New-York tribune., 1905-03-08
RIOTING MARKS FIRST DAY
ROLLING STOCK DAMAGED.
~Entertainment" Strike Breakers
Beaten-StrikerS in Jail.

- , the incitement of strong drink
u,;ct+I increased passion to develop into
.oros Of bloo6shed and terror marked the be-
-. ~ the strike yesterday. Great damage
g. so-. ~ the rolling stock of both the ele-
was 80 - - tbe subway. several strike break
-, mare taken 10 the hospltals as a result OF
~ .,,e,, received, women became hysteri-
- s,rooned and many strikers landed In
jail -...,-. 80 Tho ,o,,ca ,rora -,
H'eH =. times against the entertainment
iilN4 bich the strikers have adopted from
1o-ks The guards and motormen who
San ,4ating were mostly Farley's old guard.
20 helped in a. dozen strikes. These were
- ro iawed fellows, who were let severely
THE younger and smaller guard or
was the greater the chance he ran Of
going 10 a hosp''0-- , A. o.
- PARTICULARLY. A gang of men. composed
- - equally OF strikers and saloon loafers.
- -. te board southbound trains at 125th-st-
Dee cut bell cords, ripped up seats and
-osha6 windows The leaders Of the gang had
,aen nostsd In the street below this and other
ststions with police whistles. AS train
-.acbad the station there would be whistle
e. balm from the street. and while the police
-,,,,a ba irving to find where the trouble was
.ba gang would board the train and begin the
'.entertainment'
The first boarding party remained quiet until
after the train had passed 91st-st- Then they
rushed TO the first car. dragged the motorman.
Fred Williams from his box and beat him
without mercy. Others. with knives, dragged
Messengers from the seats and ripped up the
cane covers They smashed all the windows
and pumneIled the guards. The passengers
were nearly in panic. At S6th-st all the pas
Of the train Again and again the police were
lured away. Most Of the fighting occurred be-
tween 91st-st. and 125th-st
striking guard. Joseph Dennis, did not wait
for the police 10 get away to begin work. A
patrolman caught him trying to pull guard
off the car at l25th-st. Magistrate Breen fined
him So IN the Harlem court.
BRICKS AND STONES THROWN.
Eoodlums and strikers congregated at vari-
ous other points all along the line. the police
being powerIess to prevent it at first. Many ten
enent houses along 3d-aye. had quotas of men
and boys on the roofs. who saluted each train
with bricks and stones. By the middle of the
afternoon every northbound train which reached
129th-st- had long line Of broken windows.
Because Of this the road placed heavy wire
screens around the windows of the motor boxes
TO protect the motormen.
One OF the first of the strike breakers to de-
sert was Patrick Hawkins, OF Pittsburg. When
he reached the Tremont-st. station a gang OF
strikers had just finished entertaining" him.
His hat and coat were gone, most OF his shirt
was torn off, and both eyes were blacked. Most
Of the guards On the train were IN equally bad
condition.
About an hour later the guards on a north
bound train were persuaded" to desert The
police would not let the train continue without
guards and ordered the passengers out at R9th-
ST. Then the motornlan was allowed TO take
the train to the yards. A few minutes later
the crew Of a southbound yielded to the
strikers at the same station and went away,
having the train stalled. By so doing they IN
crred the risk Of a years imprisonment. In
tbs rest of the afternoon one or two guards,
generally the smallest in the crew, deserted
their posts at 125th and 129th SITS.
Al 8 o'clock the strikers and their allies sue
ceeded in stalling seven trains south Oh 1HSlh-sC
In TWO cases the strikers tried TO enter the
rnotornen's boxes. The motormen fought so
that the police were able to rescue them before
they were dragged from the trains; Many to- Ite
who. according to the strikers, deserted, after
they had been beaten and dragged from theIr
trains. simply disappeared in the crowd anu
turned UP as soon possible at the barns Tor
further orders.
BREAK MOTORMAN'S LEG.
In the subway John L. Langdon, motorman
Of a southbound train, filed with women and
by strikers. Five Of them boarded the train at
9Gth-st- At the next station the men smashed
in the door Of the motor box and dragged Lang
don into the middle OF the car He>fought with
his controller, but was overwhelmed. He slipped
and the FIVE men threw themselves on him.
and the i've men threw themselves on him.
They beat him until he was unconscious.
The passengers became panic stricken Sew
eral women tainted The patrolmen on duty
Green, m0torTnen Of a Lenox-ave. local train,
and beat the strikers down with revoivers and
clubs. The FIVE men were arrested. Langdon
WIS taken to J. Hood Wright Hospital He is
IN a serious condition.
Several Brooklyn Rapid Transit motormen
have taken positions in the subway, and the
anger Of the strikers is greater against them
than against Farley's men. One of them, James
al the station forced themselves into the car
was mobbed at Broadway and 42d-st. News
poys eggec on by strikers and armed Win
clubs and stones. attacked him as the train
stopped. The heavy wire screen around his
box, provided for just such an emergency saved
him from injury from the missiles until the
police came. Twelve men in another south
bound train at 96th-st. attacked the crew.
Flnkerton men. police. strikers and the train
crew Of q southbound train at 135th-st. had a
free fight ar about o'clock which lasted until
the next station was reached. The passengers
Slso took hand before II was over A corner
erug store did a big trade in arnica, witch
hazel and courtplaster
A crowd of about two hundred strikers who
showed all the signs OF heavy drinking visited
the subway terminals in the afternoon, coming
from their headquarters in Marion Hall, In East |
l&5th-st. A dozen or more entered the 1O3d-st
s1tion, where they boarded a train cut the
BEL ropes and after playing with the whistle !
asd on the rumor that the police were coming
Tie performance was repeated seVerai times at
Various uptown stations.
Or the West side elevated lines there was |
only serious disturbance. A crowd of str1k-
ers attacked one II Farleys men, guard named |
Delaney. They maued him severely. he was |
sent 70 the j. Hood Wright Hospital with a |
he n