The Washington herald., 1908-05-22

Cleveland, May o Violence beginning
late IN the evening married the sixth day
Of the strike OF the motormen and con
duetors Of the Municipal Traction Com
pany. despite the agreement of strike
leaders and the company 10 a basis OF
proposed arbitration, 10 be submitted 10
the vote Of the men tomorrow.
Five cars were blown from the tracks
by dynamite charges before i1:90. In sew
| eraI instances. passengers were injured.
though not badly, in the explosions. TWO
women were trampled under foot by a
crowd of panic-stricken men when an
East I05th street car was hurled from the
| tracks at Morrison street at 10 oclock.
A great hole was torn in the floor Of
the car. and the windows were shattered,
falling glass cutting gashes in the cheeks
Of several passengers. This explosion was
at the northern end Of the cross-town
line
Skaters Windows for Blocks.
A. the southern end, just after fully Is
people had alighted to go to Luna Park,
a summer resort just opened tonight, a
/ tEIEalE EAp4tSAtu uElAOAlSIE4 AAC Nuts
shattering windows for blocks about the
site The car was hurled against an iron
/ electric light pole Motorman Kusta es-
capped injury by a miracle, while Police
man Sweds, who was on the rear plat
form, was thrown to the pavement and
bruised. All the electric lights and troll
ley wires were torn down. a great illumi-
nation causing a TumOr that buildings
were burning. The conductor, new man,
unknown TO the motorman fed. A slight
charge OF dynamite brought another
crowded East 105th street car off the
track, topping score of passengers en-
route to the park to the pavement, in
fiiCting bruises and cuts.
A LOrain avenue car, in charge Of Con-
ductor L. A. Potter, was stoned, eggs
being added to the deluge Of rocks poured
on the back platform. The conductor and
several passengers were hit, cut faces and
bruised arms and bodies being the net
result Of the attack on the speeding car.
Crowd Throws Eggs.
Eggs made up the missiles let fly by a
crowd at Berea road in West Madison
avenue late in the evening, when a car
in charge of Conductor Logan approached
the crossing. No passengers were aboard,
and the conductor alone suffered.
The police dispersed a mob which gath
| cred before the home of a strikebreazer,
Theodore SolOvan, in Fulton avenue,
armed with rocks and threatening to dy-
Mantle the building unless Solovan agreed
TO quit work. Two men were captured by
the squad of police which responded TO
| the telephone call of Solovan's aged moth
er. who first pleaded in the street with
/ the mob.
| One Of the incidents of the wrecking of
East 105th street cars tonight was the
| topping of Samuel Blair, an invalid, from
| his wheel chair in his home by the ex-
plosiOn Of dynamite. The invalid youth
lost all his teeth in the collision with the
| floor
The hotels. groceries, and even the sa.
| looms of Lakewood and Rocky River vii
| lagos to-day refused further to feed dep.
uty sheriffs on guard at the barns of the
] Municipal company. menacsd by strike
/ sympathizers The deputies sent a strike
ultimatum to Sheriff McGorry, and after
futile efforts TO obtain food from private
| homes the sheriff sent five automobile
| loads Of food and ell stoves to the barns
/ breaking the fast Of the guards