-
ing to arbitrate the differences, in
which it says: This company, fully
appreciating the sincerity of your de-
sire to bring about readjustment with
its 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 pas
sengers was wrecked by an explosion
of nitro-glycerine or gun cotton, short
lv before IL o'clock tonight. Four
persons were badly hurt The names
of the injured: Alfred E. Fassett, f.
A. Smith, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. C. E. Mar
tin.
The explosion tore out the front end
of the car smashed all the windows
and destroyed the brake. After con-
siderable difficulty the car was stopped.
and a call for ambulances was sent out.
The motorman, William Draggers, 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
q 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 neigh
borhood say they saw a man in bug
gy stop at the corner of Kensington
street, where the explosion occurred,
and get out by the railroad track. He
remained there a short time and then
drove rapidly away.
In the vicinity of the Holmeden ave-
nue. barns tonight there was contin-
uous rioting for three or four hours.
Every car that passed was attacked
with stones, and several pistol shots
were fired at them. There was a
lively fusillade at one time, the nom
union crews returning the fire. The
only person hurt was a woman who
was shot in the finger as she stood In
her doorway. The police made twenty
five arrests in that neighborhood.
Rioting continued all along Broad