The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-20
RIOTS RAGE IN BROOKLYN.
INJURE POLICEMEN AND
PASSENGERS.

n.v-PoIicemen Use Clubs and "a
o-ycar-OId Boy May Die From His
,Yoynds-Cnrs Pass Through Show
or. of Bricks and stones and
Arc Badly Shattered-Twenty-
one strikers Held for Com
spiracy.
New York. July 19.-The strike ordered
this morning on the lines of the Metro
,ouan Street Railway in New York in
fassj new blood into the strike in Brook
lvn and did not tend to improve matters.
The arrest Of twenty-one men charged
7gib c5nspiring 10 destroy the elevated
railroad This morning at Fifth avenue and
T5irty-s.Nth street had little effect upon
t7e public. although it was expected that
n95lic sympathy would turn against the
strikers.
The car service was very poor. In the
earlier part Of the day eighty-fve per
cent. of the cars of the Brooklyn Heights
was operated, but this was lessened to a
considerable extent later in the day. On
Nassau lines cars worked on half head
way all day.
Held for Conspiracy.
The twenty-one men who were arrested
WeIa arraigned in the afternoon at the
ADAMS street police court before Magis-
tr9te Premier. They were represented by
counsel, who pleaded not guilty in their
benaf and demanded an immediate hear
ing. The original charge of vagrancy on
which the men had been held was dis
missed. and they answered TO a charge of
conspiracy substantiated by the afidavit
Of William Ashby, an investigator" who
deposed that on Monday evening he had
attended a meeting at Carberry hall, and
h8l there was talk of buying dynamite,
its Use TO be contingent on the action of
the engineers OF The elevated railroad con-
cauiuS the proposition TO strike. If the
eeyalod employees refused to so out, some-
/ l5ay sugsa TED dynamite should lie used 10
blow .h M up. Such remarks, said Ashby,
were f9liowed by we WILL we will"
Asaby further stated that he saw
O'Hara and three others leave the han,
s3yus tnat they had the stuff with them,
and that they had in their pockets pack
ages Io..ed up in brown paper, looking
like dynamite. Magistrate Bremen held
tae prisoners in bonds Of $3.50.
GH8ra, the man who Ashby said carried
dynamite, stated .ast night that he and
lis companions had nothing whatever to
10 win the dynamite explosion.
While the police looked upon the ex-
posou as a dismal failure, in so far as it
failed to accomplish its evident purpose,
they are not overlooking the possibility of
anarchists being concerned in last nights
I.ot ana the neigborhoods supposed to be
he4uocted by men of anarchistic tenden-
ces are being closely watched.
SpcopH Avaune nauoarnua
If the strikers wanted to make plenty of
work for the police and, at the same time,
gel into d district where they could depend
en- popular sympathy, they made wise
selection in taking the Second avenue line
Tor tne principal fight of the strike. Sew
elal dimes during the afternoon the police
were called upon to quel riots in Second
aNe1Ue but none were of serious import.
The real trouble did not Nbegin until the
thousands of working people who live
s.ons lhat great thoroughfare came home
from work
by o'clock Second avenue from Tenth
street to the stables at Ninety-sixth street,
ana even as far as One Hundred and
4eolh street, was filed on both walks
WIN dense mass of people, all eager
LOT trouble Capt. Donahue of the Sixty
niS' street station earlier in the evening
Aad sent out a squad of men to keep peo-
PIE our of the middle of the street, SO
Ul5I no tampcrng with the slot might oc-
Ou.' hui mis- men were like so many
oHS "a q river when the tide is strong,
@al ia'y We're tossed hther and thither.
Lucy USea their clubs with all their power,
'"' lHe only result was to anger the crowd
50 mat Mule discrimination was shown
t Sg." 1en The police and the car men when
OieAs We're thrown.
Tried To Overthrow Cars.
about o'clock a great crowd gathered
,"e'n torty-second and Forty-dfth
'Is9J. ana attempted to overthrow the
o'S 'Aal came along about thirty minutes
al'i| toieeman Owen Conovan who
q" car bound south, was hit on the
"''N win brick and knocked off his
4 .la 10 'ne pavement His left eye was
"'No'i knocked out.
I-'l'a MlnNus. 9-year-cld boy. got in
'.' OF pJlicemans club and in the
G,.t i"e't the bluecont made no
l,noi. ~" The boy was
-o-Ned over and was carried
\ 1t9. WIN a bad scalp wound
Tast oaef'Iam, strike sympathizer of
v,l,b i'. ]-second street, was taken home
f, 4delured skull. A sergeant and
h. reserves were got out on the trou-
In, F"lNy and dispersed the crowd. maxi
number of arrests.
Or crowd got together in a minute
cam ana, when a car bound down
sIas...e e'-ns, il was met with a perfect
sil.. VI. oil bricks, stones and other ms
of "@"n from the street, the windows
Wers utIs and he roof The women
' perfect furles.
with Drawn Revoivers.
str,1, i''e a car was passing Seventy second
es... "'lh Policeman gallagher as an
10 E. score or more of the mob tried
r-.,l' 81 to take off the conductor and
ta- i-'h' Gallagher got off and drawing
c,s,...,, -'rrs, walked ahead of the ear,
s.r.1. ne track, the mob retreating
Gs..a some one threw a brick and hit
T1s.,. on the leg, cutting him badly.
IL, I'm mounted policemen came down
crow '"e to the rescue and dispersed the
Tor he time being.
dow ls coming into the stables from
g5Ir,,l "n looked as if they had run the
trs..- @l balakiava. Windows were
oa4 r., 'ua sides dented in, and more than
men, ','loI man left his post with the state
i car l'l ne had had all he wanted. one
rrs. '"en had III fares and transfers
ts Nt dl Fourteenth straat bad op3,