The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-20
THE SPREADING STRIKE.
6treetoar Men on Manhattan Island
Join the Striking Army.
LIVELY FIGHTS WITH POLICE

Several Riots on second Avcnue-Po-
Iicemen Injured aud Boy Dying
with Fractured Skull 90 Alleged
Brooklyn Dyunmiters Held For Trial.
New York, July 2O.-Despite the pro-
tests of General Master Workman Par
sons, n strike was ordered yesterday
morning on the lines Of the Metropoli-
tan street railway in New York. 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 prin-
cipal 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 frolL 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 filed
on both walks with a dense mass Of
people, all eager for trouble. Police
Captain Donahue had sent out a squad
of men to keep people out of the mid
die of the street, so that no tampering
with the slot might occur. But his men
were like so many chips on a river
when the tide is strong, and they were
tossed hither and thither. They used
their clubs with all their power, and
the only result was to anger the crowd
so that little discrimination was shown
between the police and the car men
when bricks were thrown.
AT about o'clock a great crowd
gathered between Forty-second and
Forty-fifth streets and attempted to
overthrow the cars that came along
about 30 minutes apart. Policeman
owen Conovan, who was on a car
bound south, was hit on the head with
a brick and knocked off to the pave
ment. His left eye was almost knocked
out. He was taken to the hospital.
Louis Minkus, a 9-year-old boy, got in
front of a policeman's club and in the
excitement the bluecoat made no dis
tinctions. The boy was knocked over
and was carried home with fractured
skull He will probably die. Mike
also taken home with a fractured skull
Another crowd got together in g
minute or two at Ftfty-ffth street and
Second avenue, and when car bound
down came along it met a perfect
! shower of bricks, stones and other mis-
| siles thrown from the street, the win.
dows Of fats and the roofs. The wo'
men were perfect furies. While cal
was passing Seventy-second street
with Policeman Gallagher as an escort
a score or more of the mob tried tC
| board it to take off the conductor anC
| motorman. Gallagher got off, anC
drawing two revolvers walked ahead o
| the car, clearing the track. Some ont
threw brick and hit Gallagher on tn
leg, cutting him badly. Twelve mount
| ed policemen came down the avenu
to the rescue and dispersed the crow
for the time being.
The cars coming into the stable
from down town looked as if they ha
run the gauntlet of Balaklava. Win
dows were broken and sides dented in
and more than one motorman left hi
post with the statement that he hat
all he wanted
One car which had Ill fares ant
transfers rung up at Fourteenth stree
had only the motorman, conductor ant
police escort of two men aboard whel
it reached Eighty-fifth street. Severa
of the passengers had been hit ant
wounded and got off the car furthe
down town.
A great many men we're injured al
along the line. Policeman Olson, o
the Kings Bridge mounted squad, wa
thrown from his horse during a fgh
near Ninety-fourth street. His leg wa
broken and he received internal in
juries. A motorman was struck on tn
chest with a brick near the uptown
car stable and seriously injured. Sew
eral passengers received nasty seal
wounds from stones thrown by tn
mob.