The Detroit times., 1908-05-22
ASK REFERENDUM
FOR ST. RAIL WAY
FRANCHISE
IN TROLLEY WAR SAY
THEY WILL PRESENT $4,000
NAMEs-DYNAMITlNo MAY RE-
SUIT FATALLY.

CLEVELAND, May 22.-rhat they
will have fully $4,000 signatures to
the petition they are circulating. ask
franchise ordinance passed by the city
council when the Cleveland Electric's
lines were taken over by the NUM-
cipal Traction Co., is the assertion or
the union labor men engaged in the
street railway strike. Already 1000
OF the required 1886 signatures have
been secured. The petitions will be
presented to the council next Mon
day.
The mere fling Of the petitions un-
der the law, will render the franchise
ordinance. imperative until 1t Is sub
mitted TO the voters.
The union has been securing the
signatures TO the petition In retaliation
of the Municipal Traction Co.'s refus-
al to recognize their demands.
Indications for the settlement OF the
strike on the Scent trolley system are
vague today.
Cripple" May Die From Bomb.
A poor little crippled lad, Geo.
Ignaut, is the latest victim OF the
street car strikers brutality and dy.
Mantle. The boy may die
And that In spite of so-called truce
between the unions and the traction
company.
| The newest evidence OF the thugs
inhumanity was when car on the
East One Hundred and Fifth-st. line
was blown up.
The car had Just left large load
OF passengers at a park and had pro-
lceeded only few hundred feet when
1T WAS blown from the tracks. The
front trucks failed to discharge the
explosive. The rear wheels set on the
bomb. The car was blown to the side
OF the street and cut telegraph pole
In two. The telegraph wires fell upon
the trolley wire and there was lurid
and dangerous display OF fire until
the current was cut.
Patrolman Sands, who was riding
on the car. was thrown to the street.
He was only slightly injured. Quickly
arising he discovered a man running
from the scene OF the explosion and
fired four shots at him, but evidently
the bullets did not touch the fleeing
man.
Conductor Disappears
Motorman Kusta was thrown with
the car and slightly injured. The con-
ductor. one of the new men, whose
name was not learned. ran away after
the explosion and was not heard
from again.
The car was wrecked. The windows
In all the houses In the neighborhood
were broken.
The cripple was sitting on the porch
OF his home, opposite the scene OF the
explosion and was thrown from his
chair and sustained severe injuries.
A physician who attended him said
that the shock probably will result
fatally for the boy.
Two other cars on the same line.
two miles north, were also damaged
by explosions. No one was hurt
Two persons were seriously injured
and eight others shocked or slightly
hurt shortly before midnight, when
a Euclid-ave. car, eastbound, was
blown up by dynamite bomb at the
corner OF One Hundred and Sixteenth
ST.
Harvey f. Mishler, a barber, had
leg broken and suffered internal in
juries.
Woman's Leg Broken.
A woman, who refused her name,
also is said to have sustained a frac-
tured leg. She was removed to her
home In an automobile.
The car had on board persons re-
turning from the theaters. At the point
where 1t was wrecked, there were but
10 passengers left on the car.
The explosion was terrific. II lifted
the car from the rails and smashed
the gearing and woodwork Splinters
and glass few In all directions.
A squad of police stationed nearby
soon came to the rescue of the In
jured. The panic-stricken passengers
who were able. fed from the scene.
No Arrests Made.
No arrests were made.
At almost the same moment a car
on the st. Clair-st. line was dynamited
near Doan-st One wheel was blown
of, but no one was injured.
Reports come from other sections
stating that similar outrages, without
serious results, were attempted.
There Is left only the selection Of
the third arbitrator to bring about q
cessation OF the street railway striks
This point was discussed N
Two srbitrators were selected to
consider the bill OF arbitration which
IL said 10 have been agreed upon be-
tween the strikers and the Municipal
Traction Co. They are Prof. Elroy VI.
Avery the author. for the men. and
Attorney Arthur A. 6tearns, for the
company. An announcement TO this
effect was ofhcially given out late last
night by the members of the state
board OF arbitration. who are assisting