The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-20
TROLLEY STRIKE SPREADING
MEN MAKE GAINS IN NEW YOR
IND BROOKLYN.
Serious Riottng In Manhattan During
the Afternoon and Evening Resident
Workingmen on Second Avenue Sup
port the strikers Against the Police
NIObs Too Much for the Latter- Over
100 Arrests Made.

New York, July 19.-Manhattan troll
ley men joined the Brooklyn trolley mer
to-day in their big strike. The center
of operation in Manhattan was on Sec
ond avenue, the excitement in Brooklyn
centered in the vicinity of Thirty sixth
street and Fifth avenue, where early
this morning dynamite was used in an
attempt to blow down the elevated
structure.
The rioting that took place in Manhat-
tan this afternoon and tonight was of
a serious nature infinitely flercer than
any that has taken place yet in the
borough across the river. Scores Of peo-
pie We're severely injured in the Second
avenue district. Tonight that great
ing mob, almost from the Bowery to
Harlem. The great tenements gave
forth their workingmen residents, who
backed up the strikers in many fierce
struggle with the police and with the
men We're many women and still great
er numbers of children. They stoned
every car that passed over the tracks;
they hurled stones and chunks of iron
and vegetab bles of every variety of ma
ture from the roofs of houses and from
the windows: they barricaded the streets
with paving stones, tore up the street
irons, choked up the slot with wire and
spikes and blocked the thoroughfare.
They had many hand to hand con-
flict with the 500 patrolmen that had
been placed along the line. OF the in
jured the exact number cannot be
known Several policemen were re-
moved to hospitals with broken bones
and torn scalps
At least one striker or strike sympa-
thizer had his skull fractured. A boy
also had his skull fractured. Innum-
cradle passengers on the cars received
had wounds and it was impossible for
the passengers on Second avenue to go
much above Fourteenth street 1t was
the hope of the strikers to make deep
impression by their success in Second
avenue and so far as rioting was con-
cerned they and their sympathizerS
made it. On the other lines throughout
Manhattan the strike was not at any
time prominent during the day. To-
night, however the motormen on the
Eighth avenue line to the number of 100
or more organized and declared a strike,
They thereupon set about to persuade
their fellow wOrkingmen to leave their
cars, and with sufficient success to have
cars running on only n hourly schedule
before midnight. Tomorrow, they de-
clare, Eighth avenue will also be tied
up. The officials of the Sixth avenue
line made statement tonight that the
cars on this avenue We're moving about
the same as ever Madison avenue, Lex
ington avenue and Fourth avenue were
but little affected to-day, but more is
promised tomorrow.
In brooklyn the strikers made some
gains so far as the diminishing of troll
ley car traffic was concerned Fewer
cars We're running on the lines. But
the dynamite outrage in the early morn
ing hours was undoubtedly severe set
back to the strikers. The police, in con-
nection with the blowing down of the
two elevated columns, moved rapidly
and made more than a score of arrests,
sixteen of the men being held by the
courts The strikers deny any knowl-
edge of the dynamiting. and General
Master Workman Parsons has offered a
reward of $500 if 1t can be proved that
a striker is responsible for it. Presi-
dent Rossiter of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company has offered a reward
of 81 900 for the conviction of the per-
petrators.
Several thousand policemen are to-
night guarding the power houses and
the plant of the companies involved in
the strike. The police arrangements to
take care of rioters have been excellent
so far, but the surging mobs on Second
avenue tonight were too much for
them. More than a hundred arrests
We're made and probably as great
number Of persons as that We're injured
by the free use of the night stick, but
even Chief Devery believes together
with his inspectors, that more forcible
measures than those will have to be
adopted. New York has not seen such
rioting. in many day.