Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-04

AWAITING A TRAIN FOR THEIR
HOMES-THE POLICE MADE NO
ARRESTS+THE MEN WHO DE-
PARTED FROM THIS CITY OVER
THE B. & o. WE'RE NOT MODEST
ED, VERY MUCH TO THE CRED
1T OF WHEELING.
1t was supposed when the agreement
between the former employees of the
Wheeling Street Railway Company and
the corporation was made, last week,
there would be an end to lawlessness;
but some of the people of Benwood or
dained otherwise.
1t was again presumed that when,
on Sunday, arrangements were made
by the citizens committee to send the
non-union men to their homes, that the
trouble was finally at an end. Again
this supposition was faulty, for a num-
Der of lawless Bridgeport people start
ed a row yesterday which ended in
four OF five of the former employees be-
ing badly beaten up while they were
at the C. & P. depot, awaiting the ar
rival of a train.
Over twenty of the new employees left
this city during the afternoon, over the
b. & O., and were not molested, a fact
eternally to the credit of the people of
Wheeling. No disorder, it will be no
tiiced, has occurred in this city for a
long time back, and particularly was
there no inducement or tendency to
lawlessness within the city limits since
the settlement of the strike. Some of
u neighbors have not been as we'll
behaved, however, as witness the disor-
der of Saturday night and Sunday in
Benwood, and of yesterday in Bridge
port. 1t is to the credit of the Union
Street Railway employees that these
disorderly acts not only did not have
their sanction, but were enacted despite
their wishes and c%ounsels.. Pure law
CoohCoO d DCCA al IAC DOCIOlA VI llO
troubles, and it is altogether probable
that in the fullness of time arrests
will be made and the guilty parties
punished to the limit.
Yesterday afternoon the citizens
committee took charge of the transpor-
tation to their homes of the twenty
five or thirty employees who quit the
service of the Company Sunday night,
and more than twenty were sent away
during the afternoon by way of the
Baltimore and Ohio road. The Chief
of Police had a force of about ten Of
ficers on duty, but there was no occa-
sion for their services, and no one,
aside from a few pipe liners out on
a pay day tear, paid any attention to
the men.
Four or five of the new men elected
to leave over the Cleveland and Pitts
burg, and went over to Bridgeport for
that purpose. One of them was w. G..
Horner, of Chicago. While they were
waiting at the depot a crowd gathered,
the men were insulted, and finally as
saulted, with the result that all were
badly beaten by members of the big
crowd which gathered, the clothes Of
the departing men were largely torn
off of them and thrown under the
wheels of the train, and they left the
town generally in very bad shape. The
Bridgeport police do not appear to
have interfered and no arrests were
made, the officers claiming they did not
know the guilty parties. The net re-
suit is another bad reputation for
Wheeling, for the trouble, like that at
Benwood, will be credited to this city.
1t should be we'll understood that
Wheeling is not responsible for the
sins of either Benwood or Bridgeport,
and that the citizens of this city have
been law-abiding and have respected
the terms of settlement.
The men injured at Benwood Sunday
are still at the City Hospital, and are
doing as well as could be expected,
considering the extent of their injuries.