The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-23
CLASH WITH MOB
FIRST TROUBLE BETWEEN THE
CLEVELAND STREET CAR
STRIKERS AND SOLDIERS
no ONE SERIOUSLY HURT
TROOPS ORDERED TO CHARGE
THE MOB THAT SURROUNDED
THE CAR RARN
NO FIRING WAS INDUCED IN

Crowds Fled PrecipItateIy Upon An
prOach of the Men With Fixed
BayOnets-one Strike sympathizer
Shot by NOn-Union Street Car
COnductor-Address Issued to the
Public ON the Use of Force.
CLEVELAND, O., July 22-With 500
troops under arms to back the police
force, and with more troops In reserve
If they are needed, the authorities to-
| night believe that they have control OF
| the strike situation. The calling out of
FOUR companies of infantry and troop Of
cavalry today to reinforce the two bat
talions Of naval reserves ordered under
arms yesterday, was prompted by the
outbreaks last night and the night be-
fore Three companies of troops are to-
night guarding the power house and barn
or the company, and already the soldiers
have had one brush with the disorderlv
element charging and dispensing q mob
Which collected near the Wilson avenue
barns. There were several disturbances
today and tonight, in which the non-union
men did their best to defend themselves,
and In one instance a stone thrower was
shot by conductor
The first clash of the mobs with the
military occurred this evening at the Will
son avenue barns of the street railway
company. A big crowd assembled and
began to jeer the soldiers. This was fol-
lowed by shower of stones, and an or
10 OH
were at the mob in earnest. The rioters
were driven heller skelter, running into
alleys and yards to escape the onslaught
Of the soldiers. Nobody was hurt One
man was arrested and turned over to the
police.
SHOT BY MOTORMAN
A non-union motorman of Pearl
street car fired half dozen shots this
afternoon into a crowd of boys near the
bridge in South Brooklyn. None OF the
shots took effect. The crowd was in a
blockade and the boys were jeering nom
union motormen and conductors
man named Fred Schneider was shot
/ through the arm by policeman tonight
| for throwing eggs at a car on Cedar av-
| enue. Schneider was ordered to step
| throwing eggs, and started to run. The
officer commanded him to halt, and on
| his refusal to obey the former fired.
Schneider was arrested and his wound
was dressed at police station.
The driver of a wagon for d wholesale
grocery house was shot by nOn-union
Car conductor this afternoon and serI-
oGsly wounded. The car was passing a
grocery store in South Brooklyn, before
| which the wagon was standing. The dri-
yer stopped to pick up a potato as if to
| throw 1t at the car. The conductor drew
a revolver and fired, the bullet passing
| through the mans neck and lodging in
| his shoulder. The car did not stop, and
the conductors name was not learned.
| The man had the wound dressed at the
! office of a physician in the neighborhood
| and departed without giving his name.
| The doctor said the wound was not seri-
| Gus.
| The company began the operation of
| two Of it's suburban lines today without
| trouble. These are the Euclid bridge and
| Collingwood lines, and pass through
| territory in which several riots occurred
| during the first strike. The feed wires
| conveying the current to ;he South side
lines were cut right under the central
viaduct, but the break was quickly re-
! paired.
The company is getting new men every
| day. Twenty-Five arrived today from
| Chicago and most of them were put to
| work. Rumofs to the effect that there
had been break in the ranks of the
strikers are denied by the officials of the
company, who say they do not know Of
| any old men who have returned to work
The press committee Of the strikers is
sued today an appeal to the public in
which, among other things, 1t contains
the following.
I'VE believe that force can be applied IN
many instances, and that it is absolutely
essential in the present case. Government
protects life and property, but does not
regard labor in any light whatever. When
| great aggregatiOns of capital defy law
and wipe out competition. thereby dimin-
! ishing the demand for labor, they must
be met by an element strong enough to
render their organization futile
serious rear-end collision occurred
on Ontario street today between a Sco-
vel avenue car, manned with a nom
union crew, and a Woodland avenue car.
| Four passengers were badly hurt. The
! Woodland avenue car had stopped to
take on a passenger. The Scovel avenue
car, which was closely following, crashed
into the Woodland avenue car at full
| speed