The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-14

Eight Passengers Aboard-Flange
of the Car Wheel Broken and Win
dows mashed--Thousand Rush
to the Scene--Strikers' Statement.
Green Ridge Suburban car 1lG, was
going down Spruce street last night at
! 11.OJ o'clock. carrying eight passcn-
gers, two OF them women and all but
one of them Wilkes Barre members of
the symphony orchestra, who had been
at the Arinory, rehcarsing for the Nor
dira concert.
Just as the curve at Franklin avenue
| was reached there was "a flash. Il ter
! iific report. a shower of falling glass,
ana in Il moment the car was hidden in
n cloud of smoke and dust that filled
the street from ono building from, to
| the other.
The theators We're just letting out,
and fully live thousand persons. it is
safe to say, were about in the adjacent
squares. There was a wild rush from
all directions to the scene of the cX-
element. Hotels and cafes We're emp
| tied OF their post-thcatcr patrons, resi-
| dents of the neighborhod and lodgers
at the hotels hurried to tho street
! half dressed to mingle with the rush
y ing crowd and in five minutes the
street at the point where the explosion
| occurred was jammed with an excited
| thrOng.
| Only the van guard. however, saw
! the car. The motorman tried the ma
! chinery by turning on the power, and
finding that the car would move along
! all right, did not wait for the dust and
| smoke to clear away, but pulled around
! the curve, down Franklin avenue and
! up to the company's office, stopping at
| the Valley House only long enough to
release the badly frightened passen-
| gers.
IT WAS DYNAMITE.
1t was another case of placing il cart
ridge probably Il stick of dynamite on
+, the track. Exactly the same damage
| resulted as was done by the dynamit-
! ing on Capousc avenue and in May
| field. The tange was broken from the
wheel that exploded the cartridge and
| half the windows of the car were
| smashed. In the Capousc avenue cN-
| plosion few windows We're broken in
| adjacent houses. None We're broken by
| this explosion, but persons who We're
| in the Arlington hotel. which is on the
side nearest the rail on which the c%-
| plosion occurred. say that the building
was very perCeptibly shaken.
The conductor and motormen We're
seen by a Tribune man as they We're
taking the car to the Providence road
barn. They said the explosion lifted
one side of the car fully a foot from
F., he track. None of the passengers
were injured in the slightest, they said,
but all became very much excited. The
crew We're apparently not very much
alarmed over the occurrence, or il they
had been the evidences of alarm had
left them. for they We're laughing and
joking about as If it was all d jolly
good affair.
The general belief, of course. is that
he cartridge was placed on the track
by some fool strike sympathiHer, but
President Z. j. Shea, of the street car
mems union. does not share this belief.
He says he thinks it was done by some
Of the detectives to keep w the cX-
citement and prolong their employment.
This was the only event Of note III
connection with the strike yesterday.
The cold weather, the company says,
caused the patronage OF the cars to
exceed even that of the previous day,
and. according 10 the company's belief.
a continued spell of unpleasant weather
will break the boycott.
STRIKERS STATEMEN I.
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To the Public:
The strike is NOW in the seventh week. and so
far wc have nothing TO lear The men stand.
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on tho cas-.
The rainy weather which the street railway
company pinned 50 much iAl'h OH to breiR ne
S"'hc '| causing INC l"'pic 70 P1''oi'"' ''t
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div If roin,d all lav steady and less ,osscn.rrrs
were noticed on auv OF the lines than the first
day, proving conclusiyely that had they any pro.
lection in the shape OF an umbrella, they would
continue to walk as they are doing now. and
viii do until the cars are manned by union m"H
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