The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-24
RIOTS RENEWED.
Many Broken Heads
and Bloody Faces
in Cleveland.
PRIEST SAVES POLICEMAN.
Traction Company Refuses
State Boards Offer to
Arbitrate.
PRIEST SAVES POLICEMAN.

Cleveland, July 23.-The rioting which
continued throughout last night was re-
newed today, and there were several
serious outbreaks of violence, but no
clashes between the mobs and the
troops.
Cars were started running as usual
this morning, on all but one or two
lines. The mobs were astir early.
Soon after 10 o'clock a thousand or.
more persons gathered on Burton street
on the south side and proceeded to OBJ
struct the track When a car came
along with two policemen on board, 1T
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
were struck repeatedly with stones,
and but for the Intervention of a 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 a patrol wagon
| load of police arriving, the rioters dis
to the barns.
There was a serious disturbance on
the Broadway line at the corner of Pc
trie street, where a, mob of three hun
bred assembled in the forenoon and
INSTRUCTED the tracks. Finally car
came along from the Wilson avenue
barns, having on board Sergt. Barrows
and . private of militia and detective
also. The officer ordered the mob to
dispense, when the motorman attempt
! ed to remove the obstruction on the
| track, but the rioters showed fight
Then Sergt. Burrows and the one SOL
| der with fixed bayonets, attempted to
clear the way. There was sharp
| fight for a few minutes, during which
| perfect shower of stones fell about
the detective and the soldiers, smash
| ing the car windows. No one was Sc
riously hurt and after arresting two
| of the rioters, the car was returned to
| the barn. The police afterward charged
on the mob, making several arrests. The
military on guard at the Holmden ave-
nue. barns On the south side were an
noyed during the greater part of the
| day by a jeering mob, and Is arrests
were made there with the assistance of
| the police.
| In the afternoon a mob of one thou
| sand conceived the idea of blocking the
track on Orange street by placing 81
| big boulder in the middle of the street
and building a fire around it. The plan
worked successfully, and cars were
! blocked for nearly an hour, when the
police drove the mob away, put out
| the fire and gave the street railway
men a 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 today issued an order to the
marshal to arrest all non-union con-
ductors who carried concealed weapons.
| Every car was stopped and each con-
.ductor found with a revolver was ar
Frosted. All were subsequently bailed
out by the company.
A small riot was started at the cor
ner Of Pearl street and Franklin ave-
nue., when young woman struck a
man who attempted to board a nom
union car. A crowd of union SYM
pathizers stoned cars and a squad of
police finally cleared the street. The
company today sent a note to the state
hoard of arbitration declining to ar
bitrate the differences, in which it says:
This company, fully approaching
the sincerity of your desire to bring
about readjustment with it's 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.''