The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-20
ANOTHER
STRIKE
STARTED.
This Time New York Gets a Taste
of Disorder..POIIce are
Kept Busy.
SEVERAL RIOTS TAKE PLACE
Officers and Passengers Injured
by Flying Missiles..Many
Heads Broken.

Metropolitan Street Railway Company
have preclpltated a strike in Manhat-
tan. The strikers have already gained
many recruits and the lines Of the COM
pany have been considerably ephErs
rassed.
II the strikers wanted to make plenty
Of work for the police and at the same
time get into a district where they
could depend on popular sympathy, they
made a wise selection in taking the
Second avenue line for the principal
fight of the strike.
Several times during the afternoon
the police were called upon to quell
riots In Second avenue. but none was
OF serious import. The real trouble did
not begin until the thousands Of work.
ing people who live along that great
thoroughfare came home from work.
By Z o'clock Second avenue from
Tenth street to the stables at Ninety
sixth street and even as far as One
Hundred and Tenth street was filled
and on both walks with a dense mass Of
people all eager for trouble. Captain
Donahue, of the East sixty-hrst street
station. earlier in the evening had sent
out a squad Of men to keep people out
Of the middle Of the. street so that no
tampering with the slot might occur
But his men were like so many chips
on river when the tide is strong and
they were tossed hither and thither
They used their clubs with all their
power, but only resulted in angering
the crowd 30 that little discrimination
was shown between the police and the
carmen when bricks were thrown.
At about o'clock a great crowd
gathered between Forty-second and
Forty-afth streets and attempted to
overthrow the cars that came along
about thirty minutes apart
Policeman Owen conovan, who was
on a car bound south. was hit on the
head with a brick and lpocksd Oh his
seat to the pavement. His left eye was
almost knocked out. he was taken to
the Flower hospital
Louis Minlus, a nine-year-old boy,
got in front OF polIceman's club and
In the excitement, the bluecoat made
no distinctions. The boy was knocked
over and was carried home with a bad
scalp wound.
Mike Sheridan, a sympathIzer, Of
East Forty-second street, was taken
home with fractured skull. A ser
geant and forty reserves were gotten
out on the double quick and dispersed
the crowd, making number Of arrests.
A Shower OF Bricks.
! Another crowd got together in mo-
ment or two at Fifty-ffth street and
Second avenue. and when car bound
down came along. It met a perfect
shower Of bricks, stones and other mis-
slles thrown from the street, the win
dows Of the fats and the roofs. The
women were perfect furies. While a
car was passing seventy-secund street,
with Policeman Gallagher as an escort,
score or more Of the mob tried TO
board II to take on the conductor and
motorman. GaIlaher got on and draw
ing two revolvers walked ahead Of the
car, clearing the track, the mob re-
treating sullenly. Some one threw a
brick and hit GallAher IN the leg. cut
ting him badly. Twelve mounted po-
hcemen came down the avenue TO the
rescue and dispersed the crowd for the
time being.
Inspector Cross, Inspector Harley and
Inspector Kane were IN charge Of the
police at the Ninety-siXth street stables
and distributed along the avenue at
The cars coming into the stables from
downtown looked as II they had run
the gauntlet OF Balaklava. Windows
were broken and sides dented in and
more than one motorman left his post
with the statement that he had nll he
wanted.
one car which had III fares and
transfers rung up at Fourteenth street
had only the motOrmnn, conductor md
policeman and coats OF two men aboard
when II reached Fifty-eiKhth street.
Several OF the passengers had been hit
and wounded and got on the car fur
ther down town.
The plaza near st. Marks church.
Second avenue near Tenth street. was
thronged with jeerlng, Tiotous crowd
OF 1000 or more. Police Captain Dia-
mond had large squad OF men there
and found Il almost impossible 10 keep
the crowd moving.
4 FavOrite Diversion.
A favoritc diversion for the mob was
to drag W the heavy iron covers that
cover the conduit manholes. These
were turned on end and thrown into the
holes, leaving about half OF the cover
projecting and making a most effective
barricade. At o'clock there was n
block at Eighty-elghth street. Some
one jammed the Slot with wire. ana Il
was half an hour before The cars could
proceed.
A great many men were injured all
along the line. Policeman OLSON, OF
the KinEsbridEe mounted squad. was
thrown from his horse during . FIGHT
near Sinety-fourth street, The horse
was struck on the head with stone
and was SO frightened that Il reared.
throwing rider heavily. The police
mans leg was broken and he received
internal Injuries 4 mOturmnn was
struck on the chest with n brick nelT
the uptown car stables rnd seriously
injured. Several N the passengers Oi
one of the cars going up town ncas
Tsath street received nasty scalp
wuundH from stonea thrown by the
mob
The Brooklyn police on duty along
Upper Second avenue declared that tho
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