The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
STREET CLEANERS TORPEDOED
POLICE AND STRIkE BREAKERS
ATTACHED WITH EXPLOSIVES.

Dsmsge-Ncsroes Join with italians I'm
Policemen Don Up Enough for Hospital.
The work Of cleaning up the garbage in
Harlem was interfered with yesterday by
attacks on the police and on men who took
the places Of striking drivers Of the Street
Cleaning Department.
Six garbage wagons under protection Of
as many policemen, with Sergt. William j..
Dugesn Of the West i52d street station walk
ing ahead, were passing through 10th street
on the way 10 the stables OF Station ID on
Pleasant avenue yesterday afternoon when
something like a big torpedo was thrown
from the crowd IN the sidewalk between
First and Second avenues. It exploded
with considerable noise, doing more damage
TO the nerves than to the persons Of the
policemen and the drivers Of the wagons.
Sergt. Duggan got a evere shock, as the
torpedo dropped close enough to him to
tear his trousers. Duggan spotted an
Italian in the crowd who he was sure threw
tho torpedo. He chased him, but the man
got away. Then Duggan walked to syden-
ham Hospital. at Sal East 10th street, and
after a brief stay returned to the i52d street
station. Then he Q home to recuperate.
That happened at 9 o'clock. About three
hours earlier big torpedoes dropped from
roofs at i07th street and First avenue and
forth street and Second avenue. falling near
some strikebrea kers, but doing no damage
either to men or pavements.
At li5th street and First avenue about the
same time Samuel Morrison. a foreman of
strike breakers. was attacked by strikers
and beaten. He mana ged to get away with
no great hurts. There were no arrests.
There we're several lively rows about 7
o'clock in the district Of which Stable c
in West i3Oth street ia the centre. A crowd
Of negroes and Italians, strikers and their
friends was assembled opposite the stable
and along the streets leading to it. A
number Of wa CONS came in about half-past
and Q o'clock. while the crowd jeered.
About fifty policemen under Sergt. John
Hampel Of the West i25th street station
saw that nothing more solid was added.
But when the men began TO come away
from the stable about half-past 9 an ugly
ElOt utNriDGSus II hldh VI Jill "
was Peter Leeparus, a driver OF ess Sixth
avenue He walked along toward Broad
way inside the police lines, when a young
fellow broke through them and shouting
Take that you damned scabi" hit him in
the head with a ~currycomb. A policeman
got the man, who gave his name as Fred
Erhardt Of sos West i33d street, and a
charge OF felonious assault was made
against him
Frank lyman, a contractor who had
supplied some Of the strike breakers, went to
Lesparus's assistance, accompanied by John
Fitzpatrick OF 524 West I3ist street. Err
hardt's friends came to meet them with the
result that Thomas Delaney. a nineteen
year-old boy OF SO Lawrence street and
Henry Randolph, colored. OF 900 West i3Oth
street were arrested for assault.
The police nabbed also. four negroes and
took them to the West I25th street station
charged with melting TO riot. They were
Thomas Jefferson. Arlan London. David
Rowe and James Boyd, the last of whom
was charged with felonious assault for
punching q policeman several times in the
nose. All these live in the neighborhood
except jefferson. who comes from W est
Sixty-frst street. The negroes all needed
a surgeons attention.
Henry Miller Of ia West is5th street was
also arrested on a charge OF disorderly
conduct.
After the fight was over il was found that
Patrolman Joseph Donlin OF the West
Twentieth street station was in bad shape,
He had been hit on one knee by a bottle
thrown from a window. He was taken
first to J. Hood Wright Hospital and later
sent back to his own station. There he
reported sick and went to his home at $40
First avenue.
Sergt. Steinkamo of the West i25th'
street station was ~escorting some strike
breakers through Manhattan street on
their way to the subway station from
stable whea sone one threw a brick into
the crowd. several other policemen in
the escorting division say they got a look
at the man and they started out in pursuit.
He was chased hack up TO isoth street.
where he took refuge in q cellar. Two
policemen who dashed in after him got
bad falls down q steep fight Of sters.
The man was arrested charged with feloni-
GUS assault. In the West i25th street station
he said he was Bernard Patterson. IS years
old, of 1884 Amsterdam avenue.