The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-08

Pandemonium Fills the First
Day of the Traction
Strike

NEW YORK, March Z. - With one
collision in which twenty-nine persons
were injured and none killed. New
York has passed through the first dav
of the general strike on its rapid trans
it system. Beyond this accident and
some minor casualties, due to the alb
normal crowds. the sum total of the
day was annoyance and vexation to a
million or more people usually depend
ent upon the Interborough's line for
transportation to and from their BUSH
ness. So far there has been little dis
order. Sporadic encounters between
individuals, some bad language and
the action of few hoodlums in throw
ing missiles at passing elevated trains
tell this phase of the strike.
The annoyance TO the multitude was
increased by a wet snow which began
falling this afternoon. Service Oh the
elevated roads and subways, while not
tied up, was crippled badly. Trains
were run on irregular schedules on the
underground. beginning with the early
morning. but the elevated lines did not
fare so well. On the east side prac-
ticaily no attempt was made to insti-
tute a service, while the Sixth and
Ninth avenue lines, which serve the
west side. were run in a fashion Woe
fully inadequate.
System Is ParaIyzed
In fact. the elevated system was
pretty well paralyzed. The company's
entire energy seemed TO be directed to
an effort to maintain service in the
subway. and this was partly success
full
Strikebreaker Farley and his crew
of seven or eight hundred men were
thrown into the tunnels. officers OF
the company gave this system their
special attention and an enormous force
of policemen was drawn to the tun-
nels and the stations. Through traf-
flee was abandoned early. Every avail
able man was put on the locals and a
fairly good schedule was maintained
during the evening rush hours until the
accident at Twenty-third street took
place. This upset things. but after
strenuous effort they were Strengthened
out and a service resumed on a head
way OF from five to seven minutes.
The accident at Twenty third street
was a rear end collision. due, IL is said.
to the inexperience of the men on the
smashed in. there was a panic among
scores of passengers and of the injured
fifteen were severely hurt. Traffic was
delayed from o'clock until after Z.
Policemen Help Children
A pitiful phase OF the east side
crowds was that many of the boys and
girls had not planned ahead for the
extra fare required TO change from the
platform TO the surface cars and being
too proud to admit IL, fingered for an
hour or more on the stations. In some
cases the policemen on duty realized
the situation and took turns in provid-
ing extra fare.
A delay of several hours in remov-
ing the United States mail bags from
an elevated station will. it is asserted.
result in the calling into action of
United States Marshal Henkel and his
assistants. The mail bags from the
Harlem substation of the postoffice
piled up on the platform, but the
strikers would not permit the trains to
stop, the crews being threatened with
attack if they did stop.
Around Brooklyn bridge. where
nearly all the east side surface lines
start, and in the open space to the
south of city hall. people packed the
streets and the police and railway en-
ployes had a hard task to keep them
from the tracks. With changing gongs
the cars fought their way slowly to the
turning curves, only to be made the
objects of a mad rush from the mob.
Men fought for a foothold on step or
platform as they would for a place I'm
the last boat of a sinking ship. Women
were mauled and roughly handled in
the Jam and hats were lost. coats were
torn and bundles heedlessly dropped
in the mud.
Mayor Takes Action
Mayor George b. Mcclellan tonight
reached the conclusion that transpor-
tation conditions had assumed so serl-
Gus an aspect that II would be neces-
sary to bring the two factions to some
speedy agreement. He accordingly ad-
dressed a letter to both the INTERIOR
ough and the Amalgamated associa-
ton, in which he offered his services
ito act as mediator. arbitrator or in
any capacity in which may be instru-
mental in effecting an adjustment OF
the existing differences"
The police said tonight that over a
hundred nonunion men had left their
places on account of illness. All the
downtown hotels are crowded tonight
with guests unable to reach their
homes in the upper sections OF the city.
No meeting of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION will be held until twenty-four
hours has elapsed. If at the end OF
that time. IL is said. Supt Hedley is
still unwilling to accede to the de-
mands Of the men. the engineers and
firemen's electric and eccentric union
will be called out. The strikers claim
that many of the imported men have
gone over to them and quit work. but
this the marlborough officials stoutly
denied. Columbia college students
seized the opportunity TO make few
dollars and enjoy the excitement of
strikebreaking.
Worse Yet
NEW YORK, March S.-Reports
early this morning show that traffic on
the Second and Ninth avenue elevated
roads was at a complete standstill. In
the subway and on the Third avenue
elevated and on the Sixth avenue ele-
waited trains are running irregularly.
The outlook for the day traffic is very
bad.
Oyama's Strategy
MJTKDEN March THE outlines Of