Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-21

CLEVELAND, o., June 20.-Cars
were running during the day on all
lines opened by the street car COM
pany since the strike. Trouble was
looked for on the South Side, and
strong force of police was on hand to
preserve order. No crowds were al
| lowed to gather.
At l o'clock this afternoon the spe-
cial committee of the city council, APP
pointed to try to settle the street car
strike, met the representatives of the
strikers and the company face TO face.
The members hope to open way for
the settlement of the trouble
Both sides were represented by at
torneys, and they were requested by
the committee to state their respective
positions in writing. Pending prepara-
ton of the formal statements a recess
was taken
AS has been the rule since the strike
began, riotous disturbances broke out
a Wade Park avenue car near Indus
and Anndale avenues and beat the
non-union motorman into insensibility.
The conductor deserted his car and fed.
Another Wade Park avenue car was
stoned and one on the Euclid avenue
line was attacked. Many women were
on board and shrieked with terror as
the stones crashed through the win
dows. One woman tainted. At the
| corner OF Wilson avenue and Quincy
street one man was shot and others
| had narrow escapes. The passengers
escaped as best they could when the
stones began to fly, but the conductor
and motorman were struck repeatedly.
The latter drew a revolver and fired
three times into the crowd He then
put on all speed and ran his car out
of the mob's reach. George Berg, Jr,
striking conductor, was hit in the
leg by a bullet, which was extracted.
No arrests.
The crew of Scovill avenue car No.
224 was badly beaten by ten men at II
a. m. The car was on its way down
| town. At Wilson avenue one man got
on, and at every crossing thereafter one
or two men boarded the car until there
were ten passengers. When Harry c.
| Clark, the conductor, was taking up
| fares, one Of the men gave him a so
| cent piece AS Clark started to make
change he was struck on the head from
| behind by coupling pin in the hands
| of another of the passengers. Several
of the others then jumped on him and
| pounded him into insensibility The
| others turned their attention to the
| motormen, whose name is John Clark
| He was also hit on the head and body
| He sank to the floor in a semi-uncon-
scious condition. BY this time the car,
running at high speed, had reached
Hackman street. Here the men all left
| the car. A block further on Clark, the
motorman, recovered sufficiently to
shut off the current and bring the car
to stop. After short wait it was
run back to the barn. Both men were
badly hurt.
A. w. Weigel, letter carrier, riding
on Euclid avenue car, was struck full
in the face by stone. He was uncon-
scfous and covered with blood when
help reached him.
Four hundred employees of the'Cleve-
! land Foundry Company struck late
| this afternoon because the company
refused to discharge a man who had
| ridden on a Big Four Consolidated car.
The man was foreman. When 1t be-
came known that he had ridden on
| car, the molders went to the officers
| of the company and demanded his dis
| charge. The officers refused to COM
ply with the demand and all the men
| walked out of the works. This is the
| first strike in the nature of a sympathy
/ demonstration that has taken place.
| ANAC NNiC WV 4AoiplSII flOHS late
| this afternoon. At the corner of Cen
/ trail and Wilson ovenues a crowd of
| 1000 persons INSTRUCTED the passage of
| two cross town cars. Bricks and
| stones were thrown and the windows
| OF the cars broken. One of the non
| union motormen, who gave his name as
! Charles Jones, of Grand Rapids. Mich.
was hit with a brick and so badly in
| jured that it was necessary TO send
! him to a hospital. Later car on the
| South Side line was attacked near the
| suburb of Brighton. The motorman
and conductor were chased into the
woods by mob. and they had not re-
| turned when il came time TO stop run
| ming the cars. No arrests were made
| in either case.
! The people of the South Side nursed
their wrath all day. They made no at
| tempt TO interfere with the running
| of cars on the Clark avenue line SO
long as there was police protection. but
this evening there was determined ef-
fort TO get at the non-union men. who
! were taken to the Molmden avenue
barns this forenoon II, onerafe The ears