New-York tribune., 1905-03-09
IN Il TRAINS, $4,000.
Sirth-aue. Il" from 4 to z. NJ
Mad Scenes-Men on Car Roots.

Twelve northbound trains were run over the
6tbave elevated road from to p. m. last
evening and estimates were made that some
+,,an+vforr thousand persons were carried III
the cars and hanging to platforms and chnglhs
on the roofs despite the pouring ram Inc
scenes of the first day, when the platforms anu
tenders Of surface cars were nlack VII" hu-
manity, were repeated on the elevated Trains
Men and women fought on the station platforms
for a chance to jump aboard the moving Trains
Inst before ) o'clock a train came from South
Ferry into the Rector-st stations already so luil
that the guards refused to open the gates win
a swirling rush the waiting throng OF wan
street men. lawyers, clerks and stenographers'
charged the guards, punching wildly at lheHl
and at each other, and climbing over the gates.
Women were pushed and hustled in the cro"os,
hats broken and clothes torn. sergeant ana
six natroIrnen were powerless to check the mob
novverIess even to protect the women. Men, un-
able TO fight their way into the cars, scrambled
to the roofs striking at any one who tried 10
keen them down When, after some ten MN
utes of tumult the train left the statloh' IIoI
four hundred to five hundred men sat huddleo
on the roofs Of the cars.
Then. when 1t got into motion. the persons
who had been unable to get aboard ran along
side punching at guards and passengers lhols-
cr;ninatalv When the train. so loaded that
IT couldn't stop, passed slowly through the
CortIandt-st station. the same brutal treatment
was repeated men seeming to have forgotten
that they were men, striking regardless Oh
whether they hit women or other men y scoIs
of women on the platforms were hlt' many "
them showing on their faces the marks OF Sc
blows. ,,s .I.,,-,
At park Place man thrust himself through
the waiting throng, and. with an oaen, s ue1D T1oo
erateIy struck a guard full In the race. Inc
guard Alfred Rhoder of Pittsburg refused 10
desert the gates, though his nose bed proIuseisy;
Women in the cars set up cry or Shaihe'
.Shamew One with her own handkerchief
tried TO bandage Rhoders damaged nose.
At Franklin-st. a man fell from the rooI INTO
the bunch of waiting passengers, VINO hurleu
him to the platform shouting execrauons, ape wnne
the train went on. At 1Sth-st- men ana Woiheh
tried to climb over the closed guardrails, 10 De
thrust back by the people jammed inside
One train on the 3d-aVe. elevated WIIcn !lssAI
the CITY Hall station at 7 80 a. m. and arrived
AT the 161st-st station at $40 o'clock three dill
ferent motormen deserted. From 130th-st. to
149th-st the gates on two cars were Ieft opeh'
the guards desertinS.
Several women and men who tried TO board
train that was starting downtown from the
161st-st station had narrow escape from De-
ing crushed. They were saved by pohcenen'
who pulled them back,
Strike breakers deserted trains on the 3d-ave.
line leaving their trains stalled. The crews OF
two southbound trains. when they reached the
125th-st station were induced by the strikers to
desert The strikers received them with cheers.
the officials that the United States mail was on
the train and that 1t must be moved at once or
the United States authorities would intervene.
A wrecking crew then started the train