Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-24

DECLINES TO ARBITRATE THE
DIFFICULTY, IN A LETTER TO
THE STATE BOARD-A CAR
BLOWN UP LAST NIGHT.
CLEVELAND, o., July 23-The riot
ing which continued through last night
was renewed to-day. and there were
several serious outbreaks of violence,
but no clashes being between the mobs
and troops. Cars were started running
as usual this morning in all but one or
two lines. The mobs were astir early.
Soon after ten o'clock a thousand or
more persons gathered on Burton street
on the South Side, and proceeded to
obstruct the track. When a car came
along with two policemen ON board it
was attacked with a shower of stones.
In spite of the policemen the non-union
motOrman and conductor were roughly
handled. One of them, named McDer-
mott, had two ribs broken and the other
was badly bruised. One of the police
men fired at the mob, the bullet strik-
ing a man named Wennick. The mob
assaulted the officers, both of whom
WE'RE STRUCK REPEATEDLY
with stones, and but for the interview
ton of priest of the Catholic Church
near at hand, the officers might have
been lynched. By this time three cars
had been mixed up in the melee and
patrol wagon load of police had arriv-
ing, the rioters dispersed, and the cars
were taken back to the barns.
There was a serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of
Petrie street, where a mob of 5000 as
sembled in the forenoon, and INSTRUCTED
the track. Finally a car came along
from the Wilson avenue barns, having
on board Sergeant Burrows and a pri-
vate of militia and Detective Kelso. The
officer ordered the mob to dispense
when the motorman attempted to re-
move the obstruction from the track,
but the rioters showed fight. Then Ser
geant burrows and the one soldier, with
fixed bayonets,
FACED THE MOB
and attempted to clear the mob. There
was a sharp fight for a few minutes
during which a perfect shower of stones
fell about the detectives and the sol
diers, smashing the car windows No
one was seriously hurt and after ar
resting two of the rioters and placing
them on the car, it was returned to the
barns. The police afterward charged
the mob, making several arrests.
The military on guard at the Holm
den avenue barns on the South Side,
were annoyed during the greater part
of the day by jeering mob and fifteen
arrests were made there with the as
sistance of the police.
In the afternoon a mob of 1000 con-
ceived the idea of blocking the track
on Orange street by placing big
boulder in the middle of the street and
building a fire around it. The plan
worked successfully and cars were de-
layed for nearly an hour when tie po-
lice drove the mob away, put out the
fire and gave the street railway men
chance to move the stone. Three men
were
SENT TO THE HOSPITAL
with wounds made by policemen's
clubs at the end of this riot.
AS a result of the shooting of the
driver of a grocery wagon in South
Brooklyn yesterday afternoon by a
non-union conductor, the mayor of
that village to-day issued an order to
the marshal to arrest all non-union
conductors who carried concealed
weapons. Every car was stopped and
each conductor found with revolver
was arrested. All were subsequently
bailed out by the company.
A small riot was started at the cor
ner of Pearl street and Franklin av-
enue when a young woman struck a
man who asked her to board a nom
union car. A crowd of union sympath-
izers stoned cars and a squad of police
finally cleared the street.
The company to-day sent a note to
the State Board of Arbitration
DECLINING TO ARBITRATE
the differences, in which it says:
This company, fully approaching
the sincerity of your desire TO bring
about a readjustment with its former
employees, begs to say that the men
who went out on Monday last are not
in the employ of the company and
there is nothing to negotiate about or
to arbitrate."
A CAR BLOWN UP.
A Euclid avenue car. loaded with
passengers, was wrecked by an explo-
sion of nitro-glycerine or gun-cotton,
shortly after II o'clock tonight. Four
persons were badly hurt, the name of
the injured being Albert E. FaSsett, P.
A. Smith, Mrs. Harris and Mrs. E. C.
Martin.
The explosion tore out the front end
of the car, smashed all the windows and