The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-21
A NIGHT OF Rl0TlNG.
New York's Trolley Strike Is
Assuming Serious Phases.
SCORES OF PERSONS ARE INJURED.

"A Bowling Mob Fills Second Avenue and
There Are NJ my Fierce Struggles With
the poli,c strike Growia:. ON Both
Stiles a. the River.
New yesS. .TTaty %. The New York
trolley 'n"'s ,s:;sH-e joined the Brooklyn
striker il .',eir big str:'Se. The center
of ope,s, inas in New York city is on
Second ave"..,; the eNcitementin Brook
Ign is co.,tarcd i'll the vicinity OF Thirty
sixth street and Fifth avenue. where
early yesterday morning d. .anite was
used in an attempt to bow down the
elevated structure.
The rioting that took place i'll New
York yesterday afternoon aud last night
WAS Of a serious nature, infinitely fiercer
than any that has taken place yet in the
borough across the river. Scores of peo-
pie were injured and severely injured
in the Second avenue district.
Last night that great thoroughfare
was crowded with jeering, bowling
mob almost its entire length. The great
tenements gave forth their workingmen
residents, who backed up the strikers in
many fierce struggle with the police,
and with the men were many women
and still greater numbers of children
They stoned every car that passed over
the tracks; they hurled stones and
chunks of iron and vegetables of vari-
ETY. of nature from roofs and windows;
they barricaded the streets with paving
stones, tore up the street iron, chol1ed
up the slots with wire and spikes and
blocked the thoroughfares. They had
many hand-to-hand conflict with the
900 patrolmen that had been placed
along the line.
OF the injured the exact number can
not be known. Several policemen were
removed to hospitals with broken bones
and torn scalps. At least one striker OF
strike sympathizer had his skull frac.
tured and a boy had his skull fractured,
Innumerable passengers on the cars re-
ceived bad wounds and it was impossi
BILE for passengers on Second avenue to
go much above Fourteenth street.
1t was hoped by the strikers to make
deep effect by their success on Second
avenue, and so far as rioting was con
cerned they made it. On the other
lines in New York the strike was not al
any time prominent during the day
Last night, however, the motormen on
the Eighth avenue line to the numbe,
Of 100 or more organized and declared 9
strike. They thereupon set about to
persuade their fellow workmen to leave
their cars and with sufficient success tx
have cars running on only an hourly
schedule before midnight Today, they
declare, the Eighth avenue will also b
tied up. The officials Of the Sixth ave
nue. line made the statement last nigh
that the cars on this avenue were NOV
ing about the same as ever.
An attempt was made at l O'Clock
this morning in Brooklyn to wreck {
Park avenue car on its way to Manhat
tan. A cable similar to those used tx
stretch electric light and telephon,
wires was tied across the street from
post to post and foot above the pave
ment. The car struck it at full speed
The fender was bent under the car
throwing the front trucks off the rails
and the motorman, James Woodward O
Philadelphia, was thrown over the dash
board to the pavement and bruised
were no passengers on the car. ST.
policemen were aboard, but they es
capped with a shaking up. twenty-five
strikers are under arrest for Wednes
| day g dynamite explosion.